Here's a new idea: stop building McMansions. Surely there'd be a saving in materials and builders' time.
How many of us happily grew up with our parents and several siblings in a modest three-bedroom house with one bathroom? A kitchen, dining area, lounge room and lots of space outside. Naive, you'll say, people want more these days. Why? I'd forgotten, until I found an old newspaper, that in the 1960s you could buy an architect designed plan and drawings for a house like that - they weren't fibro shacks either. Contemporary, flat-roofed, large glass windows, furnished in elegant Danish style. I know - progress draws us ever forward, but sometimes I wonder if a little less could be much more.
