Thoughts on this beautiful/modern/fresh new-build home in Bethesda. (Best schools)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The design is both weird and boring at the same time, which is not easy.

The yard is small compared to the house, and boring/ugly. It looks like a tract home yard.

It always looks weird when these big new builds muscle into a neighborhood of smaller, older houses. A scourge in many places in the DMV though.

All that for nearly 3mm. One can do better. That's why it is sitting.

Ugly, quickly built new build that takes up the entire property. Price needs to drop by at least another $200k.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here is a new build in the same school district with a more classic design. I’m guessing this is modern colonial- I’m not sure if that’s the correct name for the style. But it definitely looks kind of classic as what I mean.

https://www.redfin.com/MD/Bethesda/5512-Pollard-Rd-20816/home/10665719

We looked at a house on that street a few years ago. There was no privacy bc sitting in the backyard you can see 5 other sets of houses and backyards.

I hate that house even more, by looks!

[Anonymous]

This is a lively house with lots of space. I could not afford it but would love more space.

[Anonymous]

I hate hate this new style - it's so specific, seems like it will be out in a shorter time than other trends. So sad to me that old classic houses are being torn down for this crap. People have no taste.

[Anonymous]

Love the back porch.

Rest is not my style, starting with the dark color.

For $2.7 million, there are just a dozen or so tiny little bushes provided in the landscape package?

Why do builders clear the lot and then do this? And worse, new home owners move in and don't add anything else, from the looks of many lived-in new builds around Bethesda.

[Anonymous]

That is particularly ugly. I guess the screened in porch is okay, but the rest is boring and/or ugly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Love the back porch.

Rest is not my style, starting with the dark color.

For $2.7 million, there are just a dozen or so tiny little bushes provided in the landscape package?

Why do builders clear the lot and then do this? And worse, new home owners move in and don't add anything else, from the looks of many lived-in new builds around Bethesda.

Agree, so ugly. It's just desolate looking. The problem of course is that you can't really buy mature landscaping. You can buy bigger trees and bushes, but it will never look the same. And of course, they clear cut the lot because that's the only way to get a huge house on a small lot. You can't really preserve any mature planting.

[Anonymous]

I like the interior, but really dislike the dark exterior, and the street isn’t great. If I had that much money to spend on a house, I would never buy this house in this location.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate hate this new style - it's so specific, seems like it will be out in a shorter time than other trends. So sad to me that old classic houses are being torn down for this crap. People have no taste.

Agree.

[Anonymous]

It’s on a major road, which is a dealbreaker. It’s also overpriced, or it would have sold without price reductions being necessary

[Anonymous]

Is there siding on the island?

And please people, for the love of god, stop with this idiotic lighting style.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The only redeeming feature of this house is the screened porch.

Agree, but only from the inside. From the outside it looks like it was tacked on like an afterthought.

In concept I kind of like the wet bar/coffee bar in the master bedroom, but in practice I think I would hate it because you'd always be bringing dishes up and down to be cleaned. And I don't need that much space for a coffee bar. My beach house has a huge bedroom and I was thinking about converting a small closet to a coffee bar but decided it was just dumb. The bedroom fireplace is kind of cool but seems like it's in a weird place.

I live near this house but haven't been down that street. I don't love the one block street - you can't walk on Goldsboro, so where would you walk a dog, or go out for a walk. It seems to take low walkability to new heights, unless there is a path to cut through to one of the other streets (I vaguely think there might be).

[Anonymous]

Sounds like chat gpt wrote this up

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there siding on the island?

And please people, for the love of god, stop with this idiotic lighting style.

The island’s “siding” is giving very serious Chip and Joanna Gaines vibes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like chat gpt wrote this up

Actually, the opposite. This sounds like an agent trying too hard to sound smart. ChatGPT would have done a far better job. This is why people are so fearful of AI -- it actually knows the English language better than most people. "Ever thriving" is human stupidity.