Comment on the Home Alone house then and now

breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• abbadon420@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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?

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      • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Very uncommon.

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      • XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        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

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      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Prebuilt homes, even prebuilt sections, not including trailer homes, are extraordinarily rare in the US.

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      • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You’re talking about a country that still uses chequebooks. They’re probably decades away from prefab construction.

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  • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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