#gable end balcony

[nihilminus]

Boston Master Bedroom Mid-sized coastal master bedroom with beige walls and light wood floors

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Boston Bedroom Master Bedroom - mid-sized coastal master light wood floor bedroom idea with beige walls

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Boston Beach Style Bedroom Bedroom - mid-sized coastal master light wood floor bedroom idea with beige walls

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Boston Master Bedroom Mid-sized coastal master bedroom with beige walls and light wood floors

[mcmansionhell]

a fine selection of bonker facades from the DC suburbs

Howdy folks! In honor of Halloween, here are some of the scariest houses currently for sale in the ever-cursed suburbs of Washington, DC. It's been awhile since I checked in on this particular hotspot, and once more, it did not disappoint.

I'll just get this one out of the way. Long-time McMansion Hell-heads are well aware of this monster estate in Potomac, MD, once allegedly owned by a particular professional athlete who will not be named, because the house should suck on its own merit. The only nice thing I can say about this house is that the designers kept the materials and colors consistent, which adds some unity to what is, in reality, five turrets in a trench coat.

Some things, the economists tell us, are too big to fail. This is not one of them. Let's move on.

Many McMansions exist to mock the concept of architectural consistency and historical continuity. This is one of them. About every single type of expanded second-story window elaboration exists here: bay window, covered balcony, juliet balcony. None of them work. The house can't decide if its 19th century eclecticism or tony DC Georgian/Federal cocktail. The random cupola merely adds insult to injury.

I don't know where realtors learned how to do photoshop, but whoever taught them should have their Adobe licenses revoked. There's a certain type of McMansion I call a "hat house" - which is exactly what it sounds like. It's a house with multiple bays or masses and each has its own special hat. This is one of the most egregious examples because all of the hats are different shapes and scales. Not even the most Disney Theme Park pink sky and fairy lighting can mitigate the controlling aesthetic influence of hät.

No compilation of Bad Facades would be complete without at least one Frankentudor™. Rich people in America really like to harken back to the days of feudalism, yet uglier, more drab, and using materials mostly derived from petrochemicals. The lighting is not helping this house, which is about as gloomy, hulking, and bloated as they come.

I have some fondness for houses that derive new, inventive forms of being ugly. The spread eagle McMansion is one of them, two oblique wings with no real core. A corner lot specimen. This one is especially weird, with the quadruple portholes, the windowless bays, the mall foyer, and the hipped roof that's not quite clipped, complete with tacked on gables. Kind of neat, sad to say.

I know most of you won't agree, but I actually believe this is the worst McMansion of the set. The absolute banality of it, the out-of-proportion everything, the compound-like demeanor, the nonsensical spacing of the mind-numbingly identical windows. The most infuriating part is that whoever designed this had some kind of order, continuity, proportion in mind and just failed utterly at it, like Sideshow Bob stepping on all those rakes. I hate it!!!!

When rich people try to make overly-inflated temples to their dumb piles of money, it's deeply satisfying when they end up looking like this house, which is just a pile of roof and wall tacked on to the worst proportioned portico imaginable. Classic McMansion Hubris. Let us all laugh.

Now we're getting into the more eldritch horror part of the list. Some houses make me wonder if I have the same set of eyeballs and conceptions of what "a house" looks like as other people. This one is playing dress up games with foam stickers. It looks like Steve's shirt from Blues Clues. It abuses the prairie muntins, which is an insult to my chosen hometown of Chicago, Illinois. Bad house.

Not enough time is devoted on this blog to bad modernism, though it would be rather generous to call this house modern. It's more like postmodernism trying to remember what modernism looked like and tripping down a flight of stairs collecting random masses and windows on the way down. Houses like this give modern architecture a bad name. It's borderline libel. Also it looks like it was made out of cardboard.

This brings us to our final, and objectively worst house:

I don't even know what to say about this freak of architecture. I don't know how it came together or why. I don't know what it wants or even pretends to do. It is a horrorshow. Gables protruding from random places, stealth roof fragments, windows too small for the walls they're embedded in, a weird cathedral-like entrance, the mosquito-infested pond, the worst example of realtor sky I've ever seen, all of it is terrible. It's haunted. Trick or Treat, but without the treat.

Anyway, that does it for this installment. If you're curious about more McModern badness, this month's Patreon bonus post will be to your liking!

