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Aabacus
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I am working on a render and would like a row of 10 or so 1970's US homes. I have the Collective3D stuff which is amazing but more in the 50's style.
There's also some 90's homes.
Even if it's something that I can reskin and modify it'd be helpful.
Basically, I want to model a classic US subdivision. I have a backup plan so this is more of a plan A in case someone has a great idea.
Thanks in advance!
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Check out maclean. Another is Collective3d.
Collective 3D is one of my favorite but those houses are all 50s/60s.
Maclean is also a favorite but it's not house exteriors.
Great recommendations though. I wish Collective had not given up on their exteriors.
Most houses around St. Louis in the city were built in 1840. I pulled news papers carts around the newer neighborhood. Most were Kit Houses from Sears and Roebuck from the forties. The houses looked like Collective3d Neighborhood Block 1 | Daz 3D during the sixties and seventies. 70s home building was slow for homes if I recall.
What did the 70's built houses in US look like?
For us (in Finland) it was practically one storey boxes with slanted roofs.
They were primarily ranch-style houses and variations on the style. The 70s were racked with multiple recessions.
I'm thinking of the Brady Bunch house.
Kind of a groovy/hip vibe...modernish....
But in the US in Georgia we had pretty much the same 20 houses with slightly different floorplans, elevations, and finishes in the 80s (moreso than the 70s I think.)
I'm no expert by far other than growing up in those years.
If you drive into a subdivision in Atlanta, GA here in the US you can pretty much say...oh...this is a 70s subdivision or 80s or 90s...etc.
I'm looking for a subdivision street (cul de sac even) just the exteriors.
Yep, 70s ranch.
OR the split level (enter on a landing and stairs both ways (oy...tired just thinking about it.)
Agreed!
I'm trying to get that 70s/80s subdivision vibe where we gave up on blocks and just went with the twisty roads and cul de sacs.
This plus the 80s were marred with high interest rates, so we weren't exactly on fire with new construction. Everything was still small, simple, cost-effective.
I was young at the time, but I recall most houses at the time around Eugene, Oregon were 3 bedroom rectangles.
https://www.daz3d.com/home-one-bundle This bundle includes four exteriors which you can recolor.
Mine is a rectangle with a little protrusion for the Garage. Built-in 1999. We are the second owners we bought it in 2007. We are still fixing the problems the man built into the house. He Must have had a city inspector on his side. But, no, it's not that bad. Mine is the one with the Blue Roof.
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I know the styles you are after and in most places they didn't start being built and there is a mix in the early 70s of old building code subdivisions near the new building code subdivisions that you are talking about. They are all over southern Indiana along the interstate corridors, eg, Interstate 65. The new building code subdivisions are quite durable and nice when build in good locations free of flooding and such. Many of those new building code subdivisions homes still look as new as the day they were built.
Sorry, however, I know of no 3D models, free or paid, for those style homes that are available.
Example of a subdivision on a golf course.
Imagine every house is one of about 8 different plans with different elevations and finishes (brick or paint...whatever)...
Very cookie cutter.
That house you pictured was built around the early 1960s. I lived in Los Angeles, CA and my family had four kids, plus parents and pets, a lot of pets. We spent weekends touring new housing developments in Orange county looking at single story, split-level, and two story homes, with three, four bedrooms, two baths, big backyards (gardens), attached garages, larger kitchens, dining nook, dining room. That stayed the pattern through the 1970s. By the 1980s, the McMansions started, see the Dream Home. In the US Southwest, we also had the Spanish Mission style. And don't forget pools.
My son first home he bought had a pool, his second, he traded a pool for a fourth bedroom. Water now cost too much to waste in a pool.
@Aabacus
You might want to check out DreamlandModels over at Renderosity and see whether any of their houses spark your interest.
Well, I'm sorry I searched for 1970 style house, looked at the images, and made sure it was CC licensed. Now, CA has always been different than the rest of the country.
You could probably tweak Harwood House to form the genesis of an upscale 1980s or 1990s neighborhood. The multiple gables are actually closer to what you'd find in a 1980s home than what you would have found in an 1880s home of the same style/form.
As late as the early 1970s you could still find new tract housing similar to Collective 3D's Ranch House 1.
Big two-story ranches, split levels, "shed contemporary" boxes, and other non-McMansion housing types really are in short supply both here and at The Other Site.
@zombiewhacker that DreamlandModels was a great lead! I love those models! They're a little pricy for my needs and a little more than what I was thinking but...wow. Love them all!
I am always on the look out for:
Just average housing.
Average, common, furniture and other props (that wouldn't be at home in a pimp mansion.)
Cothes that aren't for hookers/guidos/commandos/etc.
Normal cars.
Normal anything. I have money dying to go to normal stuff.
I see it over on the other site but I honestly don't like having to manualy install unless I MUST.
This was a great post though. I learned a lot!
The nice thing about the Dreamland poser sets is there are usually eight or so models in each set and they are easy to save out individually. He's in sales a lot too so the price bite is alleviated.
I put this house together with Maclean's Home One Bundle parts and they do come with exteriors. The hard part for me was converting (trying to convert) the models to iRay.
This neighborhood was build in the late 1950s. They were called the House of 9s because ot the price. $9,999.00.
https://www.daz3d.com/modern-bungalow
I didn't say you were wrong, except that the model was availabe a decade before. Today, if you go through those neighborhoods you will see that style still, mixed in with updates, some torn down, and replaced with newer styles. Neighborhoods grow organically over decades. Hopefully within the spirit of the original architecture. HGTV has shows showing upgrades of them constantly.
In Santa Barbara there was a joke that folks bought those homes and tore down everything except one stud (required by local code) and built a completely new McMansion around it. If they could manage it, buy two lots, leave two studs and build one monster gated mansion amongst a suburburban neighborhood.
In Denver now, historic neighborhoods are being destroyed by 'slot apartments' and 'extreme modern homes' that have no relationship to the neighboring houses. Totally ugly.
I've always hoped that Stonemason would create a "Streets of Suburbia" product that would address that time period in US/Canada. A cul-de-sac or T-interesection would be good for camera angles.
Round here in SE England the house styles for the late 1960's whole of 1970's and early 1980's are basically one & the same, it's only on the longer timescale that the differences are apparent. There are early 1980's houses here in the SE that are virtually identical to the mid 1960's terrace [row] house my parents bought in the South West in the early 1970's, the only difference is the newer one now has white PVC planking instead of creosoted wood planks our house had.
I'd speculate that the same small increments of style occurred in the US, and anything from 1960's to 1980's wouldn't look inappropriate.
Regards,
Richard
“California Dreamin” is about the Mamas and Papas dreams of making it to California. In their mind, California is a utopia with a great community and always warm. It was released in 65. I do kind of remember pictures of houses like you mentioned. Since that is stuck in my head, I thought I pass it around and share my burden.
I did notice the reference to the Modern Bungalow. FirstBastion has a couple of other sets of suburban neighborhoods. Mostly exteriors and yard features, but block layouts where a variety of different houses can be dropped in, as well.
They are all pretty much post-WWII construction rather than specifically a single decade. I'd date most of them as roughly 1960s give or take a decade.