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Ooof. The house itself isn’t so bad, if a little out of place, but the lawn/paver desert they placed in front of it is absolutely horrendous!
The “makeover” of the house on the left is also pretty awful.
It looks like it went from a warm, shared neighborhood to mismatched, isolated islands.
The saddest part to me is the loss of the matching fence style and what appears to be a shared gate to access the sidewalk. The neighborhood I grew up in had a lot of connected yards like that, and it was really nice.
This.
When studying architecture, one of the things I discovered is how well modern buildings can fit together with pretty much any older style... but it has to be done with a little bit of finesse. The lack of a gate and ugly lawn here are pretty bad.
The house on the left though... That's a crime against good taste.