This is a nice "transitional" home, in the sense that the peaked roof and standard box-mass help it fit in the neighborhood. The more I drive by it, the better I like it. And it offers kind of an inside joke, as a corrugated-metal quonset hut long stood where the bare dirt in the foreground is.
I am not a big fan of the painted pipe with horizontal slats holding up the flat front canopy. I don't know why, but it just strikes a wrong note when the whole house makes a strong vertical/rectillinear statement.
It just looks like someone started to build something interesting and ran out of money half way through. Like the earlier poster said, it just looks cheap... and unfinished. The comparison to a pole barn is spot on. If that house is "straight outta Dwell", then I am straight outta Playgirl.
Kevin, that was in my head. In your photos, the front porch elements seem especially tacked on.
Even though the canopy follows the strong horizontal line above the first-floor doors and windows, the other elements of the porch completely miss tying back to, or reinforcing, the design elements of the main structure.
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This is a nice "transitional" home, in the sense that the peaked roof and standard box-mass help it fit in the neighborhood. The more I drive by it, the better I like it. And it offers kind of an inside joke, as a corrugated-metal quonset hut long stood where the bare dirt in the foreground is.
I am not a big fan of the painted pipe with horizontal slats holding up the flat front canopy. I don't know why, but it just strikes a wrong note when the whole house makes a strong vertical/rectillinear statement.
Wonder what it's like inside in a hailstorm? :)
Wow that looks cheap.
It is basically a pull barn with windows.
It looks like a warehouse off of a farm or a storage structure in the suburbs.
It just looks like someone started to build something interesting and ran out of money half way through. Like the earlier poster said, it just looks cheap... and unfinished. The comparison to a pole barn is spot on. If that house is "straight outta Dwell", then I am straight outta Playgirl.
As a reminder, this is what it looks like from the front. Notice how I titled the post with a question mark.
Kevin, that was in my head. In your photos, the front porch elements seem especially tacked on.
Even though the canopy follows the strong horizontal line above the first-floor doors and windows, the other elements of the porch completely miss tying back to, or reinforcing, the design elements of the main structure.
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