Open concept, period. I want rooms, dammit. ;-)

This should be higher up. Clawfoot tubs were wonderful. Whose dumb "innovation" made bathtubs impossible to soak in? Most of them make it difficult just to get half your body submerged.

When I build my house, I will have railings with every set of stairs in my house for this very reason, except mainly because I have neurological problems and can fall easily.

they should have by law these days . enough to run the lights and heating/cooling at least

Real reason: It's freaking expensive AF to install a roof of solar panels. My house would be over $20K US, and that's not even the whole roof, or a big roof! (9m square is all required to be covered)

That actually sounds like a good idea, but you cant install solar panels in every area. Because in some parts of the world there is not enough sunlight to produce enough energy.

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What's more criminal is the HOA's that wont allow them ...in Texas ...where the sun is out like all the time as so hot ...we could power states!

The housing market is too expensive already for first-time buyers, and you want to add thousands of dollars more to buying a home? Not helpful.

Nobody wants to pay another 5-10k when their roof needs replacing. That doesn't include the cost of the new roof.

well 95% of home solar panels on the market contain parts that were created with Uygur slave labor in China. So I prefer to stand up for human rights, and push for cleaner energy plants as the legit alternatives

I also think that, instead of building large arrays of solar panels somewhere out in the green, all the already existing roofs should be covered in either photothermal or photoelectric collectors. An investigation was conducted about Osnabrück, a midsized town in germany, which had the result that the best 20 % of roof area availabe would cover like 70 % of the electricity the town needs. As many towns are similar in size, density (of whatever ... of many things actually - residents, cars, road area, ...), this can be applied pretty much everywhere. If the best 20 % provides 70 % of electricity needed, storage of that is the main remaining problem, but the solution is not covering intact meadows - or areas potentially to be such - in solar panels, while the actual consumer of electricity AND an already sealed surface are in the exact same position. Using all roofs, new and old alike, may be part of the solution...

Okay but please mention that they cost a ton of money to install too though.

Why don't we all just have solar powered homes, just why?!

Too many municipalities won't allow wind generators in peoples' yards...like mine. But Green Energy!! If these towns and cities were serious about "green energy" they'd allow these things.

Too expensive. In New Zealand we were quoted $12,000 for solar panels on our newly built house...6 years ago.. That pays for electricity for 10 years for us. After that we will more than likely move to a smaller house, so benefit to us whatsoever..

Now in California all new houses must have solar panels

I get where you're coming from, but do you realize how much solar panels (windmills????) would add to the cost of a new home? It's over $10,000!

Well, considering how the industry is hiding the global lack of certain materials needed to make these work...it's understandable. There is one mountain, people. One. It's the only place on earth anyone has found the one mineral needed to make these work. I've read somewhere that there is only about half of the mineral left.

Function is beautiful. My favorite home designs are the ones that just make a ton of a sense. Like the stairs are also storage and the roof is a garden and the table pulls out from a small section of the counter so it can be tucked away.

Solar adds $40K to the already extremely high price of a house.

Those laws exist in Germany and get more strict by the year.

especially nowadays when we are trying to cut away from gas supply from the evil empire

Solar panels installed on a house are such a costly and ineffective use of resources. Solar farms is the way to go, they are easy to build and do not affect anyone's roof.

Solar power should be affordable and made possible by the builder during construction.

Not enough return.

Have them in the front of the house, so firefighters can easily see them. They make fire fighting harder, as the roof is much heavier. (I was told)

Yes, environmentally irresponsible

My brother just bought a new build house that has solar panels, as far as I am aware new house are required to have them installed during being built. I've debated getting them but my house is really old and would basically mean replacing the roof to be able to support them, and I'd need to either cut down or majorly trim the massive trees to make them effective, but not all of them are on my property

No ROI for the builder. They'll get the same price with or without solar panels.

I have adhd so seeing my stuff in open shelves allows me to remember what I have and what I need to use.

I agree. Colors make me happy!

I never wanted a smart house but when I read about the power company in Texas remote controlling the thermostats of private owners in a heat wave I seriously can't imagine anyone wanted a house that can be hacked or controlled by others.

Also "Thankful Grateful Blessed." It's everywhere. It's on everything. Always in that stupid cursive font.

Wow there's laws against drying your clothes and linen outside?! Crazy.

I'm loving all of the color and patterns in this room, though!

Pantries need to be bigger!

And hollow bathroom doors! Bathrooms need solid doors.

In the regular clothes closet. I don't have the room in my appartment to have one full closet dedicated only to cleaning supplies!