What do you consider a McMansion? (Craftsman, houses, construction, price)

[Chango]

Just to clear up any confusion:

Real historic Central Europe:



Fake Historic Central Europe:



Real Pirates:



Fake Pirates:



Real Beer:



Fake Beer:




Real Mansion:



Mcmansion:



Any questions?

[stan4]

Huh. Your McMansion pic looks like an average joe schmoe house to me.

[DewDropInn]

Originally Posted by stan4

Huh. Your McMansion pic looks like an average joe schmoe house to me.

Me too.

After reading this thread I've decided much of the definition of a McMansion depends on your frame of reference. Irvine, CA was referenced on p. 1. Those, to me, aren't McMansions. Just really big houses. There are tract houses in the next town over (Newport Beach) that are larger that I would call McMansions.

[Chango]

Originally Posted by stan4

Huh. Your McMansion pic looks like an average joe schmoe house to me.

Originally Posted by DewDropInn

Me too.

After reading this thread I've decided much of the definition of a McMansion depends on your frame of reference. Irvine, CA was referenced on p. 1. Those, to me, aren't McMansions. Just really big houses. There are tract houses in the next town over (Newport Beach) that are larger that I would call McMansions.

I don't know where you two live, but in my neck of the woods the average "joe schmo" house looks more like this:



or this:



and sells around the median home price for my area (roughly around 200K)

But it helps show why mcmansions are stupid. They are built/bought/occupied by people who are doing better financially than "Joe Schmo" (but not that much better) and want to think they are more like people living in a place like this:



...which I would consider a "real" mansion, BTW, but they don't have money or the "aesthetic standards" to build something like that so they come up with a house that is a cartoon of a mansion instead, like my above example.

But if you want a more profane example, I put plenty up in "The ugly house thread".

[stan4]

Other than the 2 car garage, what is the difference?

Maybe it's just a bad picture in the other post.

[nei]

Originally Posted by stan4

Other than the 2 car garage, what is the difference?

Maybe it's just a bad picture in the other post.

It looks a bit bigger

[Annuvin]

Personally, I fell the term "mcmansion" is an overused catchall term that has been misused to much, it has lost it's meaning over time (much like "racist" and "nazi" have).

From what I understand, the term "mcmansion" came from the idea of building a "mansion" on a "McDonald's budget". Such houses would be decribed as very large sub-standard quality homes (excess of 3000 square feet) on a postage-stamp plot of land, and much less to do with personal taste, "urban sustainability", "pollution" and the "debt-ridden middle class".

The term has since been hijacked by the shoebox-sized condo dwelling, anti-suburbanite hippie crowd to describe any kind of home outside the city core that doesn't conform to their whacked-out concepts of ideal housing.

[LIGuy1202]

Only goes to show, those who have or aspire to have a McMansion don't see the obvious nature of them.

[TheOverdog]

I'd rather live in the mcmansion example than either of those garages with sheds attached non-mcmansion examples. Look at the 2nd one. Why does a normal house's garage need what looks to be 12ft plus vaulted ceilings? Are those vents at the top or tiny doors for leprachauns to toss hay out of a barn? The mcmansion example isn't much better, but at least you can see where the people live. And the mcmansion had a lawn guy throw some sod rather than just a concrete guy spewing mix everywhere.

[dreamofmonterey]

895k
In east Tenn.
Vacant over a year.



This is a subdivision called "Persian Palaces' lol...hideous.




On this site it says cheap vinyl windows made the Mcmansion even cheaper to build.



suburban sprawl really destroyed many parts of the country. If you drive outside Lexington Kentucky, the further out you get, the more you get ugly new developments with Mcmansions dominating the country.

Ridiculously over-sized.