So, how do you take a run down Edwardian house and make it uglier?
Order a truck full of vinyl siding, have your contactor remove any 100 year old bargeboard, oh and box in the fan on the gable end peak too (you can’t see it in the “before” shot, but trust me, it’s there).
It may look cleaner, but quick and easy isn’t always the best way.
Andrew how old would you say this house is?
wow it looked better before! i would never do that to my old house!
I will keep it the same! where abouts is this house? is it near Cabana?
Lilly the house was built around 1906. It’s between Gilles and Erie on Howard.
Well, it least someone is trying to improve an older home instead of bailing and going to the suburbs. They should get credit for that at least.
Not quite JB… The house is a duplex/triplex rental property.
I doubt it is owner occupied.
They have companies in this city that could have restored that brick. They can even fix someone’s poor attempt at replacing brick near the front porch and put the matching brick back. That siding is the ugliest thing on this house.
Welp…. I think the participants on this blog – myself included – have a whole different outlook on home renovations than, say, people who own rental properties. Your typical rental property owner is remiss to spend any money at all on upkeep if they can avoid it, much less spend extra dough on properly preserving a building’s architectural beauty. There are exceptions out there, I”m sure, but I think that’s about it, sadly.
Very true John, but we can still mock them… 🙂
To paraphrase a line from Monty Python: “Andrew, you’re a cruel man, but fair…” 🙂