The houses aren't difficult to spot. They usually follow some variation of the following pattern: gray or greenish-gray paint, white or brick red trim, a colorful door -- mint green, orange, red -- and sometimes a colorful accent mailbox. Instantly recognizable horizontal wood-slat fencing is the final touch. — kcet.org
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From the article's comment section:
"This is a bit silly. Yes, house-flippers are pack animals and adhere to a uniform aesthetic, but so what? Every housing development and every housing developer for at least the last hundred years has done the same... In every case, the 'style of these homes appeal[ed] to a pervading mindset.'
The interesting and radically new part of this is that, unlike traditional housing developers, flippers develop within an existing structure and infrastructure. That they do so with an eye to common-denominator current taste is not really remarkable. So did the guy who built my 98-year-old house."
So, as with any recognizable trend, instant historians want to know, "Who did it first ?"
That color palette, for instance, must have come from somewhere . . .
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