Delightfully Ugly Houses
A while ago I posted a picture of the most strikingly ugly house I’ve ever seen. I decided when I saw that house that my new mission in life is to build a collection of aesthetically obscene houses…houses that are so ugly that some record of their ugliness just has to be kept so the offensive house isn’t lost to posterity when someone with some taste buys the home. I don’t include houses whose ugliness is caused because of physical deterioration or homes that are ugly because they are so typical (all houses with nothing but pastel colored vinyl siding on them). I look for houses that are in good physical condition but nasty to look at because their owners have defiled decorated them in a way that makes them uniquely hard to look at.
Early in December Lisa drove past this house when she was taking pictures of comparable home sales for an appraisal she was working on. I’m thankful she got a picture of it…even though it wasn’t on her list. Who wouldn’t like the combination of medieval castle and huge 70’s style solar panels!
Here is a house Lisa found today that she knew I would want to include in the collection.
I wonder how much time this homeowner spent painting every individual brick on this house in alternating colors. Well here are the results of his work. Thankfully there is a white ford obstructing much of our photo.
I’m going to try to get some more pictures up of entertainingly ugly homes. If any readers find houses worthy of the collection please email them to me! Remember…I’ve got lots of pictures of homes that are in disrepair or that are ugly because they are excessively ordinary. I want the aggressively ugly houses. If I can build the collection enough we’ll start a new web page dedicated to these fun homes.
Click below to see an UPDATE!!!
Here’s a very cool house Dan sent me along with his commentary:
So you think those are ugly houses? How about this one from my home town of Providence. I call it Moorish revival or Providence meets Morocco. I don’t think this picture truly captures the ugliness. There was a normal looking stucco house here and they put in the turret and pushed out the living room on the left side to create this monstrosity. Enjoy.
Dan has caught the spirit…and his contribution is truly perfect for the collection. Please if anyone finds a house they think is absolutely disgusting because it was meant to be please send me a picture! The collection is growing.
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These are really fun to look at, but I would rather see pictures of my beautiful granddaughters.
Comment by Mum — January 19, 2005 @ 9:56 am
Yes!
This posting theme is bound to rival the ‘redneck neighbor’ and other legendary site topics!
You should make a blog just for this! It’s gonna be big baby!!
Comment by cody — January 19, 2005 @ 2:57 pm