Sage or beacon park
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Are you sure there might be another fire? By the way one could not find another builder less reputable than KB Homes.
Talk to any attorney who's practiced some construction defect, and they'd whole-heartedly agree with your assessment of KB Homes. I was shocked they were building in Orchard Hills.
The sophisticated buyers look for a well integrated design like the Apple Execs. Good aesthetics is about good scale. Good scale is anti-McMansion. What is the defining signature of an McMansion. The house is too tall where the house width=house height.
McMansion is a 2 story box wearing a hat (roof). Because the design is so bad no one could find that front door so the front door gets the lip stick on the pig treatment like pillars, pediments and all sort of goops around it to call for attention. The entire roof is one big giant over scale non livable volume that looks cramp on a lot. It makes the yard feel a lot smaller and blocks most sun.
Good scale is a diversity of different homes consisting mostly of single stories and mixed in with varieties. These homes appear to be single story but the entire second floor is designed into the roof attic thus reducing excessive construction materials, unnecessary heights and most importantly less wastes. It's more energy efficient due to less bulk to cool or heat. Mixing with some 2 and 3 stories to break up repetition and similarities helps to create a much more interesting streetscape and neighborhood character.
This is why long time residents of places like Beverly Hills or Arcadia get so angry when people build McMansions in their neighborhoods.
However, data shows that from 2014, the McMansion is making a big comeback after having fallen out of style since 2008. Toll Brothers is the #1 builder of McMansions having built over 5,000 of them in 2014.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stephanefitch/2014/12/10/big-houses-and-sprawling-suburbs-are-back-and-better-than-ever/
irvinehomeshopper
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At that price range you should visit Ellwood. The homes have more than 2,000 sf and zoned to attend Northwood HS. The 5th HS is far off the horizon for now. The exact same style of homes were built in Los Gatos and went for $2.9 m bought by Apple executives.
irvinehomeshopper
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qwerty said:
Are you sure there might be another fire? By the way one could not find another builder less reputable than KB Homes.
thelandofnoland
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Please contact me athttp://thenewhomeblog.wix.com/the-new-home-blogfor more information on the original post. Thank you.
Perspective
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irvinehomeshopper said:
Talk to any attorney who's practiced some construction defect, and they'd whole-heartedly agree with your assessment of KB Homes. I was shocked they were building in Orchard Hills.
thelandofnoland
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Please contact me athttp://thenewhomeblog.wix.com/the-new-home-blogfor more information on the original post. Thank you.
irvinehomeshopper
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It appears the Noland Plan at Ellwood is set up similarly to the plan 3 at Jade Court and Luna where the garages are located at the end of the motorcourt where you can drive straight in. There is a 2 car wide driveway in front of the garage. There are two Noland plans at the end of the court. At Jade and Luna many owners park their car on this driveway as long both owners agree to back their car out of the garage pass the driveway and not use the neighbors driveway as the space needed for a 3 point turn. The width of the motorcourts at Beacon Park is several feet wider than those at the Irvine Villages to ease the 3 point turn maneuvering midway in the court. Although this driveway is not labeled as exclusive ownership but many owners park there between trips as long both owners agree to the mutual benefit. I would not use the driveway as long term car storage as HOA may conduct monitoring periodically.
According to the site plan there are some lots with exclusive driveway.
According to the site plan there are some lots with exclusive driveway.
irvinehomeshopper
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Ellwood's styling could feel similar to this $2.9m/home neighborhood when finished.
irvinehomeshopper
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Bullsback said:
The sophisticated buyers look for a well integrated design like the Apple Execs. Good aesthetics is about good scale. Good scale is anti-McMansion. What is the defining signature of an McMansion. The house is too tall where the house width=house height.
McMansion is a 2 story box wearing a hat (roof). Because the design is so bad no one could find that front door so the front door gets the lip stick on the pig treatment like pillars, pediments and all sort of goops around it to call for attention. The entire roof is one big giant over scale non livable volume that looks cramp on a lot. It makes the yard feel a lot smaller and blocks most sun.
Good scale is a diversity of different homes consisting mostly of single stories and mixed in with varieties. These homes appear to be single story but the entire second floor is designed into the roof attic thus reducing excessive construction materials, unnecessary heights and most importantly less wastes. It's more energy efficient due to less bulk to cool or heat. Mixing with some 2 and 3 stories to break up repetition and similarities helps to create a much more interesting streetscape and neighborhood character.
irvinehomeshopper said:
This is why long time residents of places like Beverly Hills or Arcadia get so angry when people build McMansions in their neighborhoods.
However, data shows that from 2014, the McMansion is making a big comeback after having fallen out of style since 2008. Toll Brothers is the #1 builder of McMansions having built over 5,000 of them in 2014.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stephanefitch/2014/12/10/big-houses-and-sprawling-suburbs-are-back-and-better-than-ever/
irvinehomeshopper
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Yes for the non sophiscated population looking for expensive appliances and fixtures in a super giant cheap box.
