The longer you look, the worse it gets!
Ooof. The house itself isn’t so bad, if a little out of place, but the lawn/paver desert they placed in front of it is absolutely horrendous!
The “makeover” of the house on the left is also pretty awful.
It looks like it went from a warm, shared neighborhood to mismatched, isolated islands.
The saddest part to me is the loss of the matching fence style and what appears to be a shared gate to access the sidewalk. The neighborhood I grew up in had a lot of connected yards like that, and it was really nice.
House on the left? You mean the small blue barn?
This.
When studying architecture, one of the things I discovered is how well modern buildings can fit together with pretty much any older style… but it has to be done with a little bit of finesse. The lack of a gate and ugly lawn here are pretty bad.
The house on the left though… That’s a crime against good taste.
Do all the houses need to be the same? Do they need to fit?
There’s nothing wrong here. It’s just personal preference. The property owner doesn’t owe anyone anything, I’m happy to see this–that the neighborhood didn’t block it.
The only constant in life is change.
I think you could legitimately criticize how the property on the right now has a ton more asphalt. It is impermeable and absorbs a lot of best from the sun. This small amount probably isn’t noticeable, but if everyone else in the neighbordhood did this the whole area would be a heat island and have flooding/drought issues.
Also it’s hard to see the Before yard because of the fence, but what little green is left in the After looks like a monoculture of grass that I suspect is not native. Not great for pollinators. Once again, the kind of thing that doesn’t make much difference for one house but makes a huge difference when it gets popular.
I really like the blue paint job on the left. It’s fun and interesting without being obnoxious.
How close to each other are these houses? Do they not have fire safety requirements wherever this is?
Every new development I see builds houses right on top of each other like this to maximize profit.
To find houses spaced like the ‘before’ pic, you basically have to find neighborhoods built 30+ years ago.
This looks like the UK, and fire concerns are very different here than in the US on account of differences in climate and construction.
The external faces of those buildings are all brick and/or concrete, and not terribly susceptible to fire, so fire would have a hard time breaking out of one building and into the next
This is Fugly
This looks like a small office.
Ewww
What’s going on with that drop in the wall by the sidewalk? Did they run out of material? Did they start from the right and realized it won’t line up with the neighbors Wallace raised it from that point onward? Someone make it make sense.
After the turn on their side of the fence, it’s even at a third height. Nothing matches!
It’s ugly AF but infill is better than more sprawl.
Fuck lawns, but adding a parking lot is just stupid. Just buid some proper multi family and transit. You could have easily build a three or four story apartment building on that lot, which integrates fairly well.
