"Modern Farmhouse" look is so boring and already looks dated

[Anonymous]

I love many of them I see, but I dream of living in a farmhouse. I also like that many of them have 1-story floor plans, which as someone aging with bad knees, I see the value of.
I love white kitchens, white houses, white flowers, white sheets, etc.
To each his own. I live in a split foyer house built in 1960, in a not very desirable DMV suburb. Not a house most people go looking for, but it’s mine (mostly), and full of great memories.

[Anonymous]

If you can't afford a new home in a popular style, don't buy one. Easy.

Or, you can come onto a forum and grouse about your circumstances, couching your complaint in terms of your incontrovertible sense of style, which the world should share with you.

[Anonymous]

Everything is dated after it's built.

[Anonymous]

Someone here called them stormtrooper houses and I find that funny..
Where I live (outside Chicago) flippers are buying 100 year old bungalows, painting the brick white and adding black windows, gray vinyl floors and white kitchens. It's a complete travesty, whoever heard of a brick bungalow farmhouse?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Someone here called them stormtrooper houses and I find that funny..
Where I live (outside Chicago) flippers are buying 100 year old bungalows, painting the brick white and adding black windows, gray vinyl floors and white kitchens. It's a complete travesty, whoever heard of a brick bungalow farmhouse?

It's for people who want that look and will never be able to afford it or buy a new build.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Right? Why are they all white with basically 2x4s as trim and black framed windows? It’s SO BORING. At least the craftsmen were different colors, had different color trims, some different elements.

I say this as someone who lives in a cookie cutter brick colonial.

I love colonials. Those never go out of style.

I hate colonials. They are super boring with no character. I hate the homestyles in the DC suburbs.

[Anonymous]

Maybe you should just go live in a yurt.

[Anonymous]

Cars get old too. Doesn’t mean you can’t sell them and buy the next cool thing.

Maybe the issue is you can’t afford it.

[Anonymous]

Sorry I’m with OP. I truly hate this look with the black trim not only outside but INSIDE which screams passing fashion trend. The style both bland enough to have zero character yet specific enough to feel dated. It’s the generic go to-for developers right now and a totally turn off for me personally. I say this as someone in the market for a $1.5+M home who’d readily buy a flip. That said obvs chip and Joanna Gaines became bajillionaires for a reason so willing to admit that populism may just prevail here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone here called them stormtrooper houses and I find that funny..
Where I live (outside Chicago) flippers are buying 100 year old bungalows, painting the brick white and adding black windows, gray vinyl floors and white kitchens. It's a complete travesty, whoever heard of a brick bungalow farmhouse?

It's for people who want that look and will never be able to afford it or buy a new build.

Maybe, but brick is vastly preferable to Hardie plank.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Someone here called them stormtrooper houses and I find that funny..
Where I live (outside Chicago) flippers are buying 100 year old bungalows, painting the brick white and adding black windows, gray vinyl floors and white kitchens. It's a complete travesty, whoever heard of a brick bungalow farmhouse?

Almost as bad as those weird pop-up additions on one story bungalows!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Right? Why are they all white with basically 2x4s as trim and black framed windows? It’s SO BORING. At least the craftsmen were different colors, had different color trims, some different elements.

I say this as someone who lives in a cookie cutter brick colonial.

I love colonials. Those never go out of style.

I hate colonials. They are super boring with no character. I hate the homestyles in the DC suburbs.

I agree. I think most people buy them only because that is what is available.

[Anonymous]

From the start that black trim / black window trim looked like a bad fad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can’t this just be fixed by paint? Not seeing the problem here.

Who wants to spend almost $2 Million on a house and then paint it?

[Anonymous]

I love colonials. So classic. All brick ones with shutters. But I also like the modern farmhouse look.