Mildly Infuriating

Trees are a luxury, growing something like that takes time. I hope they really have a good reason for doing what they did.

It legit looks like half of the weed dispensaries in my city. Who tf would actually do that to their home tho

Just steal the image and put the source in the body text. That way you're not redirecting everyone to reddit. Sort of defeats the purpose of the protests.

The infuriation is not mild :(

Why don't they like trees?

It's like they heard lawns were bad for the environment, but stopped listening at the part about replacing it with native plants.

all better

I personally don't like it, but I respect their right to do whatever the fuck they want with their property. If they want a fugly house, then that's their right.

I would have left the trees alone, but removed the grass and covered it with small black and grey stones. That way the trees would still look nice, and the rain water can still pass through the rocks and prevent flooding, unlike this mess. This looks like a business now, it’s not a home anymore.

🎵 They paved paradise and put up a parking lot 🎵

"Bad" taste for "bad" people 🤷‍♀️

Sure they didn't turn it into a shop? Those definitely look like they were made into display windows

People are focusing on the house in the middle, but if you look at he whole picture, it isn't that one house. It's every single house on both streets. It's not just this specific owner. If this were the US, I'd suspect a HOA at work.

I mean I hate lawns as much as the next person, but I don't think the solution is to salt the earth and cover it in concrete.

Dendrophobia? Agrostophobia? Botanophobia? All 3 wrapped into one tangle of neurosis?

Maybe the new owners are allergic to nature? 🙃

It's been ruined.

I just felt bad about what I did to my world in factorio for the first time ever :/

now its a gulag

The guy that owns this house

Never understood homes that pave/block out all the greenery; makes the home depressing af all for saving some 30min of upkeep per week.

The house was horrible enough to start with; a characterless inter-war bungalow with fake timbering and fake leaded glass. The conversion is just differently horrible.

For me it's the destruction of the garden that warrants it being here. I know it's the UK so the sun isn't always available (edit: just seen the Zoopla link, it's Bolton, so change "always" to "ever") , but losing shade and shelter like that is a tragedy in any climate.

Wow this is fucking incredibly annoying :(

Just before the previous owners of my house decided to put the house on the market they painted all wood inside (stairs, doors, door frames, window frames, skirting) pitch black.

Yes thanks, I enjoy living in a cave. Removing, sanding and painting all that will take me 100s of hours.

Oh, and it was done with the cheapest paint possible while painting over all hinges, locks and sometimes windows.

100% agree this is a terrible looking house- I think the function of the raised platform must be because it's on a dangerous corner or intersection, so it acts as a safety structure from vehicles. They would've gotten special planning permission to do something like that.

Is that cement? Oof