here is a thing i do not understand

[fox]

(I mean. There are many things I don't understand. But some of them I'm not ready to talk about today.)

Say you're building a house. It has the usual things houses have: walls, floors, ceilings. And windows! But it only has windows in some of the exterior walls. That is: if you're going by the outside of the house, one whole wall of the house utterly lacks windows.

I'm seeing more and more of this in new construction lately and I do. not. get it. Anyone want to take a stab at an explanation?

Comments

[thalia]

Well, I can tell you that our house has windows all over, and it's actually kind of a nuisance, because there's only one place in the family room we can put a television, and it's not where I'd prefer. I suspect the builders are trying to leave some wall space to allow for more flexible room layouts.

If the second floor doesn't have windows on that wall either, I've got nothing.

[fox]

I do know the difficulty of trying to put things on walls when a lot of the wall is taken up with windows. We're going to have some decorating challenges when we finally start putting pictures up. But yeah: these are whole sides of the house where the whole wall is solid. I'm looking at floor plans where the bedrooms have a single window rather than windows in adjacent walls, because one of the walls is on the un-punctured side of the house. Baffling to me.

[thalia]

That is weird. I mean, we have two bedrooms on corners of the house that only have windows on one wall, but that's just to make furniture positioning easier. (And, believe me, it helps.) (Oh, and also, one of those windowless spots has a chimney running up the wall.) But we don't have any sides with no windows whatsoever, and I can't imagine that would be a good look.

This is all reminding me that I really do need to clean windows pretty soon. Ick.