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WanderingSims Fave CC - Roofs & Structures

heaven - Coastal New England Roofs

1-8 - Gruesim - TS4 Roof Conversions (Roof 2, 5-6, 8-11, 16)

9 - simnaru - Japanese Roof

10 - Angela - Lilith Build Set Column (TSR)

11 - BuffSumm - Kilox Relax Column (TSR)

12 - Angela - Indoor Beam Set (TSR)

13 - Alxandra78 - Aurora Column (TSR)

14 - Living Dead Girl - Contemporary Columns Style 1 (TSR)

15-16 - peskimus - Aspen Gables & Column ii (TSR)

17-19 - Martassimsbook - 4t3 Slox Balcony Set (Square Bars Single & Double, Round Single & Double, Square Window Single & Double)

20-22 - Martassimsbook - 4t3 TheJim07 Doric Columns Pilasters and Pedestals Set (Column Doric, Pilaster Doric, Column Doric Short for Pedestal)

23-26 - Mutske - Fana Build Set (End Gable Left, Top Gable, End Gable Right, Column) (TSR)

27-29 - Kriss - Maxime Set (Shutters Counter Height, Full Height, Privacy) (TSR)

30-31 - baufive - Grant Park Column 1 & 2

32 - enable-llamas - Thaleia Fluted Column Simple

33 - alverdine - Shout Out Shutters Left & Right

*Preview pictures are from the creators or the CC's icons*

[gatabella]

"Several months ago eye-filling Italian actress Silvana Pampanini aroused Humphrey Bogart’s ire, when, in a magazine article she declared that Bogart, Gary Cooper and Clark Gable were too old to be convincing lovers. Now Bogart, defender of the rights of man, was not one to stand idly by and let this crushing statement pass unichallenged. When they met at lunch in Rome, Bogey arrived with ammunition tucked away under his arm—a huge photograph of his wife, sexy Lauren Bacall, whom he calls Betty, and their two handsome young children. “Signorina Pampanini,” he began, “this is the kind of work I do, and I’m fifty-four. What do you think of it?” All that his bosomy companion could murmur at this point was a soft, “Che bello—how beautiful.” Bogey ended the argument decisively with, “The next time you pick on a man, make sure you know what you're doing. Better still —what he’s doing.” “You may not believe this,” says Bogey, “but the first thing I notice about a woman is her face. If the face interests me I'll give the rest of her the once over. Take Ingrid Bergman for example. I worked with her all through Casablanca before I realized she had a wonderful figure to go with that fascinating face. There’s a woman! And besides, there’s too much emphasis on bosoms today. With all the fuss caused by the Monroes, the Russells and the Lollobrigidas, you’d think that bosoms were just invented yesterday. It takes more than a well-stacked front balcony and a prominent back porch to make an actress. Somewhere in between there’s got to be just a hint of talent.”

-Screenland, July 1954

[positronicdream]

Fizzbin's Fabulous Cabin, part 2

Continued ramblings about the house I built in the Sims 4 as my bard's Magnificent Mansion!

(part 1) (part 2) (part 3) (part 4) (part 5)

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You may have observed that the shape of this house is... incoherent. Horrible design! McMansionHell would rip me to shreds! Well, there are a few good reasons for that:

For the DnD characters, the exterior of a Magnificent Mansion doesn't actually exist. The only way in or out is through a magical portal, so they'll only ever see the interior.

For the above reason I prioritized the design of the interior and put the exterior last. For example, windows are placed according to what looks good in each room, not what makes sense outside.

A weird, eccentric plan is in character for the kind of mansion a gnome like Fizzbin would create.

Having justified the horrible shape, though, I still felt the need to make it look as presentable as I could. This took some effort.

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The roofs...

Anyone who's ever built in the Sims knows the nightmare that is roofing! And I had made it even worse for myself by putting in not one, but four round glass roofs (to add a luxurious touch to certain rooms). I slapped a square gabled roof on the very top, propped up overhangs with columns and filled in some small in-between spots with flat flooring. Any exposed rectangles on the floor below got half-gabled roofs, but there were a couple places in the end that simply couldn't be properly roofed.

