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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I always love this debate on DCUM, from people in a city with no fashion sense who look like cookie cutter office dwellers in neutral uniforms, bad haircuts, and no makeup.  But yet you are all arbiters of architectural "taste" and "aesthetics.". Give me a break.  [/quote]

^^Agreed. New construction and flips are tasteless and lack character in the DC area. I actually believe that the[b] green designs and asthetic coming out of the Pacific Northwest [/b]will be the next big design wave (like arts and crafts or MCM). It's so functional, beautiful and conducive to living in this century.[/quote]

Examples?? [/quote]

https://www.redfin.com/WA/Seattle/7316-12th-Ave-NW-98117/home/61440135?from_mobile_app=true
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Gorgeous.  Bit now show me examples that middle class mortals can afford at half that price point or less.[/quote]

https://www.redfin.com/WA/Seattle/9245-9th-Ave-NW-98117/home/101143?from_mobile_app=true

https://www.redfin.com/WA/Seattle/9048-15th-Ave-NW-98117/unit-A/home/62342258?from_mobile_app=true

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Are those metal track shower doors, IKEA looking cabinets and carpet "high-end" finishes?  It looks nice, but I hate to break it to you DCUM snobs that the vast majority of people in this country cannot afford a nearly $600K home, and don't want to waste the money on faux high-end anyway.  We're not stupid with our money.  Instead of being angry with people who buy "tacky" new builds, why don't you direct your ire to the developers who design everything for the low-end and the high-end, and nothing for the middle?  Being middle-class is not a crime, people, and the options are limited.  If, as a dual income middle class family, you choose a standard new build to minimize maintenance headaches over an unrenovated older home that requires constantly stressful and expensive maintenance/upgrades, you are making a rational choice that makes sense for your life and your family.  The middle class cannot afford full renovations of historic homes, which cost far more per square foot, even if they wanted to.

The bottom line is that the new build haters are mostly nouveau riche snobs who've lost touch with how most of the world lives and think their newfound wealth makes them better than everyone else.  It doesn't.  You may have a nicer home, but your materialistic, judgmental pettiness makes you very small and pathetic in your insecurity and defensiveness.  Get a fucking life and find something better to do with your time.[/quote]

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