Interesting Houses
22 September 2008 3:00 PM | By Prince Of Petworth in Architecture, Buildings
I thought it was interesting how one side has tons of windows and the other side is vinyl with no windows. Do you think this is because at some point the windowless side was attached to a building?
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22 September 2008 3:10 PM | youdontknowme Said:
Definitely used to be a building there. Why else would there be no graffiti?
22 September 2008 3:46 PM | GforGood Said:
That, plus one would feel like being in some Big Brother experiment with that many windows on all sides in a narrow house like that..
22 September 2008 4:05 PM | poo poo Said:
but…… why didn’t they just paint it? why the siding? it looks kinda goofy.
22 September 2008 4:38 PM | youdontknowme Said:
Siding on brick always mystifies me. I’d guess it comes down to main reasons: perhaps its cheaper to side than to repoint and repair lots of brick, or; for whatever reason, some people think siding looks good.
22 September 2008 5:01 PM | GforGood Said:
One can also add a layer of insulation pretty easily, which, per se, would be applaudable.
22 September 2008 6:35 PM | eric in ledroit Said:
we need a ban on siding in this city.
22 September 2008 9:57 PM | Croy Said:
Actually, if that’s the west-facing side of the house the siding may serve as a summer-sun deflector and insulator. The back of my house faces west and becomes a sauna-like inferno (read: >94 degrees) at around 3pm all summer long. There are days I long to board up and siding over the whole damn thing, “sun”porches and all…seriously, I can’t even grow a cactus on my sunporch because the sun is so intense.