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MCMANSIONS 101
McMansions 101. THE 10 CIRCLES OF MCMANSION HELL (THE MCMANSION SCALE) McMansions 101 #1: What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture? McMansions 101 #2: McMansion Front Entries. McMansions 101 #3: Columns. MCMANSIONS 101 SPECIAL EDITION: MANSION VS... Part One: Age. Most “true” mansions are generally old, as the McMansion did become a phenomenon until the 1980s. Few large houses were built in the 1970s because of the energy crisis, and large houses above 3000 square feet built before 1980 and especially before 1960 were usually designed by architects. However, there are many, manyhomes
MCMANSION HELL: GREAT BRITAIN EDITION (PART 1 OFSEE MORE ONMCMANSIONHELL.COM
MCMANSIONS 101: ROOFS Roof Rule No 1: 2 shapes, and 2 shapes only (on the front elevation) Literally 90% of house roofs are either gabled or hipped. Like seriously, go out for a walk and look at the roofs. Gables and hips, y’all, gables and hips. Before we bring in the offenders, let’s look at some happy houses: Here is a happy house with one roof shape:cross
THE MAIL ORDER AMERICAN DREAM: AN Identifying Kit Houses Step 1: The Three Common Site Locations. One of the easiest ways to begin one’s search for mail order houses is knowing where to look in the first place. Kit Houses are most commonly found in these areas: 1.) First Generation Suburbs (Streetcar and Railroad Suburbs) (1906-1930) 50 STATES OF MCMANSION HELL: OAKLAND COUNTY Greetings friends! Believe me - believe me - this house is going to make up for Monday’s missed post (I’m going to move away from theory next week but more about that later).This may be one of the tackiest McMansions in McMansion Hell history.Behold, my friends, behold! This incredible chateau, built in 1994, boasts 5 bedrooms and 5.5 baths, totaling around 5,300 square feet. WORST OF MCMANSIONS: CANADA EDITION Worst of McMansions: Canada Edition. Jan 29, 2017. 1,943 notes. Hello Friends! Today I’m going to do something different. As you all know, this past week has been very stressful for those of us living in the USA. Rather than write a document about mortgages and bonds, I’ve decided to do something a lot more light-hearted: ugly house BETSY DEVOS’S SUMMER HOME DESERVES A SPECIAL PLACE Betsy DeVos’s summer home deserves a special place in McMansion Hell. Kate Wagner dissects the shingle-style Michigan summer home of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. In order to earn money to pay off my $42,000 student loan debt, I tore into Betsy DeVos’ ridiculously badhouse for Vox.
FLOWER MOUND, TX
This lovely 6,390 sqft 4bd, 4.5ba estate (realtors love that word) built in 1994 is currently selling for $829,900. All of those fun exterior details are actually made in a factory from injected foam, painted, and then glued onto houses like this one. They don’t even attempt looking like real stone, preferring to go with a smooth,blinding white.
MCMANSION HELLCERTIFIED DANKABOUTMCMANSIONS 101ARCHITECTURECONTACTARCHIVE Located just outside of Detroit, this 5 bed, 4.5 bath house tops out at over 10,000 square feet. Yes, you read that right. 10,000. You’ll see why later. Anyways, if you want to purchase said house, it can be all yours for just under $1,000,000. A steal!MCMANSIONS 101
McMansions 101. THE 10 CIRCLES OF MCMANSION HELL (THE MCMANSION SCALE) McMansions 101 #1: What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture? McMansions 101 #2: McMansion Front Entries. McMansions 101 #3: Columns. MCMANSIONS 101 SPECIAL EDITION: MANSION VS... Part One: Age. Most “true” mansions are generally old, as the McMansion did become a phenomenon until the 1980s. Few large houses were built in the 1970s because of the energy crisis, and large houses above 3000 square feet built before 1980 and especially before 1960 were usually designed by architects. However, there are many, manyhomes
MCMANSION HELL: GREAT BRITAIN EDITION (PART 1 OFSEE MORE ONMCMANSIONHELL.COM
MCMANSIONS 101: ROOFS Roof Rule No 1: 2 shapes, and 2 shapes only (on the front elevation) Literally 90% of house roofs are either gabled or hipped. Like seriously, go out for a walk and look at the roofs. Gables and hips, y’all, gables and hips. Before we bring in the offenders, let’s look at some happy houses: Here is a happy house with one roof shape:cross
THE MAIL ORDER AMERICAN DREAM: AN Identifying Kit Houses Step 1: The Three Common Site Locations. One of the easiest ways to begin one’s search for mail order houses is knowing where to look in the first place. Kit Houses are most commonly found in these areas: 1.) First Generation Suburbs (Streetcar and Railroad Suburbs) (1906-1930) 50 STATES OF MCMANSION HELL: OAKLAND COUNTY Greetings friends! Believe me - believe me - this house is going to make up for Monday’s missed post (I’m going to move away from theory next week but more about that later).This may be one of the tackiest McMansions in McMansion Hell history.Behold, my friends, behold! This incredible chateau, built in 1994, boasts 5 bedrooms and 5.5 baths, totaling around 5,300 square feet. WORST OF MCMANSIONS: CANADA EDITION Worst of McMansions: Canada Edition. Jan 29, 2017. 1,943 notes. Hello Friends! Today I’m going to do something different. As you all know, this past week has been very stressful for those of us living in the USA. Rather than write a document about mortgages and bonds, I’ve decided to do something a lot more light-hearted: ugly house BETSY DEVOS’S SUMMER HOME DESERVES A SPECIAL PLACE Betsy DeVos’s summer home deserves a special place in McMansion Hell. Kate Wagner dissects the shingle-style Michigan summer home of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. In order to earn money to pay off my $42,000 student loan debt, I tore into Betsy DeVos’ ridiculously badhouse for Vox.
FLOWER MOUND, TX
This lovely 6,390 sqft 4bd, 4.5ba estate (realtors love that word) built in 1994 is currently selling for $829,900. All of those fun exterior details are actually made in a factory from injected foam, painted, and then glued onto houses like this one. They don’t even attempt looking like real stone, preferring to go with a smooth,blinding white.
MCMANSION HELL AROUND THE WORLD: WHERE AND WHY DO I receive emails all the time about McMansions built in countries outside the USA. I’m here this week to briefly examine where and why McMansions are commonly constructed (and why the US has the vast majority of the world’s gross houses.) For the next five Sunday posts, I will be doing a special on the houses of each of thesecountries: Canada.
