The new advisory panel on modern housing favours quaint (charmingly old fashioned) buildings with a cottagey feel – and their guide makes no mention of space standards that could make the homes of the future generous or habitableTo hang an open iron gate to a wooden doorframe is a rude violation,” states the design guide, “and one which, or when it occurs on the very threshold of a residence,gives but a destitute example of the taste which may be expected within.”This guidance was written in 1838 by John Claudius Loudon, in his Suburban Gardener and Villa Companion – the Victorian bible of domestic taste. But it wouldn’t seem out of place in the government’s latest edict on housing design, and which was coughed up in a deathbed splutter on Friday,shortly before parliament was dissolved.
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Source: theguardian.com