Berndtson's Fineman house "Before and After"

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DRN
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Berndtson's Fineman house "Before and After"

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Before:

https://nextpittsburgh.com/current-feat ... _Society_8

After:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4742 ... 5268_zpid/

While I'm happy that this house is continuing its life as a small modernist house, the alterations have a 21st century Dwell magazine feel that is at odds with the otherwise original Wrightian Usonian grammar that remains.
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SDR
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Re: Berndtson's Fineman house "Before and After"

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Well, it's worse than that, surely ? White-painted woodwork; brick in the bath painted without even filling the voids first ? Yes, the house stands . . . and the paint could be stripped, painfully. Nasty desecration of a structure worthy of much more . . .

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Roderick Grant
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Re: Berndtson's Fineman house "Before and After"

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Yoiks!
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Craig
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Re: Berndtson's Fineman house "Before and After"

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Simply hideous. Basin sinks! White subway tile! Added molding! Rolling barn doors! Grey interiors!What trendy and not-so-trendy-anymore
cliché haven't they hit?
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SREcklund
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Re: Berndtson's Fineman house "Before and After"

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Frankly, I'd rather they'd bulldozed it. At least that's a worthy demise ...
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