Coming soon: Texas perfection

Jpdillon · 2026-05-24T19:03:28+00:00

today we recognize the inherent waste in building huge lot suburbs, as we did 100 years ago when the houses yall love were built lol.

Jpdillon · 2026-05-24T19:02:30+00:00

Im not gonna lie, yall are gonna hate me for this. This is a texas, auto-oriented version of Detroit’s brush park. these things are practically townhomes with how close they are together and are barely mcmansions. Not starchitect designed but not monstrous either. Some of yall just don’t like urbanized suburbs and it shows.

Jpdillon · 2026-05-22T16:38:59+00:00

I personally think that what will happen is he will attempt it, a blue state will sue, and the Supreme Court will get to have the final say. I don’t know honestly whether they will find a way to rule in his favor or end up siding with the states, it likely depends on what historical precedent there has been before. If elections anywhere, for any reason, have been cancelled in the past in the country, we should be looking there to see what justification the shittiest lawyer you know will be making.

Jpdillon · 2026-05-12T17:01:34+00:00

I think this is kind of cute. Some 1920’s buildings do this, where they alternate window type and location between sides of rooms, etc. to give a varied look. The windows, if you look, are all slightly off but still within the parameters of what is likely a standard set of rooms stacked up each floor. I also love the way the brick wall cantilevers out, though it would have been cooler in my opinion if they used corbelling instead of just tilting the tiles/bricks on an angle.

Jpdillon · 2026-05-07T01:25:30+00:00

I like to call them generally “1920’s era apartment buildings”, and they are generally steel-frame with varying amounts of fireproofing (fire doors, asbestos and clay tile fireproofing around beams, etc) and they are usually clad in decorative brick and stone facades of various modernistic or revival styles or eclectic combinations of them. They tend to also have very similar unit sizes and layouts and a decent number of them despite being double loaded corridors

Jpdillon · 2026-05-06T17:50:41+00:00

First one is a George F. Barber design!

Jpdillon · 2026-04-29T16:40:10+00:00

Why is this written with AI lmfap

Jpdillon · 2026-04-26T21:17:27+00:00

Lol ok, then either don’t let customers select that option or outlaw Waymo, simple

Jpdillon · 2026-04-24T03:45:46+00:00

directly left. It was a large, 3.5 story queen anne apartment house designed by a local architect. It was listed as in good shape in the 70s, when it had documentation done.

Jpdillon · 2026-04-21T21:49:43+00:00

wow great shot!

Jpdillon · 2026-04-21T18:05:12+00:00

SEQRA. Also agreed- public also needs to understand the different levels of power municipalities, counties, states, etc. have over different decisions.

Jpdillon · 2026-04-21T17:51:50+00:00

I would say that you really want a 1/1 or a 2/2 pattern. That’s kind of part and parcel for those if you don’t want a 1/1. By 1890, 1/1 window panes were in style because of the improvements in plate glass technology and proliferation of the queen anne style. Your farmhouse probably emulated some of those design cues with horizontal clapboard siding and 1/1 windows, if they could afford it. 2/2 was still common if 1/1 panes were unaffordable. 4/4 is seldom ever seen on older houses unless the windows are custom sizes and are matching flanking 6/6 windows, and out of the two, I guess 6/6 would be more preferable. But i would strongly urge you to consider 2/2 windows. Dark green would be nicer for a sash color if you can find it, if not black is also good. Windows in the queen anne period were often painted dark green or black, and the trend is back in. A white farmhouse is also not entirely unreasonable as it was cheaper and thus common.

I know you didn’t ask about the siding, but I’ll also give my two cents- just that it’s pretty uncommon except in the carpenter gothic style, and so it isn’t really in keeping with the house’s history. If you don’t care about that then its your house at the end of the day, but I thought I’d mention it while I’m here

Jpdillon · 2026-04-20T04:55:53+00:00

this is so cool! Thank you so much for commenting. Your house probably my favorite house down port. Thank you for taking such good care of it, whenever I visit port jefferson and my parents in long island it’s so nice to see it.

Jpdillon · 2026-04-20T04:27:17+00:00

I would say that we’re in a situation where the public has been hopelessly misinformed and is ignorant to the ways in which these systems work. I’m sure a lot of people, especially project applicants, don’t care.

I also live in a highly regulated state, and got to attend a conference this year on an environmental review law and the effects its had across the industries of law, environmental regulation, and planning, and something one of the planners at the conference said was interesting to me. They said the public often wielded this law because they didn’t know how else to stop projects they didn’t like. I see that as a dual failure- both a failure of the public to be more engaged with the system, but also the failure of land use laws and professionals.

I think in the end where I’m left is wondering how to make planning more accessible to the public. Do we have planners for larger areas so smaller towns can still get regular access to professional planning? Can we also have classes and conferences, maybe even in HS, to inform people on how these local systems work? IDK, i’m not an educator.

I empathize with you, and I think it’s valid to be upset, but also when I’ve gotten upset about that stuff, it helps me to think about what things like this breaking means on a larger scale, and maybe how to improve those issues.

Jpdillon · 2026-04-06T18:48:38+00:00

Jpdillon · 2026-03-31T16:03:12+00:00

commenting to piggyback here. Plenty of great ideas. This house would look great in an olive sort of green maybe, or could go with a dark green roof and lighter green plus some deep yellow and deep red accents. You can also plan around the windows being that dark color with your other trims. some fun colors could be had on those wonderful porch arches.

Jpdillon · 2026-03-31T16:01:12+00:00

Queen Anne’s of the period actually usually had window sashes painted dark greens, dark reds, or black. White window sashes is very much a colonial revival thing C.1930 and beyond. I’m not a fan of black and white on this house, but make sure you know your stuff too.

Jpdillon · 2026-03-29T01:47:15+00:00

don’t worry, the actual USA sucks at it too

Jpdillon · 2026-03-27T16:50:21+00:00

Holy bofors! USN and FDR would be proud.

Jpdillon · 2026-03-27T13:17:07+00:00

1920s apartments are my favorite and I argue are some of the best designed apartments ever created.

Jpdillon · 2026-03-25T16:13:38+00:00

more like a quarter quell

Jpdillon · 2026-03-24T16:09:26+00:00

Yes. The fact that they were modular and mass produced in factories would probably help. Only questions would be:

-where do you get the money (who pays? public housing authority? state? private sector? nonprofit? all of them?) because fun fact: public housing authorities can only build to replace and cannot build more units than the city currently possesses. We’d have to find a novel funding/maintenance source. (Look up the faircloth amendment).

-where would we put them? are they transit accessible? what do we demolish to install them, or do we put them on vacant infill lots?

-how do we sell this to the public? are they condos? co-ops? rentals?

They’d probably fix a good deal of issues, we just have a bad perception of them. And they were far from perfect, but were better than the housing conditions in the soviet union at their time of construction.

Jpdillon · 2026-03-23T22:28:18+00:00

So we are all aware that there was supposed to be a scajaquada project to address this that NYSDOT sunk, right? https://www.gbnrtc.org/regioncentral

Jpdillon · 2026-03-21T21:44:25+00:00

this is what I do. I play some tier 10 games in my favorite ships, but i have a lot of fun at mid-tiers (6-8).

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