I have noticed that compared to European houses, American houses seem... a bit flimsy. Like they are lighter and not made as firmly. Even if the houses feature something like brick or stone walls, they are usually just decorative plating or even painted on cheaper materials.
European houses are generally built more sturdy. A brick house is actually built from bricks.
But that's just the general rule. Americans also sometimes (especially in the bad old days) build their houses sturdily from real materials. In this threat, let's have american houses that have been built properly and sturdily.
this seems silly. we are talking about houses and not castles right? why does a house have to have brick? you don't live but so many years anyways. if you want a brick house build the damn thing the way you want it. american or european has nothing to do with it
"Back in 1928, a time of flappers and speakeasies, a religious order in New York set about making room for the son of God in case he ran into that no-room-at-the-inn situation again.
The sprawling, 15,000-square-foot home boasts amenities fit for a king of kings: a gym, hot tub, walk-in freezer and six fireplaces. There are also four wet bars perfect for turning water into wine, or gin into Martinis."
I guess that has something to do with it? European homes usually ARE built to last for several generations. You build it well because it might still have to serve your great-grand-kids or something.
Maybe climate also has something to do with it? American homes are rather south, compared to Northern latitude as Europeans. I mean, New York is on the same latitude as Southern Italy.
Most of European houses are further up north, which may necessitate stronger builds?
This one was built in 1600's during the first wave of colonists, and it's european building style shows. They made them good.
In the US, cookie-cutter suburban housing doesn't use masonry anymore, that's why. It's all about building quick and affordably, sacrificing quality. Hence they use wood and drywall, primarily.
The housing degrades much quicker than in europe, but on the other hand it is easier and cheaper to do repairs and mend things.
Luis Adams
Aren't these McMansions especially the ones that have only fake exteriors?
That the stonework is like one inch thick, and underneath it's just concrete or something?
Michael Ross
log houses are so magical. the problem is of course how to keep it warm.
Jacob Moore
An f2 hurricane ass fucks those paper bags along the east coast every year
Aaron Jones
Weird how this one still has like those wooden shutters on windows, but they have been made just for show and would actually be too small to fully cover the window.
Sort of weird vestige on earlier design that hasn't fully been removed yet.
Somebody wanted to get into heaven. A stone house is cold in the winters but cool in the summers. A perfect combination for warmer climate. Problem is that there are fewer rocks the more south you go...
Properly made log houses are super effective at keeping the warmth in. The biggest energy loss happens at windows, and you can drastically reduce that that by having double windows.
Just one fireplace in the middle of the house will heat up the inside, and wooden exterior will lock the warmth in (wood is very poor to transfer heat) so it will stay warm even during winter.
I don't think that Finnish wood houses are even available without double or triple windows.
>underneath it's just concrete or something? Not even. They're made almost entirely of slender pine framing wrapped in plywood on the outside and drywall on the inside, just like 95% of suburban residences and apartment buildings erected in North America since 1950. The worst of them look like what they are--roomy barns thinly partitioned to afford the minimum possible acoustical privacy and tranquillity.
Andrew Morgan
These are shittily built. If its actually brick the walls might be ok but those roofs peel off like a fat kid going at puddin snack lids
Ryder Fisher
how is it that these houses look more sturdy than modern ones?
Remember that viral video about Finns making a log cabin with old school techniques?
Well, here's a video about that same building now, 31 years later. They haven't done ANYTHING for it since then, and it's still standing in perfectly usable condition.
Properly made log cabin doesn't need practically any maintenance. I don't know what you Americans are doing wrong.
>I don't know what you Americans are doing wrong. He just doesn't know what he's talking about. I knew this chick who grew up in one, and no irksome or exceptional maintenance was involved.
Jeremiah Carter
In the old days our homes where built great. Now most are built by Mexicans as cheap as possible. Maga
Oliver Lee
My house is solid wood from around 1910, but the owners in the 60’s boomered the place up with shitty carpet, ceiling tiles, and poorly built add ons
Joseph Thomas
You do realize that Trump is everything that McMansions represent?
Fake and cheap, and bought with loaned money and no intention to pay it back.
Caleb Murphy
Agreed. I do construction here in Canada and its a joke. People use the cheapest of the cheap materials and sell high because they can. A house can go up in a few weeks, be made out of plywood and mdf and sell for a half million. One time i was ranting at a condo site i was working at that they are designed to use the cheapest shit possible and sell ridiculous high because they offer mortgages with no down payment. The guy in charge was in the bedroom and absolutely lost it on me.
