I’m not Amerucan, but as far as I know, America often builds houses en mass. Often in factories. Everything is standardized, zo many houses look the same. It wouldn’t be weird if a set also looked exactly like a real, standardized, house. These “now” pictures could be from a look-a-like house.
Mobile Himes or Manufactured Homes are built in shops, but even with those the interiors can be vastly different.
Interior design is a thing, which makes every house different inside.
And the type of house in Home Alone definitely isn’t a manufactured home or even one built in a development where there are only 3 models, but a very old, custom-built house.
Thanks, I kind of expected this house to be old and custom build, like you say.
Is prefab parts not a common practice with newly build houses? Like, you get a truck with some walls and a roof, you stick them together, put in some wiring and plumbing, stick on some plaster and repeat for the next house?
Eh, you’ll find neighborhoods where most or all of the houses share floor plans.
They’re not exactly manufactured on an assembly line but the same architects and contractors will end up doing an entire area, they’ll get a few designs approved and then they can just stamp them out. If your neighborhood is a warren of cul de sacs that’s probably you.
Then there’s the neighborhoods of Sears houses, which were literally ordered from a catalog.
They’re rare. When you see many identical houses in a neighborhood, it means one contractor developed the whole group. Usually through deforestation to expand the suburbs. They are still fabricated on site, not delivered/assembled
I’m not Amerucan, but as far as I know, America often builds houses en mass. Often in factories. Everything is standardized, zo many houses look the same. It wouldn’t be weird if a set also looked exactly like a real, standardized, house. These “now” pictures could be from a look-a-like house.
And what you know is so wrong, lol.
Mobile Himes or Manufactured Homes are built in shops, but even with those the interiors can be vastly different.
Interior design is a thing, which makes every house different inside.
And the type of house in Home Alone definitely isn’t a manufactured home or even one built in a development where there are only 3 models, but a very old, custom-built house.
Thanks, I kind of expected this house to be old and custom build, like you say.
Is prefab parts not a common practice with newly build houses? Like, you get a truck with some walls and a roof, you stick them together, put in some wiring and plumbing, stick on some plaster and repeat for the next house?
Extremely uncommon.
The only prebuilt part is the roof truss. Not the roof, just the truss.
Eh, you’ll find neighborhoods where most or all of the houses share floor plans.
They’re not exactly manufactured on an assembly line but the same architects and contractors will end up doing an entire area, they’ll get a few designs approved and then they can just stamp them out. If your neighborhood is a warren of cul de sacs that’s probably you.
Then there’s the neighborhoods of Sears houses, which were literally ordered from a catalog.
That is not the same as prefab.
Sears houses as a percent of overall houses is extremely low.
Prebuilt homes, even prebuilt sections, not including trailer homes, are extraordinarily rare in the US.
They’re rare. When you see many identical houses in a neighborhood, it means one contractor developed the whole group. Usually through deforestation to expand the suburbs. They are still fabricated on site, not delivered/assembled
You’re talking about a country that still uses chequebooks. They’re probably decades away from prefab construction.
Due to a weird law, in the USA manufactured homes must be built on a permanent chassis.
Most homes in the USA are built entirely on site.