Ooof. The house itself isn’t so bad, if a little out of place, but the lawn/paver desert they placed in front of it is absolutely horrendous!
The “makeover” of the house on the left is also pretty awful.
It looks like it went from a warm, shared neighborhood to mismatched, isolated islands.
The saddest part to me is the loss of the matching fence style and what appears to be a shared gate to access the sidewalk. The neighborhood I grew up in had a lot of connected yards like that, and it was really nice.
This.
When studying architecture, one of the things I discovered is how well modern buildings can fit together with pretty much any older style... but it has to be done with a little bit of finesse. The lack of a gate and ugly lawn here are pretty bad.
The house on the left though... That's a crime against good taste.
House on the left? You mean the small blue barn?
Yeah I'm honestly a bit more upset that they painted that beautiful brick house neon blue
Getting rid of grass isn't a bad thing. Pavers isn't great, but grass is horrible.
If they had brought the house forward a bit they could have a normal size front area, and a bit of back garden which is more useful. Could even have divided up the land a bit better to leave some space around the house on the left. I guess it was done this way so as not to block the view of the house on the left, but the whole thing just seems like bad planning and bad taste.
Where will you park your F150 and Waverunners™?
Who doesn't want a luxury tiny house and a giant driveway for 5 cars?
The hip new development near me, which is packed with townhomes and some restaurants and businesses in the middle, has so many $50K-$80K SUVs parked along the road.
"Modern kids never play outside 😡😡"
Outside:
The feeling of looking outside and seeing the tons of cars pass by while your father yells at you about how "phones are bad, people are addicted, they won't even go outside anymore"
Sad that two families get to live on the space instead of just one?
That's a lot of asphalt.
Houses used to be multi-generational
Sad that 2 families without taste live (on the same space) instead of none.
I won't lie, I quite like the new house. It's almost certainly been built as cheap as shit, but the design is kinda cool, if perhaps not in keeping with its surroundings. But estates like that are ten a penny in the UK. And I would have made it an actual garden because, y'know, green space is nice.
But the blue paint job on the renovated house can fuck all the way off.
Probably absentee owners that want a no- to minimal-care landscape that won’t cost them anything to maintain or become an infrequently maintained eyesore and catch the council’s attention for fines.
Now its an eyesore no matter how frequently maintained
Is have to see the interior of the new one because the front room looks like a waiting area
A cat arrived
Ewww
This is Fugly
This looks like a small office.
The longer you look, the worse it gets!
What’s going on with that drop in the wall by the sidewalk? Did they run out of material? Did they start from the right and realized it won’t line up with the neighbors Wallace raised it from that point onward? Someone make it make sense.
After the turn on their side of the fence, it's even at a third height. Nothing matches!
The floor is slanted.
It's ugly AF but infill is better than more sprawl.
Fuck lawns, but adding a parking lot is just stupid. Just buid some proper multi family and transit. You could have easily build a three or four story apartment building on that lot, which integrates fairly well.
How close to each other are these houses? Do they not have fire safety requirements wherever this is?
Every new development I see builds houses right on top of each other like this to maximize profit.
To find houses spaced like the 'before' pic, you basically have to find neighborhoods built 30+ years ago.
This looks like the UK, and fire concerns are very different here than in the US on account of differences in climate and construction.
The external faces of those buildings are all brick and/or concrete, and not terribly susceptible to fire, so fire would have a hard time breaking out of one building and into the next
The UK has a population density almost 8 times that of the US. Our houses get ram packed together.
This feels like ai.
The new house is strangely small
Why would the makeover house have one chimney stack taken down and one left. Surely you'd keep both or remove both.
The house on the right seems to have had it's chimney changed a bit too for no real reason.
Why couldn't they have removed a fireplace when they upgraded their roof? They could just want one in a living room while removing the one in the bedroom or something.
I don't see anything changed on the house on the right, it is nothing but a lightning change.
It does not have the telltale signs of AI. The background still has plenty of the same features. Even the trees on the right have grown over time.
Newa attic windows where there were none before, some windows have been replaced with larger ones, some with newer style. Added a palm tree with a back patio. It's kinda fugly overall, and the style feels oddly souless for how much character it has. I think the black roof might've been where it went wrong, that material just doesn't look nice on a house with such a steep roof as a visual feature. I think they could've gotten away with a more traditional modern roofing shingle
What irritates me in the lower image is the shadow, or better the lack there of. The upper left window of the blue house had sharp shadow inside the room, but literally nothing else in the image has. The streetlights, the traffic cone, the property walls etc. nothing has shadows like the window has.
You got a good eye, wow.
I don't like the asphalt but I do like the architecture
And ngl, I like the blue paint. But I'm the excuse home owners associations give for their demand to control how you paint your home.
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