To think these houses will soon look dated?

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Our neighbour has a detached 1930s red brick house that he slapped grey rendering over, outside uplighters, plantation shutters and grey pvc windows.
AIBU for thinking this will be the avocado baths of the future that many people dislike?

I think this style can look nice, BUT I do agree that it's a trend that'll be over within a few years.

I do HATE rendering over perfectly fine brick for no reason. I wouldn't buy a rendered house due to the upkeep of it. Some houses near mine are rendered and painted white and they have all these green/grey drips and stains down them. Looks awful!

I can't picture this (although it sounds horrible!)
Can anyone post an example pic?

This is a good point. It may be that actually more houses end up like this due to requirements for increased insulation in the future for heat pumps etc.

I already hate them. They look so tacky!

Grey is already dated. Rendering makes any house look bland and characterless but it's not offensive.

A bit like this, I think, @louderthan . But maybe greyer render. Just all original character removed.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/96642478#/media?id=media0&ref=photoCollage&channel=RES_BUY

Plantation shutters are EVERYWHERE!!
Great swathes of them.
They are going to definitely be the Avocado bathrooms of the future.

I love original shutters, Georgian ones that fold back into an area by the window, and close with a metal bar for security
Plantation shutters look like they might shut out a lot of light.

Net curtains are hopelessly old fashioned now.

Grey is absolutely on its way out, if it isn’t fully out the door already. Thank Christ. I know, I know, not my house etc etc but I’m so sick of seeing estate agent photos that honestly look like they’ve been taken in black and white. It makes my soul wither up 😬

Some houses near us were built on a field.. New in 2000, they have stained terribly and look awful due to the horrendous stuff in the rendering that attracts grey mould . Yuck yuck YUCK.

Like this!

I can’t see past the prison style gates and the shit trees 😳

@Maireas '... mad handle....' really made me laugh. There are several houses around our way that have doors with handles that are almost the height of the doors themselves. They all look like the sort of doors that would lead into a 1990s nightclub.

That looks like a secure mental health unit.

some new build and renovated houses near me have this and have downlights in the soffits that show off the shoddy render

It's the New England Haunted House look!

Sorry I think those houses posted look lovely outside. They look neat and modern. Not keen on the interior of the first one but I’m very much not offended by them.

I'm struggling to picture it. Do you mean those Kevin Mcloud type houses that look like a soviet war museum? Loads of them near me

My god that’s awful. So bleak looking.

You can paint the render if you buy the proper sort of paint. I agree it’s a shame when lovely classic houses are being rendered, very regrettable and will reduce value in the long run. But in most cases I see it being done to 1980s-90s monstrosities to hide the nasty coloured brick, usually at the same time as removing crappy features from the same decade. In that case it does look better!

That’s exactly what I mean. The original house is an absolute monstrosity. Look at next door - totally hideous and even has disgusting brown UPVC windows. Sorry but they’re not spoiling it - there’s nothing to spoil. Removing original character? There is no original character, it’s absolutely horrible. In that case the white and grey is an improvement, and really is the only way to hide the original hideousness. In most cases people aren’t going around rendering beautiful Victorian or red brick 1930s houses - it’s these yucky 80s and 90s houses with the weird coloured brick.

That’s the issue though isn’t it? The brick isn’t red. It’s brown or yellow or a similar disgusting shade. No way to save that, all you can do is cover it.

I think it’s these type of character houses it looks hideous on.

The gray trend didn’t catch on in New England. There are a few local houses like this. Locals call one the vampire house. The house is dark grey with black trim, and no one seems to go in and out except at night.

@LadyVictoriaSponge I agree. I think it is fine on modern houses. But the owners of that house have tried to force a modern look on an older house with bags of character and it does not work.

Does anyone else read threads like this and felt like they had thought they were a grown up until they had to ask what the fuck even is render?