Do you think modern houses are an eyesore?

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There's a really cute neighborhood in my city. It has beautiful and colorful heritage houses. I drive by some more modern houses. They looked hideous. They were generic looking suburban houses. They normally wouldn't look ugly, but they did over there.

What style of architecture are you referring to?

Unless they are very unusual-looking I usually don't notice or care what most houses look like on the outside. It's what's on the inside that counts, just like people.

Downtown in my city, we have a lot of beautiful old Victorian style homes. Modern homes are what I call cookie cutter homes, they are all just boring clones of one another.

I wish I live in places like those. I rarely see decent architectural houses, let alone vintages.

When I don't have work, I walk around the city for an hour or so. Most modern houses in most cramped villages I pass by are... kinda looked like out of place because it is surrounded by crude ones: where 'architecture' is somewhat neglected due to the majority's poverty.

Most houses I see are either wooden patch works that even I could tear it apart with my own hands, or half finished houses that had all hollow blocks and it's cement visible, no paint, and wasn't smoothed out.
Yet, in random times, I get to peek through the window if there's no dog and gates... It either reflects the households' responsibility or it's social status.

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I guess i'm not so sensitive to this sort of thing. it is mainly certain colors that I don't care for. anything olive drab is an eyesore, as is battleship-gray. I wish there were more houses painted in bright cheery colors, everything nowadays is drab like a female mallard.

Totally agree, auntblabby. I love to see houses with a bit of "personality" about them, even if it's only a pottery gnome in the front yard. I'm a big fan of the buildings designed by the artist/architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser - he loves to use colour and mosaics etc. to liven up his buildings, even when he works on industrial projects.

I prefer the mid-century modern style. Victorian homes are cute but usually need a lot of work.

i could live in a place like this-

Very unique; I like it.

it looks happy.

Yes, it does look happy. Very cheerful.


This is the sort of style I like:

^^^I could live in that one also, quite happily

I like the idea of some of the mini houses that are now being built. They are designed to be space-efficient, cost less to build, use less utilities, and could make owning a home more affordable for some people. Some of them have very clever designs.