TWOP’s New York correspondent The Bartenders Skills with a Manhattan may well bleat about 1700s taverns being painted purple in the Hudson River Valley, but this is Perth baby. Thornlie and Embleton. Seriously, is this all there is? How do such things get built? And while lockable shutters including on the breadbin might be necessary in Thornlie, I just can’t imaging the circumstances where someone would sign off on the Embleton house recently finished. “Now we are facing due West into the roasting Perth afternon sun, so make sure we have no eaves or anything shading the windows. Insanity. Surely it could qualify for Perth’s ugliest affordable house?
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Has there been a problem commenting? Seems ok now.
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Yes.
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You dum-dum.
Why does the top one have no letterbox, but the other has two? What does it mean?
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Government infill policy. One in four new letterboxes have to be for established houses.
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2 letterboxes- strata title? The land area of the second house proabaly isn’t much larger than the house itself.
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Doesn’t look like the first house has much room to kick the footy around, either.
As for backyard cricket… every shot would be six-over-the-fence-and-out.
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Cricket academy over the road at JFSHS
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Share croppers
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That is a particularly offensive Buckeridge Box.
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what i particularly like about the embleton house is that small window which has a pier around it and which i am fairly certain is a bathroom. i don’t think i have ever seen a detail quite like it.
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At first glance I thought they were making a feature of their hot water system. Inspired.
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At first blush?
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My take was that they were trying to cover up a mistake in the brickwork just there. And then let’s use up the rest of the render… about… here?
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Blade wall done cheap Vegan.
Coming soon to Embleton house – fuck off shutters to keep the heat & road noise out.
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The Embleton house looks like the original asbestos house (as per next door) has been clad in brick, plus aluminium windows, new tiled roof, enclose front porch etc etc. Floor level and window sill heights give it away. Amateur developers, possibly Tuscan.
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Both gardens much much nicer than mine.
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Now I look at it a little longer, imagine you have a basic 2d drafting package & perhaps no depth perception. The Embleton hut wouldn’t look so bad on the screen or in elevation on paper.
Not an excuse, just a hypothesis as to reason.
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If you look at it with IGA 3D fireworks glassess the Embleton place looks awesome. Maybe after the show they could be rebranded as “Perth 3D glasses, add a new dimension to your city”
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or perhaps you have a 3-d drafting package, and no design skills.
simply no excuse for featuring a bathroom window, nor for having it on the front elevation.
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I can’t look at it anymore – need some art…http://travel.webshots.com/album/557208096eQtkyQ
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Airconditioner condensor in full afternoon sun indicates the depth of ignorance.
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It will get its first summer roasting soon. Also looks out at Bayswater Council building. That can’t be good.
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And City of Bayswater approved this building design, roller shutters soon to come.
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And be damned any consideration to climate, of which Perth just happens to be on of the sunniest places in the world…anyone who’d abide by buying an ugly-box of this type, especially here, should be slugged with a dickhead tax for excessive energy use that a house like this would entail. As for those cretins who designed it, what more can I say than that they’re spec-home spivs who do nothing to promote sustainable and responsible urban infill…it can be done well and not too expensively too.
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Thornlie and Embleton have thoroughly uninspiring name origins. Someone at Landgate needs to have some fun with this:
http://www.landgate.wa.gov.au/corporate.nsf/web/Western+Australian+Place+Names+and+Addressing
New suburb names to suggest: Chong, Wintoning, Rurotardia. I’m sure we could write some nice origin paragraphs.
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See here, BB.
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I promise never to complain about purple 1700s taverns, or, indeed, pretty much anything local, ever again.
Although in honesty minus the shutters the top house would seem normal for San Diego or Pheonix and really isn’t that horrible considered as a house.
The bottom house–oy. Aren’t there building codes in Perth? Do they vary from suburb to suburb?
I can’t even tell what it’s made of.
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Current Perth building codes are:
Build the largest possible house on the smallest possible block.
No eaves.
No trees.
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pretty fair to state the building materials for this house consist of Darch
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and make it ugly.
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Finally this page started working, Also your right there very ugly houses but please if intrested check out the new house in Dianella, Pimlott St 4 Houses from the corner on the left, From the park. Its a little grey box with tiny windows!.
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submit, submit
take a photo
contribute
fit in or fuck off
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Fine perthworst@hotmail.com, Right
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Take a fucking photo and post the fucker.
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Picture? And not of your band.
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Cunt You take photo
or you fuck off forever
this is last warning
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Not you Shazzonator, no offence
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WHAT THE HELL??
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But he’s gone solo, didn’t you read that?
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Prima donna you reckon?
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Pics or it didn’t happen.
This could be the farting dog with straw boater of 2011.
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The word salad you have provided is no substitute for a fucking picture.
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I did at 6:40am, Hope it gets here soon!.
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I did at 6:40am. Hope it gets here soon!
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Why did you copy me? Its starting to get on my nerves!, And also you can have your girly laugh over it but I find it rude and downright annnoying!.
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