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Old Posted Jul 17, 2010, 7:53 AM
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The tacky house thread!

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.)
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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.
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lol I like this idea, I will keep an eye out
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The first one is garish, yeah, but whats wrong with the second one?
its home to a vampire that is afraid of sunlight?
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Old Posted Jul 17, 2010, 12:22 PM
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Anything with Angel Stone is fugly.


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Old Posted Jul 17, 2010, 12:54 PM
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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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Old Posted Jul 17, 2010, 1:45 PM
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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:
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Old Posted Jul 17, 2010, 5:04 PM
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......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.
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^ that's a real shame cuz the house has so much potential. The sat-tv dish is poorly placed too.
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......The sat-tv dish is poorly placed too.
They always are, Tony. They always are.
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Old Posted Jul 17, 2010, 1:29 PM
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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.

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


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none of those come to close to this.



is it a house with a garage attached? or a garage with a house attached?
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none of those come to close to this.



is it a house with a garage attached? or a garage with a house attached?
I hate these things. I guess some people need a 2000 sq. ft. garage for their five cars though.
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none of those come to close to this.



is it a house with a garage attached? or a garage with a house attached?
It is a garage with a garage attached.
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none of those come to close to this.



is it a house with a garage attached? or a garage with a house attached?
Ugh... there are so many of these kind of uninspiring coma-inducing home designs around where I live. When the garage is the most prominent feature of a home's design it's a good indication that it's miles away from anything and driving will be required to get anywhere at all. I detest this kind of design.
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Old Posted Jul 18, 2010, 2:27 AM
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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.
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