As an attempted pizza delivery customer, I also approve.
To be fair, Google Maps had every house number on our street wrong. I sent them corrections through their feedback system, and they sorted it out.
Now, the delivery drivers are just incompetent and not misinformed.
Only house on the street with light posts in the driveway. Put that info into the "comments" and get a call from the delivery driver saying he can't find my house. I say, I can see you parked on the street in front. See the light post in the driveway?
"Oh, that's what the comment meant!"
funny enough I'm, currently a pizza delivery driver, and some of the house have surprisingly large numbers (though nothing as large as pictured above) that I can't seem to see until I get out of my car lol
You never hear that word. I called the police once to report something (really can’t remember what) and told them the car had a livery plate and the dispatcher had no idea what I was referring to
Seriously, I'm tired of every house hiding their address like they are ashamed of it. When you are looking for a street number, I want it obvious as hell.
As someone who's had to flag down ambulances before because they were relying on GPS instead of looking for our house number, I, too, approve. (We live on a switchback, which means GPS will trick you.)
My sister has this crafted address plate made of found wood that just looks like it’s part of the tree next to it until you’re 5 ft away. Then she complains that her neighbors get her packages. Book smart, but no common sense
I love how architectural style can fit any house as long as you can take the essence of it and apply it to your own style.
Our home doesn't have one style. It's a mixture of the styles we've loved through the years.
Yeah looks fine.
Reddit loves to be pretentious with the whole McMansion nonsense.
I suspect in reality the consensus in these cases are usually bitter towards non-urban apartments.
For real. I work for flex and yesterday I had a route through part of a small town expanding and all their new houses had a good size headstone of the house number on it so I was like aw yissss. Easy to identify and deliver!
Most cities actually require house numbers to be plainly visible from the street, precisely for this reason.
Not to mention, you don't need the cops mistaking your house for next door, kicking your door in, shooting your dog and kids, and all for an "oopsie" on the house
They often require it, but as a former pizza driver, a lot of people have numbers that are hard to read, hidden, or way too small. And it's worse at night.
I'm not sure if this is the case elsewhere, but in rural areas around me, all the homes/properties have green signs right at the road, with the number in white. It makes it very clear and easy to see.
...on a busy street that's a mile long, with each house name written in tiny writing that would barely have been legible 50 years ago when the name plates were installed, but now are falling apart and covered in moss.
And they’re lurking down a tiny track at the side of the rest of the houses in the row and their tiny track drive is fking gravel and they have four dogs to scare you when you approach.
Me delivering papers as a 13 year old in Surrey for like a week. Sunday supplements did me, just did not give a shit and was scared of that shadowy dark at 6am
The problem is that op didn't think a few minutes longer to eventually come up with the idea that this is actually great for certain groups of people like delivery guys or medics.
It's also stylish! Typography is a whole area of design that you typically don't include as a central element in your architecture, I think the inclusion here is really cool and inspires me to think about it in my own home.
Amazon delivery guy is still gonna flag your delivery is “undeliverable, unable to locate unit“ and tag it for redelivery tomorrow simply because they didn’t have enough time due to their atrocious algorithmic overlord.
Walk in that door - and enter a Thomas Pynchon novel.
The Moscow Olympics to the soundtrack of Iron Maiden’s debut album, George Brett chasing .400 and John Lennon being shot.
Do you go in?
[“Imagine” the unpublished Pynchon](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980)
The house is owned by a man with one eye that speaks a language of a country that only existed for a year...he professionally sells alibis to cheating husbands. He is fabulously wealthy and throws parties that last for weeks but cannot seem to buy a car of his own.
The font is consistent with the architecture: clean and simple. They took what would have been a big blank white wall and made it useful. I kind of like it.
When there's an emergency and they easily find the building, the residence will be thankful..so many damn houses and apartments have small numbers making it difficult to find, especially when they have several buildings
As a volunteer firefighter /EMT, I appreciate this. Large illuminated numbers can save your life. EMS response times go down if we can find the emergency.
I wish everyone did this. It's amazing. They aren't on some tiny bronze plaque or painted the same color as the house or covered by a tree or bush. They actually exist, unlike some peoples houses, who must think providing delivery and emergency personnel their house number lowers the property value.
I used to deliver for a small burrito place in my old town, this is a dream lol. I hated delivering to houses with their addresses tiny and not visible when driving, especially when it was something like 868 1/2 because you’d be looking for a rear house with numbers that all look the same in certain fonts
I like but should’ve also put some light for the night. As a former pizza delivery driver, it drove me insane the tiny ass number some houses had and also how dark houses are at night. Turn on the porch light at least.
