What style house is this?

I need to take a walk in the adjacent neighborhoods sometime and post a few pictures. One one street, I can think of 5 or 6 identical houses wearing 5 or 6 completely different outfits.
 
Fabrik8 said:
It's a mishmash of styles that are stuck together I order to look fancy to people who don't know better.
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This is what I gather. In my buddy's case...since its a 'green' home and looks fancy, that translates to paying about 30% more than I did for my similarly optioned home, less about $15k in some windows and seals. But the selling point is that it drops energy bills. I'm running $100-200/month in total utility costs for 3500 sq/ft. I'm no genius, but I think the extra $30/month in utilities I'm paying to not be a 'green home' will last me a few months before the $120k break even point.
 
UTfball68 said:
This is what I gather. In my buddy's case...since its a 'green' home and looks fancy, that translates to paying about 30% more than I did for my similarly optioned home, less about $15k in some windows and seals. But the selling point is that it drops energy bills. I'm running $100-200/month in total utility costs for 3500 sq/ft. I'm no genius, but I think the extra $30/month in utilities I'm paying to not be a 'green home' will last me a few months before the $120k break even point.
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Some thoughts on that:

Buying a significantly more expensive "green" home is not necessarily a money saving motive, similar to how people don't really buy a Tesla to save on gas money instead of buying a Toyota Corolla. Sure, a Tesla saves on gas, but you'd have to use a shitload of gas to offset the price of a Tesla versus a Corolla.
The point is, you don't buy an expensive green home just to save energy costs, even though that helps with price justification.

Buying a "green" home that is 3500 square feet completely defeats the purpose. There is nothing "green" about a 3500 sqft house. If you want a house to be green by saving on energy, start by making it smaller. If you want to make a fuel efficient car, you don't start with an Expedition.
 
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Fabrik8 said:
Buying a "green" home that is 3500 square feet completely defeats the purpose. There is nothing "green" about a 3500 sqft house. If you want a house to be green by saving on energy, start by making it smaller. If you want to make a fuel efficient car, you don't start with an Expedition.
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That was the entire point to my comment, in response to your comment. Looks fancy, with fancy words strung together...to rape folks that don't know any better. You pay an extra $125k to 'be green' for $15k worth of stuff that seals better, to save $20/month.
 
It's called a Slutbox. It steals the name of the saltbox, the details of a craftsman, and the souls of the owners.
 
I just can't get over that garage design.
I can only assume you're going to fill that one space with a lawn mower and other shit, rather than trying to actually use it for a vehicle. No way you'd get in and out. Plus the diagonal roofline over it just looks llike shit.
 
RatLabGuy said:
I just can't get over that garage design.
I can only assume you're going to fill that one space with a lawn mower and other shit, rather than trying to actually use it for a vehicle. No way you'd get in and out. Plus the diagonal roofline over it just looks llike shit.
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In my imagination, it's full of unopened moving boxes and kids toys, and some bikes that the kids outgrew 10 years ago but are still hanging around.
And the lawnmower.

In the next neighborhood to ours, there's a house with a similar layout. It's owned by a bald guy from New York, who has a Plymouth Prowler and blasts Nickelback while hanging out in the driveway (perfect storm of awesome). I think he may have a motorcycle in his useless 3rd garage bay, which is actually a good use of it. The property is barely bigger than the house, so the mower is probably small and hangs on the wall because my imagination says its battery powered.
 
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shawn said:
It has all of the touches. A little of this right here, a little of that right there, add one of these, one of those, something like this over here, etc....
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It's a soda fountain home.
You've seen the serve yourself soda fountains. Hand any 5 year old a cup and 1 of every flavor is going in it...a 5 year old designed this home.
 
CasterTroy said:
Frank Betz
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Thanks, I didn't need to see that website.

Ron said:
It's a soda fountain home.
You've seen the serve yourself soda fountains. Hand any 5 year old a cup and 1 of every flavor is going in it...a 5 year old designed this home.
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Whatever you do, don't put lick-and-stick stone on anything, ever.
 
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Can I cover raw block with it? Been thinking about it. Sort of serious. Asking for a friend
 
Ron said:
Can I cover raw block with it? Been thinking about it. Sort of serious. Asking for a friend
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Only if the block is on a chimney or something where you don't care at all about water intrusion.
 
Daylight side of a walk out basement?
 
I must have been in their target demographic, I actually like the look of it? I have no idea about any of the practical stuff mentioned and such but maybe they built it to appeal to bean counters? :)

We have a house plan picked out and ready to go, just waiting on city/county to get their stuff together, maybe next summer/fall of 2019

https://www.schumacherhomes.com/con...harleston-001-exterior-charleston-a-cinci.jpg
 
The funniest thing to me about some of these houses is that whoever draws the exterior has apparently never looked at houses built before ~1995.

Show me the plan, @SHINTON and I'll see if I can't talk you into something that actually stands out from the crowd.

But it'll be next week because I have stuff to do until Monday and then one very picky client already on deck ;)
 
shawn said:
The lick-and-stick stone is a lawsuit waiting to happen....
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I assume this is about the stone, the implication is that is not set in actual mortar like normal brick? That instead they are using an adhesive on the back, in panels? Just educating myself, we are in love with the look of that house, but also many apologies to CasterTroy for hijacking the thread, will take this into a new thread as I get closer to actually building! (Schumacher Homes is who we are looking at and I do have custom plans for inside that I drew up myself)
 
Water intrusion is a when, not an if, with the stone... Not in the least because a mason isn't the one installing it.

I don't want to change your plan, only curious to reference the exterior to what's going on inside.
 
Isn't there some type of WRB plane between the sheathing and the stone veneer? At least some sheet foam that's been taped at the seams, or some housewrap? Is the water intrusion problem an issue with trapped moisture in the stone, or just a lack of proper water shedding ability as a primary water barrier?

Stone veneer rainscreen? :D
 
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Fabrik8 said:
Isn't there some type of WRB plane between the sheathing and the stone veneer? At least some sheet foam that's been taped at the seams, or some housewrap? Is the water intrusion problem an issue with trapped moisture in the stone, or just a lack of proper water shedding ability as a primary water barrier.
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Depends on who is building it.
 
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