Ugly House Photos

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• 1 Jayne // Apr 28, 2012 at 11:42 am

  It looks nice, too bad they didn’t do a retro redo and make it look more to the time period which the home was built. This looks like it would be a neat home to do that, but I can understand how it wouldn’t appeal to as many buyers.

• 2 ELF // Apr 28, 2012 at 2:13 pm

  Oh no, I loved that Before kitchen! Yes, the cabinets were beat up but why couldn’t they have preserved the retro look (including the awesome tile) instead of going with yet another stupid granite countertop?

• 3 Melissa // Apr 28, 2012 at 3:46 pm

  I LOVE that master bath shower! Great remodel.

• 4 TLynn // Apr 28, 2012 at 6:41 pm

  Looks nice! I agree with the retro kitchen. It could be really cute if they did it right but then again I am partial to a cute 40’s/50’s style kitchen.

• 5 Julia // Apr 28, 2012 at 9:31 pm

  I do not have the words to describe how ugly modern toilets are….

• 6 Jozef // Apr 28, 2012 at 11:48 pm

  I agree, a “retro redo” would have been nice, now there’s just no character at all. You visit any renovated house, and they all look exactly the same inside.

• 7 HeatherOf Kazoo // Apr 29, 2012 at 8:43 am

  I appreciate people fixing up a neglected home but man am I sick of this taupe shade shown in every single redo. Boring as biscuits. I agree with keeping some of the original character, the kitchen might of been ok with a facelift.

• 8 Murphy // Apr 29, 2012 at 8:51 am

  Insert Rant About Wide Angle Lens

• 9 Laura // Apr 29, 2012 at 11:53 am

  I used to babysit for a family with a tiled counter, and it was such a hassle to clean. I would take granite or formica any day to tile. While I am also getting sick of taupe-tan-mocha interiors, the house looks great, and I really like that they didn’t fool around with the fireplace.

• 10 Leif // Apr 29, 2012 at 12:33 pm

  We had a tiled kitchen counter in my childhood home. My mom used to scrub the grout with Comet. It wasn’t fun.

• 11 Matt // Apr 29, 2012 at 12:53 pm

  I’m glad they didn’t install cabinet hardware. I’m shopping for a house and I’m extremely insulted when a kitchen or bathroom has been remodeled and hardware has already been installed.

  First of all, cabinet hardware is a personalization touch, and should NEVER be installed by anyone other than the buyer. Secondly, it’s always installed in some spot that looks terrible, and once you drill a hole in a wood cabinet door, you can’t fix it. The entire door is RUINED.

• 12 Leif // Apr 29, 2012 at 12:56 pm

  Matt, I agree. Someone might want knobs not handles, but then has to deal with the extra hole from the handle.

• 13 Matt // Apr 29, 2012 at 1:08 pm

  Oops! It looks like they installed cabinet hardware on the bathroom vanity. Well, that room’s a total tear-down for me…

• 14 Matt // Apr 29, 2012 at 1:54 pm

  Finally, somebody who understands my pain!

  I get equally miffed about things like tile backsplashes:

  http://uglyhousephotos.com/wordpress/?p=22069#more-22069

  If I wanted to buy that house and I didn’t like the tile backsplash [which I’m sure I wouldn’t, because *I didn’t choose it*], I would have to pull the wall cabinets off and redo the drywall, then put up my own backsplash, just out of spite!

  Yes, I’m a perfectionist.

• 15 anonymous // Apr 29, 2012 at 8:35 pm

  What’s kind of sad, though, is that a lot of these old, rundown, then “redone”, homes are often in…ummmm…. not-so-nice neighborhoods surrounded by other, old, rundown houses (which do NOT get fixed up). Then, while quite a bit of money has been spent on them, nobody wants to live in the surrounding neighborhood. Just an observation. I’ve seen plenty of places during home searches that had nice inside shots posted, only to realize where they were on the street map and instantly cross them off my list. A shame to waste money. Some might say re-doing a junky house in a junky neighborhood is “like putting lipstick on a donkey”. Doesn’t make the donkey any more attractive.

• 16 Liz S. // Apr 30, 2012 at 10:00 am

  Is the master bedroom really immediately to the left of the front door, and with a pocket door ? And the does the driveway go right up to the front door ? Otherwise I really like this redo.

• 17 Joshua // Apr 30, 2012 at 6:32 pm

  I loved the tiled countertops in that BEFORE KITCHEN! I don’t know why they wanted to replace them with those dull, ugly, stupid, boring, son-of-a-gun granite countertops. It seems everywhere I look at house redos all they have for new countertops are granite, granite, GRANITE! I HATE granite countertops. Can’t they just do orange formica, or something??!!

• 18 Leif // Apr 30, 2012 at 7:47 pm

  Joshua, you inspired me to do a special post on orange formica. Look for it tomorrow.

  Regarding the original kitchen here. If the tile is in poor condition (cracked, missing), it might be too hard to locate matching tiles. For an investor, it’s cheaper & quicker to replace it entirely.
  There certainly is an appreciation for retro & quality from buyers, but the condition determines everything.

• 19 Joshua // May 2, 2012 at 2:30 pm

  Leif, I understand the condition. I took a second look at that kitchen and I did notice some water leakages too. You’re right about that. But, I just can’t find the special post you were talking about on orange formica. You’ll have to tell me where it is. You’ll have to tell me what its listed under. Comment back sometime. Oh, and tell me your e-mail address. I want to get to know you better.

• 20 Angie // May 16, 2012 at 10:44 am

  Too bad the owners didn’t keep up that pretty teal and blue bathroom. If they had, it would have been sweet to keep it as is.

• 21 Mary // Jun 14, 2012 at 12:50 pm

  That new shower is in one word TACKY! I can envision how tacky it will be with someone’s stuff in it.

• 22 Greeney // Feb 14, 2013 at 2:06 pm

  I liked the rounded shape of the before kitchen peninsula. I wish they had kept the shape.

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