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A Community about large, cheaply built, suburban homes with design flaws and a lack of architectural integrity also known as “McMansions.” On Thursdays we celebrate the opposite: good suburban architectural design.
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I don't like this. >:( They could have improved what was already there, but they just made it sterile and boring
I dont think they made it worse... the first one does look a bit dated and in need of a refresh, but I dont think what they did was the answer either.
Painting that brick is criminal. Otherwise it’s just fine.
The first looks like a house, the second looks like somewhere someone stores the furniture you're not allowed to sit on.
I like the after more. 🤷🏻♂️
Edit: I do not like the new look for 500k more though. Double the purchase price!
They took out a tree that had a few generations of growth with a decision that only took a moment. And to make a worse looking landscape. The house is bad enough but they decided the landscape to be just grass is appalling.
Better before. The brick gave the facade character. The "modernized" exterior is bland and weird.
I'm on my phone, but it looks like the brick is entirely gone, not painted? If that's the case, it may have been a facade with rot behind it. Happened to on of our neighbors. They ultimately decided to add their brick back, but it cost as much as your would think building the front of a brick house would cost...
If you see the detail photos on the zillow listing, you can tell they just painted over the brick.
Painted brick is just sad :(
Before definitely looks better. I think there’s some new design trend when selling a house to paint the exterior white. Not sure if it’s so the client can imagine their own color scheme or what, but I’m not a fan.
There are 3 houses on my street that did the same thing. Cover all brick with siding. White with black accents throughout. I can't imagine it will age well, that contrast sticks out like a sore thumb
I saw a video talking about how people's moods are worse now because the world is less colorful. In the 60's through the 90's they'd paint cars all manner of colors, you'd have orange carpets and avocado green appliances and whatnot. Now cars are black, grey or white, houses are white with black or steel trim, phones are black rectangles...we've drabbed our world.