THE MAIL ORDER AMERICAN DREAM: AN Identifying Kit Houses Step 1: The Three Common Site Locations. One of the easiest ways to begin one’s search for mail order houses is knowing where to look in the first place. Kit Houses are most commonly found in these areas: 1.) First Generation Suburbs (Streetcar and Railroad Suburbs) (1906-1930) MCMANSIONS 101: WHAT MAKES A MCMANSION BAD... The McMansion has no concept of mass. McMansions often have so many secondary masses that the primary mass is reduced to a role of filling in gaps between the secondary masses. An example: Another issue with McMansions and mass is the use of too many voids. Some McMansions are so guilty of this they resemble swiss cheese in appearance. 50 STATES OF MCMANSION HELL: TOP 10 WAUKESHA Jun 13, 2019. 3,231 notes. Howdy Folks! We’re continuing our out-of-order-for-dramatic-effect tour of the 50 States of McMansion Hell today with perhaps one of the most underrated McMansion counties in the country: Waukesha County, Wisconsin. These houses were so bizarre it was hard to choose just one to do a takedown of. CORONAGRIFTING: A DESIGN PHENOMENON While the mask Coronagrift continues to this day, the Coronagrifting phenomenon had, by early March, moved to other domains of design. Consider the barrage of asinine PR fluff that is the “Public Service Announcement” and by Public Service Announcement, I mean “A Designer Has Done Something Cute to Capitalize on Information Meant toSave
WORST OF MCMANSIONS: CANADA EDITION Worst of McMansions: Canada Edition. Jan 29, 2017. 1,943 notes. Hello Friends! Today I’m going to do something different. As you all know, this past week has been very stressful for those of us living in the USA. Rather than write a document about mortgages and bonds, I’ve decided to do something a lot more light-hearted: ugly house MCMANSION HELL FROM A TO Z (PART TWO: I-P) McMansion Hell from A to Z (Part Two: I-P) Oct 2, 2016. 863 notes. Greetings! Even though I’m currently suffering from a nasty cold, I have yet to miss a Sunday post, and this week is no exception. Last week, we covered McMansion Hell from letters A-H , and this week furthers our journey through letters I through P in the alphabet ofugly.
WHAT THE HELL IS POSTMODERNISM? This is the crux of the failure of PoMo: Postmodernism was about using architectural ornament within a modern context because we have emotional connections and connotations to architectural ornament. These buildings were about saying through ornament “I AM A HOUSE” or “I AM A BANK” mixed, of course, with a bit of clever architectural humor. MCMANSIONS 101: DORMERS McMansions 101: Dormers No, a dormer is not someone who lives in a dorm. Basically, a dormer is a structure that projects from the roof mass and has its own roof, windows, and sometimes walls. Dormers LOOKING AROUND: THE CURIOUS CASE OF MINIMAL... This term was originally devised to describe the small, sparse houses built from around the end of the Great Depression to after WWII (roughly between 1935 and 1950.) (the houses in color and the one in the bottom left all borrow from the Tudor Revival style that was popular with the elites from the 1890s-1940s) The original MinimalTraditional
MCMANSION HELLCERTIFIED DANKABOUTMCMANSIONS 101ARCHITECTURECONTACTARCHIVE Howdy, folks! I hope all of my fellow Midwesterners are enjoying this year’s false spring. Seventy-degree days notwithstanding, the snow will indeed be back, and, as such, I have prepared for you a house to enjoy (?) alongside a miserably late-in-the-year hot cocoa.MCMANSIONS 101
McMansions 101 THE 10 CIRCLES OF MCMANSION HELL (THE MCMANSION SCALE) McMansions 101 #1: What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture? McMansions 101 #2: McMansion Front Entries McMansions 101 #3: MCMANSION HELL AROUND THE WORLD: WHERE AND WHY DOSEE MORE ONMCMANSIONHELL.COM
MCMANSIONS 101: ROOFS McMansions 101: Roofs Most people think of roofs as simply being expensive hats for houses. Not so! The aesthetic purpose of a roof isto tie together all
MCMANSION HELL: GREAT BRITAIN EDITION (PART 1 OFSEE MORE ONMCMANSIONHELL.COM
MCMANSION HELL FROM A TO Z (PART TWO: I-P) Greetings! Even though I’m currently suffering from a nasty cold, I have yet to miss a Sunday post, and this week is no exception. Last week, we covered McMansion Hell from letters A-H , and this week furthers our journey through letters I through P in the alphabet of ugly.Picking up where we left off MCMANSIONS 101 SPECIAL EDITION: MANSION VS... McMansions 101 Special Edition: Mansion vs McMansion (Part 1) I get a lot of emails these days, (a good thing!) and a lot of them involvepeople sending me
WHAT THE HELL IS POSTMODERNISM? Oh boy are y’all in for a treat this week. I hope y’all like words because there are quite a few in this post. You’ve probably seen me refer to Postmodernism at least once, and if you follow me on Twitter, you know that I pretty frequently garbage post about it.. Of all the styles in architectural history, none has become as ubiquitous in our suburban landscape as Postmodernism, later THE MAIL ORDER AMERICAN DREAM: AN The Mail Order American Dream: An Introductory Guide to Identifying Kit Houses Hello Friends! Today I will take a break from typical McMansion fare to talk about one of my most requested topics: BETSY DEVOS’S SUMMER HOME DESERVES A SPECIAL PLACE In order to earn money to pay off my $42,000 student loan debt, I tore into Betsy DeVos’ ridiculously bad house for Vox. Update: I’ve gotten a lot of nasty emails about how I’m lazy and entitled for(looks at smudged ink on hand)working hard at my job to pay off mydebts.
MCMANSION HELLCERTIFIED DANKABOUTMCMANSIONS 101ARCHITECTURECONTACTARCHIVE Howdy, folks! I hope all of my fellow Midwesterners are enjoying this year’s false spring. Seventy-degree days notwithstanding, the snow will indeed be back, and, as such, I have prepared for you a house to enjoy (?) alongside a miserably late-in-the-year hot cocoa.MCMANSIONS 101
McMansions 101 THE 10 CIRCLES OF MCMANSION HELL (THE MCMANSION SCALE) McMansions 101 #1: What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture? McMansions 101 #2: McMansion Front Entries McMansions 101 #3: MCMANSION HELL AROUND THE WORLD: WHERE AND WHY DOSEE MORE ONMCMANSIONHELL.COM
MCMANSIONS 101: ROOFS McMansions 101: Roofs Most people think of roofs as simply being expensive hats for houses. Not so! The aesthetic purpose of a roof isto tie together all
MCMANSION HELL: GREAT BRITAIN EDITION (PART 1 OFSEE MORE ONMCMANSIONHELL.COM
MCMANSION HELL FROM A TO Z (PART TWO: I-P) Greetings! Even though I’m currently suffering from a nasty cold, I have yet to miss a Sunday post, and this week is no exception. Last week, we covered McMansion Hell from letters A-H , and this week furthers our journey through letters I through P in the alphabet of ugly.Picking up where we left off MCMANSIONS 101 SPECIAL EDITION: MANSION VS... McMansions 101 Special Edition: Mansion vs McMansion (Part 1) I get a lot of emails these days, (a good thing!) and a lot of them involvepeople sending me
WHAT THE HELL IS POSTMODERNISM? Oh boy are y’all in for a treat this week. I hope y’all like words because there are quite a few in this post. You’ve probably seen me refer to Postmodernism at least once, and if you follow me on Twitter, you know that I pretty frequently garbage post about it.. Of all the styles in architectural history, none has become as ubiquitous in our suburban landscape as Postmodernism, later THE MAIL ORDER AMERICAN DREAM: AN The Mail Order American Dream: An Introductory Guide to Identifying Kit Houses Hello Friends! Today I will take a break from typical McMansion fare to talk about one of my most requested topics: BETSY DEVOS’S SUMMER HOME DESERVES A SPECIAL PLACE In order to earn money to pay off my $42,000 student loan debt, I tore into Betsy DeVos’ ridiculously bad house for Vox. Update: I’ve gotten a lot of nasty emails about how I’m lazy and entitled for(looks at smudged ink on hand)working hard at my job to pay off mydebts.
