Re:Why developers seem to only build luxury housing (2018)
by CalRobert on Sunday May 29, 2022 @05:06AM
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Just did a self build and apparently ceilings have been rising again - 9, or 10 feet (which brings you back to 3m). Lower-volume rooms do mean less volume to heat or cool though.
Re:Why developers seem to only build luxury housing (2018)
by chrisseaton on Sunday May 29, 2022 @06:32AM
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> Just did a self build
Well yeah if you build it bespoke you can have ceilings as high as you want. But we're talking about houses that normal people buy from developers.
I can't really see us ever going back to solid-stone construction and the kind of intricate architecture we used to have in our culture.
> And houses generally have gotten far larger over time.
Rooms used to be 3m tall - they've shrunk over time to 2.4m tall. New-builds have zero storage.