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The Front of This House is Hideous. Help!

10 years ago

We are about to put an offer on this house, but I am really caught up on the way the front looks. The windows are weird, the color is bad, and I can't even look at the cheesy brick posts.

I'm coming up short on ways to fix this house that doesn't offer much inspiration. Any ideas? Or references?

Thank you!

Comments (541)

  • 10 years ago

    Oh tree house hotels!!

    http://dujour.com/gallery/tree-house-hotels-jungle-resorts/#slide-1

    and this fairy tale tree house...

    wow!

  • 10 years ago

  • PRO
    10 years ago

    C'mon guys, we're approaching 500 posts. Don't stop now. Oh, did anyone find out whether the bought this house or not? LOL

  • 10 years ago

    Zombie thread lives again! Kevin, can you ring the RE see if it sold? I know the OP def isn't buying it.

  • PRO
    10 years ago

    Maybe we should all pool our money and buy it to use as the Houzz Party House when we're in the area. I'm in for $20.

  • 10 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    Me too. I'm convinced there's a secret room above the garage, where the window was boarded up.

  • 10 years ago

    I just started an online service. Send all monies to my account for future Houzz parties. Check it out Margotakesmoney.lol

  • PRO
    10 years ago

    I'm posting this just so I can be the 499th post in this thread.

  • PRO
    10 years ago

    I'm posting again so I can be the 500th post in this thread. Five-hundred posts about a house they didn't buy.

  • 10 years ago

    actually i suspect only about 200 posts were about the house. the rest, well.

    501.

  • 10 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    DING...DING...DING....!! Congrats to our resident poet KEVIN...!!! ;D

    A round of DRINKS on the HOUZZ....!! ;D

  • 10 years ago

    Give him a Kevin award!

  • 10 years ago

    Margo, I told you to learn to photoshop!! See I'm always right!

  • 10 years ago

    Hey, if there's a secret room above the garage, then I bet it has a wardrobe in it. If you walk through it you will end up in Houzzarnia, he, he.

    Yeah, Kevin!! Here ya go...

  • 10 years ago

    And for Tribble...

    Tribble's got lots of company!

  • 10 years ago

    Hey, if anyone sees Margo hanging around with these 2 on here, watch out! We all knew she had to be hiding that bank account somewhere...

    Lol.

    Bernie Madoff--ironic name, btw, lol.

    and the star of the real-life "Catch Me if You Can," Frank Abagnale.

  • 10 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    @luvourhome: "If LOVIN' this BLOG is WRONG, I DON'T wanna be RIGHT"...! ;D

    @Kevin Strader, @margocorp: Oh, and I'm in for $50 and some "BUBBLY" for the Houzz Party Houzz....!! Cheers...!! ;D

  • 10 years ago

    If we EACH gave $1,000.00 (USD), we could own this hideous house....Think about it....!! PARTYTIME...!!!! I'M IN....!!! Could be a wonderful investment...!!

  • 10 years ago

    Well there are 35 million Houzzers.

  • 10 years ago
    Well maybe you could paint it?
  • 10 years ago
    Maybe paint it?
  • 10 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    Good bye sweet little house....you have brought us much JOY...!!! Hope your new family loves you as much as we do..!!!!! ;D

  • PRO
    10 years ago

  • 10 years ago

    Awwww, bye house! Thanks for the laughs and good times. Sniff.

  • 10 years ago

    gee i hope the new owners come in and want some tips to up the curb appeal....

  • 10 years ago
    To me the issue is that the dark color on the first floor visually appears unable to hold up the top floor. Further the square footage of the upper level is out of scale with the rest of the house. Basically top heavy
  • 10 years ago

    Wow to the price (although, it is CA) and wow to the interior. Back yard elevations, topography, awesome tree .... whooda thunk it

  • 10 years ago

    I don't believe the thread will stop. Evidence above.

  • 10 years ago

    we have to carry on til the new owner arrives.

  • 10 years ago

    Busting my gut laughing...holy cow. Lol.

    @suec--Welcome to Houzz! You must be new here? Feel free to read this entire thread at your leisure. It's enlightening.

    Enjoy your time at Houzz.

  • 10 years ago

    @nn--hand them the keys, pass the torch, set-up their house-warming...

  • 10 years ago

    Who knew the inside was so pretty? Not a fan of the backsplash....shoulda been......white subway tile!!!!

  • 10 years ago

    Drink!

  • 10 years ago

    Lemon drops!!

  • 10 years ago

    http://www.food.com/recipe/melt-in-your-mouth-lemon-drop-cookies-329954

    I think I'm going to try this recipe. They sound good. :-)

  • 10 years ago


    2.30 mins

  • 10 years ago

    If I could bake, I would try them. Unfortunately, you have to precisely measure instead of throwing stuff together. I can't bake!!

  • 10 years ago
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    Lol at the babies...too cute.

    @Kathi--if you can drive, you can bake. :-) If you can drive a manual/standard transmission? You can certainly bake.

    If you can text, you can bake. Lol. Or just buy a cake mix and add an egg, lol.

  • 10 years ago

    I have a 6 speed now, little convertible I got myself when I turned 50.

    Back in the day, I had 3 on the tree......'61 Ford Falcon.

    I can make a mix, I just hate the drudgery of the precise measuring baking requires. I fix brownies and cakes, cookies at Christmas, but not fancy stuff. And I cannot make a pie crust to save my soul. Hand is way too heavy!!

    More of a throw all that stuff in and lets see what happens kind of cook!

  • 10 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    I hear ya. I don't mind baking, but it takes much more time and equipment than cooking.

    I hardly ever follow recipes for cooking. Everything I seem to want to try has some obscure spice that requires a trip to the Asian market or the back-woods mushroom hut for some weird oil.

    And if I ever bring home kale or chick-peas again, I think my husband will ban me from the kitchen! (He doesn't like either. I made the mistake of wanting to make hummus and kale chips, lol).

    I had to hide the last can of chick-peas in soup, lol. He's onto my "throw it together" tricks, he, he.

  • 10 years ago

    Since we are so private here ;) I will reveal my secret thickening ingredient for savoury dishes, it is a handful of rolled oats. Nutritious too.

  • 10 years ago

    I add chopped up bags of broccoli slaw to most of my ground beef dishes to add vitamins and vegetables!!!

  • 10 years ago

    And my husband loves chick peas.....yuck!!

  • 10 years ago

    Kathy, that's a good idea with the broccoli slaw.

  • 7 years ago

    You have a very beautiful home! Adding a different color would bring it more to life. A deck on the second floor would also add more outdoor living space and make the house appear bigger from the outside. Good luck!

  • PRO
    7 years ago
    last modified: 7 years ago

    So back about 2 & 1/2 years ago they bought another house :) Sorry, I had to :D

  • PRO
    7 years ago

    I sit here sobbing uncontrollably knowing that a thread that has been dead for 2 years, 4 months and 2 days, (which equals 828 days, or 19,872 hours, or 1,192,320 minutes, or 71,539,200 seconds) has suddenly risen from the dead. NEWS FLASH! NEWS FLASH!

    THE ORIGINAL POSTER DID NOT BUY THIS HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!