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.
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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
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.
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Getting rid of grass isn't a bad thing. Pavers isn't great, but grass is horrible.
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.
Do all the houses need to be the same? Do they need to fit?
There's nothing wrong here. It's just personal preference. The property owner doesn't owe anyone anything, I'm happy to see this--that the neighborhood didn't block it.
The only constant in life is change.
I think you could legitimately criticize how the property on the right now has a ton more asphalt. It is impermeable and absorbs a lot of best from the sun. This small amount probably isn't noticeable, but if everyone else in the neighbordhood did this the whole area would be a heat island and have flooding/drought issues.
Also it's hard to see the Before yard because of the fence, but what little green is left in the After looks like a monoculture of grass that I suspect is not native. Not great for pollinators. Once again, the kind of thing that doesn't make much difference for one house but makes a huge difference when it gets popular.
I really like the blue paint job on the left. It's fun and interesting without being obnoxious.
I think it’s nice that that huge swath of useless lawn is now another home. Everyone wants more and cheaper housing until it messes up the look of their own neighborhood I guess.
Yes. In France we enforce local urbanism rules to ensure neighborhoods and cities are globally nice-looking and restrict land usage. It's good.
Well I'm guessing one of the houses sold their land so it's their own fault anyway.
Yeah I see freedom here. The basic freedom everyone claims to love, to do whatever you want in the domestic sphere so long as it doesn't harm anyone.
I also actually like it, but I have atypical tastes.
The only constant in life is change.
is that a quote from somewhere?
"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"
Ewww
Sad that two families get to live on the space instead of just one?
That's a lot of asphalt.
They're pavers, and presumably previous. It's obviously not green, but it is a better alternative to 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
This is Fugly
This looks like a small office.
Ikr? Why are they growing a palm tree in the UK?!
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.
The longer you look, the worse it gets!
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.
You ain't whatever and I love you
It's ugly AF but infill is better than more sprawl.
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.
There are a bunch of changes to that blue houses that don't look right. That roof looks totally fake, and so do other changes.
Also, the fences along both sides of the new house look old and weathered. They aren't newly installed. I suspect there are several years between those photos.
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.
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.
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