HOLLYWOOD,
A week ago or so I bought 2 pcs of plywood from Home Depot and part of my comments stem from that I spoze. It's not Doug fir and whatever it is it warps badly what ever I do w it.
And I'll admit the converted sailboat and the Cargile are hard to look at. The intended market for the Cargile was as a substitute for a travel trailer so it didn't have much beauty to beat.
And beautiful houses can be made out of Bamboo or w some imagination a bunch of pallets. But you must admit that houses are made out of the cheapest materials that can be found. They build them w OSB instead of plywood ... in the rain. Everything is the absolute minimum that will sell. Economy is so important now that they rarely build two story houses. A box shaped house looses the least heat. Another example of how the almighty buck dictates what a house will look like and what it will be built of. The "eye of the designer is what makes the difference" .. what difference? They all look just the same. Of course that's not true of high end houses but most houses are low end.
Speaking of low end most houses where we live aren't even stick built. Our house and most around here are manufactured houses. I like our house in the inside but the outside looks really cheap and "bare bones".
But inbetween the upper end and the lower end many houses are at least interesting to some extent by their design but the're probably still made out of the cheapest stuff available.
No I don't think all of what Home Depot has is crap. We actually shop there a lot. Lowe's is just about the same but I much prefer HD. ??
Another visual bad about the converted sailboat is the over sized roof.
The plywood I bought at HD was 15/32nd. I suspect it wasn't made in the US. Does anyone know?