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I'm in the industry of building things and project managing them, better materials costing more is not an illusion, certain colors being...

Nope. Those all work quite well, especially the top 2

Maybe "matching" wasn't the intent. And sometimes you can't eve. Get the same color in different materials. The black tuxedo siding I...

If they used cheaper materials, which is likely given their budgetary constraints, then that blue will fade over time and won't be as...

Look, it's reality. Unless you're doing this in all cash and don't care about recouping your investment this is how you make a project...

You vam easily double, triple, the cost of your siding with these choices. There are premium colors for even the same material. I...

Yes there are choices, but who aren't you paying to make those choices? Correction, they don't have the budget to care about what...

It's not an accident that affordable housing often has cheaper materials and a less inspired design. It's part of the VE

And the people who can help you make something look less hideous on a budget...cost money. Design can be 7-11% of your budget

When you need to spend less money on design and less money on materials sometimes its what you get

I look at it as residential fill and the design doesn't really bother me. An improvement over the dirt parking lot it replaced and as...

We need affordable housing. Def not a waste

Better than "SOMA" at least, unless that's just what they are calling that whole development.

"Revington" sure has the flavor of a caddish secondary character in a BBC murder mystery who winds up dead by the end of Act 2.