.::sports and home: Adding On to Your House? What You Need to Know About "Massing"::.

Some car owners love talking horsepower, torque, gear ratios, and 0-60 times. They're involved with their cars.

But other car owners just want their car to do whatever it is that cars are supposed to do, without having to think about it.

Turn key. Press pedal. Go.

If you're going to add onto your house, you might like talking about massing, scale, proportion, and detail.

Or you might just want your Architect to get on with it, and skip the yada yada.

Design. Build. Enjoy.

But while there's almost no meaningful input you can put into the design of your car (what you see in the showroom is what you get), your decisions about your house can have a huge impact on the quality of the design of your addition.

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