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Originally Posted by FromSD
Yes, that was definitely the ugliest of the four. The worst part to me was the roof line--they went with a barely pitched hip roof. Maybe that saved them some money on roof joists, but that roofline just didn't fit well with the rest of the house. Other than that, I didn't find it that objectionable.
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And combined with the almost total lack of an eave overhang, along with the lack of a street-facing dormer, it looks like a freaking garage roof.
To see how much a well proportioned eave overhang and dormer can help a low pitch hipped roof, just look at that example's vintage neighbors that haven't been pop-topped.
Also, the transition from original brick to the new siding above is clumsy AF. And zero attempt was made to relate the new windows above (fucking sliders???) to anything on the original house below.
Altogether, it's just an extremely
LAZY effort, if you can even call it an "effort".
And the saddest part is that they wouldn't have had to spend that much more money to vastly improve it. They just needed to hire someone who was going to spend more than 5 seconds thinking about how the finished product was going to look.
Unless butt fucking ugly was what they were going for.
"We own a humble, but handsome enough vintage Chicago brick bungalow. Can you make it look like we parked a trailer home on top of it? Is that kind of design challenge in your wheelhouse?"