People have lost their minds - monster houses
Monster houses.
They are everywhere. No city of any size is immune.
Some of them are ugly and the insides are appalling. Closets the size of some people's living rooms, kitchens with professional appliances that are hardly used. Play rooms, wine cellars, exercise rooms, bonus rooms, wet bar, bathrooms with showers the whole 4th grade could use at the same time, all fun and exciting things to have, but....are they really that important? Topic for another post.
It is the outsides that get to me.
Houses used to have a style -- colonial, traditional, craftsman, ranch, victorian, tutor, well, you get it.
Today builders are adding the oddest features to the outside of houses. Take this one for example. I am still scratching my head over this. What the hell is it?
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This house was listed as "stunning" "spacious" "luxurious" etc etc etc.
The mix of styles is ugly and unappealing. A touch of farmhouse (shutters & garage doors)? A touch of, what? tudor with that thing sticking out over the garage doors? Mixture of materials -- stone and brick on front. Very cheap looking useless deck just slapped over front door.
And then there is this...
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I guess the builder or architect could not decide on a material to use or perhaps had just enough leftovers to mix. brick, stone, stucco, all tied together by the chimney.
And this.....
The window eyebrows are making me dizzy. to curve or not to curve and oh yeah, we will throw 3 bricks over that small window.
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UGH. All these houses sell for close to 1 million dollars.
What happened to symmetry and consistency? Here is an nice example of brick ranch. Built in 1966.
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You are so right about ugly, over-priced houses. My husband is a retired home inspector and he saw some doozies.
ReplyDeleteI bet he did. I am amazed at the poor mixture of styles theses days - just to make something look "grandiose."
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