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Looks like a starter home with a bit of detail to break up siding in a patio home neighborhood. Cookie cutters with small details to give each house a bit of personality. Not everyone can start out with solid brick and stone.
Some landscaping would not hurt.
I think some work better than others depending on the design of the house
In that example--I think the mix of siding and stone veneer was not designed well
Blame that on the person making that design choice not on the materials that were chosen
This is nothing new. In the Chicagoland builders have been using Ferber on new home builds the last 15-20 years! Buying an all stone or brick NEW home costs way to much these days. At least here anyway! It’s either that or all siding, unless you don’t mind paying at least $100k+ more.
It looks exactly the same as actual stone to me. Maybe I could tell the difference up close and personal, but not from that picture. I lived in a house with this kind of veneer for several years and it was fine. My only concern is if the stuff starts separating from the house. We looked at a house where this was happening and passed on it. That's the only time I've seen that happening but it does make me wonder about it. Give me good quality metal siding.
Yes, I'm not convinced it's a fake stone veneer rather than a natural stone veneer. There are plenty of 80 or 100 year old homes in my area with natural stone or brick veneers that I think few people realize are veneers actually.
My question is what is the alternative? More cheap vinyl? Maybe cheap stucco? I might consider brick but on that house I think the stone looks nice. Jay
I have quite a bit of "fake stone" (aka Rocks in a Box) on my current house. As to the original questions, it does not fade, or stain, or do anything "real" stone would not do.
As it turns out, I also have a LOT of hardscape in my yard done in real stone. IIRC the cost was about $11 per square foot for fake, and $25 per square foot for real stone. Do the math on a 2500 square foot home and you start to understand why people go with fake stone.
I know the difference, but people tell me they can't tell just driving or walking past my house that part is fake and part is real stone. Both jobs were done by very competent masons using quality products.
Smh. I see so much talk of stuff looking cheap and it just makes me wonder, how much money do the people saying it have? And even if you do have so much money, you still need to talk down on others possessions in order to feel more elevated or superior, so it cant be that great , can it?
Maybe they wanted to create a more varied look. Because if they didnt then it would be all "samey" and "boring". And you would have judged that too.
"i dont like it and its getting popular so i will say it looks cheap and call it a fad"
i see stone on a lot of houses now and i think it can look nice. it doesnt always look nice but just like anything else it needs to be done right.
When that stuff was popular years ago we called it "phoneystone".
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