Everyone laughing at the repairs to your tower until the Mong horses return - and theirs still aren’t done because they were waiting to source the right Welsh stone
this post was submitted on 19 May 2024
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Terrible Estate Agent Photos
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Terrible photos listed by estate agents/realtors that are so bad they’re funny.
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I kinda like it
People are such perfectionists when it comes to buildings. I love this image; the patchwork aesthetic needs less hate. Yeah it looks silly, but why should it look serious? I wouldn't be upset if a building built today were to have an awkward attachment added in 500 years that was built to the design standards of that time period.
Somebody showed me recently the rebuild of the Augusteum building of the University of Leipzig which had a hyper-modern redesign like 180 years after it was first built (look it up, it's pretty cool). And the building in this post is like a lower-effort, more earnest version of that idea. Is it bad real estate? Sure. But it's good architecture. "Authenticity" be damned.
Basically, do you want an abandoned ruin rotting away in a field, or do you want a building that people will continue to live in and take care of into the future?
This comment made me partially re-evaluate my opinion of this building
Seems like someone used galvanized square steel, screws from aunt and eco friendly wood veneers
It would have been nice if they pointed out which part was renovated so I didn't need to scour the picture to find it.
I need a useless red circle to find it
Sorry, I will write a detailed alt next time
Gentrification is getting out of hand.
Where the President of the HOA lives
I believe that’s what they call “postmodern architecture”
I don't hate it.
I'm kinda with you. I hate that we've done this to what is basically a large historical artifact, but if this was all new construction... I could be into this.
But would you want to live there?
Well duh, have you seen the awesome medieval tower next to it?
Yeah it's awesome! But have you seen the blue-siding shack attached to the side of it?
Well maybe you should
No worries, I hate it enough for both
UK server, OK. Fine. But OP has never been to Pennsylvania in the US. Most houses over a hundred years old look like this: you can see the generations that have lived in it. First it's stone and mortar; then there's a wood addition ca. the early 1900s; then there's a more modern addition ca. the 50's or later. There's one property that was briefly famous as it came up in Zillow that had 5 clearly distinctive styles and technologies worth of additions on it; it's like every generation added another room with whatever was in style at the time. I can't find a picture, but it was hideous.
I don't know if it's common all along the mid-Atlantic, but it is super common in Pennsylvania.
Prime location, good bones.
"what's next, renovation?"
"AND COVER UP THESE BONES?"
Grover Tower lookin ass
This makes me want to sing the Tetris theme.
Please tag NSFL, my poor eyes aaagh
afaik castles have a recurring problem where rich people buy them saying "we're going to restore this and keep it authentic" but then as soon as they find out the price of doing that they backtrack and usually end up not doing anything. But I would prefer doing nothing to doing this.
Looks like something from Monty Python and Holy Grail
Well it was filmed in the Scottish Lowlands not a million miles away (48 miles from Doune Castle).
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