Question:
Anyone buy a new home recently? Like the builder? Dislike the builder?
I was kinda partial to a older home with a 4.5 car garage, but my spouse
seems to be pushing for a new new (as opposed to new to us) home. Most
builders seem to offer 3 car garage options...
Answer:
-Chipwood is only under the siding of the more expensive homes these
days. Most are simply cardboard. They have a fancy name for it, but
it's just a kind of cardboard really. Can just punch a fist through it,
not what I would call a wall fitting for anything more than a free
standing garage.
-Our current house is in it's 50's... my brother decided to go the Victorian
route... only one of those per family... it's big, but it's really a big
disaster in terms of work it needs... front room is great, beyond that, well,
it needs lots of work (we prefer our kitchens with cabinets)... my father
refers to it as a lifetime project. I don't want a lifetime project.
My parents on the other hand live in a little house built in 1922 by my great
uncle out of a kit from Sears. They have a old 8mm movie that shows the new
house and old house still up... the old house my mother said had dirt floors
and a outhouse and pumphouse (no running water in the house). A few years back
they sold what we refered to as the back forty to a developer and the
developer tore down the chicken house and put houses there (DuPage county).
My great uncle was a interesting guy... 101 when he died... born in Minnisota
during a world of horse mounted indian wars, then going from trains, cars,
planes to space travel. I suspect his generation, born in the 1880's lived
thru the biggest changes of any generation.
Well... in the current 2 car garage, 1.2 stalls is filled with the canoe
and kayak rack, luckily the one car is a low car, as it pulls under the Old
Town Cascade... under the upper row of the canoe rack, are kids bikes...
I have 3 cars, but the van is too big to fit in a garage anyway so I have it
on a deck under a carcover. The GTI fights for street space.
