Comments by "oltedders" (@oltedders) on "How Did the Richest Americans Live in Every Decade?" video.

  1. Because of your personal taste.
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  2. @02dartda  I worked construction for 10 years. The only thing that was better in domestic buildings historically was the quality of the millwork. If you're comparing the European palaces and Gilded Age robber baron's homes to today's billionaire digs, then of course they were better because every aspect of the build was labor intensive. Size and the quality of technological innovation are not relevant comparisons. It still comes down to your personal taste.
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  3. The Gilded Age and the Art Deco period are years apart. One did not merge, morph, nor coincide with the other.
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  4. @ceceliaclarke  I did remodeling when I was in construction years ago. One big sticking point that you didn't mention was a total lack of insulated exterior walls in 19th and early 20th century houses. Single pane windows are another issue in keeping an older house heated in the winter and cooled in the summer. Without a retrofit HVAC system in a 3 story Queen Anne, the upper floors can be ice cold in the winter and unbearably hot in summer. In the period unused rooms were closed up, and families huddled in one or 2 rooms to stay warm in the winter, and sleeping porches provided relief when houses refused to cool even with all of the windows opened in summer.
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  5. @alex0589  WWI & WWII dwindled the workforce to where there was no longer a body of youngsters ready to apprentice themselves to a master craftsman. Innovations in production methods during the war made for changes industry wide. The need for quickly built affordable housing after the war revolutionized the building trade. Lifestyles made a radical change reflected in the homes built after the war and activities of the inhabitants of the new domestic scene.
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  6. @02dartda  Each one has its own set of challenges. Making a modern interior with clean lines and no window/door trim and no baseboards is time-consuming and requires skill and years of experience to executewell. Likewise, reproducing a period interior is obviously not a DYIer endeavor either.
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  7. @SamuelAyo-r5l  Do you assume every compliment directed somewhere else is automatically a rebuke of your values? It's not. Get over your paranoia.
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