I blame HGTV

Sippican Cottage has a list of ten "standards" for contemporary homes that never should have been implemented. When I saw a link for this at American Digest, my first thought was Hey, my house is 60 years old, I'll bet I don't have any of these atrocities.

And I was right. What's more, I learned a term I hadn't heard before: "snout house." Not so desirable, it would seem:

When I was a newlywed, we briefly considered such a place; the house we actually bought, a 1960s ranch, was kinda snubnosed, but not quite this hideous.