MCMANSIONS 101
McMansions 101 THE 10 CIRCLES OF MCMANSION HELL (THE MCMANSION SCALE) McMansions 101 #1: What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture? McMansions 101 #2: McMansion Front Entries McMansions 101 #3: MCMANSIONS 101: WHAT MAKES A MCMANSION BAD... McMansions 101: What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture? Sometimes people ask, why is xyz house bad? Asking this question does not imply that the asker has bad taste or no taste whatsoever - it means MCMANSIONS 101: WINDOWS McMansions 101: Windows Howdy, folks! Today’s McMansions 101 is allll about windows, and not the kind owned by a huge multi-national corporation based in 50 STATES OF MCMANSION HELL: OAKLAND COUNTY Greetings friends! Believe me - believe me - this house is going to make up for Monday’s missed post (I’m going to move away from theory next week but more about that later).This may be one of the tackiest McMansions in McMansion Hell history.Behold, my friends, behold! This incredible chateau, built in 1994, boasts 5 bedrooms and 5.5 baths, totaling around 5,300 square feet. 50 STATES OF MCMANSION HELL: SALT LAKE COUNTY 50 States of McMansion Hell: Salt Lake County, Utah Howdy, folks! My poor teeth are finally all healed up, so in celebration, I have decided to sink them Sunny Baudelaire-style into this ridiculous WORST OF MCMANSIONS: CANADA EDITION Worst of McMansions: Canada Edition Hello Friends! Today I’m going to do something different. As you all know, this past week has beenvery stressful for
50 STATES OF MCMANSION HELL: TEXAS PART 1 50 States of McMansion Hell: Texas Part 1 Howdy y’all! I’ve been poisoning my brain the last couple of weeks narrowing down 2000 prospective McMansions to 16. Please give me 50 STATES OF MCMANSION HELL: 10 WORST PENNSYLVANIA 50 States of McMansion Hell: 10 Worst Pennsylvania McMansions Howdy, folks! After surfing around Pennsylvania for a house to chew on, itbecame clear
LOOKING AROUND: AMERICAN FOURSQUARES Looking Around: American Foursquares No single-family home (besides, perhaps, the ranch or the McMansion) is as instantly recognizable as the American Foursquare. Named both for its WHO THE HELL WERE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT AND LE CORBUSIER? Howdy, howdy friends. For this installment of What the Hell Is..?we ask, instead, Who the Hell Was?for two of the most influential architects of the 20th Century: Frank Lloyd Wright and Le MCMANSION HELLCERTIFIED DANKABOUTMCMANSIONS 101ARCHITECTURECONTACTARCHIVE Located just outside of Detroit, this 5 bed, 4.5 bath house tops out at over 10,000 square feet. Yes, you read that right. 10,000. You’ll see why later. Anyways, if you want to purchase said house, it can be all yours for just under $1,000,000. A steal!MCMANSIONS 101
McMansions 101. THE 10 CIRCLES OF MCMANSION HELL (THE MCMANSION SCALE) McMansions 101 #1: What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture? McMansions 101 #2: McMansion Front Entries. McMansions 101 #3: Columns. MCMANSIONS 101: ROOFS Roof Rule No 1: 2 shapes, and 2 shapes only (on the front elevation) Literally 90% of house roofs are either gabled or hipped. Like seriously, go out for a walk and look at the roofs. Gables and hips, y’all, gables and hips. Before we bring in the offenders, let’s look at some happy houses: Here is a happy house with one roof shape:cross
CERTIFIED DANK™
Certified Dank™ Want to binge on fugly houses? You’ve come to the right place. Here is the archive of Certified Dank™ McMansions of the Week: Howard County, MD #1 Cook County, IL Oakland County, MCMANSION HELL: GREAT BRITAIN EDITION (PART 1 OFSEE MORE ONMCMANSIONHELL.COM
CORONAGRIFTING: A DESIGN PHENOMENON MCMANSIONS 101: WHAT MAKES A MCMANSION BAD... The McMansion has no concept of mass. McMansions often have so many secondary masses that the primary mass is reduced to a role of filling in gaps between the secondary masses. An example: Another issue with McMansions and mass is the use of too many voids. Some McMansions are so guilty of this they resemble swiss cheese in appearance. THE MAIL ORDER AMERICAN DREAM: AN Identifying Kit Houses Step 1: The Three Common Site Locations. One of the easiest ways to begin one’s search for mail order houses is knowing where to look in the first place. Kit Houses are most commonly found in these areas: 1.) First Generation Suburbs (Streetcar and Railroad Suburbs) (1906-1930) WORST OF MCMANSIONS: CANADA EDITION Worst of McMansions: Canada Edition. Jan 29, 2017. 1,943 notes. Hello Friends! Today I’m going to do something different. As you all know, this past week has been very stressful for those of us living in the USA. Rather than write a document about mortgages and bonds, I’ve decided to do something a lot more light-hearted: ugly house BETSY DEVOS’S SUMMER HOME DESERVES A SPECIAL PLACE Betsy DeVos’s summer home deserves a special place in McMansion Hell. Kate Wagner dissects the shingle-style Michigan summer home of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. In order to earn money to pay off my $42,000 student loan debt, I tore into Betsy DeVos’ ridiculously badhouse for Vox.
