The tacky house thread!

[arbeiter]

Post the ugliest house you can find. Or post the most garish house you can find. Ill-considered renovations, bad lawn art, discordant color schemes, disproportion, all welcome here.

I think the worst house I've ever seen was in the Seward Park neighborhood of Seattle. The land it's on must be worth something, as it's in the nice "Jewish" end of Seward Park and has a view of Lake Washington.



My flickr caption says it all:

"Help, I'm a schizophrenic rambler and I need help deciding between which ugly pattern to spend lots of money on to decorate garishly for everyone to see, especially people waiting for the bus or having parties overlooking the cliff? can you help me choose between Mama's Family puke and Neo-Flinstonian? And we need room for Alice and Sam the Butcher k thanx!"

FYI, a rambler is a Washington state term for a one-story house.

Here's another monumentally tacky house. It is located only about 4 blocks from the previous house, on the same road (the corner of Seward Park Ave. and 55th Ave S.)





The caption for that one is: "I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more siding!"

Anyway, post the worst from your collection (and tell us where they're located in case they're so ugly we have to see it in person.)

[RLS_rls]

The first one is garish, yeah, but whats wrong with the second one? It's bold, don't you think? A different paint job would definitely help though.

[Peanut]

lol I like this idea, I will keep an eye out

[Tony]

Anything with Angel Stone is fugly.


http://www.3osler.com/uindex.php?page=home

[LSyd]

that siding house looks like a prison!


this baby in/near downtown Houston sticks out in my mind; the materials are just...where's the pukey smiley again?



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[Tony]

^ that's a real shame cuz the house has so much potential. The sat-tv dish is poorly placed too.

[rockyi]

This beauty sits in a fairly nice neighborhood in Moline, IL. It's looked like this for years so the neighbors must be used to it.
The photo doesn't do it justice, this house is swimming in crap the owner picks up off of the street.

[rockyi]

Originally Posted by Tony

......The sat-tv dish is poorly placed too.

They always are, Tony. They always are.

[Robert Pence]

Actually, I like that house, LSyd. It looks like a mostly-intact turn-of-the-20th-century four-square. The former porte-cochère on the left, with the garage doors, has been enclosed, as has the right half of the front porch, but I'd guess the stone is original masonry construction and the green barrel-tile roof appears original, too.

On the other hand, this one looks like a couple of generations of desecration of a once-grand nineteeth-century home, with the final travesty going completely awry and then being abandoned:

[muppet]

Just so baaaad

Clunky!

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[rockyi]

Originally Posted by Robert Pence

......On the other hand, this one looks like a couple of generations of desecration of a once-grand nineteeth-century home, with the final travesty going completely awry and then being abandoned:

What the hell are people thinking when they do this. I love the roofline on this home, hopefully it isn't too far gone and somebody can save it.

[plinko]

I've seen this house posted a couple of times on the forum (from Cleveland):


Photo courtesy of MayDay...

[bicycles]

none of those come to close to this.



is it a house with a garage attached? or a garage with a house attached?

[niwell]

I present to you the Parthenon on Shaw St:


http://www.bricoleurbanism.org/

And on streetview:
http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&sourc...5.35,,0,-10.11


Somewhere under there should be a fairly attractive turn of the century (ca ~1905) detached house.

[Pavlov]

^ Is it wrong that I sort of like that house?

[1ajs]

Originally Posted by Reesonov

^ Is it wrong that I sort of like that house?

no

and i have yet to realy see any tacy stuff in this thread other then some questionable designs

[photoLith]

Theres plenty of tacky in the Arkansas countryside.



photo by me.

[vid]

There is some really fucked up residential architecture in some new suburb of Montreal. We had a thread like this in the Canada section and every time I posted something that I thought was tacky, someone topped it tenfold. Good times.

Run down houses aren't tacky. I think arbeiter is looking for buildings that are just overdesigned, supposed to look grand but instead look silly.

[duper]

Originally Posted by niwell

I present to you the Parthenon on Shaw St:


http://www.bricoleurbanism.org/

And on streetview:
http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&sourc...5.35,,0,-10.11


Somewhere under there should be a fairly attractive turn of the century (ca ~1905) detached house.

I find it hilarious that their neighbours put their house of for sale -- probably as a result.

[amor de cosmos]

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