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My house is a 4500 sq ft home with 6 bed and 6 bath. Every room has a private bathroom. It has an office, soon to be home theater, large kitchen, 2 combined living and family rooms, a breakfast room and dining room, two decks, a front porch, the cealing is 9ft tall even in the basement, pool and about 1.2 acres of land. Is this a mansion or mcmansion? Our house is surrounded with houses about the same size ranging from 3000ish to 5000ish
My house is a 4500 sq ft home with 6 bed and 6 bath. Every room has a private bathroom. It has an office, soon to be home theater, large kitchen, 2 combined living and family rooms, a breakfast room and dining room, two decks, a front porch, the cealing is 9ft tall even in the basement, pool and about 1.2 acres of land. Is this a mansion or mcmansion? Our house is surrounded with houses about the same size ranging from 3000ish to 5000ish
Classic McMansion or mini-Mansion. True mansions start at 10,000 sqft, but even those are smallish. Having appraised dozens of them, I would peg a true mansion as a home offering at least 15,000 square feet, not including basements or outbuildings. And most mansions have 3 floors of living space, although this is not a requirement.
Classic McMansion or mini-Mansion. True mansions start at 10,000 sqft, but even those are smallish. Having appraised dozens of them, I would peg a true mansion as a home offering at least 15,000 square feet, not including basements or outbuildings. And most mansions have 3 floors of living space, although this is not a requirement.
It's unlikely to be a McMansion given that description. However, I doubt it's even real. There's some obvious inconsistencies in the description.
i believe the mcmansion term is founded on jealousy. people who have smaller houses but wish to see theirs as somehow better, so they attach a negative label of "mcmansion" to feel better about themselves.
i believe the mcmansion term is founded on jealousy. people who have smaller houses but wish to see theirs as somehow better, so they attach a negative label of "mcmansion" to feel better about themselves.
McMansion is used to describe large, prefabricated and cheaply constructed homes on small pieces of land. I wouldn't say people perceive it to be better or worse. Some people want the size and are willing to forgo the style while others prefer the style and more grass.
i believe the mcmansion term is founded on jealousy. people who have smaller houses but wish to see theirs as somehow better, so they attach a negative label of "mcmansion" to feel better about themselves.
It's possible, but originally, I believe it came more from disgust of watching developers mow down every last living tree they laid eyes on in NJ to put up these ridiculously-overblown houses with pretentious architectural details back in the 80s, often set on disproportionately small pieces of property. And then to make it look even stupider, they'd plant a couple of spindly saplings after they had cut down beautiful old-growth trees that would have at least added some legitimacy to the look of the house. That's when I remember the term first appearing.
You're not old enough to really remember the 80s, but it was a time best summarized by the American Express "Acquire It!" campaign. The idea was that the greatest aspiration you could have was to be rich, and if you couldn't be rich, you had to make it look as if you were. That's the target audience to which the McMansions first appealed.
I saw homes being built that covered every foot of the lot except for maybe five feet around the border. It was a joke. A good portion of the mortgage crisis was from many taking out home equity loans in homes that were vastly over valued because of bogus estimates and create these monsters.
Then when the values came down to what should have been the true value in the first place they found themselves underwater. Laughable when they look to blame someone else for their own stupidity.
Yet it seems people haven't learned. No idea if it will get as bad as in the past.
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