Comments by "" (@kate2create738) on "The Absurd Superficiality of Suburban Homes" video.

  1. It seems like since we dropped the appreciation of handcrafted homes, we sacrificed the practicality of home building too. A good example, since you didn’t get into the interior too much, is kitchen design. Before, practically is the main priority to function properly for the house. It was of course in mind of the wife traditionally to be in charge of the kitchen, and turns out that most of those quirky small kitchens were intentionally designed to not need to take so much space to be as efficient as possible to follow a task. Whether it is cooking a meal, prepping the food, canning excess produce, etc, the goal was to have a work space manageable enough to grasp what you needed in a short distance. Today the kitchen hens are too huge, and their primary goal is to be able to socialize from the kitchen. Personally I like to keep some of the rooms a little separate, it’s possibly controversial. I first of all want to have a formal dinning room to have meals without looking at the messy kitchen, or have activities in the living space be distractible. Personally not a big fan of opening the door to EVERYTHING there, and the silliest thing is that some of these spaces could have the option to be open yet private if there was an acceptance to pocket doors again. I think with the points you made, as well as the lack of thought when planning and developing these new homes is why I personally favor the older homes. Ironically see it more efficient in the long term, likely will need updating but so will any structure, just think the intention of these older houses was to focus on living in the house to make it a home. They were built with the mindset to actually last, not be the next trend. The houses had a meaning to be the home any home owner could connect with.
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