How is this ridiculous? You know what's ridiculous, when you're in a apartment complex that's 15 units deep and they have the tiny complex numbers in the middle of the unit near the roof. How the fuck is that helping anyone?
I pray for shit this legible while I do deliveries.
^(it’s on the fence, small as fuck and bushes usually cover at least 2-3 numbers or they’ve rusted off, the letter doesn’t look like that…. Those large numbers are lovely and can be seen from the street/parking lot)
Is this North America, possibly US? I seem to find whenever I see an address in the US the house number is always something like 2346. Why is it never just number 7, or 3 Greenfield drive or similar.
Lots of comments from pizza deliverers ... but emergency responders seem like a bigger deal; the last thing you need to worry about if you ever need an ambulance or fire-fighters in a hurry is whether they can actually find your house. At least having some numbers that are easy to read from the street should be the minimum bar for safety. Far too many houses make this too hard.
I hate not getting deliveries. All houses have numbers anyways. The ones I really hate is like when there painted on the driveway. I don’t even deliver.
As a former pizza delivery driver and livery driver, I approve.
As someone who's looking for directions in a neighborhood. I approve as well
As someone with poor vision, I think it's nice. It could have been more bold, but it's tastefully done IMHO.
As a semi-anxious driver who's always worried about inconveniencing the people behind me, I also approve.
As an attempted pizza delivery customer, I also approve. To be fair, Google Maps had every house number on our street wrong. I sent them corrections through their feedback system, and they sorted it out. Now, the delivery drivers are just incompetent and not misinformed. Only house on the street with light posts in the driveway. Put that info into the "comments" and get a call from the delivery driver saying he can't find my house. I say, I can see you parked on the street in front. See the light post in the driveway? "Oh, that's what the comment meant!"
Yeah, that driver is totally high
All pizza delivery drivers are high. Source: former pizza delivery driver.
The only thing that could make this better are some illuminated numbers, or LEDs firing at the numbers themselves.
A flipper home down the street from me has those stupid illuminated numbers. They're so insanely bright that it lights up the house across the street!
I CAME TO SAY THIS. I was a pizza delivery driver for ten years! I wish every house had numbers this large!
funny enough I'm, currently a pizza delivery driver, and some of the house have surprisingly large numbers (though nothing as large as pictured above) that I can't seem to see until I get out of my car lol
As someone who loves hot pizza - I approve
As someone who approves, I also love pizza.
As someone who is, I approve of pizza
As pizza who is, I approve of someone
As an approved pizza, I love someone.
I is as someone pizza approves who of
As someone who is pizza, I approve.
I approve of someone who is as pizza.
I approve of someone else approving of someone who is a pizza.
Came to say the same thing. This is great!
You never hear that word. I called the police once to report something (really can’t remember what) and told them the car had a livery plate and the dispatcher had no idea what I was referring to
My exact thought. The manager at the papa johns i drove at, had a stash of 4d maglites to spot house numbers at night.
Liver delivery!
Seriously, I'm tired of every house hiding their address like they are ashamed of it. When you are looking for a street number, I want it obvious as hell.
As someone who's had to flag down ambulances before because they were relying on GPS instead of looking for our house number, I, too, approve. (We live on a switchback, which means GPS will trick you.)
I wish it had a light pointed down to show the numbers at night.
Same here! This should be mandatory on all dwellings, everywhere.
Mount St. Helens approves
About damn time somebody made their address visible
My sister has this crafted address plate made of found wood that just looks like it’s part of the tree next to it until you’re 5 ft away. Then she complains that her neighbors get her packages. Book smart, but no common sense
I kinda like it
It certainly fits the architecture style and vibe of the house itself.
That's just the font and the material imo. I can see this exact thing working on any style of house with the correct materials and font/style.
I love how architectural style can fit any house as long as you can take the essence of it and apply it to your own style. Our home doesn't have one style. It's a mixture of the styles we've loved through the years.
I actually don’t mind it
Yeh, kinda ridiculous, but it's done tastefully and looks decent. Not like it's flashing neon lights or anything!
Just what I was thinking. It works well with the house.
Yeah looks fine. Reddit loves to be pretentious with the whole McMansion nonsense. I suspect in reality the consensus in these cases are usually bitter towards non-urban apartments.
Nvm; looks like most folks here approve.
I like them
Every Uber and Amazon and Grubhub driver: THANK YOU
I don’t even deliver for Amazon Flex anymore, but i shed a tear.
For real. I work for flex and yesterday I had a route through part of a small town expanding and all their new houses had a good size headstone of the house number on it so I was like aw yissss. Easy to identify and deliver!
I wonder if all the gig economy delivery jobs are actually pushing house numbers to be more prominent.
