This house on Janette proves that it can. Apparently the owner of this place was worried that he was going to be left out of the stucco party, so he decided to “freshen up” this century old house just north of Wyandotte St.
My favourite part of the house is the decorative trim, it matches nicely with the black metal bars. 🙂
If you are out and about, and run across a lousy stucco job, please let me know about it. I’ve had a few photos sent in by other readers, as well as some nominations by other readers. I’ll gather everthing up, and maybe we’ll have a sutcco week sometime soon…
I realize this will make me very unpopular on your site, but I think it looks great!
you gotta be kidding?
Ha, the stucco bandit strikes again! You know I somehow had to be behind this 😉
Looks like this is converted to a duplex – stairs on left to upper level. I want to know who sells this stuff so well that so many people buy it – he/she could use their talents to help people sell their houses! What exactly is the appeal to stucco? I would think it is easily damaged, and hard to repair. It’s not like it’s applied over concrete or cinder block in this case, it’s probably wood behind it. Doesn’t seem like it will last, like an Earl Schieb $99 paint job.
This house drives me nuts everytime I look at it. The bars are especially idiotic. It’s the only one with bars on the windows on that block. Some black guy with a pit bull lives there. He’s trying to bring that wannabe gangsta ghetto decor from the mean streets of Detroit to Windsor. That pussy ass probably couldn’t hack it in Detroit and moved down here. The street is not as bad as he tries to make it look. Over half the residents on that block are decent Chinese/Vietnamese families who respect the neighbourhood and don’t try to stand out like this idiot.
In fact, someone should call the fire marshall to make sure this isn’t a bedroom window he’s covering with bars. All bedrooms needs a window they could exit from as an alternate in case there’s a fire in the hall, as far as I heard from the Fire Code.
Well, I’m not a fan but after living on Janette and Bruce for many years all I can say is at least this guy but some money into his property. A rarity in that part of the city…. it’s still ugly
Who let the California Stucco work go to houses now… I would have to agree its a better look then what most houses in that area… But come on people, you can do better then that for close to the same price, and maybe have a better look…
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At least the guy landscaped the front yard! I too think it is just ugly but it is better than the two burnt out hulks that have been sitting there for over a year. Wasn’t there talk of “investing” in neighbourhoods by our mayor?
Driving through South-South Windsor today (near the 401 off of N. Talbot) I noticed a few houses that were built new with stucco. One had a big gouge near the garage door. Gee isn’t stucco fun?
I, myself am not a big fan of stucco. But I’d wager a bet that this place is in better shape that 9 out of 10 homes in that area. Perhaps it might not be the most appealing exterior finish, but at least someone is taking some bring in their home.
Yet another house that’s fallen victim to the Windsor disease.
don’t worry david, i’m sure one swift kick to those bars from the inside and all the stucco will come flying off!! lol i really don’t understand where the whole black dude with pitbull = getto gangsta from detroit tryin to make this neighbourhood tougher then it is and couldn’t hack it in the D comes into play here though.
i seriously doubt those are his intentions. of course, i have heard of recent gang wars going down over there because gangs are puttin hits out on other gangs flowerbeds and spreading landscaping rocks all over the lawn, sometimes…even leaving gouges in the grass and rearanging the garden gnomes.
There is a store on the south west corner of Wyandotte and Moy that recently underwent a visit from the stucco bandit. It was a supermarket catering to Middle-Eastern customers. There was a minor fire inside. (I certainly didn’t think that there was anything suspicious.)
It recently re-opened as something high in demand. An Arabic fast food restaurant with a beautiful stucco job.
VP – by “high demand” do you mean another shwarma place? lol
A warning to all the extreme stucco haters…don’t ever visit Phoenix, AZ.
What, no pink plastic flamingoes in the front yard? Why not just do the current trend, and tear the century-house down and build a strip mall where half of the stores will end up vacant, grafitti-covered and vandalized? Talk about urban blight!
There should be a bylaw against using that crap, just like that frickin’ fake snow that people spray on their windows at Christmas time! Useless and ugly!
VP it seems that people of middle eastern decent love stucco. The majority of stucco buildings in the middle eastern section of Wyandotte are owned by middle eastern people. I guess they just don’t understand our climate and think it looks better than “western society” brick.
Apparently stucco is cheaper than siding. But I’m sure the house looks better now than it did, so don’t be too hard on the guy. 🙂
I am certainly looking forward to stucco week!
I admit that stucco isn’t my favourite, but I find most modern-day siding to be ugly too. Since doing brick rehab seems a bit out of the price bracket of Janette, I guess we should be happy that it’s not just a pile of arson-burnt rubble. It’s pretty sad that we’d settle so low eh.
I highly doubt it looks better now than it did. I’ll bet it even had some really nice gingerbread stylings (that I see on some of the other respected buildings in the neighbourhood) that were torn off and thrown into the nearest landfill in favour of this halfway house/jail looking cladding. All you need is a guard with a shotgun pacing on the balcony above the entrance. Better watch out, it looks like you’ve given a few people in this thread ideas on how to turn their homes into the neighbourhood jailhouse.
I don’t recall there being any arson burnt piles of rubble on Janette St. I do recall some vacant lots for sale where houses may have burnt down. But, fires can happen anywhere in the city.
David there were several over the last few years. Bruce/Church/Janette has been hit pretty hard.
Stucco has its place – such as over adobe bricks in the South West. Stucco over bricks on a house of this age is architecturally inappropriate. It would be better to tear the house down and build something new.