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Friday Fun Poll: Your Dream Home Style

In our latest fun poll, we decided to find out what type of house style our visitors like best. We asked people that which type of home were they most interested in. We included styles like ranch, arts and crafts bungalow, cottage, farmhouse, high rise apartment, and even a log cabin. We had a great response to the poll.

What house style is your dream home?

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A very large majority, almost half at 47%, want a single story home, which makes a lot of sense to us.

Here’s why. We have two significant segments among our respondents: empty nesters/retirees and young families. Both demographics love single stories for very different reasons.

As people grow older, they like the convenience and ease of using and caring for a home that is all on one story. Who wants to climb up and down stairs to clean or use different living spaces such as moving between kitchen, laundry room, living room, and bedrooms. When you live in a single story home, you spare the knees! Plus, a single story is a necessity for people with limited mobility and disabilities, many of whom are in their 40s and up.

Young families, of course, want a single story home because it’s easier to maintain when it comes to cleaning. People with children will do a lot more cleaning, naturally. It’s also easier to keep tabs on children when you can do it without having to traipse up and down stairs to check on napping infants or answer the calls of a 10 year old who needs help with homework.

So, what do you think? Do you prefer a single story home like so many of our visitors to Homes.com?

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