Mildly Infuriating

Trees are a luxury, growing something like that takes time. I hope they really have a good reason for doing what they did.

It legit looks like half of the weed dispensaries in my city. Who tf would actually do that to their home tho

Just steal the image and put the source in the body text. That way you're not redirecting everyone to reddit. Sort of defeats the purpose of the protests.

Why don't they like trees?

It's like they heard lawns were bad for the environment, but stopped listening at the part about replacing it with native plants.

all better

I would have left the trees alone, but removed the grass and covered it with small black and grey stones. That way the trees would still look nice, and the rain water can still pass through the rocks and prevent flooding, unlike this mess. This looks like a business now, it’s not a home anymore.

Never understood homes that pave/block out all the greenery; makes the home depressing af all for saving some 30min of upkeep per week.

I personally don't like it, but I respect their right to do whatever the fuck they want with their property. If they want a fugly house, then that's their right.

🎵 They paved paradise and put up a parking lot 🎵

People are focusing on the house in the middle, but if you look at he whole picture, it isn't that one house. It's every single house on both streets. It's not just this specific owner. If this were the US, I'd suspect a HOA at work.

I mean I hate lawns as much as the next person, but I don't think the solution is to salt the earth and cover it in concrete.

"Bad" taste for "bad" people 🤷‍♀️

The house was horrible enough to start with; a characterless inter-war bungalow with fake timbering and fake leaded glass. The conversion is just differently horrible.

For me it's the destruction of the garden that warrants it being here. I know it's the UK so the sun isn't always available (edit: just seen the Zoopla link, it's Bolton, so change "always" to "ever") , but losing shade and shelter like that is a tragedy in any climate.

The guy that owns this house

Just before the previous owners of my house decided to put the house on the market they painted all wood inside (stairs, doors, door frames, window frames, skirting) pitch black.

Yes thanks, I enjoy living in a cave. Removing, sanding and painting all that will take me 100s of hours.

Oh, and it was done with the cheapest paint possible while painting over all hinges, locks and sometimes windows.

Range Rover... checks out.

Sure they didn't turn it into a shop? Those definitely look like they were made into display windows

It should actually be an offence for someone to do this. That change from garden to hard standing will cause issues with any drains and probably cause flooding.

now its a gulag

It's been ruined.

Lol did you just link to a reddit post from Lemmy?

Dendrophobia? Agrostophobia? Botanophobia? All 3 wrapped into one tangle of neurosis?

100% agree this is a terrible looking house- I think the function of the raised platform must be because it's on a dangerous corner or intersection, so it acts as a safety structure from vehicles. They would've gotten special planning permission to do something like that.

Ah yes, the prison yard aesthetic... ~~lookin' good~~

Maybe the new owners are allergic to nature? 🙃

Is that cement? Oof