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That one made me sick. Some people are so incredibly stupid that it's mind-bogging.... paying tens of thousands of dollars to turn a beautiful antique home in perfect condition into a complete piece of streetscape trash.
I hope the Previous Owner haunts the crap out of them.
I was wrong; the new owner was not an immigrant, judging from her name (Donna Harricharan). Just someone who bought a historic home without any interest in its style and just wanted a house.
This is kind of embarrassing, but this *might* just explain why I have so much fun writing ugly house critiques... I actually paid money to live in this house a few years back:
We called it "The milk carton"... I wanted to sell advertising space on the side but my wife wouldn't have it.
Critics of domestic architecture would be quick to note that cars live here, but so did a dysfunctional family with a crazy father and a stinky dog.
IT wasn't all bad though. This house was so well designed that the tiny bedroom in front with the only front facade window (West facing to boot) was PERFECT for drying beef jerky during the summer time. To think the builder actually took that into consideration when designing the place! Everything else pretty much sucked, but life's problems have a way of working themselves out when there's plenty of jerky around.
The other great thing about it was that once your jerky was dry, you could take it to the car and drive off without ever letting your neighbors see how ashamed you were to live in such an ugly house!
Now the really embarrassing part. I sold it for around 40K more than I bought it. I'm ashamed to have participated and profited from crappy architecture, and tried to join a strange religious cult for a while in an attempt to do penitence for my sins... though I had trouble finding the garage to park my car so nobody would see me:
That's a fake bell tower too. I found out the hard way... don't ask.
I'm asking. What type of house of worship is that?
I guess the only truly satisfying thing about this architectural travesty is the knowledge that this house has just about lost all it's value; the potential pool of buyers that would find this abomination of a house appealing, now surrounded by a small moat of concrete, devoid of any trees or privacy is just about nil. So hopefully this house represents (now, represented) its owner's greatest asset and having now lost all its value, the owners will never again have the assets to buy and destroy another beautiful historic home.
I have always dreamed of buying either an old store or church and having it converted into a home. Sadly, our family income will never allow for this. I wanted to say thank you to all of you who posted in this thread, I not only had some good laughs but learned a great deal.
Although i enjoy your commentary, I think you are wrong on this one. Therre is not likely a scrap of plywood in this thing. It is undoubtedly made of floorboard with OSB labels stamped on it. If they only paid their architect $129.35, they certainly are not going to spring for plywood.
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