The are working on the finishing touches, like a new mailbox in the portico, which you can just barely see being put in
remember, the house that originally sat on this lot looked like this
and house #2, which was really a tiny cottage that had all its hopes and dreams of reno dashed as it lay dormant for about 3 years and was probably beyond repair has morphed into this...
It may be perverse of me but I like the little white house the way it was.
ReplyDeleteDelores: not perverse at all. I loved that little house. and it had a pool and lots of land surrounding it.
ReplyDeleteWow.
ReplyDeleteMcMansion City.
The new houses are very big and not very imaginative. They are actually kind of ugly and not very good on those spots.
ReplyDeleteUnloved old making way for big new. Let's hope the memory building is good.
ReplyDeleteIt's always kind of sad to me when small older houses with tons of personality make way for those modern, characterless behemoths. I'm sure they're very nice and expensively finished, but I feel like they have no soul.
ReplyDeleteSigh.
June: exactly!
ReplyDeleteNora: much of the street is starting to look like this now. they seem to me to be a bit hulking and obtrusive.
Annie: I do often wonder if, 50 years from now, people will be up in arms in some of these monsters are being torn down to make way for something even newer.
Pinklea: you snuck in while I was replying.... and I agree about the soulless part. these do even dwarf those huge, old, Victorian mansions.
ReplyDeleteI hate the first new house. What the eff is with the wainscoting look? Wainscoting is for indoors. So it's either idiotic external wainscoting or they ran out of stones. Either way, it looks stupid.
ReplyDeleteThe second new house is way better than the second old house.
Geewits: well, don't hold back! Now that you made me think of it as wainscotting, I don't like it either!
ReplyDeleteJust a tad too ostentatious for me. :))
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