Is "medium appearance residential buildings" correct? Am I not sure it's correct or not?
Is it the representative of "aged and worn out residential buildings"? How else might I express this? I want a phrase that combines semi-aged and semi-worn out in one.
I am writing a scientific paper. I categorized buildings by their qualitative state in three classes. I simply want a good name for those classes. those classes were good appearance buildings, medium appearance buildings, and decayed buildings. (In the case of repair, quality of material and how rusty they are - just physical appearance.) But I think this combination is not good for repeated usage in my text.
Answer
You want qualitative terms. I'd suggest:
Well-maintained
Needing repair
Beyond repair (in a state of ruin and should be demolished)
P.S. You might consider a fourth category to be inserted above "Beyond repair", namely "Salvageable", which means "in need of a great many repairs but not in ruin yet, and worth saving". As it stands, the middle category of the three is extremely broad.
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