74 ft. ASL.
The yard floods when it rains.

I'm convinced that someday I'll come home to a hole in the ground after the limestone crumbles into the water table.

I think it's a "raised ranch."

I live in a compound.

I voted "condo" because it's the closest choice to the apartment I'm renting.

Ranch house on a view lot.

Summer or winter home? Or, the lake cabin or mountain cabin? Or, hunting cabin or NYC penthouse overlooking Central Park? Poll isn’t specific enough for an answer.

One with seven levels of living space. Stairs going everywhere!

Craftsman style home

Twin Headsail Sloop



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I live in an old house. Best way I know to describe it. Probably older than most people on Arfcom.

The kitchen/dining room and living room where all originally 1 large room with a large stone fireplace/stove in the middle. I have seen the base of it when I re-did the kitchen floor a few years ago.

Since 1949 the dining/kitchen area and living room have been divided into separate rooms and several other rooms have been added.

When I moved in 24 years ago, it had a total of 7 rooms (including the bathroom).

I have done a few improvments. including getting the electric system and HVAC upgraded about 4 years ago, investing some money after I got the house paid off.

But it is still an old house.

Neighbors would say "Grow" but I like "Conservatory".

Villa.  I guess you are calling it a Rambler in the poll? It’s one story.

White trash with cash style. Waterfront 1,068 sq ft 2/2 thirty year old troublewide. It's 2.5 miles down a limerock singletrack in a remote corner of a NF. We paid cash for it.

A one story bungalow. Maybe someday it'll have two stories.

Post-and beam recycled hippie house, Strawbale addition and a modern addition lol

Your mom’s
Can’t believe someone hasn’t said it

Mansion

No option for 4-story house.

2 story. The older I get, the more I regret buying a 2 story.

I live in a Nunya house.

Rambler. Rough cut block front and smooth cinder block on the rest. I love my house. Stays nice and cool in the Phoenix summers.

Two story, downstairs is the main floor.

If I ever move, it will be a rambler.  My arthritis isn't getting any better and if I can avoid stairs in my elder years, all's the better!

Single wide!

own a big flat in the city.

townhouse thats called a condo.. dont love it.. but dont have 1+mill for a house within 50 miles...

With triangles on top.

A Modern Farmhouse dog-trot.

Well, it’s two of those things.

I’m about to put in an offer on a house that sucks less.

No clue. It was designed and built by a local Amish builder. We love it. My wife said it's a type of modern farmhouse. I still don't know.

1.5 Story built in 1942. Upstairs has never been finished and I probably won't either.

I assume a rambler is a one story ranch around my parts.  Land is cheaper than materials, so not too many people want to spend the extra to go up, and going down is hard due to the water table anyway.

Just from the ascetics - I hate the design.  But I have been in a few that were quite nice.  Those tended to ramble a lot more, showing generations of add ons.  One in particular comes to mind.  Started as a normal sized house.  Then they probably added 4 bedrooms onto the end, and turned the original house into a nice kitchen and living room.  They also added an upstairs lounge and an indoor/outdoor room on the end (lots of windows that opened, but a separate A/C and separate exterior wall between the house and the room).  Not sure when, but eventually the extended the kitchen to have a prep area with storage fidges and freezers - so now the nice kitchen was also used as an entertaining area.  Then they added a study on the far side of the 4 bedrooms, and another 4 bedrooms on the other side of the study.  At that point they had 1 small gathering place for guests, and 3 larger separate ones - plus the kitchen.  They already had a patio, which they put an infintity pool behind, then a short walk around the pool they installed a full outdoor kitchen.  In the end they could sleep 16 guests and nobody felt like they did not have plenty of space.  There was also a camp house nearby, which probably had more rooms for guests - but also had the offices and on site staff quarters.

Then they had 3 or 4 other houses on the property for other groups and/or visiting investors/owners (I think there were 4 groups of owners).  Of course the jewel was the 40,000 acre ranch it was on.
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I have lived in everything from dorm rooms, boarding house rooms, apartments, post WWII cottage, modern 2 story...  To my current ranch and have a interest in a beach bungalow.  Looking forward to building a river fish camp some day soon.  Not sure if it will be more cottage or bungalow - or fucking yurt.  Kind of really like the yurt idea - but the neighborhood is not really yurt friendly.  Part of me wants to just get a conex box and be done with it.

No tri-level option?

i wish i could afford to live in a shipping container.

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I've never heard Rambler, only Ranch.

Nouveau, Post-Modernic, Bullshit house.

Same. Also in a real farm.

I live in a corvair most people call it a ranch house

French Colonial Revival
Built in 1908

A rectangle one on posts to keep it off the ground.
Bitch to keep level when the ground moves.

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ranch style home here with attic, approaching 80 years old.

A labor of love for sure.

My wife and I still want to build in the next few years, and the plans I've drawn will still be a single story because I'm not lugging guitar stuff up and down stairs.

4 story mansion, poll options suck

yours?

BLM house?

The kind a lot of recently divorced guys live in. A small one bedroom apartment.

Two story, not sure on the "style". Built in the mid 90's, about 2k sq ft.

Can't wait to get rid of the stairs and downsize a bit. I hate having to go up and down stairs for anything.