It is tough, if not downright impossible, to foretell the future. When the small, simple Ontario cottages were built in the downtown core, no one thought that a century later these homes would be valued as heritage structures worth making sacrifices to keep.
Today there are homes in some of the suburbs that reflect an attitude, an approach, to filling the need for housing that is no longer in vogue. It has only taken three or four decades but the Tudor style houses that dot this southwest London suburb are no longer in style and no longer being built in any number.
Will these examples of life in the 1970s and '80s be desirable in a hundred years? Many today would say no. Many might even argue that Tudor homes are not even all that desirable today and with some of the homes in question they would be right.
But this home has a certain charm, I feel. Will the features that make this home be retained over the passing years? Avoiding being updated will be the first hurdle that must be cleared if this home is to ever gain heritage status.
1 comment:
I vastly prefer the Tudor style to a lot of what's out there in suburbia.
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