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Originally Posted by boardom
some people just prefer to spend money on saving energy and comfort, than on something like a granite countertop. Funny how no one ever brings up the ROI on things like that .
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After testing hundreds of homes I can safely generalize that homes of a simple shape are tighter and more efficient than those with vaults, angles, cantilevers and floor height changes. Along the lines of boardom's comment above, those features are also never brought up in the ROI discussion, but happen to add much to the cost of construction.
I think once the housing industry gets past this present bump in the road, we'll be seeing folks opting to lop square footage off the typical home design and putting the money saved back into energy efficiency, perhaps paving the way for some of these more exotic building methods to reach the economy of scale they need to be competitive.