In addition to general houses, which have a similar ratio of crops/patches/cabinet space, offer specialized houses. For example:
•Farm houses with lots of crops and no patches, maybe reduced cabinet space.
•Orchard houses with lots of patches and no crops.
•Warehouses with lots of storage but little else. Maybe some dark patches ;)
•Stock yards which have large animal pens and a greater capacity for animals (not sure how technically feasible this is, but it is just an idea).
Some of these could also have spaces for specialized equipment, like farm machinery that ease/automate the harvesting and/or planting and/or watering and/or petting and/or fertilizing of crops and trees. The equipment used in these specialized houses could either be not available for use in other houses, or a superior version of those that could be used in general houses (or the same of course, but that's another idea really).
Comments, feedback and further ideas are welcome, tell me what you think fellow Glitchens.