Comments on Puzzle #40360: Out of Sight 16
By Yonah Kondor (yokon965)
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#1: David Bouldin (dbouldin) on Apr 8, 2026 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#2: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Apr 8, 2026
At one time, they had the *best* catalog!#3: David Bouldin (dbouldin) on Apr 9, 2026
You just sent me down an architectural rabbit hole I hadn't been down in a while, Kristen. Do you remember the BEST stores?#4: Jota (jota) on Apr 9, 2026
It served us for many years#5: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Apr 9, 2026
David, I do not. Do you mean this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_Products#6: David Bouldin (dbouldin) on Apr 10, 2026
I do indeed. We looked at these buildings briefly in Architecture school. Worth a look. I love the creativity!#7: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Apr 10, 2026
https://www.archdaily.com/778003/the-intersection-of-art-and-architecture-the-best-products-showrooms-by-site-sculpture-in-the-environment
those are gorgeous!#8: David Bouldin (dbouldin) on Apr 10, 2026
agreed!#9: Ella Hustwitt (Dragonfyre) on Apr 12, 2026 [SPOILER]
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Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#11: Joanne Firla (JoFirla) on Apr 19, 2026
What? Seriously? That's wild.#12: Valerie Mates (valerie) on Apr 21, 2026 [SPOILER]
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Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#15: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Apr 21, 2026
How cool! The closest I've seen to a kit house was on my tour of Oak Ridge, TN, with the cookie-cutter base housing.#16: David Bouldin (dbouldin) on Apr 21, 2026
I remember visiting a friend in my neighborhood (where most of the houses were by the same architect), and how fun it was to discover that our kitchens had the exact same layout!
My neighborhood had a bunch of floor plans that were repeated but not super often. Our house, however, had a unique look so it was immediately noticeable when it was reused, so they only built three of them in the whole neighborhood and spread them out so you didn't see them together. As luck would have it, my best friend lived in one of the other ones, but his plan was a mirror image. When I was at his house I really liked laying down with my head upside down so that everything was laid out just like my house but the ceiling was the floor and vice versa.#17: Valerie Mates (valerie) on Apr 21, 2026
My current neighborhood has about five different types of house, built fifty-ish years ago. I have two nearby neighbors who have the mirror image house to my house, which is neat. Jan liked to go for walks around the neighborhood and see what people had changed about their houses over time, as they added on and remodeled.#18: David Bouldin (dbouldin) on Apr 21, 2026
As part of the community service hours I needed for my internship, I did research for a local historical society. For each house in a certain old neighborhood, I documented, among other things, the official architectural style. This was ofyen tricky because of the modifications people made over time. Many of the elements that would make identification easy (or in some cases of similar styles, even possible) were changed, like windows. No way to know if they were originally a 6 over 6 or even casement or not when it's generic replacements. Lots of notes like "This house likely had two chimneys but one was seemingly removed during a reroof. Also, the original roof's material was most likely wood shingles."
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