QUESTIONS FOR OUR TASTEFUL FRIENDS

I love Craftsmen on the outside, but the rooms are tiny on the inside.

I like anything with a stone exterior.

Greek revival or Georgian.

Case Study. I'd honestly kill to live in the Eames House.

I also like streamline moderne concrete.

Good choice R5 - I could also murder for the Del Rio / Gibbons house.

Being a Louisianian, I love the Creole Colonial style, popular here in the 18th to early 19th century. Characteristics are deep porches, hip rooves, no hallways (but every room is accessed from the porch and the staircase is outside), often raised up a full story and built over a brick "basement", french doors with moustache hinges and shutters, exposed beam ceilings, curious paint schemes with every element painted a different color, wraparound mantels on the fireplaces, walls made of boussillage, a mixture of moss and mud. The Pitot House is a fine example, being an inspiration for Interview with a Vampire.

Craftsman. And you can decorate it with Arts and Crafts/Mission-style furniture without it looking ridiculous (unlike Victorian houses).

My favorite are quite old, Renaissance period through to the 18thC, but also some of the revivalism of the 19thC and early 20thC where historic styles were interpreted.

I often like houses with complicated physical histories and many layers of history and patina more than a house that's the architectural equivalent of an insect-caught-in-amber. Perfect frozen moment houses (like a bug caught in amber) are great to see, but my life is too messy to try to live in one date certain.

Within the framework of being old enough and complex and interesting enough, my taste is goes in many directions.

I'm a committed mid century modern man myself. I've lived in a MCM high rise condo building for 49 years. I love the clean lines, the abundance of glass, and the calmness. I have a summer house way out in the middle of nowhere that was built in 1963. After I bought it I started a massive renovation and enlargement and I made sure the MCM esthetic was front and center in the redesign.

I'm the opposite of R10. I've been living in a Mid-Century ranch for 13 years, and when I moved in, I really leaned into the MCM aesthetic. Now I'm sick of it -- at heart I yearn for the dark woods, nooks, cubbies, and quirky features of a Craftsman or Victorian.

I used to have a Craftsman that still has some classic features. It had small rooms, but it was small house (1300 sf). There are are large Craftsmen with proportionate spaces.

I love the look of Greek Revival but when I envision a house for myself, it’s all verandas and breezeways and stuff only appropriate for a very warm climate.

Art Deco with lots of exotic wood furniture and dim lighting. I know a lot of people hate that but it's what I like.

What do I hate? Sterile white boxes, cold interior design where houses look like car dealerships or airport terminals.

I love saltbox houses, OP

R7, the outside of that house looks awful. It looks like a broken down house. The inside is lovely. But the outside? No

Gothic Revival.

r16 You mean the one with the exposed timbers on the exterior? It's a rustic style, really not much removed from Medieval French construction. Here's another like that, very fairytalish. I like that slightly wavy roof line.

South Asian Contemporary - I love pierced brick.

A few houses I’ve seen on the internets feature 20’ ceilings with exaggerated arches. How the hell would I dust all that?