Architect goes off deep end

I hope this doesn't offend, and I realize there are different tastes for different folks, but this house is so darned ugly and looks as if it had been put together out of spare parts. It is a roofer's nightmare!

This seems to be parts of houses attached to a honkin' big garage. Also notice the roomy space between it and the next home, which has a good view of the first house's side wall. Nice landscaping . . . .

 

Oyvey... it is weird looking. almost as if the one side is a silo.

 

That house definitely would cost a mint to roof and really, IMO, doesn't have smooth lines - but it does have a grain silo!

One of the latest trends is to have honking big garage doors as the main front feature of a house these days. Personallyl I don't like it and do wish that somebody would design nicer looking garage doors.

 

Oh My ! That is eclectic taken to a new level.

 

Gosh there isn't a thing nice about it,..looks like something a child would construct with bricks

 

Unfortunately that kind of design is the new trend. We have a lot of those kinds of homes going up in Nashville right now. Nashville typically has larger lots, especially in the older, more mature neighborhoods. 1/2 to 3/4 acres and beyond are not at all unusual. Builders are taking advantage of that fact, so they're buying up older homes, demolishing the original dwelling, and then putting up two, and sometimes three homes where one house originally stood. When they do that, they will build UP instead of OUT to give an appropriate number of square feet to the living space. It's ugly, cramped and ungainly looking, and yet folks are buying them up like crazy here....Nashville is expanding at a huge rate (one statistic is that it's the 5th most desirable city in the nation to live in) so housing is at a premium. Maybe so, but that doesn't make those kinds of dwellings look any less ugly.

 

@toni - that is happening here too. Take down 1 house (as per just around the corner from me) and put up FIVE in the same space. Talk about postage stamp size lots and talk about being able to pass your neighbor a cup of coffee right out of your kitchen into their dining room. The houses are also going UP (as Ronni said) to get the square footage but they are so close together and they're getting snapped up here quickly for pretty hefty prices.

BTW - I like the word "McMansions" as that is what they are.

 

That is not even close to a McMansion! would be very surprised if it has even 2,000 sq. ft. more likely a bunch of very tiny rooms, and lot's of stairs.

 

Quite near to me there is a house that was designed to just fit the space available. At the narrowest end it is about 7 foot wide outside and this increases to about 10 foot at the other end. With cavity walls nearly a foot thick this must be real bijou inside.

 

Raddang, I like this one. It's like a 2 story TV tiny house. LOL Wondering if there is a basement..