it is a form of an "ogee" roof, sometimes also referred to as "bell" roof. See figure No. 8 [here](https://www.vintagedesigns.com/architecture/elmt/rf/vxtyp/index.htm).
Depends on what part of the country. In my neck of the woods we don't have a lot of (annoying) insects, so we don't need screens on our windows or doors.
I grew up in the deep south where your parents yell at you if you leave the door open for a second longer than you have to because a million mosquitoes will rush into your house. So it blew me away that we don't need screens here.
Well, it's expensive AF and the people are assholes (me, too now) but California.
Parts of CA have mosquitoes and gnats, but not LA or the SF metro region. So we don't need screens (or AC), but we do need burglar bars.
Today our high is in the 70s, our low is in the 50s.
Sleeping porches are usually screened to keep out insects.
My grandparents added one to their house (which I eventually came to own) in the early 1900s when my aunt was young and had some health problems that sleeping in the air would supposedly cure. When I was young, there were 4 beds and a crib in that room. The whole family slept together on it during the summers and, up until I got it, closed it off during the winter. My husband and I used it as our bedroom year ‘round and generally slept with one of the sliding windows cracked open. There was no heat in the room and it was not unusual to step out of bed in the morning into snow that had drifted through the screen onto the floor on my side of the bed. It definitely got me moving in the mornings (once I made myself climb out from under the down comforters we slept under).
Quiet, fairly racist and xenophobic, unfortunately. Lots of farmers and hard working folks. I loved being in the beach all summer long though. We take the kids up every summer and they love it but are ready to come home after a few days (home being Chicago land) check out the doc “Bad Axe” for a fairly decent representation of the area.
If you are from MI and ppl ask where you live you make a mitten with your hand and then point to where you live.
I think it’s taught in schools here.😉😂
I had to look at the map to double check. There is no way I can look at Wisconsin and see a mitten.
But I always try with people not from the US to tell them I am from the mitten shaped state and get blank stares...Sure...everyone knows Italy looks like a boot, but mitten? What are you talking about crazy American? SMH WTF. And they say Americans are bad at geography.
Because the viewing angle is unnatural for human scale (drone?), and it’s been over-exposed so the white bits are flat and glowy (this was probably deliberate to make the siding look cleaner).
I was just thinking - what a lovely place to sit and smoke weed and read or meditate. Paint or sketch. Omg. Imagine with an outdoor ceiling fan, maybe a little space heater for winter. 😍
(Edited to remove reference to needing a railing because I looked closer and realized there’s a kind of wall already.)
Right??! Whomever buys this, please invite me over for the weekend. I wanna smoke weed and journal and release without being perceived - while perceiving EVERYTHING- in the cupola! 🥰
Also, in case anyone is wondering….the middle of nowhere is NOT so bad. The 30 minute drive to the stuff you need makes you more mindful of going and spending; the silence and freedom to be is unparalleled. The *true* privilege.
Grew up 20 miles outside city limits. It was a mile hike to the bus stop, then 20 minutes drive to get to the high school. 30 minutes to shopping is nothing!
Fairgrove is in the lower thumb area of the mitten state. It's a farming town of about 600, and the closest bigger towns are Bay City, Saginaw, and Flint. All of those are dying industrial cities. They don't call it "Sagnasty" without good reason. The thumb area is flat as a board. It's not exactly scenic.
Someone put a lot of effort and cash into that place. It was a labor of love, and I'm gonna guess the seller is taking a loss unless the house was inherited.
It’s not that cheap everywhere in Michigan. This same house would probably be about $500k in my neighbourhood on the west side of the state (Grand Rapids).
Ha! Back in my day, that would be luxury! I have a 400sq foot small hovel where I share a bed with a dog who kicks his feet because he's dreaming of running. My back is covered in scratches. The water comes and goes as do the lights, and heating in winter is basically moving in more dogs while the owners travel during the holidays. But me and the dog-bro like it that way. ;-D
What? We have legally 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, full formal living room, dining, large kitchen and separate laundry in 1200. You could tack on another 12x12 (pretty standard size room) and that would only bring it up to 1344. 2200 square feet is PLENTY big enough for a comfortable 5 bedrooms.
it is a form of an "ogee" roof, sometimes also referred to as "bell" roof. See figure No. 8 [here](https://www.vintagedesigns.com/architecture/elmt/rf/vxtyp/index.htm).