MCMANSION HELLCERTIFIED DANKABOUTMCMANSIONS 101ARCHITECTURECONTACTARCHIVE Located just outside of Detroit, this 5 bed, 4.5 bath house tops out at over 10,000 square feet. Yes, you read that right. 10,000. You’ll see why later. Anyways, if you want to purchase said house, it can be all yours for just under $1,000,000. A steal!MCMANSIONS 101
McMansions 101. THE 10 CIRCLES OF MCMANSION HELL (THE MCMANSION SCALE) McMansions 101 #1: What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture? McMansions 101 #2: McMansion Front Entries. McMansions 101 #3: Columns. MCMANSIONS 101: ROOFS Roof Rule No 1: 2 shapes, and 2 shapes only (on the front elevation) Literally 90% of house roofs are either gabled or hipped. Like seriously, go out for a walk and look at the roofs. Gables and hips, y’all, gables and hips. Before we bring in the offenders, let’s look at some happy houses: Here is a happy house with one roof shape:cross
CERTIFIED DANK™
Certified Dank™ Want to binge on fugly houses? You’ve come to the right place. Here is the archive of Certified Dank™ McMansions of the Week: Howard County, MD #1 Cook County, IL Oakland County, MCMANSION HELL: GREAT BRITAIN EDITION (PART 1 OFSEE MORE ONMCMANSIONHELL.COM
CORONAGRIFTING: A DESIGN PHENOMENON MCMANSIONS 101: WHAT MAKES A MCMANSION BAD... The McMansion has no concept of mass. McMansions often have so many secondary masses that the primary mass is reduced to a role of filling in gaps between the secondary masses. An example: Another issue with McMansions and mass is the use of too many voids. Some McMansions are so guilty of this they resemble swiss cheese in appearance. THE MAIL ORDER AMERICAN DREAM: AN Identifying Kit Houses Step 1: The Three Common Site Locations. One of the easiest ways to begin one’s search for mail order houses is knowing where to look in the first place. Kit Houses are most commonly found in these areas: 1.) First Generation Suburbs (Streetcar and Railroad Suburbs) (1906-1930) WORST OF MCMANSIONS: CANADA EDITION Worst of McMansions: Canada Edition. Jan 29, 2017. 1,943 notes. Hello Friends! Today I’m going to do something different. As you all know, this past week has been very stressful for those of us living in the USA. Rather than write a document about mortgages and bonds, I’ve decided to do something a lot more light-hearted: ugly house BETSY DEVOS’S SUMMER HOME DESERVES A SPECIAL PLACE Betsy DeVos’s summer home deserves a special place in McMansion Hell. Kate Wagner dissects the shingle-style Michigan summer home of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. In order to earn money to pay off my $42,000 student loan debt, I tore into Betsy DeVos’ ridiculously badhouse for Vox.
MCMANSION HELL AROUND THE WORLD: WHERE AND WHY DO I receive emails all the time about McMansions built in countries outside the USA. I’m here this week to briefly examine where and why McMansions are commonly constructed (and why the US has the vast majority of the world’s gross houses.) For the next five Sunday posts, I will be doing a special on the houses of each of thesecountries: Canada.
CERTIFIED DANK™
Certified Dank™ Want to binge on fugly houses? You’ve come to the right place. Here is the archive of Certified Dank™ McMansions of the Week: Howard County, MD #1 Cook County, IL Oakland County, WORST OF MCMANSIONS: CANADA EDITION Worst of McMansions: Canada Edition. Jan 29, 2017. 1,943 notes. Hello Friends! Today I’m going to do something different. As you all know, this past week has been very stressful for those of us living in the USA. Rather than write a document about mortgages and bonds, I’ve decided to do something a lot more light-hearted: ugly house 50 STATES OF MCMANSION HELL: OAKLAND COUNTY Greetings friends! Believe me - believe me - this house is going to make up for Monday’s missed post (I’m going to move away from theory next week but more about that later).This may be one of the tackiest McMansions in McMansion Hell history.Behold, my friends, behold! This incredible chateau, built in 1994, boasts 5 bedrooms and 5.5 baths, totaling around 5,300 square feet. MCMANSION HELL FROM A TO Z (PART TWO: I-P) McMansion Hell from A to Z (Part Two: I-P) Oct 2, 2016. 863 notes. Greetings! Even though I’m currently suffering from a nasty cold, I have yet to miss a Sunday post, and this week is no exception. Last week, we covered McMansion Hell from letters A-H , and this week furthers our journey through letters I through P in the alphabet ofugly.
MCMANSIONS 101: WINDOWS Window Win #1: Use the same window and trim styles across the entire elevation. Ok, this is SUCH an easy rule to follow, but still every friggin time, McMansions foul this up in the worst way. Like, following this rule can make a generally ugly house look pretty ok: In the case of this house, the muntin spacing is the same for all windows THE MCMANSION HELL YEARBOOK: 1970 The McMansion Hell Yearbook: 1970 (FYI - this is going to be a longer post than usual, so you might want to open it in a new tab if you’rereading it
WHAT THE HELL IS POSTMODERNISM? This is the crux of the failure of PoMo: Postmodernism was about using architectural ornament within a modern context because we have emotional connections and connotations to architectural ornament. These buildings were about saying through ornament “I AM A HOUSE” or “I AM A BANK” mixed, of course, with a bit of clever architectural humor. LOOKING AROUND: AMERICAN FOURSQUARES Looking Around: American Foursquares No single-family home (besides, perhaps, the ranch or the McMansion) is as instantly recognizable as the American Foursquare. Named both for its MCMANSIONS 101: DORMERS McMansions 101: Dormers No, a dormer is not someone who lives in a dorm. Basically, a dormer is a structure that projects from the roof mass and has its own roof, windows, and sometimes walls. Dormers MCMANSION HELLCERTIFIED DANKABOUTMCMANSIONS 101ARCHITECTURECONTACTARCHIVE Located just outside of Detroit, this 5 bed, 4.5 bath house tops out at over 10,000 square feet. Yes, you read that right. 10,000. You’ll see why later. Anyways, if you want to purchase said house, it can be all yours for just under $1,000,000. A steal!MCMANSIONS 101
McMansions 101. THE 10 CIRCLES OF MCMANSION HELL (THE MCMANSION SCALE) McMansions 101 #1: What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture? McMansions 101 #2: McMansion Front Entries. McMansions 101 #3: Columns. MCMANSIONS 101: ROOFS Roof Rule No 1: 2 shapes, and 2 shapes only (on the front elevation) Literally 90% of house roofs are either gabled or hipped. Like seriously, go out for a walk and look at the roofs. Gables and hips, y’all, gables and hips. Before we bring in the offenders, let’s look at some happy houses: Here is a happy house with one roof shape:cross
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Certified Dank™ Want to binge on fugly houses? You’ve come to the right place. Here is the archive of Certified Dank™ McMansions of the Week: Howard County, MD #1 Cook County, IL Oakland County, MCMANSION HELL: GREAT BRITAIN EDITION (PART 1 OFSEE MORE ONMCMANSIONHELL.COM
CORONAGRIFTING: A DESIGN PHENOMENON MCMANSIONS 101: WHAT MAKES A MCMANSION BAD... The McMansion has no concept of mass. McMansions often have so many secondary masses that the primary mass is reduced to a role of filling in gaps between the secondary masses. An example: Another issue with McMansions and mass is the use of too many voids. Some McMansions are so guilty of this they resemble swiss cheese in appearance. THE MAIL ORDER AMERICAN DREAM: AN Identifying Kit Houses Step 1: The Three Common Site Locations. One of the easiest ways to begin one’s search for mail order houses is knowing where to look in the first place. Kit Houses are most commonly found in these areas: 1.) First Generation Suburbs (Streetcar and Railroad Suburbs) (1906-1930) WORST OF MCMANSIONS: CANADA EDITION Worst of McMansions: Canada Edition. Jan 29, 2017. 1,943 notes. Hello Friends! Today I’m going to do something different. As you all know, this past week has been very stressful for those of us living in the USA. Rather than write a document about mortgages and bonds, I’ve decided to do something a lot more light-hearted: ugly house BETSY DEVOS’S SUMMER HOME DESERVES A SPECIAL PLACE Betsy DeVos’s summer home deserves a special place in McMansion Hell. Kate Wagner dissects the shingle-style Michigan summer home of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. In order to earn money to pay off my $42,000 student loan debt, I tore into Betsy DeVos’ ridiculously badhouse for Vox.
