thecontemplativecat: house designs

Sunday, July 28, 2019

No Place like Home

In our California communities, houses are built in sub-divisions with the same usual three house designs. Our own house had the same design as one just two houses down the street.

Residents were permitted to choose new house colors from a list of three. Each were desert colors of tan, desert rose (another tan), and brick tan. Color choices had to be approved by the Homeowners Association. Every exterior change had to be approved.

Anyone with an imagination might struggle with blandness. People may even find themselves numb by repetitive sameness.

It has always impressed me how newer houses change with the times and technology. Our old house was built in 1976, one of the famous ranch houses of the time, with 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, 1400 sq. feet. After 27 years, we moved to our current house, built in 2002 within a retirement community and has great conveniences.

Even so, here there are the same restrictions on color and exterior structure changes must also be approved. Such is life.

This urged me to go awandering and looking at unique houses, ones that inspire.