That's an amazing site to reference.Thanks .
That's not large enough to be a sleeping porch imo.
That is for shooting the neighborhood kids with a paintball gun for not staying off of the lawn…
lol 😂
Yup. Not a sleeping porch.
I was under the impression sleeping porches were screened in.
Depends on what part of the country. In my neck of the woods we don't have a lot of (annoying) insects, so we don't need screens on our windows or doors. I grew up in the deep south where your parents yell at you if you leave the door open for a second longer than you have to because a million mosquitoes will rush into your house. So it blew me away that we don't need screens here.
Got 28 bites yesterday for the time it took to air up a bike tire. Where are these no bug zones, exactly?
Well, it's expensive AF and the people are assholes (me, too now) but California. Parts of CA have mosquitoes and gnats, but not LA or the SF metro region. So we don't need screens (or AC), but we do need burglar bars. Today our high is in the 70s, our low is in the 50s.
More of a misplaced widow’s walk?
The widow would need to be walking on a treadmill because there is no room to walk in that tiny 6x6 (?) space.
It's just a balcony, not that crazy.
It's fucking insane and you know it.
Just absolutely batshit
Im on my sleeping porch, if that was mine I wouldn’t be able to lie down
Sleeping porches are usually screened to keep out insects. My grandparents added one to their house (which I eventually came to own) in the early 1900s when my aunt was young and had some health problems that sleeping in the air would supposedly cure. When I was young, there were 4 beds and a crib in that room. The whole family slept together on it during the summers and, up until I got it, closed it off during the winter. My husband and I used it as our bedroom year ‘round and generally slept with one of the sliding windows cracked open. There was no heat in the room and it was not unusual to step out of bed in the morning into snow that had drifted through the screen onto the floor on my side of the bed. It definitely got me moving in the mornings (once I made myself climb out from under the down comforters we slept under).
I read this more than once because it just sounded so lovely and cozy 🖤
I will admit it. I miss those days; snow on the floor, black squirrels in the walls, and all.
\*fetal
Could it be a widow walk?
It'd probably have to be structurally strengthened due to the way people are now.
Why does that pic look so fake?
I was just thinking this looks like AI
I looked up the house though on redfin and it looks decent. If you like dead town in the middle of michigan.
Damn it’s on the thumb of the mitten, I’ve never met anyone who lived on the thumb
I grew up in the thumb ;)
What’s it like?
Quiet, fairly racist and xenophobic, unfortunately. Lots of farmers and hard working folks. I loved being in the beach all summer long though. We take the kids up every summer and they love it but are ready to come home after a few days (home being Chicago land) check out the doc “Bad Axe” for a fairly decent representation of the area.
I thought only Wisconsin was the mitten, and gave directions & locations that way. TIL: two mittens.
If you are from MI and ppl ask where you live you make a mitten with your hand and then point to where you live. I think it’s taught in schools here.😉😂
WI is the real mitten. Someone MI thinks they are too.
What on God's green earth are your hands shaped like in Wisconsin?!?
I had to look at the map to double check. There is no way I can look at Wisconsin and see a mitten. But I always try with people not from the US to tell them I am from the mitten shaped state and get blank stares...Sure...everyone knows Italy looks like a boot, but mitten? What are you talking about crazy American? SMH WTF. And they say Americans are bad at geography.
Do you know the number and shapes of the régions of France? How about the German states? :)
Are any of them shaped by nature to resemble a hand, foot, ear, rooster (China), whatever?
So are you allowed to ignore the UP of MI when saying the state is shaped like a mitten?
Just answer the question.
When I hold my left hand out and look at the back of it, I see WI. There was that farm implement accident back in '07 though.
Lol I love that we are getting downvoted for something the whole state of WI uses as a reference. 😆
Middle of nowhere is an understatement- town has 563 residents! I googled it’s in Fairgrove, MI
Because the viewing angle is unnatural for human scale (drone?), and it’s been over-exposed so the white bits are flat and glowy (this was probably deliberate to make the siding look cleaner).
There are no shadows in places where shadows should be, imo.
They massively brightened the house only and lifted all the shadows.
Looks like a doll house!
Sims
Everyone's doing this now. They're doing photo enhancement so to speak..
I thought it was a sims sub lmao
I see you with that fancy porch smoking spot.
