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Categories: StuccoWindsor

825 Windermere

So apparently, there are still some people who still don’t get it. Sigh.

So, you might be asking, what’s wrong with a white house? Ah, look closely, at first glance the house looks white, but, those are actually styrofoam panels… You know what that means right?

YAY! STUCCO IS COMING!

I only hope that when it’s done, it looks as crappy as this example a block north on Windermere.

We really need to get something in the planning guidelines to prevent this kind of “renovation”. Those who do this are butchers, ruining the aesthetic feel of the neighbourhood. They should be forced out of Walkerville, and exiled to Walker & the 401.

Thanks to both Steven Hargreaves and my Mom for the heads up.

Andrew

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  • It looks like clapboard. Look at the right side of the house where the stair case would be. That make it even more of a mess as M.O.M states the trapped moisture will do that house in quickly.

  • If they just painted the last one a light limestone gray, it might look decent, but the colour scheme they chose looks really silly in that neighbourhood. I wonder if that's the residence of a birthday clown, like the one that goes around riverside during festival day with big shoes and fuscia afro wig. What is her name? Sally the Clown? This must be the home of Sally the Clown. It might even be her clown school. Maybe, I'll toss a few pennies on her porch so she can buy some gray paint.

  • Every time I walk past that house on the last picture I facepalm, it's almost an eyesore in this area. They should've bought a cookiecutter house in South Windsor

  • I have seen some nice stucco work, If it is on the right style of home. Stucco is suited for Mediterranean, Spanish mission and some French country style houses. It does not fit in a nieghbourhood line with Edwardian style homes. The owner of the house in the shown in the last picture had no concern for fitting in with the neighbourhood. This is a poor attempt to convert a nice old home into a cheap Italianate wanta-be. I nicely designed façade with the mixture of some thing glue on stone would make these homes look more attractive then this hacked together stucco work. Some of this stucco work I see downtown just looks cheap and ghetto like, This is a real quick and dated fix for trying to give these building a new look.

    I also see crappy stucco jobs out in the suburbs and the county like this too. I have traveled around Ontario and I don’t see a many of these crappy, cheap stucco jobs like I do in Windsor and Essex County

    I hope that in 10-15 years from now people will look back at when these buildings were renovated and realize homes look and dated. Maybe at that point people will decide to restore these buildings and homes to their former Glory.

  • I hope someone does the nice neighborly thing and prints this page of blog out and sticks it in the homeowner's mailbox. At least the owners will know that everyone else in the city knows that they are now the douchebags of the street.

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