Do you live in a "cookie cutter" neighborhood?

[mommaU4]

This was taken just before we moved in, so nothing is done to the yard. We have since added carriage lights to the house, blinds, and done some landscaping. What you do to your landscaping and inside your houses sort of sets your house apart from the ones that look the same! Now if you want a house that isn't cookie cutter, you'd have to buy a custom - and have at least 700K.

I like your house. Maybe it's "cookie cutter" but it's still nice.

So many of the houses in SoCal neighborhoods (outside of L.A.) are becoming that way. It's the only way people can afford it. We looked at quite a few in the Palmdale area, the Barstow area, and the Hemet area. Even being "cookie cutter" we still couldn't afford them.

 

[TinkerBess_SnowTori]

Nope - ours is 110 years old - accross the street the house was built in the 30's, next door looks like 30,s/40's, down the street is 50's/60's

None are the same ... I love it that way.

But secretly I sometimes dream of living in Pleasant Valley - where rows of houses are all the same and no one seems to care.

 

[scoutsmom99]

Nope, but a lot of the developments are cookie cutter that are going up. The one thing that drives me crazy is that most of the cookie cutter delvelopments have a very small yard and the houses are so darn close together!!

 

[katerkat]

I live on a military base - can't get any more cookie cutter than that!!

 

[Stacerita]

I live on a military base - can't get any more cookie cutter than that!!

Sorry to laugh. Just remembering the housing my brother lived on in Fort Ord.

I dont live in a cookie cutter. The neighborhood I live in is an older one. There are only so many floor plans to go around, but the builders made them quite different even so. To this day, I can drive down the street and know which floor plan each person has even though I may have never set foot in their home.

I live in a cul-du-sac and not one other home on my street has the same floor plan as I do. Plus, we have since added on (extra rooms and second stroy) and have done a lot of upgrades and modifications.

There is a secret part of me that wishes to live in a cookie cutter neighborhood and be a stepford wife.

 

[delilah]

We live in a small neighborhood of custom-built homes. They were all built by the same contractor, who lived next door to us. The houses were built in the early 70's. There are similarities in the houses, but, each is unique and different.

 

[Sparx]

no way. there is a pink house two houses down. Mine is white. then there is a green one and a BRIGHT blue one. Some are big some are small and that pink one is just funny looking. My house is very old and was built custom by the people we bought it from. The green/grey one is newer, and the blue one is newer but looks old fashioned. and like I said, the pink one is just funny looking.

 

[ducklite]

Hey! My house is pink!

OK, it's actually a soft coral, but we call it pink. When they first painted it we though "OMG". But it toned down after a few weeks.

I wouldn't want that color anywhere but Florida, that's for sure!

Anne

 

[Sparx]

Hey! My house is pink!

OK, it's actually a soft coral, but we call it pink. When they first painted it we though "OMG". But it toned down after a few weeks.

I wouldn't want that color anywhere but Florida, that's for sure!

Anne

we're in Tennesee. its not the color that makes it funny looking. its just a weird looking house.

 

[Kitty 34]

I live on an old street in an old town and all the houses on my street have a different look. Ours is a ranch right next to an old farm house, right next to a newer trilevel, etc, etc.

 

[luckywife]

My mom and I also always used to jokes about places that had houses that looked the same on the outside. How if someone came home drunk, they wouldn't know where they lived.

And no, where we live, none of the homes look the same. We just recently moved but where we used to live, a few houses down from us, there was a PURPLE house! Everyone in the neighborhood calls it The "Barney" House.

 

[eeyoreiscool]

We don't but there are several neighborhoods going in nearby that have that look to them. They try to vary the styles but it doesn't seem to be working too much.

 

[golfgal]

No two houses on our block are the same. Our house was built before "subdivisions" were popular, most people bought a lot and had someone build a house. We don't have any neighborhoods in our town that are cookie cutters, actually, mainly because we don't have a Centex, Routlund or mega builder in town.

 

[aprilgail2]

My block used to be a cookie cutter block but everyone has either put up dormers (all different looking) or pushed out the fronts differently, I got rid of the garage and turned it into a playroom/bedroom so we have big windows in the front instead of a garage...everyone has different windows now, I put in 2 big bay windows in the front. Thanks goodness we have no HOA here so we are free to do what we want (within town building codes) with our own property!

 

[BeNJeNWaFFLe]

When my town was first built almost 60 years ago it was the original "cookie-cutter" town. There were two types of houses: capes and ranches. Then there was about 3 styles of each cape or ranch. When I was younger everyones house was the same. You always knew where the bathroom was in all of your friends houses.

Now since everyone is renovating and dormering, all of the houses are changing. But most people are using the same company that specializes in my towns homes. So they all have their slight differences but they have a similar style. Some are very nice, some are huge, and some are just horrid. Two houses here think the grey stucco look fits in well with the NE. Or the man who thought he could turn his little 800 sq ft home into a McMansion with pillars and all, egads! That has got to be the ugliest house ever.

 

[Disney Doll]

I don't now...but I'm going to be buying a house in one!!

My sister calls it "beigeville"

My neighbors are going to hate me....we are going to paint it green with river rock.

Make sure you can!!!! Some neighborhoods have rules about what you can do to the outside of your house.

Our neighborhood is a mix of all kinds of house...capes, ranches, raised ranches, bigger colonials, headstones(there's a cemetery across the street!). I like it that way. Everyone keeps their house nice, but they don't all look alike.

They are building a lot of those "Stepford" developments in my town though...every house is the same style and color...like an Army barracks. Nice houses, but all exactly alike!!!!! And they get big money for them too!!!! Amazes me.

 

[we3disneygo]

we live in a village......most of the houses are ranch or bungalows......some brick....ours is a ranch.....built in the 50's. we could use another bathroom....with dd12.....

 

[NMAmy]

I live on a military base - can't get any more cookie cutter than that!!

Boy, do I remember that! We lived at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico for 5 years. I always knew my house because it was on the corner, though.

We don't live in a cookie cutter neighborhood. All the houses were built at different times so they're all different. Some two-story, some ranches, some split level and two farms at the end of the road. There are huge trees and beautiful landscaping, too. I love my neighborhood.

 

[SC Minnie]

Our house is newer (8yrs old) in an older neighborhood. The new neighborhoods around here(and there are a lot of them) have cookie cutter houses on tiny, tiny lots. Those aren't for me. We looked at one when we bought this house and I told DH that the lots were way too small. The neighbors would be able to hear us fight!!

 

[leighe]

We actually bought our least favorite house we looked at because it was the only one not in a cookie cutter neighborhood. Although I did love some of the new contstruction features of the houses the neighborhoods were just too Big Brother for me. DH and I always laugh at a neighborhood we pass on our way to Louisville - it's not cookie cutter but there are million dollar homes on these tiny, tiny lots. I mean you could stand in some of the driveways and touch the side of the next house. Why on earth would anyone build a million dollar house like 10 feet away from someone else's million dollar house?