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Posted by ++ on December 28, 2007, 2:10 am
HVS wrote:
>On 27 Dec 2007, Kami wrote
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>>>Kami Kitty wrote:
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>>>>I need an expert. Or semi-expert. Consensus maybe?
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>>>"Quirky Remuddled Buncottage"
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>>>"Remuddled" is a definition term first coined by the Old House
>>>Journal in its premier year. I cannot remember the author of
>>>the term (or it may have been consensus of the entire editorial
>>>staff. It is one of those terms that has genesis in common
>>>sense and was coined by many people, but the Old House Journal
>>>is famous for having popularized contests in having the best of
>>>remuddling end pictorially in its issues. In this case, the
>>>house may never have been remuddled at all - It may have been
>>>designed as we see it, and only appears as if someone put
>>>siding over the front of the oversized dormers in what would
>>>otherwise have been a "Cape Cod" and then added "interest" by
>>>placing single double hung windows off center in each.
>>>Buncottage is a term I coined for use in my discussions of the
>>>throwing together the worst nostalgic elements of cottage
>>>architecture in an inauthentic way, an elision of the terms
>>>bunco with the word cottage. Cottage as a term is embracing
>>>a large range of design options but usually denotes something
>>>livable and family oriented in size, not ostentatious and
>>>large. This is not a modern buncottage as the double car
>>>garage is not the prominant frontal element, but recessed,
>>>rambler style, from the front facade. Another surprising
>>>askew elements is the proportionally thin Victorian turned
>>>carved porch posts used to hold the entrance dormer which is
>>>the same size and shape as the oversized roof dormers.
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>>Interesting analysis. I agree that the spindly little post not
>>only fail to add anything, but detract from it. I was thinking
>>in some way it maybe wanted to be a little bit tudor, but got
>>fearful of trying post and beam.
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>>So what do you really think it was TRYING to be? Cape Cod?
>>With brick?
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>I think the problem is that whoever built the poor benighted thing
>basically didn't have much idea of what stylistic elements are
>supposed to go with what style (let alone any sense of proportion
>or balance).
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>So trying to get into their mind to put a stylistic label on it is
>a bit futile -- I don't think it really knew or knows what it's
>trying to be, other than a bit of this and a bit of that. The only
>ones that fit are humorous or derogatory -- the suggested
>"remuddled" or "Cape Cobbled" work for me.
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>As the others have said, it's actually quite painful and sad to
>look at. (I even hate the brick they've used.)
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I was assuming that it was clad in formstone?
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