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Like many here I am house fantatic and an amature architecture critic; I love beautiful homes but I also love to hate ugly ones.
So post your ugly house pictures and let us mock them, because honestly, what else is there to do, besides that deferred maintenance we should be doing?
Here's some scary stuff I've found lately:
This might as well be a duplex; cars live on one side and barbie doll people on the right. A good example of why you shouldn't build a mansion with off the shelf of Home Depot parts too. Yea, it was expensive, but it still looks cheap.
This house is not too far from me in Salt Lake County. This is dracula's castle realized in brick and vinyl. It's a good thing they put that big ass chimney on the roofline to compliment the other big ass chimney right next to it along the facade; it distracts my eyes away from the ticky-tacky windows, the various oddly shaped (and located) towers and the giant flagpole, to remind us that only in America can we associate ugliness with success!
American domestic architecture is replete with phallic symbolism, and this house in no exception. Also present is the owner's apparent indecision to go with either sleek modern or quaint traditional styling; so hell, why not do both?
The two guys in front say it all... in a nutshell: "WTF?" Here windows are optional, as well as good taste. At least the garage is easy to find. Somebody raise Diego Rivera from the dead...we need a giant mural, pronto!
...Speaking of good taste, props to this person for preserving the natural environment in the front yard; too bad a 45 square mile piece of desert vista is ruined by the "cheap condo" quality pile of early 21st century pressboard turd built on the rest of the lot. There's nothing like a pimply fake rock job and enough roofing tile to shelter Tijuana to say "I've arrived"!
Share some architectural sins against nature and humanity!
This thread reminds me of a book I looked through when we were planning our new house. They took photos of recently built homes, explained why they looked SO wrong (sometimes it wasn't immediately obvious why it jarred the eye) and then modified the house photos to show how much better they looked with the suggested changes.
One faux pas I recall, because I see it so often, was "stone" floating on the upper story (as in that last photo).
ON the last house -- it's the stupid thick walled staircase from the baloncy to the front door..... or is that the front door? 'Cause if it is -- it's WAY too small.....Oh -- wait -- I think the staircase leads your eyes that way, but the front door is in the middle of the lower floor od the balcony.....
This thread reminds me of a book I looked through when we were planning our new house. They took photos of recently built homes, explained why they looked SO wrong (sometimes it wasn't immediately obvious why it jarred the eye) and then modified the house photos to show how much better they looked with the suggested changes.
One faux pas I recall, because I see it so often, was "stone" floating on the upper story (as in that last photo).
ON the last house -- it's the stupid thick walled staircase from the baloncy to the front door..... or is that the front door? 'Cause if it is -- it's WAY too small.....Oh -- wait -- I think the staircase leads your eyes that way, but the front door is in the middle of the lower floor od the balcony.....
just way too much going on here....
One thing is clear, that little door is simply a door to the garage, not the main entrance.
I've seen houses like that, usually near the beach, where the front door is on the second floor. The reason is because the entire main living area is on the second floor of the house because of potential flooding due to living near the ocean. The first floor might be finished but it's finished like basements are finished in other regions of the country---extra living space or inlaw apartments.
But the OP lives in Salt Lake so that can't be the reason for the weird staircase. Maybe it's a condo---two residences, one on the top floor and the other on the bottom. Or maybe the top floor is the main floor simply because the views are spectacular. Whatever the reason, that house design is a mess.
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