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Would you like fries with that home?

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The great recession has affected the design world in ways that most may not have real­ized.  The times have always been reflected in design, and this post great recession era is no excep­tion.  There is, how­ever, a sil­ver lin­ing in terms of the byprod­ucts of the reces­sion. For exam­ple, gone are the “McMan­sions” of yester­day.  Today, it is all about sim­ple, clean lines and pur­pose­ful design con­sid­er­a­tion.  The days of “Taco Bell Archi­tec­ture” are gone and we in the design community are thrilled to see it go.

One of the most obv­ious ways to determine there has been a style shift is by dri­ving through any planned community here in Florida.  Many of these commu­ni­ties were built in the mid to late 90’s and sud­denly now they all feel dated and thread­bare.  Huge ram­bling homes that were orig­i­nally intended to be four-bed­room homes are over­worked, under-designed, and now have six bed­rooms or more.

These homes typ­i­cally are marked by numerous 45-degree angled walls that cre­ate addi­tional wasted space through the nonlin­ear domino effect they have.  These bloated struc­tures of the pre­vi­ous two decades unfor­tu­nately now are energy-wast­ing money pits that are difficult to sell.

Good-bye McMan­sions, we are happy to see you go!