[notlongnow]

I am a wannabe, My parents have lived in TV for several years and love it. I visit almost every year and my wife and I love it to.

I am a residential architect and have designed thousand of homes over the last 30+ years and have owned my own firm for that whole time.
I mentioned my background only to let you know where I come from when I talk about the home designs in TV.

In general the homes are nice and can be decorated to make it fit almost any taste but seem to have a very similar look in the layout from house to house.
I am not trying to say they are not nice at all, I am saying it would be nice to see a little more variety when it comes to layout.
I was looking at all the plans and if they did not have names it would be hard to tell one from the other.

However there is one plan that stood out to me. That is the Grandview.
This plan does not fit the regular mold that TV has developed over the years.
The plan is too big for my taste for retiring in but it shows what you could do with many of the plans that are offered if they would just spend a little time redesigning them for variety sake.
For me I would not want to retire into a house that big, the Grandview, but would like the well thought out design style in a smaller home.
I don't know who designs them but I would love to be able to talk to them for just one afternoon and show them what I think they could do with very little effort.
I hope that when I retire, not far off now, there are more homes like the Grandview available but in a smaller series.

What do you who live there or are looking at buying a home right now think?