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the Home Alone house then and now (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 51 points 2 months ago (12 children)

I don't think this can be true. The house interiors in the movie weren't filmed on location. They were custom sets built into a school gymnasium. So everything in the "before" photos are sets and set decoration.

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  • [+] -27 points 2 months ago (11 children)

    I'm not Amerucan, but as far as I know, America often builds houses en mass. Often in factories. Everything is standardized, zo many houses look the same. It wouldn't be weird if a set also looked exactly like a real, standardized, house. These "now" pictures could be from a look-a-like house.

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  • [–] 34 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    And what you know is so wrong, lol.

    Mobile Himes or Manufactured Homes are built in shops, but even with those the interiors can be vastly different.

    Interior design is a thing, which makes every house different inside.

    And the type of house in Home Alone definitely isn't a manufactured home or even one built in a development where there are only 3 models, but a very old, custom-built house.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    Thanks, I kind of expected this house to be old and custom build, like you say.

    Is prefab parts not a common practice with newly build houses? Like, you get a truck with some walls and a roof, you stick them together, put in some wiring and plumbing, stick on some plaster and repeat for the next house?

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    Extremely uncommon.

    The only prebuilt part is the roof truss. Not the roof, just the truss.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Eh, you'll find neighborhoods where most or all of the houses share floor plans.

    They're not exactly manufactured on an assembly line but the same architects and contractors will end up doing an entire area, they'll get a few designs approved and then they can just stamp them out. If your neighborhood is a warren of cul de sacs that's probably you.

    Then there's the neighborhoods of Sears houses, which were literally ordered from a catalog.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    They're rare. When you see many identical houses in a neighborhood, it means one contractor developed the whole group. Usually through deforestation to expand the suburbs. They are still fabricated on site, not delivered/assembled

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    To clarify what others are saying, the design and layouts are repeated, but done in situ. So especially in a new house/neighborhood you'll have a neighborhood with maybe 1-4 variations (possibly also mirrored versions of them), but each was made on the spot with a mostly standardized lot. Then over time some will slowly be modified and they'll all get their owners' touches to them.

    It's very much an industrial process in the suburbs starting after the world wars.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    You’re talking about a country that still uses chequebooks. They’re probably decades away from prefab construction.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    We don't use checks except very rarely and we have manufactured houses (called mobile homes here). They just don't come with the land under them so they constantly lose value and cost rent for the lot, are generally smaller and worse than in situ buildings, and are stigmatized as "for poor people" because of the fact that they're cheap in the moment and expensive long term, which is the opposite of normal housing.

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