Another One of Those Crazy Renovations

"Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis" (Dwhite95) 02/06/2017 at 21:54 • Filed to: None

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Its nice to see at least some of the Victorian !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!

Before:

After (Questionable paint and all):

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 02/06/2017 at 21:59

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It’s interesting. At least it’s still standing?

gmctavish needs more space > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 02/06/2017 at 22:00

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Very impressive, but I strongly disagree with the purple and yellow.

Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis > gmctavish needs more space 02/06/2017 at 22:02

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I lost in the middle on that, I dont mind it, but I’d never choose it.

Guy who did it said he was going for a Willie Wonka theme, which is immediately questionable...

Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 02/06/2017 at 22:02

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I mean paint can always be changed. I vote good that its still around.

ranwhenparked > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 02/06/2017 at 22:03

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Not sure about those colors, but overall a beautiful job. Amazing so much of the interior detail survived over the years, rather than succumbing to scrappers.

jkm7680 > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 02/06/2017 at 22:04

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Hideous paint, but nice to see them saving some.

fintail > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 02/06/2017 at 22:06

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I like how they rebuilt the porch. This is also one way to do a turret, not like the “pringles can of shame” on mcmansions.

gmctavish needs more space > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 02/06/2017 at 22:08

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Yeah I read that, I’m not sure if I like it better because he was at least going for a theme, or just more disappointed. All his other work on the house seems genuinely great, so I’m like 85% behind it.

Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis > fintail 02/06/2017 at 22:10

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I feel like you would enjoy some snark against mcmansions.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 02/06/2017 at 22:12

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Fair. I can’t say I agree with the choice of purple there though.

Urambo Tauro > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 02/06/2017 at 22:13

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Gotta love the in-progress street view via Google :

Nothin’ like being immortalized on your lunch break.

facw > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 02/06/2017 at 22:14

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Purple and Gold are the colors of Empire!

fintail > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 02/06/2017 at 22:15

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Hilarious stuff, I read that site weekly, that’s where I got the Pringles reference:

Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis > fintail 02/06/2017 at 22:17

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I know they bitch about 2+ car garages, but damn, that one car look so awkward.

Also, Pringles can looks just sad.

Deal Killer - Powered by Focus > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 02/06/2017 at 23:35

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I’m not totally against having extravagant colors on Victorian era homes. People assume, due to black & white photos, that these homes were drab. Far from it. Paint was expensive, so when you painted a house, you chose vivid colors over the typical white & beige so popular today.

fintail > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 02/06/2017 at 23:44

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I can agree with them when the garage is a focal point of the house. That particular one is odd with the little one off to the right. Maybe for boat storage, or in real life, more yard sale reject hoard clutter while a car sleeps outside.

Any of that faux Tuscan/Mediterranean stuff looks sad to me. That along with fake craftsman and mcmodern stuff is a rampant fad in my area.

IanZ - limited-slip indifferential > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 02/06/2017 at 23:55

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Don’t love the paintjob or what they did with the interior, but it’s great that it could be saved.

DanZman > fintail 02/07/2017 at 02:20

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You seem to have broadly covered almost all of teh building styles out there. Do you exclusively like log cabins or something?

fintail > DanZman 02/07/2017 at 09:18

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Made from actual logs, or compressed composite foam and plastic for mysteriously monied transplants to build in incongruous out-of-place locations?

It’s not the architecture, it’s the poor versions of it (and poor construction quality) that gets to me. A lot of this stuff is like it was designed by someone who has never seen a certain style before, and had it described to them by an 8 year old.

LongbowMkII > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 02/19/2017 at 17:05

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victorian paint schemes could be pretty wild.

LongbowMkII > Deal Killer - Powered by Focus 02/19/2017 at 17:07

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plus you could use pigments that are now highly frowned upon for things like “toxicity” and “environmental damage”. PSH