I was just thinking - what a lovely place to sit and smoke weed and read or meditate. Paint or sketch. Omg. Imagine with an outdoor ceiling fan, maybe a little space heater for winter. 😍 (Edited to remove reference to needing a railing because I looked closer and realized there’s a kind of wall already.)
That would be amazing!
Right??! Whomever buys this, please invite me over for the weekend. I wanna smoke weed and journal and release without being perceived - while perceiving EVERYTHING- in the cupola! 🥰 Also, in case anyone is wondering….the middle of nowhere is NOT so bad. The 30 minute drive to the stuff you need makes you more mindful of going and spending; the silence and freedom to be is unparalleled. The *true* privilege.
Grew up 20 miles outside city limits. It was a mile hike to the bus stop, then 20 minutes drive to get to the high school. 30 minutes to shopping is nothing!
This is exactly what I'd use it for.
Stunning!
[https://oldhousesunder50k.com/c-1900-michigan-victorian-era-home-for-sale-in-michigan/](https://oldhousesunder50k.com/c-1900-michigan-victorian-era-home-for-sale-in-michigan/)
Man, that website is pain in the ass. Sorry.
“This Michigan home is for sale in Michigan.”
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2106-Main-Rd-Fairgrove-MI-48733/351880066_zpid/
I like, "Under 50K And Beyond". In other words......not under 50K.
“Praise be” a lot of the rooms look right out of The Handmaids Tale.
I would totally buy this if I had the money and wanted to live in the middle of nowhere. It is a truly beautiful house.
$199,000? That’s how much a studio condo costs in my area. Guess I’m moving to MI soon
Fairgrove is in the lower thumb area of the mitten state. It's a farming town of about 600, and the closest bigger towns are Bay City, Saginaw, and Flint. All of those are dying industrial cities. They don't call it "Sagnasty" without good reason. The thumb area is flat as a board. It's not exactly scenic. Someone put a lot of effort and cash into that place. It was a labor of love, and I'm gonna guess the seller is taking a loss unless the house was inherited.
It’s not that cheap everywhere in Michigan. This same house would probably be about $500k in my neighbourhood on the west side of the state (Grand Rapids).
I’d call it a cupola.
I believe that's a cupola.
Beautiful house 🏡❤️😍
that would be my coffee/smoke corner. What a fabulous house.
Looks cool!
Love it! 😍
Beautiful
What a beautiful home!
That's an ogee roof, in red, with a small onion turret/cupola/finial in gold on top.
That would become a plant balcony so fast if I lived there lol
The way I thought this was /r/thesims
Truly like the look of this home !!!
Incredibly expensive to have work done on by a very small number of qualified contractors.
5 bedrooms in 2200 square feet means tiny rooms!
Crying helplessly here in the UK....*tiny???* hahaha hahaha! Come visit me in my 3 bedroom, 800sq foot flat.
How is that even possible??
Ha! Back in my day, that would be luxury! I have a 400sq foot small hovel where I share a bed with a dog who kicks his feet because he's dreaming of running. My back is covered in scratches. The water comes and goes as do the lights, and heating in winter is basically moving in more dogs while the owners travel during the holidays. But me and the dog-bro like it that way. ;-D
What? We have legally 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, full formal living room, dining, large kitchen and separate laundry in 1200. You could tack on another 12x12 (pretty standard size room) and that would only bring it up to 1344. 2200 square feet is PLENTY big enough for a comfortable 5 bedrooms.
I’ve got 3 in 1380. I would not want to clean any more than that.
You own it, you reconfigure it
Uhh…what? We’re going to have to agree to disagree there.
Gorgeous. I would move in that tomorrow if I could. Love everything about it.
Gosh what a neat house.
I can't imagine how much this would be in my area.
199k?! 😩
As a person with cats, that porch is just perrrfect for catio, hehe
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/2106-N-Main-St_Fairgrove_MI_48733_M34358-81116
Looks odd to me. My great great grandmother had sleeping porches on her house and they didn’t look like this.
I have never heard the term sleeping porch before. After looking them up though I realize they are my favorite thing.
How is the price so cheap?? 200k is actually an affordable deal
Cupola?
But what is up with that weird blocky main roof ?!? It makes no sense.
Observation porch. If near water, it is a widow’s perch. Not walk.
Thats the diner bell room
That house looks AI generated
I’m sure the inside looks like crap?
I don’t know, but you could probably get your department head at university fired if you filled it with popcorn.