10-18-2016, 07:41 PM
(10-18-2016, 04:19 PM)Mikebert Wrote: I thought it a bit snooty. I liked many of the houses in the early sections. I like lots of dormers, roof levels, turrets on other people's houses (not my own of course). They are nice to look at when you walk by and give the neighborhood character. In the latter part there were what I consider McMansions, pretentious houses too large for their lots made of cheap materials that look fake.
Quoins, multiple roof angles, cheap materials, Great Rooms (as if one wanted to live in a Tolstoy novel), and turrets (I suppose that if one needed sentries on site to defend against barbarians, a proletarian revolution, the Mossad, Spetsnaz, or Seal Team Six one might need turrets with sentries) are obvious offenders. The blogger did not mention one of the obvious failures of aesthetics: the violation of symmetry.
In view of my age I am unlikely to see this happen, but I can imagine these buildings becoming slums within thirty years
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