Posted by Bob Huntress on November 27, 2012 at 19:34:21 from (74.226.124.146):
In Reply to: Re: Old farm houses posted by Tom Bond on November 27, 2012 at 19:08:28:
There absolutely is. Many home builders build houses that appear the shell of one built a hundred years ago. Other thinks have changed since the actual old house was built. Kitchens were much smaller, as were bedrooms. The new structures that are suppose to appear like their older counterpart, usually have updated lay outs. To be honest, the average home in 1900 was only 400 sq ft, I heard on the radio. They were usually not the two story home seen on the Waltons. These austetic looking homes are however, a nice looking romantic vision of what houses were like. Some builders even use recycled building material and fixtures from old houses to give their new houses a hint of being old. May I share a story from my childhood? As a little guy I would help my dad remodel houses. In every case a remodel included structural repairs, in many cases the house wasn"t even 20 years old. This was in the early 1970"s. As a young adult in the mid to late 1980"s homes that had been built since the early 1960"s only needed cosmetic repairs in most cases. Somewhere during the late 1950"s builders started building better homes that would realistically last longer. Prior to that homes were not well built. In some areas the air was dry enough and conditions helped preserve them anyway, but that was despite how the house was built.
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