When that happens, my go-to is balconies. They're great! They can be any crazy shape, and they can "roof" an exposed floor below without needing complete coverage themselves! But I was confliced about having to use them here. As I mentioned earlier, Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion only allows one entrance and you can't go outside. Does a balcony count? DnD characters are prone to jumping off balconies, and then where would they be? Still, I put furniture on my balconies to make them look pretty and I counted their floor tiles in my square foot budget.

I painted the exterior walls in two colors of clapboard (the purple one is custom content), and stone for the arboretum. The lower parts have rich brown columns and trim, and the upper end has white. I stuck ivy on the walls, and scattered flowers and giant mushrooms around the yard. Even if the residents can't go outside, they should still get a nice view out the windows! (I also made sure to place this all on a lot with no road or other houses nearby. It's in Brindleton Bay, if you're wondering.)

Now I'm going to show you the worst part of this build. One of the round glass roofs overlaps and clips with the main roof. I covered it up with a big chimney. Did you notice it before now?

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Next: First floor!

(part 1) (part 2) (part 3) (part 4) (part 5)

[middleland]

Dusek House, East 55th Street, North Broadway, Cleveland, OH by Warren LeMay

Via Flickr:

Built in 1903, this Arts and Crafts and Tudor Revival-style house was built for Czech-born dentist James Dušek, and features a front and side-gable roof, stucco-clad second floor and gable ends with half-timbering, replacement one-over-one windows, a balcony over the first floor front entrance, a brick base, wooden shingle cladding got the first floor and railings, porch columns that taper towards the base, a side bay window with a crenellated parapet clad in wooden shingles, and red brick chimney stacks. The house is a contributing structure in the Broadway Avenue Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988, and today houses apartments.

[lexicals]

Work gave us these little wooden houses to paint for xmas and I went as the kids say a little bit overboard

[ID: 4 photos of a wooden model house with a gable roof, inset clock and a small balcony - it's been painted a darkish turquoise with brown accents and paint and glitter has been added on the roof and around the base to make it look like it's been snowed on. 3 photos are of the final painted house, and one is a photo of it with just the base coat of white paint. A desk is visible in the background with a piece of kitchen roll and some brushes on it. End ID.]

[105nt]

Strike Walk #2

Borstal Hill to Marine Parade

The Ink Black Heart chapters 76 and 77

This is part 5, link to part 4 below.

Armed with toothpaste and socks, Strike and Robin arrive at the Marine Hotel, a long red-brick building, which had many gables and doors onto the street and white timber balconies running along its length. Separated from the pavement by a low, neat hedge .. smart and well-maintained.

... setting eyes on the hotel's front as they drove around to the rear car park ...

Part 4

Part 6

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The Pros and Cons of Different Types of Loft Conversions: Insights into Rayleigh Loft Conversions

Loft conversions are a popular way to add extra living space and value to your home. In Rayleigh, homeowners have several options to choose from, each with its own set of advantages and drawbacks. Understanding these can help you make an informed decision. This article explores the pros and cons of different types of loft conversions, focusing on the expertise of Rayleigh Loft Conversions.

1. Velux Loft Conversions

Velux conversions are among the most straightforward and cost-effective. They involve installing Velux windows into the existing roof structure, without altering the roofline.

Pros:

Less structural work required, making it more cost-effective.

Quick to complete, minimizes disruption.

Maintains the property's original roof structure.

Cons:

Limited headroom compared to other types.

Less scope for adding additional features like balconies.

2. Dormer Loft Conversions

Popular for their versatility, Dormer conversions involve extending the existing roof to create more headspace and floor area.

Pros:

Increases headroom and usable floor space.

Suitable for almost all house types, a versatile option offered by Loft Conversion Specialists Rayleigh.

Can add significant value to your property.

Cons:

More complex construction can be more expensive.

May require planning permissions.

3. Hip to Gable Loft Conversions

This type involves extending the 'hipped' side of the roof to create a vertical 'gable' end, increasing the internal loft space.

Pros:

Maximizes the available space in the loft.

Ideal for properties with hipped roofs, including many homes in Rayleigh.

Adds aesthetic appeal to the property.

Cons:

More complex construction, often more expensive.

Requires changes to the roof structure.

4. Mansard Loft Conversions

Mansard conversions involve altering the roof structure to create a flat roof with a steep sloping back wall, often seen in Attic Conversion Services in Rayleigh.

