This home housed 8 people, I believe and sprawled like a mansion. I’ve noticed there’s a tendency for the show to build only single story homes and I’m not sure why but it definitely gives the impression that the house is much larger than it need be. In the end, there were 5 bedrooms. The parents had their master bedroom (of course), and a pair of girls and boys shared bedrooms while the other 2 children had their own rooms. Honestly, I think that shrinking the “great” room and building another bedroom or two would be ideal, especially in the future. 7 year olds can share a room with ease but.. 17 year olds? Not so much. And that’s another bone to pick. Most of these homes do not seem like they would fit the family well in the future. The bedrooms are customized to the max but peoples’ preferences change over time.

This episode, however, they did make some efforts to be more environmentally conscientious, which I like. I wouldn’t mind seeing that more often. Instead of a wood frame, they built the house with a steel frame, something of which I’d never heard. I got the impression that it was recycled from cars (maybe), instead of tearing down a forest and I imagine it might help make the house a little more fire resistant. Anyway, when the house was all built you couldn’t tell. It’s not like living in metal buildings. Another green thing they did was to have cement floors. There was mention that it might help with electricity bills, too, and that’s all well and good but.. it’s cement. It’s easy to clean, but ugly. It may save money but it will do hell on your body (many of our back problems are due to walking on pavement as humans were never meant to do that). It may be environmentally friendly but I bet it gets cold or slippery, when the weather permits. Plus it’s ugly. I honestly would be most displeased and spending money to add carpeting in that house.

Luckily, no one is building me a house. d=