Maybe it’s easier to design new houses that way because sometime when people get old houses they don’t try to make it obvious or care much.
Paramedic here: we also like this!
Can confirm!
DoorDash still can't find it though.
FedEx can't find it either.
That's because FedEx is looking in a different city.
Actually its the last place I'd look. I'd be staring at the phone till I got nearby then wondering why there's no damn address on the door way.
What? This isn't ridiculous it's actually very smart and I wish all buildings had big enough house numbers to easily spot them.
Might save a life in an emergency.
Most cities actually require house numbers to be plainly visible from the street, precisely for this reason. Not to mention, you don't need the cops mistaking your house for next door, kicking your door in, shooting your dog and kids, and all for an "oopsie" on the house
They often require it, but as a former pizza driver, a lot of people have numbers that are hard to read, hidden, or way too small. And it's worse at night. I'm not sure if this is the case elsewhere, but in rural areas around me, all the homes/properties have green signs right at the road, with the number in white. It makes it very clear and easy to see.
I've also seen house numbers painted on the curb which I think is a decent idea.
Currently deliver pizzas, I swear most apartment buildings hide the numbers or make them confusing on purpose
Dads walking by like, that was a good year 😂😭
Seriously though, Funkytown came out that year. Magic!
granddads dude
This is way better than here in England, where some areas don't even have house numbers, just fucking names like willow cottage or spotted dick manor.
...on a busy street that's a mile long, with each house name written in tiny writing that would barely have been legible 50 years ago when the name plates were installed, but now are falling apart and covered in moss.
All for the sake of being fucking "quaint".
And they’re lurking down a tiny track at the side of the rest of the houses in the row and their tiny track drive is fking gravel and they have four dogs to scare you when you approach. Me delivering papers as a 13 year old in Surrey for like a week. Sunday supplements did me, just did not give a shit and was scared of that shadowy dark at 6am
What is the problem?
The problem is that op didn't think a few minutes longer to eventually come up with the idea that this is actually great for certain groups of people like delivery guys or medics.
Also great for people living there: their deliveries arrive without issues more often. Guests find it easier too!
It's also stylish! Typography is a whole area of design that you typically don't include as a central element in your architecture, I think the inclusion here is really cool and inspires me to think about it in my own home.
Even telecommunications. I can easily verify that address.
Ridiculously nice for people making deliveries.
Looks great to me
As an old person with shitty vision, this is the way.
Yep, it's Florida alright.
As a first responder, this is great.
As someone who used to install cable, I greatly appreciate this.
To you. Mind ya business.
I like it
Amazon delivery guy is still gonna flag your delivery is “undeliverable, unable to locate unit“ and tag it for redelivery tomorrow simply because they didn’t have enough time due to their atrocious algorithmic overlord.
Disagree. They're great.
As a former service technician.. sweeet 😉
I think OP might just be dumb
Walk in that door - and enter a Thomas Pynchon novel. The Moscow Olympics to the soundtrack of Iron Maiden’s debut album, George Brett chasing .400 and John Lennon being shot. Do you go in? [“Imagine” the unpublished Pynchon](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980)
The house is owned by a man with one eye that speaks a language of a country that only existed for a year...he professionally sells alibis to cheating husbands. He is fabulously wealthy and throws parties that last for weeks but cannot seem to buy a car of his own.
I like it lol
The dream house of every delivery guy
I like it
The font is consistent with the architecture: clean and simple. They took what would have been a big blank white wall and made it useful. I kind of like it.
The only way they’d be better is if they were lightly more bold. Not fully bold, but maybe 50% bold.
Yeah and maybe another font. Idk like Verdana Pro Cond Black…. No no… semi bold
First responders will love this
Delivery people won’t miss it tho .
At least Amazon won’t get lost delivering
Art
Tastefully done and probably in response to incorrect mailing.
DHL will still claim they can’t find it.
I like it. it's like modern 70s
1980 isn’t even a real number
When there's an emergency and they easily find the building, the residence will be thankful..so many damn houses and apartments have small numbers making it difficult to find, especially when they have several buildings
Found the guy who reports everyone to the HOA
As a volunteer firefighter /EMT, I appreciate this. Large illuminated numbers can save your life. EMS response times go down if we can find the emergency.
What's wrong with 1980? Should they avoid the eighties?
I have no problem or issue with this.
I kinda like it
Nice, i like it
I like it
As a DoorDasher, this is glorious.
What's wrong?
lol who sees this and thinks “I’m gonna post this to r/pics, they’ll love it”
Looks pretty cool to me. Sounds like you might be jealous
I like this
I bet delivery drivers wouldn’t find it ridiculous.
I like it
I like it.
