mullet house |
It screams that you don't have enough money to brick the whole house. It looks so cheap and shoddy. It'd be better to vinyl the whole house. |
+1 I grew up in Williamsburg, where most colonial style houses originated, and no one there would be caught dead building a house with brick only on the front. It might be the tackiest thing I've ever seen. And it looks horrendous when out of place next to older homes. Why would you want to have the most giant house on the block in a neighborhood of run down ranches is beyond me. |
They destroy the character of the neighborhood |
I'm confused on why everyone is talking about vinyl siding- the OP said her house is brick. |
OP said her house is brick front with vinyl siding on the sides and back. |
This is it, exactly. The close in Virginia (and to an extent, MD) suburbs have been allowed to develop in a piecemail, aethetically unattractive manner that breeds resentment and contempt. You don't find the same level of animosity over housing in older well-established neighborhoods, nor in new cookie-cutter developments. It's the teardowns and infill that cause much of the problems around DC. |
OP, the whiners have to store their pots and pans in the oven. They are bitter that you don't. Please have some empathy. |
i was going to day the same thing. overall i ma just not a fan or brick on big houses. I like small brick capes but i can't handle the look of brick on a big mcmansion. |
Lived in older DC neighborhood. Full of hostility over gentrification, with crime, rampant alcoholism/drug abuse, and terrible schools. Lived in cookie-cutter, new subdivision. Everyone was the same, all about keeping up with the Jones and whose kid is the best athlete. Live in close-in, neighborhood with teardowns. Lots of different types of houses, much more live-and-let-live vibe. I will take my short commute, safe neighborhood and excellent public schools, thanks. If you don't like my house (no vinyl), that's your problem. |
The low income cheap home character |
No, shitty looking neighborhoods are not what makes this country great. I live in an older neighborhood with 1/6 acre lots (50 x 150), most of which have capes, ranches, or small four squares. Now every new house is 35 feet high with a low-pitch roof, brick on the front and vinyl on the sides, built right out to the lot lines. I get that these houses are more expensive than the older ones, but they are also cheap. I don't care if you buy one and live in it, but if I haven't met you in person (and am only going off your choice in homes), I am going to think that you have bad taste and are lazy. |
I dream of living in a place like Chevy Chase, where the houses are all old and beautiful, and the people all get along, secure in their knowledge that they all "belong" in such a refined and gracious setting, free of McMansions and vinyl siding. And then reality intrudes: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/inside-the-great-chevy-chase-driveway-war/2015/06/08/e3979136-0ba2-11e5-a7ad-b430fc1d3f5c_story.html |
Lots of 60s colonials have brick fronts with minimal siding on sides. |