MCMANSION HELLCERTIFIED DANKABOUTMCMANSIONS 101ARCHITECTURECONTACTARCHIVE Located just outside of Detroit, this 5 bed, 4.5 bath house tops out at over 10,000 square feet. Yes, you read that right. 10,000. You’ll see why later. Anyways, if you want to purchase said house, it can be all yours for just under $1,000,000. A steal!MCMANSIONS 101
McMansions 101. THE 10 CIRCLES OF MCMANSION HELL (THE MCMANSION SCALE) McMansions 101 #1: What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture? McMansions 101 #2: McMansion Front Entries. McMansions 101 #3: Columns. MCMANSIONS 101: ROOFS Roof Rule No 1: 2 shapes, and 2 shapes only (on the front elevation) Literally 90% of house roofs are either gabled or hipped. Like seriously, go out for a walk and look at the roofs. Gables and hips, y’all, gables and hips. Before we bring in the offenders, let’s look at some happy houses: Here is a happy house with one roof shape:cross
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Certified Dank™ Want to binge on fugly houses? You’ve come to the right place. Here is the archive of Certified Dank™ McMansions of the Week: Howard County, MD #1 Cook County, IL Oakland County, MCMANSION HELL: GREAT BRITAIN EDITION (PART 1 OFSEE MORE ONMCMANSIONHELL.COM
CORONAGRIFTING: A DESIGN PHENOMENON MCMANSIONS 101: WHAT MAKES A MCMANSION BAD... The McMansion has no concept of mass. McMansions often have so many secondary masses that the primary mass is reduced to a role of filling in gaps between the secondary masses. An example: Another issue with McMansions and mass is the use of too many voids. Some McMansions are so guilty of this they resemble swiss cheese in appearance. THE MAIL ORDER AMERICAN DREAM: AN Identifying Kit Houses Step 1: The Three Common Site Locations. One of the easiest ways to begin one’s search for mail order houses is knowing where to look in the first place. Kit Houses are most commonly found in these areas: 1.) First Generation Suburbs (Streetcar and Railroad Suburbs) (1906-1930) WORST OF MCMANSIONS: CANADA EDITION Worst of McMansions: Canada Edition. Jan 29, 2017. 1,943 notes. Hello Friends! Today I’m going to do something different. As you all know, this past week has been very stressful for those of us living in the USA. Rather than write a document about mortgages and bonds, I’ve decided to do something a lot more light-hearted: ugly house BETSY DEVOS’S SUMMER HOME DESERVES A SPECIAL PLACE Betsy DeVos’s summer home deserves a special place in McMansion Hell. Kate Wagner dissects the shingle-style Michigan summer home of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. In order to earn money to pay off my $42,000 student loan debt, I tore into Betsy DeVos’ ridiculously badhouse for Vox.
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MCMANSION HELL AROUND THE WORLD: WHERE AND WHY DO I receive emails all the time about McMansions built in countries outside the USA. I’m here this week to briefly examine where and why McMansions are commonly constructed (and why the US has the vast majority of the world’s gross houses.) For the next five Sunday posts, I will be doing a special on the houses of each of thesecountries: Canada.
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Certified Dank™ Want to binge on fugly houses? You’ve come to the right place. Here is the archive of Certified Dank™ McMansions of the Week: Howard County, MD #1 Cook County, IL Oakland County, CORONAGRIFTING: A DESIGN PHENOMENON While the mask Coronagrift continues to this day, the Coronagrifting phenomenon had, by early March, moved to other domains of design. Consider the barrage of asinine PR fluff that is the “Public Service Announcement” and by Public Service Announcement, I mean “A Designer Has Done Something Cute to Capitalize on Information Meant toSave
50 STATES OF MCMANSION HELL: OAKLAND COUNTY Greetings friends! Believe me - believe me - this house is going to make up for Monday’s missed post (I’m going to move away from theory next week but more about that later).This may be one of the tackiest McMansions in McMansion Hell history.Behold, my friends, behold! This incredible chateau, built in 1994, boasts 5 bedrooms and 5.5 baths, totaling around 5,300 square feet. MCMANSION HELL FROM A TO Z (PART TWO: I-P) McMansion Hell from A to Z (Part Two: I-P) Oct 2, 2016. 863 notes. Greetings! Even though I’m currently suffering from a nasty cold, I have yet to miss a Sunday post, and this week is no exception. Last week, we covered McMansion Hell from letters A-H , and this week furthers our journey through letters I through P in the alphabet ofugly.
MCMANSIONS 101: WINDOWS Window Win #1: Use the same window and trim styles across the entire elevation. Ok, this is SUCH an easy rule to follow, but still every friggin time, McMansions foul this up in the worst way. Like, following this rule can make a generally ugly house look pretty ok: In the case of this house, the muntin spacing is the same for all windows WHAT THE HELL IS POSTMODERNISM? This is the crux of the failure of PoMo: Postmodernism was about using architectural ornament within a modern context because we have emotional connections and connotations to architectural ornament. These buildings were about saying through ornament “I AM A HOUSE” or “I AM A BANK” mixed, of course, with a bit of clever architectural humor. LOOKING AROUND: AMERICAN FOURSQUARES Looking Around: American Foursquares No single-family home (besides, perhaps, the ranch or the McMansion) is as instantly recognizable as the American Foursquare. Named both for its MCMANSIONS 101: DORMERS McMansions 101: Dormers No, a dormer is not someone who lives in a dorm. Basically, a dormer is a structure that projects from the roof mass and has its own roof, windows, and sometimes walls. Dormers MCMANSION HELLCERTIFIED DANKABOUTMCMANSIONS 101ARCHITECTURECONTACTARCHIVE Located just outside of Detroit, this 5 bed, 4.5 bath house tops out at over 10,000 square feet. Yes, you read that right. 10,000. You’ll see why later. Anyways, if you want to purchase said house, it can be all yours for just under $1,000,000. A steal!MCMANSIONS 101
McMansions 101. THE 10 CIRCLES OF MCMANSION HELL (THE MCMANSION SCALE) McMansions 101 #1: What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture? McMansions 101 #2: McMansion Front Entries. McMansions 101 #3: Columns. MCMANSION HELL AROUND THE WORLD: WHERE AND WHY DOSEE MORE ONMCMANSIONHELL.COM
MCMANSIONS 101: ROOFS Roof Rule No 1: 2 shapes, and 2 shapes only (on the front elevation) Literally 90% of house roofs are either gabled or hipped. Like seriously, go out for a walk and look at the roofs. Gables and hips, y’all, gables and hips. Before we bring in the offenders, let’s look at some happy houses: Here is a happy house with one roof shape:cross
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THE MAIL ORDER AMERICAN DREAM: AN Identifying Kit Houses Step 1: The Three Common Site Locations. One of the easiest ways to begin one’s search for mail order houses is knowing where to look in the first place. Kit Houses are most commonly found in these areas: 1.) First Generation Suburbs (Streetcar and Railroad Suburbs) (1906-1930) MCMANSION HELL FROM A TO Z (PART TWO: I-P) McMansion Hell from A to Z (Part Two: I-P) Oct 2, 2016. 863 notes. Greetings! Even though I’m currently suffering from a nasty cold, I have yet to miss a Sunday post, and this week is no exception. Last week, we covered McMansion Hell from letters A-H , and this week furthers our journey through letters I through P in the alphabet ofugly.