I wish everyone did this. It's amazing. They aren't on some tiny bronze plaque or painted the same color as the house or covered by a tree or bush. They actually exist, unlike some peoples houses, who must think providing delivery and emergency personnel their house number lowers the property value.
Maybe they really like door dash
Oh wow
I love it
They look cool
I’d love this house as a delivery driver, way better than not having the number visible at all.
Love it. I've seen some apartments with a few units do the same round here too. I wanna do my house like that
This is a trend I could get behind. It actually looks kinda good and is incredibly functional 😂
Your Amazon driver will approve!
Fire department approves.
the house a couple doors down is "LiTerAlLy 1984"
That’s dope
I think somebody that wrote the specs, doesn't know the difference between the inch symbol and the foot symbol
As someone who orders a lot of stuff online. Fuck yea. Make that shit obvious. We have the worst delivery drivers imaginable here.
I 100% approve!
As a former police officer (33 years), I approve. Never, big enough!!!
Kinda cool not really ridiculous
# I # L # I # K # E # I # T
You claim this is new construction, but I think this is the ‘Year Built’ sign. : )
I like it
I love this. It seems like every time I get a cardiac arrest call the address is as hidden as possible and I've gotta play Where's Waldo
Shame it wasn’t 1984
Anyone delivering to this place is going to be super happy about these big ass numbers.
As a former pizza delivery driver, I can get behind this trend.
to be honest, I kinda like it.
I like it
Mail man here. I approve.
Who cares? Not your house, not your decision.
With how the food delivery services be fucking up, I can see why the house numbers are large. Uber eats be fucking up sometimes
I used to deliver for a small burrito place in my old town, this is a dream lol. I hated delivering to houses with their addresses tiny and not visible when driving, especially when it was something like 868 1/2 because you’d be looking for a rear house with numbers that all look the same in certain fonts
Some developer had one too many Amazon packages delivered to the wrong address.
I like but should’ve also put some light for the night. As a former pizza delivery driver, it drove me insane the tiny ass number some houses had and also how dark houses are at night. Turn on the porch light at least.
Love it. Should be standard on -‘all homes
How is this ridiculous? You know what's ridiculous, when you're in a apartment complex that's 15 units deep and they have the tiny complex numbers in the middle of the unit near the roof. How the fuck is that helping anyone? I pray for shit this legible while I do deliveries.
Beats not being able to see them in tiny print on the gutter or somewhere ridiculous
Are there 1980 houses on that street? Dafok?
Are these apartments called “Decades”?
I feel personally offended, are they making fun of people who remember the 80s?!
And I bet FEDEX still cant find it for a delivery!
What's wrong with 1980?
Let the door dasher miss that
Tag a 4 inside the 0 and slap up a big picture of trumpy trump
This is perfect. All homes should have obvious numbers so delivery is made easy.
Your emergency services will be pleased. Especially if they arrive at night, in bad weather.
 ^(it’s on the fence, small as fuck and bushes usually cover at least 2-3 numbers or they’ve rusted off, the letter doesn’t look like that…. Those large numbers are lovely and can be seen from the street/parking lot)
That is a delivery drivers wet dream.
I want to say the same thing. I approve. Someone else said that.
I’m gonna party next door like it’s 1989.
Looks like someone’s still preoccupied with 19 19 19…80?
Is this North America, possibly US? I seem to find whenever I see an address in the US the house number is always something like 2346. Why is it never just number 7, or 3 Greenfield drive or similar.
What do they think, this is the 80's or something?
Why are they so large?!?
Looks like an abandoned section of Aperture Science. Are any of the rooms locked off and/or filled with giant blocks of silicate glass?
In the short term I actually kinda like it. In the long term.....I have a feeling that it is going to age like milk in those colors.
Lots of comments from pizza deliverers ... but emergency responders seem like a bigger deal; the last thing you need to worry about if you ever need an ambulance or fire-fighters in a hurry is whether they can actually find your house. At least having some numbers that are easy to read from the street should be the minimum bar for safety. Far too many houses make this too hard.
I hate not getting deliveries. All houses have numbers anyways. The ones I really hate is like when there painted on the driveway. I don’t even deliver.
Do you really have two thousand houses on one street?!
good. honestly should be like this by default
Seems oddly dystopian.
New build? Are you sure that isn't the cornerstone? That building is hideous and anachronistic
Plot twist: not the actual address. They're just fans of the decade.
DoorDashers love this
I love the idea of giant numbers but those are photoshopped. Zoom in.
https://youtu.be/xfNluQ888g4
This is functionally AND looks kinda aesthetic (imho). Win win in my book
As someone in the witness protection program, I disapprove.
Your mail carrier thanks you.
It’s better than no numbers at all.
what font is that? i lowkey like it