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Anonymous wrote:This is in my neighborhood, and it is hideous:
https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/6116-30th-St-NW-20015/home/177097681

What is happening here? Yuck.

McRowhouse.

Not as bad as a McMansion, as there is less of it.

Whoever buys that property will forever be the McAssHat of the neighborhood.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is in my neighborhood, and it is hideous:
https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/6116-30th-St-NW-20015/home/177097681

What is happening here? Yuck.

McRowhouse.

Not as bad as a McMansion, as there is less of it.

Anonymous wrote:This is in my neighborhood, and it is hideous:
https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/6116-30th-St-NW-20015/home/177097681

What is happening here? Yuck.

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody calls their baby ugly. Unless you're spending in the millions, you probably don't have much choice. You shopped by: budget, location, sq/ft, and ideally something in good shape.

I don’t know lots of ugly 1-3 million dollar McCraftmens all around NOVA

Maybe I'm wrong but I get the impression people spending $1-3 million around NoVa don't feel like they are rich with options - I think they mostly feel like they have to compromise on some things to get something that works for them in a place where they want to live.

It's crazy - and correct me if I'm wrong!

I used to live in a McCraftsman in Vienna. I am sure you all know the style. It was pretty cookie-cutter and not awesome looking but it was very nice to live in. High ceilings, lots of windows for light, plenty of closet space, big kitchen, bedroom/bathroom for each child, finished basement. Overall, it was great.

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody calls their baby ugly. Unless you're spending in the millions, you probably don't have much choice. You shopped by: budget, location, sq/ft, and ideally something in good shape.

I don’t know lots of ugly 1-3 million dollar McCraftmens all around NOVA

Maybe I'm wrong but I get the impression people spending $1-3 million around NoVa don't feel like they are rich with options - I think they mostly feel like they have to compromise on some things to get something that works for them in a place where they want to live.

It's crazy - and correct me if I'm wrong!

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Anonymous wrote:See- the architectural snobs can't provide examples of anything that is attractive aside from colonial.

Frank Lloyd Wright styles are nice.

if you are a boomer, but if you are under the age of 40 the so called new builds mcmansions are desirable

Desirable does not mean they’re attractive. Just means people have bad judgment

+1

Or that they are prioritizing things other than attractiveness

Houses built in late 19th and early 20th century have nice architecture. In the DMV, this includes most Victorian variants, colonial revival variants, Tudor revival, four square, and craftsman/arts and crafts. These styles follow principles of architecture that date back to the Greeks. Proportionality, aesthetic balance, and unity in types of materials are big ones. Books have been written on this.

Meanwhile, new builds and McMansions look haphazard, like a toddler building their first duplo house. A dormer here, a turret there, five garage doors over there. Way too wide, way too tall, with way too many types of building materials.

Anonymous wrote:Nobody calls their baby ugly. Unless you're spending in the millions, you probably don't have much choice. You shopped by: budget, location, sq/ft, and ideally something in good shape.

I don’t know lots of ugly 1-3 million dollar McCraftmens all around NOVA

Nobody calls their baby ugly. Unless you're spending in the millions, you probably don't have much choice. You shopped by: budget, location, sq/ft, and ideally something in good shape.

Anonymous wrote:I love Frank Lloyd Wright, Eichler, Queen Anne folk Victorian, Sears bungalows, American four square, Neutra, Eames Case Study, etc., etc. There are a lot of great architectural styles out there. I find center hall colonials mostly boring.

+1 to all this. Though I work in the Hubert H. Humphrey building and think it’s beautiful, so at least some of my tastes are considered suspect by most.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:See- the architectural snobs can't provide examples of anything that is attractive aside from colonial.

Frank Lloyd Wright styles are nice.

if you are a boomer, but if you are under the age of 40 the so called new builds mcmansions are desirable

GenZs are 40+

You’re not very bright and your take on architecture is more proof.

Um, GenZ is most definitely not 40+.

Signed,
40+ elder Millennial.

Right. That was an auto correct

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:See- the architectural snobs can't provide examples of anything that is attractive aside from colonial.

Frank Lloyd Wright styles are nice.

if you are a boomer, but if you are under the age of 40 the so called new builds mcmansions are desirable

GenZs are 40+

You’re not very bright and your take on architecture is more proof.

Um, GenZ is most definitely not 40+.

Signed,
40+ elder Millennial.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:See- the architectural snobs can't provide examples of anything that is attractive aside from colonial.

Frank Lloyd Wright styles are nice.

if you are a boomer, but if you are under the age of 40 the so called new builds mcmansions are desirable

GenZs are 40+

You’re not very bright and your take on architecture is more proof.

X

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I love Frank Lloyd Wright, Eichler, Queen Anne folk Victorian, Sears bungalows, American four square, Neutra, Eames Case Study, etc., etc. There are a lot of great architectural styles out there. I find center hall colonials mostly boring.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:See- the architectural snobs can't provide examples of anything that is attractive aside from colonial.

Frank Lloyd Wright styles are nice.

if you are a boomer, but if you are under the age of 40 the so called new builds mcmansions are desirable

Desirable does not mean they’re attractive. Just means people have bad judgment

+1