MCMANSIONS 101: WHAT MAKES A MCMANSION BAD... The McMansion has no concept of mass. McMansions often have so many secondary masses that the primary mass is reduced to a role of filling in gaps between the secondary masses. An example: Another issue with McMansions and mass is the use of too many voids. Some McMansions are so guilty of this they resemble swiss cheese in appearance. WHAT THE HELL IS POSTMODERNISM? This is the crux of the failure of PoMo: Postmodernism was about using architectural ornament within a modern context because we have emotional connections and connotations to architectural ornament. These buildings were about saying through ornament “I AM A HOUSE” or “I AM A BANK” mixed, of course, with a bit of clever architectural humor. BETSY DEVOS’S SUMMER HOME DESERVES A SPECIAL PLACE Betsy DeVos’s summer home deserves a special place in McMansion Hell. Kate Wagner dissects the shingle-style Michigan summer home of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. In order to earn money to pay off my $42,000 student loan debt, I tore into Betsy DeVos’ ridiculously badhouse for Vox.
MCMANSION HELLCERTIFIED DANKABOUTMCMANSIONS 101ARCHITECTURECONTACTARCHIVE Located just outside of Detroit, this 5 bed, 4.5 bath house tops out at over 10,000 square feet. Yes, you read that right. 10,000. You’ll see why later. Anyways, if you want to purchase said house, it can be all yours for just under $1,000,000. A steal!MCMANSIONS 101
McMansions 101. THE 10 CIRCLES OF MCMANSION HELL (THE MCMANSION SCALE) McMansions 101 #1: What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture? McMansions 101 #2: McMansion Front Entries. McMansions 101 #3: Columns. MCMANSION HELL AROUND THE WORLD: WHERE AND WHY DOSEE MORE ONMCMANSIONHELL.COM
MCMANSIONS 101: ROOFS Roof Rule No 1: 2 shapes, and 2 shapes only (on the front elevation) Literally 90% of house roofs are either gabled or hipped. Like seriously, go out for a walk and look at the roofs. Gables and hips, y’all, gables and hips. Before we bring in the offenders, let’s look at some happy houses: Here is a happy house with one roof shape:cross
MCMANSION HELL: GREAT BRITAIN EDITION (PART 1 OFSEE MORE ONMCMANSIONHELL.COM
THE MAIL ORDER AMERICAN DREAM: AN Identifying Kit Houses Step 1: The Three Common Site Locations. One of the easiest ways to begin one’s search for mail order houses is knowing where to look in the first place. Kit Houses are most commonly found in these areas: 1.) First Generation Suburbs (Streetcar and Railroad Suburbs) (1906-1930) MCMANSION HELL FROM A TO Z (PART TWO: I-P) McMansion Hell from A to Z (Part Two: I-P) Oct 2, 2016. 863 notes. Greetings! Even though I’m currently suffering from a nasty cold, I have yet to miss a Sunday post, and this week is no exception. Last week, we covered McMansion Hell from letters A-H , and this week furthers our journey through letters I through P in the alphabet ofugly.
MCMANSIONS 101: WHAT MAKES A MCMANSION BAD... The McMansion has no concept of mass. McMansions often have so many secondary masses that the primary mass is reduced to a role of filling in gaps between the secondary masses. An example: Another issue with McMansions and mass is the use of too many voids. Some McMansions are so guilty of this they resemble swiss cheese in appearance. WHAT THE HELL IS POSTMODERNISM? This is the crux of the failure of PoMo: Postmodernism was about using architectural ornament within a modern context because we have emotional connections and connotations to architectural ornament. These buildings were about saying through ornament “I AM A HOUSE” or “I AM A BANK” mixed, of course, with a bit of clever architectural humor. BETSY DEVOS’S SUMMER HOME DESERVES A SPECIAL PLACE Betsy DeVos’s summer home deserves a special place in McMansion Hell. Kate Wagner dissects the shingle-style Michigan summer home of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. In order to earn money to pay off my $42,000 student loan debt, I tore into Betsy DeVos’ ridiculously badhouse for Vox.
MCMANSIONS 101: WHAT MAKES A MCMANSION BAD... The McMansion has no concept of mass. McMansions often have so many secondary masses that the primary mass is reduced to a role of filling in gaps between the secondary masses. An example: Another issue with McMansions and mass is the use of too many voids. Some McMansions are so guilty of this they resemble swiss cheese in appearance. MCMANSIONS 101 SPECIAL EDITION: MANSION VS... Part One: Age. Most “true” mansions are generally old, as the McMansion did become a phenomenon until the 1980s. Few large houses were built in the 1970s because of the energy crisis, and large houses above 3000 square feet built before 1980 and especially before 1960 were usually designed by architects. However, there are many, manyhomes
MCMANSIONS 101: WINDOWS Window Win #1: Use the same window and trim styles across the entire elevation. Ok, this is SUCH an easy rule to follow, but still every friggin time, McMansions foul this up in the worst way. Like, following this rule can make a generally ugly house look pretty ok: In the case of this house, the muntin spacing is the same for all windows WORST OF MCMANSIONS: CANADA EDITION Worst of McMansions: Canada Edition. Jan 29, 2017. 1,943 notes. Hello Friends! Today I’m going to do something different. As you all know, this past week has been very stressful for those of us living in the USA. Rather than write a document about mortgages and bonds, I’ve decided to do something a lot more light-hearted: ugly house 50 STATES OF MCMANSION HELL: OAKLAND COUNTY Greetings friends! Believe me - believe me - this house is going to make up for Monday’s missed post (I’m going to move away from theory next week but more about that later).This may be one of the tackiest McMansions in McMansion Hell history.Behold, my friends, behold! This incredible chateau, built in 1994, boasts 5 bedrooms and 5.5 baths, totaling around 5,300 square feet. 50 STATES OF MCMANSION HELL: SALT LAKE COUNTY 50 States of McMansion Hell: Salt Lake County, Utah. Sep 9, 2018. 2,147 notes. Howdy, folks! My poor teeth are finally all healed up, so in celebration, I have decided to sink them Sunny Baudelaire-style into this ridiculous house: This 1995 “Victorian” features 6 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms, totaling around 6700 square feet. BETSY DEVOS’S SUMMER HOME DESERVES A SPECIAL PLACE Betsy DeVos’s summer home deserves a special place in McMansion Hell. Kate Wagner dissects the shingle-style Michigan summer home of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. In order to earn money to pay off my $42,000 student loan debt, I tore into Betsy DeVos’ ridiculously badhouse for Vox.
