Don’t look at the house in isolation; you’ve got to see how these homes are situated, where they sit on the lot.
They’re large enough that if the builder has made a miscalculation and the rear haunches of this baby are kickin’ out of the landscape by a story and a half, run away.
If, on the other hand, this large house has been backed up against the back side of a hill, run away.
These homes are truly ‘manor homes’. They need earth around them, and they need space to function, They need to have enough openness ... without a lot of natural topography around it that light can stream into these houses and defeat that overwhelming potential sense of darkness.
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