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Before definitely looks better. I think there’s some new design trend when selling a house to paint the exterior white. Not sure if it’s so the client can imagine their own color scheme or what, but I’m not a fan.
I think it tricks stupid people into thinking a 100 year old house is somehow new because it's white now. And it makes it feel clean and futuristic which seems to be the vibe everyone is going for but maybe sterile is in from some recent trauma.
It reminds me of a commercial building that went up about a decade ago now in my town. It's a brick, iron and glass facade that's meant to look like a 1910's city building, you know kinda artsy brickwork and all wrought iron railings and such...except it's too perfect. Everything looks machined. The windows are obviously large single panes of glass with a lattice in front of them rather than individual lights in a frame, so the reflection in the windows is too uniform, the bricks are too perfect, a lot of the details are obviously decorative instead of functional as they would have been on the genuine article. And underneath it's a breeze block and steel girder building like every other strip mall in town, it's just got a fancy face on it that they'll chip off in another decade and replace with something trendier.