ENCINO, CA | MCMANSION HELL Encino, CA. Sep 22, 2016. 1,142 notes. This week’s Certified Dank™ McMansion comes to us from Encino, Los Angeles, California. Encino has been recommended to me time and time again, so I figured it was time to see what all the fuss is about. And fuss they should. LOOKING AROUND: AMERICAN FOURSQUARES Looking Around: American Foursquares No single-family home (besides, perhaps, the ranch or the McMansion) is as instantly recognizable as the American Foursquare. Named both for its 50 STATES OF MCMANSION HELL: 10 WORST PENNSYLVANIA 50 States of McMansion Hell: 10 Worst Pennsylvania McMansions. Feb 6, 2018. 2,352 notes. Howdy, folks! After surfing around Pennsylvania for a house to chew on, it became clear that one house was simply not enough to pay justice to this wonderful, MCMANSION HELLCERTIFIED DANKABOUTMCMANSIONS 101ARCHITECTURECONTACTARCHIVE Located just outside of Detroit, this 5 bed, 4.5 bath house tops out at over 10,000 square feet. Yes, you read that right. 10,000. You’ll see why later. Anyways, if you want to purchase said house, it can be all yours for just under $1,000,000. A steal!MCMANSIONS 101
McMansions 101. THE 10 CIRCLES OF MCMANSION HELL (THE MCMANSION SCALE) McMansions 101 #1: What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture? McMansions 101 #2: McMansion Front Entries. McMansions 101 #3: Columns. MCMANSION HELL AROUND THE WORLD: WHERE AND WHY DOSEE MORE ONMCMANSIONHELL.COM
MCMANSIONS 101: ROOFS Roof Rule No 1: 2 shapes, and 2 shapes only (on the front elevation) Literally 90% of house roofs are either gabled or hipped. Like seriously, go out for a walk and look at the roofs. Gables and hips, y’all, gables and hips. Before we bring in the offenders, let’s look at some happy houses: Here is a happy house with one roof shape:cross
MCMANSION HELL: GREAT BRITAIN EDITION (PART 1 OFSEE MORE ONMCMANSIONHELL.COM
THE MAIL ORDER AMERICAN DREAM: AN Identifying Kit Houses Step 1: The Three Common Site Locations. One of the easiest ways to begin one’s search for mail order houses is knowing where to look in the first place. Kit Houses are most commonly found in these areas: 1.) First Generation Suburbs (Streetcar and Railroad Suburbs) (1906-1930) MCMANSION HELL FROM A TO Z (PART TWO: I-P) McMansion Hell from A to Z (Part Two: I-P) Oct 2, 2016. 863 notes. Greetings! Even though I’m currently suffering from a nasty cold, I have yet to miss a Sunday post, and this week is no exception. Last week, we covered McMansion Hell from letters A-H , and this week furthers our journey through letters I through P in the alphabet ofugly.
MCMANSIONS 101: WHAT MAKES A MCMANSION BAD... The McMansion has no concept of mass. McMansions often have so many secondary masses that the primary mass is reduced to a role of filling in gaps between the secondary masses. An example: Another issue with McMansions and mass is the use of too many voids. Some McMansions are so guilty of this they resemble swiss cheese in appearance. WHAT THE HELL IS POSTMODERNISM? This is the crux of the failure of PoMo: Postmodernism was about using architectural ornament within a modern context because we have emotional connections and connotations to architectural ornament. These buildings were about saying through ornament “I AM A HOUSE” or “I AM A BANK” mixed, of course, with a bit of clever architectural humor. BETSY DEVOS’S SUMMER HOME DESERVES A SPECIAL PLACE Betsy DeVos’s summer home deserves a special place in McMansion Hell. Kate Wagner dissects the shingle-style Michigan summer home of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. In order to earn money to pay off my $42,000 student loan debt, I tore into Betsy DeVos’ ridiculously badhouse for Vox.
MCMANSION HELLCERTIFIED DANKABOUTMCMANSIONS 101ARCHITECTURECONTACTARCHIVE Located just outside of Detroit, this 5 bed, 4.5 bath house tops out at over 10,000 square feet. Yes, you read that right. 10,000. You’ll see why later. Anyways, if you want to purchase said house, it can be all yours for just under $1,000,000. A steal!MCMANSIONS 101
McMansions 101. THE 10 CIRCLES OF MCMANSION HELL (THE MCMANSION SCALE) McMansions 101 #1: What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture? McMansions 101 #2: McMansion Front Entries. McMansions 101 #3: Columns. MCMANSION HELL AROUND THE WORLD: WHERE AND WHY DOSEE MORE ONMCMANSIONHELL.COM
MCMANSIONS 101: ROOFS Roof Rule No 1: 2 shapes, and 2 shapes only (on the front elevation) Literally 90% of house roofs are either gabled or hipped. Like seriously, go out for a walk and look at the roofs. Gables and hips, y’all, gables and hips. Before we bring in the offenders, let’s look at some happy houses: Here is a happy house with one roof shape:cross
MCMANSION HELL: GREAT BRITAIN EDITION (PART 1 OFSEE MORE ONMCMANSIONHELL.COM
THE MAIL ORDER AMERICAN DREAM: AN Identifying Kit Houses Step 1: The Three Common Site Locations. One of the easiest ways to begin one’s search for mail order houses is knowing where to look in the first place. Kit Houses are most commonly found in these areas: 1.) First Generation Suburbs (Streetcar and Railroad Suburbs) (1906-1930) MCMANSION HELL FROM A TO Z (PART TWO: I-P) McMansion Hell from A to Z (Part Two: I-P) Oct 2, 2016. 863 notes. Greetings! Even though I’m currently suffering from a nasty cold, I have yet to miss a Sunday post, and this week is no exception. Last week, we covered McMansion Hell from letters A-H , and this week furthers our journey through letters I through P in the alphabet ofugly.
MCMANSIONS 101: WHAT MAKES A MCMANSION BAD... The McMansion has no concept of mass. McMansions often have so many secondary masses that the primary mass is reduced to a role of filling in gaps between the secondary masses. An example: Another issue with McMansions and mass is the use of too many voids. Some McMansions are so guilty of this they resemble swiss cheese in appearance. WHAT THE HELL IS POSTMODERNISM? This is the crux of the failure of PoMo: Postmodernism was about using architectural ornament within a modern context because we have emotional connections and connotations to architectural ornament. These buildings were about saying through ornament “I AM A HOUSE” or “I AM A BANK” mixed, of course, with a bit of clever architectural humor. BETSY DEVOS’S SUMMER HOME DESERVES A SPECIAL PLACE Betsy DeVos’s summer home deserves a special place in McMansion Hell. Kate Wagner dissects the shingle-style Michigan summer home of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. In order to earn money to pay off my $42,000 student loan debt, I tore into Betsy DeVos’ ridiculously badhouse for Vox.
