Innovation in Housing Essay

I’m focusing on the changes in architecture over the past years. The people that lived back then didn’t have any money to buy land to then build their house. If people wanted the same land to put their house they fought for it. They also tried to pay each other some money in exchange for the land. Read to find out more of the changes that happened with the houses throughout the years.

Back then the houses were tiny and didn’t have a lot of space. People didn’t have a lot of money to pay for the house they wanted. The people that had a lot of money bragged about their big house they had. There were different villages for the richer and smaller houses. The styles of the houses back then were ideas from different countries. The smaller houses didn’t have a big kitchen, not many bedrooms and only one bathroom. The larger houses had a bigger kitchen, many bedrooms and more than one bathroom.

Way back then they didn’t have any electricity. They didn’t have any TV’s or electronics

to find out any important information. The people that wanted to find important things had to

look in the newspaper or listen to the radio. In today’s life we can talk to remotes to search things

up on the TV’s. We can also find a radio channel and listen for any important information.

Earlier in the world they had to use candles for light to see things. Now we have light switches and light bulbs to help us do things not in the dark. With those candles they had to walk to the bathroom outside, then go into a different building to use the bathroom.

In today’s life our bathrooms are in the same building and don’t have to walk very far to get to them. Now we have light switches and light bulbs to help us do things not in the dark.

Although, back then they had dirt floors inside their house. In today’s life we have varieties of floors we can choose from to put inside our houses. “ Most homes built in the early 20th century had limited storage space – small closets in particular (www.appfolio.com).

In addition, they didn’t have a stove to cook food or a microwave to warm the food up. They had to make their own fires by rubbing the sticks together. They didn’t even have a freezer to keep the food cold they needed to keep cold. At this time in life, we have stoves that can cook many things at a time. We have freezers that can hold many kinds of cold foods at a time.

After World War 1, the houses started getting more space, storage, electricity, furniture and many more things. “However, the design of homes after the war was driven in part by health considerations, such as providing good ventilation, sun orientation and exposure, portable pressurized water, and at least one private toilet (https://www.cdc.gov). There have been many incredible changes with houses and their styles. According to the U.S. Census Bureau (USCB), in the years since World War 11, the types of homes Americans live in have changed dramatically (https://www.cdc.gov). People that build houses look for spaces where they can have lots of storage (https://www.appfolio.com).

There have been dramatic changes throughout history with houses. They were tiny and didn’t have a lot of space. Then houses became large with varieties of floors, electricity, more than one room, stoves and many more new things.

It went from not a lot of land for houses to be on, to lots of space for houses and lots more room for extra things we needed in our towns or cities. Hopefully you found out interesting facts that you didn’t know already.

Works Cited

https://www.cdc.gov. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, October 1,2009. Chapter 1:

Housing History and Purpose | Healthy Housing Reference Manual | NCEH (cdc.gov). Accessed

on 8 March 2023.