On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:32:57 -0500, -MIKE- wrote:

All the McMansions around here look like someone bought home design
software for their PC and just started taking chunks of different house
samples they liked and assembled them together to make a big, absurd,
homogenized, stew-pot of architectural vomit.

Amen. And watching them going up, they're either going to fall apart in
the next 50 years or they're going to require a *lot* of maintenance.

I remember my father getting irritated when he was looking for a brick
house and the real estate guy tried to sell him one with brick veneer -
times have changed.

Out of curiosity, do any of you know of a builder who's actually building
brick houses today? For the young'uns among you I'm talking of double
wall brick with *no* wooden frame involved.

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