Here in Baltimore, we know from Bad Taste. The Pope of the genre is our own John Waters. He’s made bad taste into an art.
During our boozy lunch the other day, the three of us were talking about a building across from the club whose name must not be mentioned. The building was a classical town house with great details, if its two neighbours are any indication, which someone had smothered in a coat of stucco! Why, we wondered, would any one do that?
What would possess someone to do like the owner of this little house did and cover up their front door with aluminum siding? 
Couldn’t you just lock the front door?
Remember this little gem? We would love your submissions of extreme bad taste. 
We are putting together a project, that will launch soon, and need your help. Just e-mail your image of a place that you just don’t understand, that’s in total bad taste, or that someone must have gone off some serious medications to build. Let us know where the building is, and what you think its major flaws are.
Once we get this little project up and running, we’ll let everyone know. Of course, if you wish to remain anonymous, we completely understand!
Wow that last one is just ugly ugly ugly. I mean, some things are just weird and quirky but that is just, well, you know.
ReplyDeleteWe call it "More money than taste." I'll submit the plethora of tacky McMansions with about 7 various Palladian windows.
ReplyDeleteA mind-boggling assignment. Where to begin?
ReplyDeleteIs the one with 7 various Palladian windows in Worthington Valley? If so, right on!
ReplyDeleteTotally my kind of snarky assignment.
ReplyDeletewished i lived closer to Potomac.
This sounds like so much fun! A bit like Dame Edna's neighbourhood watch.
ReplyDeletei just was walking ted in a little pocket neighborhood we've never visited before, and amongst the gorgeous 1920's spanish style homes was a doozy of a remodel. i'll try to take me camera next time and snap a pic.
ReplyDeleteCan we just make a blanket statement that includes every Big Name Builder tract house in Harford County?
ReplyDeleteAnon... pretty much any tract house qualifies in my book. send your pix!
ReplyDeleteThe last picture is almost an exact replica of the mausoleum for Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi:
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh_Mausoleum
Are they by any chance related?
I'll try to get you an image of the "Casa d'Amor" on River Road (or Bradley Blvd?) towards Potomac!
ReplyDeleteThis is a great idea---I will be on the look-out.
ReplyDeleteSimilar to Maureen, my mother always said, bad taste speaks louder than money.
ReplyDeleteThat fake stucco business is spreading like crazy around here. We call it "fucco."
ReplyDeleteBTW, you East Coasters don't even KNOW from tacky. Prepare to be educated.
I could just walk around town and provide you with several eyesore examples... but unfortunately I have to go to work just now. I mean, fortunately. For you, because you don't have to see the hot mess, and for me because I still have a job.
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Hello from a new reader,
ReplyDeleteWell house #1 very appropriately has no welcome mat is out and maybe it's a tambour kind of door that rolls up and down.
#2 perhaps instead of the Golden Mean it's the Rusted Tin.
BarbG