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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I see so many comments about houses being ugly, particularly the new builds. So for those of you who often comment about a house's exterior being ugly - what, in your mind, is not ugly? Just a plain ol' colonial? [/quote]

Queen Anne style
Mid century
Brownstone Row house
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I've seen shipping container houses that were attractive in the same way that a Mondrian painting is.  They use color attractively in blocks that appear visually balanced and/or symmetrical.

I agree with the author of McMansion Hell on most design principles.

I live in an attached townhouse condo that has a mockable feature known as "mommy and baby" (arch, gable, etc).  On our building of 6 units, it looks pretty decent because the scale of our mommy and baby gables is restrained, and the symmetry of repeating them across the 4 interior houses with different matched styles on the end unit TH's is pleasing rather than exaggerated/jumbled.  And our visible walls are brick-faced, which I think looks nice. (I like red and painted brick houses from many eras...I lived in a Prairie-inspired white brick contemporary as a kid).  But our community of 80-some units definitely is architecture linked to an era of poor design and excess.

McMansions offer generous interior spaces but are often echoey due to being open plan (living room big TV noise heard all over the house).  They also have dumb features like big round windows on the front that can't be easily covered. [/quote]

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