Ugliest remodle heads to L.A.

Well, in this neighborhood the people are so rich that some of the houses have developed gout. The color of this gem was probably brought on by a diet of fois gras,caviar and lots of vintage port with luxury cuvees of champaigne thrown in for good measure. I can't think of any reason for a finish like this other than to show the rest of the neighbors that the pantry is definitely too full of ultra-rich fare and not enough roughage. Hopefully a doctor can make a housecall soon.

Hey, I hear that a metal roof will last forever...

And be repulsive forever. Maybe this house isn't quite as ghastly as some but I know where they were trying to go with this one and they really didn't get there. In Key West there are some quaint houses that have metal roofs, palm trees and the like....they look nice and weathered, appropriate for the climate. This house kind of went the Tuff-Shed-on-steroids route, maybe a nice place to put about 750 lawnmowers.

Maybe it's dietary....

If you could only see how yellow this house is.....kind of a " My house can out mustard your house any day of the week" yellow. The nice Home Depot leaded glass "should really be on your dentists office" door always screams ugly in any language. I can't imagine how far in hock this family must have went to create this massive blight. The white picket fence must be left over from the original , now departed ( and sorely missed by people like me..) 700 square foot cottage.

A photo can't possibly capture the...well......

I guess this week is all about tile-roofed taco-bellian monster nightmare visions on the west side. I took the photo on a foggy day so one cannot really get the full 'milk of magnesia" color treatment of the second story. The bottom floor is kind of a fleshy-soily faux finish 'remember the Alamo' kind of nauseating color.There are some nice elements to the structure of the house-the balcony, the cantalevered second story.....stuff that even I like. If only they had just gone with white stucco exterior....but then , this house would languish in obscurity rather than basking in proud and defiant ugliness.

Hello, fakeness my old friend.....

When somebody tries to make a new thing look olde worlde quainte, I don't know about you by my stomach starts churning as if I'm on some really choppy boat ride and someone in the galley is burning coffee. In this case,the cruise is on the fake Mediterranian on a course to the faux-land islands. The architectural style is more like Taos meets Tony Soprano and totally misses the mark. Compounding the ugliness is the sheer size of this homage to fakeness.

Falun Gong show

My guess is that the owner of this monster has fantasies of being the consulate of Burma. This isn't a house, it's an embassy. Maybe the house isn't really hideous but it is monumentally silly......only Steven Segal would live in a house like this-let me put it better....only a really crazy person would live in a house such as this. The house is so big, the carp pond must be indoors cause ther ain't no outdoors on this lot.

would you like to super-size that chimichanga, sir?

This mediterranean nightmare,possibly inspired by the Taco Bell architectural school of design is really repulsive. The faux-Hispanola stucco is so horrid that for me it conjures up images of severe burns or skin rashes, only fake. Like the worst looking makeup, the treatment of the exterior is really something to behold in person.