Please stop building these cheap, ugly “craftsman”

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sure OP is just jealous bc he lives in some Home Alone wannabe 90s style tacky all brick dump in Fort Hunt, barely scraping by on his “vp of government affairs” salary at some obsolete trade group

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Newsflash all the houses are the same they just use different exterior finishes over frame (vinyl, hardiplank, brick etc)

House is fine and functional

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Anonymous wrote:Why is this every house that has been build in Chevy Chase, Bethesda, or NWDC in the last 5 years? https://redf.in/R8HOoQ

This ridiculous choppy-roofed “farmhouse in the suburbs” eyesore is polluting every street in every neighborhood in the DMV. Do people here have zero taste?

I get that it’s cheap to build. Its inelegant and impractical floor plan maximizes profit margin for the builders. But isn’t it soul crushing to keeping building these identical pieces of cheaply-made garbage over and over and over again? I guess late stage capitalism has decimated any inkling of aesthetic sensibility or pride in one’s creation?

In this particular $3.2 million listing, the builder couldn’t even spring for actual brick? Just brick veneer and only in the front. Because that’s the only part of the house that matters? Pretend brick for a pretend house Yuck. Although I guess that’s better than the disgusting vinyl-sided versions of this house that are routinely excreted onto the market at $2.6 million. Do you really want a house made out of plastic instead of brick or wood? Talk about low expectations.

How are these ugly boxes even selling at $2.6- $3.2 million? We are the market for a house in that range but every new build in the area is this same small-windowed off-brand version of the house on Walton’s Mountain.

Demand better, DMV.

They keep building them because people keep buying them. The end.

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Anonymous wrote:Sick of the modern farmhouse look as well. It's not a look that belongs in the northeast/midatlantic. Homes like that look like they belong in Utah or Idaho or something. It's bizarre how attached builders are to this look.

Also the boxy "modern" (aka soon to be dated/prison compound look) are a mess too.

A classic brick colonial is just unmatched.

If by "unmatched" you mean unmatched in being dated and laid out in a way that is not at all how people live today...

Oh please. Visit Europe sometime. Somehow modern families manage to live in 500-year-old houses. Stop watching so much HGTV. Houses are basically for sleeping, f**king, eating, and shi!ting. Been the same way for a while now.

What does visiting Europe and families there living in 500 year old houses have to do with it? Just because there are a lot of 4-on-4 colonials in the DMV with a formal dining room and living room that no one will ever use and people can live in them, doesn't mean they want to. It's a bunch of wasted space in the context of how families live now. The colonial as "unmatched" is just ridiculous; as a form it is beyond outdated -- families today do not want those small boxy formal dining rooms and living rooms and kitchens that you can't eat in.

And I've never watched HGTV.

Sounds like you are the tract housing builder's target audience. You deserve what you get.

Well, I have a beautiful custom-built home designed by a renowned architect to fit perfectly on our five acre waterfront property. I definitely feel I deserved what I got. I was looking for something much, much better than the 70s 4on4 colonials you seem to think are the epitome of residential architecture. But hey -- there's no accounting for taste (or lack thereof). I'm sure you love your used-twice-per-year formal dining room with it's orange-ish oak table, wrong-size-for-the-room sideboard, and dust-collecting 80s light fixture. Enjoy.

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OP is objectively correct, and the people being nasty are tasteless idiots.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sure OP is just jealous bc he lives in some Home Alone wannabe 90s style tacky all brick dump in Fort Hunt, barely scraping by on his “vp of government affairs” salary at some obsolete trade group

Bizarre, oddly specific, and bitter comment. All in all, you sound like an unpleasant human being to be around.

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Anonymous wrote:OP is objectively correct, and the people being nasty are tasteless idiots.

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No.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sure OP is just jealous bc he lives in some Home Alone wannabe 90s style tacky all brick dump in Fort Hunt, barely scraping by on his “vp of government affairs” salary at some obsolete trade group

Bizarre, oddly specific, and bitter comment. All in all, you sound like an unpleasant human being to be around.

Seemed on point to me. And your comment is just ad hominem. DP

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sure OP is just jealous bc he lives in some Home Alone wannabe 90s style tacky all brick dump in Fort Hunt, barely scraping by on his “vp of government affairs” salary at some obsolete trade group

Bizarre, oddly specific, and bitter comment. All in all, you sound like an unpleasant human being to be around.

Seemed on point to me. And your comment is just ad hominem. DP

They are awful. Thank you OP. Please stop with the black windows. It’s a fad.