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Do houses built in a traditional style that is academically correct in its details and proportions appreciate in value more than a house built in a contemporary/modern style?

Yes.They do appreciate in value - not just in monetary value but in cultural value too.Academically correct details and proportions may be subtle but they make a very powerful impact. Classical detail and proportion has been cultivated and developed in the western world for over 2 thousand years, and has long since become a part of our collective unconscious. Homes built according to those principles tend to resonate with people on a deeper level and often capture their hearts, including those of prospective owners willing to pay big bucks to buy and maintain them.Have you ever noticed that academically correct traditional buildings tend to age into something valuable and on preservation watch?A contemporary home, on the other hand, ends up aging into little more than a stamp of its own production date. This is because the nature of contemporary architecture is that it is faddish, and so contemporary buildings continually fall out of fashion and lose their relevance as they age. Contemporary buildings are a poor long term investment; they depreciate instead of appreciate.

If you had 1 acre of land and you build a house, how big could it be?

If you had 1 acre of land and you build a house, how big could it be?When building our home, I had to do a lot of research. I had a great GC (General Contractor), but still handled a lot of the paperwork and administration issues myself. I’ll also be putting up pre-fab homes soon, as a new business, so I’ve been researching how that works in the cities and counties around here.The answer depends on local zoning and on several factors:Setbacks: There are rules in most areas about how far back a house must be from the street. In my area, which is zoned agricultural, that’s 150′ from the street. In residential areas, that’s much closer. My old home was in a city and zoning rules said it had to be 75′ back from the street. There are also side and rear setbacks. For that old home, it has to be 9′ from any side or rear property line. For my current home, it has to be 50′ from any side or rear property lines.Percentage of lot covered: With 24 acres, I didn’t need to check on this issue for my new house, but my old city house was in a zone where there were specifications about how much of the lot could be covered by a house or auxiliary buildings. (That includes garages, tool sheds, pool houses, maybe pools - yes, a pool can be considered a “building.”) Many zoning regulations will state that the main building can only cover, say, 50% of the lot (or 25% or 75% - it varies). They may also state that the main building can cover a certain percentage of the lot and additional auxiliary buildings can only cover an additional certain percentage.House Size: Beyond percentage rules, some zoning regulations will even give a maximum building size for some residential districts. There could be multiple reasons for this. One may be that in some areas, if a house were built too big, it might be big enough to be a rental property with multiple units and the intent may be to prevent that.Almost any city or county will have different zones, such as R1, R2, R3 (different types of residential zones), agricultural, industrial, and other zones, too. If you know where you want to build, and know there are 1 acre lots available, the best and easiest thing to do is to call the Zoning and Planning office in that area and tell them where you want to build and ask them the rules about house size for that area.