I like the design on top - ranch style, looks roomier. The bi-level house looks like it is designed to be crammed full of loud people, all yelling at each other in a foreign language ....
I like the ranch style better, too!
How about one additional change, namely, NO homeowner association!
THEN I might be interested!
The housing downturn creates an opportunity for truly quality housing.
For example, construction materials can be upgraded for much better quality, but not terribly higher cost.
Examples include a steel instead of wood frame. Putting utilities in separate conduits. Central vacuum service. Advanced insulation. Passive roof seasonal water heating. Roof solar paneling. Basement and attic with elevator. Saltillo tile. Island kitchen. Hot tub, sauna, pool.
Maybe the world of good taste will get lucky and the housing crisis will put Pulte, Toll Brothers, and their ilk out of business, saving neighborhoods everywhere from their ghastly McMansions and cheap cookie-cutter developments.
I prefer the house in the bottom pic. I like the sittable, visitable front porch. A bug zapper at the corner, to the right of the steps, would doubtless help with some of Florida’s native population.
I’d want to put a clock in that medallion upstairs— just because :)
And I’d like that to be a real balcony upstairs on the left...
And some sort of decking on that flat roof, and easy access thereto, for the “cool of the evening”...
Full disclosure: I’m 44, working poor, who deliberately chose to live in a trailer park for the budgetary benefit, so call me “trailer trash with bad taste” if you wish...I won’t mind.
Lower Housing costs is good news.
Means more people who could not afford homes before can now do so.
Homes should not be treated as investments but as a place to sleep at night.
Keep dropping in price!!