Hello,
It would be really great if everyone here could just post one or a few pictures showing the current state of their house.
I'll start right away.
For renovations, it’s best to provide a comparison of before and after the remodeling.
Before March 2014:
After May 2015:
It would be really great if everyone here could just post one or a few pictures showing the current state of their house.
I'll start right away.
For renovations, it’s best to provide a comparison of before and after the remodeling.
Before March 2014:
After May 2015:
ypg schrieb:
While staying on a Mediterranean vacation island, where the houses are mostly either simply minimalist or extraordinarily stylish in a Bauhaus style, during a tour around the area Google Maps showed a point called “curious house” next to our route. We decided to make a detour. 😱 Take a look:
It looks a bit like a LEGO castle, only mine used to be yellow.Tarnari schrieb:
Looks a bit like a LEGO castle, except mine used to be yellow.Yes, I agree with you. It also has a bit of a princess castle or sandcastle vibe 😀
By the way, it’s an apartment building, Snow White… the rooms look typically standard for the country, nothing fancy.
Hangman schrieb:
Are you familiar with this from Turkey? It's hard to explain, but the investor went bankrupt and this Neuschwanstein-like domino town stands half-finished and empty.
Interesting, I hadn’t seen that before!The FAZ writes, among other things: „… … … You can make fun of the Turkish villa army – but does it really look much worse than an average new housing development in Germany, where the prefab house industry just sets up one cheap box after another wrapped in thermal insulation render, only 'individualized' by zabaglione to Tuscan-style wall colors, asymmetrical door windows, and blue roof tiles? Considering the cascade of design attempts, branded products, and self-important claims that flood the defenseless German suburbs, the monotony of a typical house almost feels refreshing. And finally, the really unrestrained use of columns, bay windows, and Gothic window muntins reminds one of the major dilemma of semi-conservative Western architects who reconstruct the old but don’t want to be seen as reactionary and therefore end up halfway in an anemic, cardboard-like, always strangely sanitized plaster Classicism semifreddo. On Berlin’s Friedrichstraße, the architects wanted to bring back the forms of the old city but didn’t dare to build what really made the houses of the old city beautiful – the projections and recesses that give a house depth, caryatids, bay windows, volutes, rustication, cold marble, heavy velvet, sharply boiling Gothicisms, the opulently overloaded façades of the Gründerzeit period, in whose niches residents can nest and the eye can get lost like on a rocky wall. Instead: cheese-slice façades, insulation render bleakness, drywall and dry bread houses wherever you look.
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Maybe building aesthetics need to be radicalized: either euphorically cool and crystal clear and maximally reduced – or truly rich and abundant. You can laugh at the bombast of the odd Turkish settlement, but in laughing at the kitsch of the others there is also resentment about the bare, half-heartedly decorated design bleakness spreading in our own suburbs.“
Source: F.A.S.
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ypg schrieb:
an average new housing development in Germany, where the prefab house industry sets up one cheap box after another wrapped in thermal insulation plaster, only "individualized" by zabaglione- to Tuscan-like wall colors, asymmetrical door windows, and blue roof tilesBrilliantly expressed and so accurate! 😀Similar topics