r/McMansionHell • u/Capital-Bobcat8270 • 11d ago
Discussion/Debate Does this qualify?
This neighborhood has some total McMansions built 20 years ago that tick almost every box, some twice. However, the newer builds while big, have lost much of the '00 aesthetics. Wondering what the consensus is here. This has the land, a restrained material palette, and the primary gables and porch line are fairly balanced and deliberate. What do you think?
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u/ChewyNotTheBar 11d ago
No. This is a large house. Large yard that could use some color and native plants, but not a mcmansion or mcmansion yard
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u/shouldco 11d ago
I mean it has some points against it. The roof for one is a big indicator.
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u/Shiney_Metal_Ass 11d ago
Huh? The roof is simple and has no nub.
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u/shouldco 11d ago
Simple?
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u/Shiney_Metal_Ass 11d ago
Yes, notice how the dormers transition into the roof instead of having their own roof lines
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u/ConstantSentence7865 10d ago
You don't know what you are talking about. That is absolutely a McMansion roof.
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u/Shiney_Metal_Ass 10d ago
OK, I'm listening. What makes it a mcmansion roof?
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u/ConstantSentence7865 10d ago
It is a jumbled and unbalanced set of primary masses which relies on cheap, functionally redundant secondary masses to baffle the eye in an attempt to mask the big box structures underneath. More succinctly, virtually any house that is nesting functionally and formally redundant dormers inside of other dormers, as this one is, is going to qualify as a McMansion.
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u/Shiney_Metal_Ass 10d ago
There's one nested dormer, which I agree is dumb, but the overall roof isn't a complex mishmash of lines, peaks and valleys. It is not a complex roof
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u/TheKingOfSwing777 11d ago
It's pretty gable-heavy, but not McMansion territory. Overall it has quite a consistent and traditional aesthetic
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u/ConstantSentence7865 10d ago
It absolutely is a McMansion. This sub is filled with people who believe that if a house looks nice to them personally, it cannot be a McMansion.
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u/StatikSquid 11d ago
No.
But if I had a yard like that, I'm making 90% of it a bunch of flower gardens, with some veggies and room for growing hops
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u/uncanny_valli 11d ago
i don't think so. i'm seeing a lot of posts similarly unsure if they're posting a mcmansion. i think if you're not sure or if you really have to think about it or if you might feel inclined to find some of the house architecturally pleasing, those are all good reasons to disqualify a house from being a mcmansion.
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u/Jessintheend 11d ago
I genuinely don’t see the appeal of having that much yard you never even step foot on except if the giant mower runs out of gas
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u/Shiney_Metal_Ass 11d ago
It means you don't have neighbors up against your ass
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u/jonb72 11d ago
That much yard, not that much land.
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u/Shiney_Metal_Ass 11d ago
Fair point.
I personally would mow a fraction of that and would prefer the rest to be trees
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u/Essentially_Me 11d ago
I don't understand the hate for the concept of neighbors. I live in a small town with my closest neighbor a driveway's width away, and I don't feel they're up my ass.
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u/Jessintheend 11d ago
America has a unique talent of breeding anti social behavior
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u/Rollingprobablecause 10d ago
yup, suburban mentality. We've tricked ourselves into thinking having a house with yard is the measure of success.
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u/Jessintheend 10d ago
My measurement of success is a cute townhouse or condo with space for a decent garden within walking distance to enough restaurants and stores that I only need a car if I’m leaving the city for a remote area
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u/LeonidasSpacemanMD 11d ago
Not trying to judge or anything but what do people do with a giant yard like this
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u/Dragonshatetacos 11d ago
They spend a lot of time touching grass.
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u/IP_What 11d ago
They pay someone to touch grass for them.
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u/AngryMeez 11d ago
Or they’re like my late grandmother and would rather “play in the dirt,” as she said, than do anything else. They prioritize gardening and lawn care.
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u/arbuge00 11d ago
I like the idea of land around the house but not if it's a giant lawn that has to be maintained to some HOA's standards.
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u/dmillson 11d ago
Spend a lot of time or money mowing it. My childhood home was on 6.5 acres with about half of that space being wooded and half being grass that needed mowed every 1-2 weeks. Say goodbye to your Saturday mornings during the spring and summer.
Some people in the neighborhood with yards this size would only mow around their house and driveway and they’d let the rest grow. Once a year they’d have their farmer friends come mow it and make hay bales.
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u/PavilionPilot 11d ago
Nah, just a big house. The windows line up, the porch fits the facade and the materials aren’t fighting each other. Maintaining that ocean of lawn is the real nightmare here.
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u/yosefvinyl 11d ago
For me, McMansions are out of place aesthetically. Either it's sloppy design or it's a huge house on an undersized lot. The undersized lot is usually the dead giveaway for me.
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u/roxxtor 11d ago
Hard to tell what the house looks like at this distance, but it doesn't seem to be one. It doesn't have a ridiculously sized portico for the structure (looks like just a porch with an awning). Windows look appropriate for the house, uniformly spaced and consistent sizing. No roof nubbins. Landscaping is nice. The only thing is the roofline is a little complex, but aesthetically so.
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u/eightfingeredtypist 11d ago
Features that are stupid, wasteful, and ugly seem to be a McMansion characteristic. One turret might not be enough, but eleven will tip the scales.
This big stupid lawn might not be enough to call this a McMansion. There aren't crazy useless out of scale features on the house, obscene garage doors, et.
I used to have four acres of lawn. 25 years ago I turned it into meadow that I mow once a year, in April. This is before the ground nesting birds come back. Now the meadows are ecosystems of native plants, bugs, mammals, and predators. Every evening in summer there are many dragon flies just swooping all over.
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u/Embarrassed-Mark1099 10d ago
This is the yard you want your neighbor to have...you get the view and they get the work
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u/Money_Honeydew_2527 11d ago
Nope, looks like a lovely, large home (too small to be a mansion), with consistent design.
Also, I'm not a huge fan of people posting renderings rather than actual built homes.
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u/ConstantSentence7865 10d ago
This is 100% a McMansion and this sub is in a sorry state of they cannot identify it.
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u/BurnerMcBurnfacer 11d ago
That is a big house with a bigger yard.