Pros:

Maximizes the available space.

Allows for significant changes and can include additional features like balconies.

Ideal for older properties, blending in with traditional aesthetics.

Cons:

The most expensive type of loft conversion.

Requires extensive construction work.

5. Modular Loft Conversions

Modular conversions involve constructing the loft off-site and then lifting it into place.

Pros:

Minimizes construction time on-site.

High-quality construction in a controlled factory environment.

Less weather dependent.

Cons:

Requires adequate access for lifting the module into place.

Can be more expensive due to the specialized construction process.

Each type of loft conversion has its unique features and considerations. The choice depends on your specific needs, budget, and the structure of your property. Consulting with Rayleigh Attic Remodeling experts can provide you with tailored advice, ensuring that your loft conversion maximizes your space and adds value to your home. With the right approach, a loft conversion can be a transformative addition to your property.

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5 Types of Windows for Loft Conversions | Window Ideas for Loft

One of the most important aspects of a loft conversion is your choice of windows. This is because the windows determine the amount of natural light and fresh air your space will get.

If you aren’t sure where to start, here are the 5 Amazing Types of Windows for Loft Conversions.

Dormer Windows

Skylights or Roof Windows

Balcony Window

Casement Windows

Gable End Windows

Dormer Windows

Dormer windows are one of the most frequently used windows in loft conversions. It’s installed vertically at the slopes of your roof, creating a box shape that provides light and headroom into your loft. You may need planning permission for these types of windows.

Skylights or Roof Windows

Roof windows and skylights are an easy way to get light into your conversion. They fit right into your existing roof, providing direct light down into your new space. Sometimes these windows are called Velux windows, named for the most popular brand of skylight windows in the UK.

Balcony Window

Balcony windows, or Juliet balconies, are a beautiful way to add light to your loft conversion. They will add design and character to your home, setting it apart from other loft conversions. Depending on space and safety concerns, you can build balcony windows with railings and protective glass.

Casement Windows

Casement windows are similar to the rest of the windows in your home. Not all loft conversions can fit them, however, and they can restrict openings. They also need to be compliant due to safety regulations. If you can get casement windows into your conversion, they’re easy to open and let in plenty of light.

Gable End Windows

If you have a home with a ridged roof, the gable is the point where the walls of the building meet to form a triangle. Gable end windows work within this space to make a pleasing looking window that flows with the shape and design of your home. In some cases, you may be able to work these into a dormer loft conversion.

Are you still confused what type of loft conversion windows are best for your loft?

Get in touch with Doran Bros, we have the experience to help you decide which type of loft conversion windows would be best for your Loft. We are loft conversion specialists in South West London. As a leader in home and garden renovation, we can help make your home your dream home.

[morfey]

Most of the houses in Serbia were gable-ended with big roof overhangs covering balconies. I have not seen any gable-ended houses in Bulgaria yet. The housing in Bulgaria looks cheaper and poorer.

[sheseestheghosts]

Princess, unicorn, castle!

Cleaning out my inbox while I'm at it because I've literally had this sitting in my inbox for two years! From this asks post:

Princess: Are you more of a leader or a follower? There's a part of me that wants to say it depends on the situation, but the truth of it is, I'm a follower, that just happens to have strong ideas. Whether or not I voice those ideas depends on the situation.

Unicorn: Have you had any moments that felt almost magical? Describe one! Oh sure. I've found that some of the simpler moments feel the most magical, and almost all of them involve me sitting outside after the sun has set with stars filling the sky with someone I really adore. I used to work at a historic state park, and after one of our events, my coworker, who I considered a very good friend at that point, just sat sitting on the stairs leading into our old log cabin, leaning on each other because we were tired, and making jokes about the costumes we were wearing and the people we'd seen come through that night and what our boss was going to have us do before we could leave and just how I was supposed to work at all because the heel on my boot broke. It was maybe a five minute interaction, but it's really stuck with me. It was just a simple, quick end to a very busy day with a friend but it carried something different with it that I haven't forgotten, even six years later.

Castle: Describe your dream home! Oh god. Listen, I am obsessed with Victorian homes. Give me the turrets, give me gabled roofs, give me a wrap around porch, give me the towers. Add a sun room, and a large backyard, make it blue with white trim. Give me a balcony somewhere, and a beautiful staircase, I am sold.