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Why are new builds all so ugly?

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    #62
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 16,202 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119070031#Comment_119070031

    Ironically, the peasant house with small windows and thick walls would be warmer than the gentry house with huge single glazed windows and high ceilings.

    Equally ironically, many rural McMansions appear to be concrete built pastiches of the once hated 'big house', the forebears of McMansion owners may have incinerated a few back in the day.



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    #63
    monseiur
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119086057#Comment_119086057

    I guess many of the gentry's country piles were summer houses, fishing lodges etc. they could afford to move to warmer climes when the temerature dropped, thanks partly to the exorbitant rent they were changing their half starved tenants whose only hope /dream of travel was a one way ticket to America, Australia etc.



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    #64
    jackboy
    Registered Users Posts: 4,574 ✭✭✭jackboy


    There are some nice new houses being built but most people still want the huge house with a massive boring front lawn, as that is still seen as a status symbol.



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