MCMANSIONS 101: WHAT MAKES A MCMANSION BAD... The McMansion has no concept of mass. McMansions often have so many secondary masses that the primary mass is reduced to a role of filling in gaps between the secondary masses. An example: Another issue with McMansions and mass is the use of too many voids. Some McMansions are so guilty of this they resemble swiss cheese in appearance. MCMANSIONS 101 SPECIAL EDITION: MANSION VS... Part One: Age. Most “true” mansions are generally old, as the McMansion did become a phenomenon until the 1980s. Few large houses were built in the 1970s because of the energy crisis, and large houses above 3000 square feet built before 1980 and especially before 1960 were usually designed by architects. However, there are many, manyhomes
MCMANSIONS 101: WINDOWS Window Win #1: Use the same window and trim styles across the entire elevation. Ok, this is SUCH an easy rule to follow, but still every friggin time, McMansions foul this up in the worst way. Like, following this rule can make a generally ugly house look pretty ok: In the case of this house, the muntin spacing is the same for all windows WORST OF MCMANSIONS: CANADA EDITION Worst of McMansions: Canada Edition. Jan 29, 2017. 1,943 notes. Hello Friends! Today I’m going to do something different. As you all know, this past week has been very stressful for those of us living in the USA. Rather than write a document about mortgages and bonds, I’ve decided to do something a lot more light-hearted: ugly house 50 STATES OF MCMANSION HELL: OAKLAND COUNTY Greetings friends! Believe me - believe me - this house is going to make up for Monday’s missed post (I’m going to move away from theory next week but more about that later).This may be one of the tackiest McMansions in McMansion Hell history.Behold, my friends, behold! This incredible chateau, built in 1994, boasts 5 bedrooms and 5.5 baths, totaling around 5,300 square feet. 50 STATES OF MCMANSION HELL: SALT LAKE COUNTY 50 States of McMansion Hell: Salt Lake County, Utah. Sep 9, 2018. 2,147 notes. Howdy, folks! My poor teeth are finally all healed up, so in celebration, I have decided to sink them Sunny Baudelaire-style into this ridiculous house: This 1995 “Victorian” features 6 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms, totaling around 6700 square feet. BETSY DEVOS’S SUMMER HOME DESERVES A SPECIAL PLACE Betsy DeVos’s summer home deserves a special place in McMansion Hell. Kate Wagner dissects the shingle-style Michigan summer home of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. In order to earn money to pay off my $42,000 student loan debt, I tore into Betsy DeVos’ ridiculously badhouse for Vox.
ENCINO, CA | MCMANSION HELL Encino, CA. Sep 22, 2016. 1,142 notes. This week’s Certified Dank™ McMansion comes to us from Encino, Los Angeles, California. Encino has been recommended to me time and time again, so I figured it was time to see what all the fuss is about. And fuss they should. LOOKING AROUND: AMERICAN FOURSQUARES Looking Around: American Foursquares No single-family home (besides, perhaps, the ranch or the McMansion) is as instantly recognizable as the American Foursquare. Named both for its 50 STATES OF MCMANSION HELL: 10 WORST PENNSYLVANIA 50 States of McMansion Hell: 10 Worst Pennsylvania McMansions. Feb 6, 2018. 2,352 notes. Howdy, folks! After surfing around Pennsylvania for a house to chew on, it became clear that one house was simply not enough to pay justice to this wonderful, MCMANSION HELLCERTIFIED DANKABOUTMCMANSIONS 101ARCHITECTURECONTACTARCHIVE The McMansion Hell Yearbook: 1978. Feb 2, 2021. 3,424 notes. Howdy Folks! Today’s house comes to us from Iredell County, North Carolina, and trust me, it is quite a doozy - just in time for Valentines Day, too! If you don’t fall in love with it, I don’t know what to tell you.MCMANSIONS 101
McMansions 101. THE 10 CIRCLES OF MCMANSION HELL (THE MCMANSION SCALE) McMansions 101 #1: What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture? McMansions 101 #2: McMansion Front Entries. McMansions 101 #3: Columns. MCMANSIONS 101: ROOFS Roof Rule No 1: 2 shapes, and 2 shapes only (on the front elevation) Literally 90% of house roofs are either gabled or hipped. Like seriously, go out for a walk and look at the roofs. Gables and hips, y’all, gables and hips. Before we bring in the offenders, let’s look at some happy houses: Here is a happy house with one roof shape:cross
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Certified Dank™ Want to binge on fugly houses? You’ve come to the right place. Here is the archive of Certified Dank™ McMansions of the Week: Howard County, MD #1 Cook County, IL Oakland County, MCMANSIONS 101: WHAT MAKES A MCMANSION BAD... The McMansion has no concept of mass. McMansions often have so many secondary masses that the primary mass is reduced to a role of filling in gaps between the secondary masses. An example: Another issue with McMansions and mass is the use of too many voids. Some McMansions are so guilty of this they resemble swiss cheese in appearance. MCMANSIONS 101 SPECIAL EDITION: MANSION VS... Part One: Age. Most “true” mansions are generally old, as the McMansion did become a phenomenon until the 1980s. Few large houses were built in the 1970s because of the energy crisis, and large houses above 3000 square feet built before 1980 and especially before 1960 were usually designed by architects. However, there are many, manyhomes
ENCINO, CA | MCMANSION HELL Encino, CA. Sep 22, 2016. 1,142 notes. This week’s Certified Dank™ McMansion comes to us from Encino, Los Angeles, California. Encino has been recommended to me time and time again, so I figured it was time to see what all the fuss is about. And fuss they should. THE MAIL ORDER AMERICAN DREAM: AN Identifying Kit Houses Step 1: The Three Common Site Locations. One of the easiest ways to begin one’s search for mail order houses is knowing where to look in the first place. Kit Houses are most commonly found in these areas: 1.) First Generation Suburbs (Streetcar and Railroad Suburbs) (1906-1930) BETSY DEVOS’S SUMMER HOME DESERVES A SPECIAL PLACEBETSY DEVOS HOME IN MICHIGANKATE WAGNER MCMANSION HELL50 STATES OF MCMANSION HELLBLOG MCMANSION HELLBETSY DEVOS SUMMER COTTAGEMCMANSION HELL DEVOS Betsy DeVos’s summer home deserves a special place in McMansion Hell. Kate Wagner dissects the shingle-style Michigan summer home of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. In order to earn money to pay off my $42,000 student loan debt, I tore into Betsy DeVos’ ridiculously badhouse for Vox.
MCMANSION HELLCERTIFIED DANKABOUTMCMANSIONS 101ARCHITECTURECONTACTARCHIVE The McMansion Hell Yearbook: 1978. Feb 2, 2021. 3,424 notes. Howdy Folks! Today’s house comes to us from Iredell County, North Carolina, and trust me, it is quite a doozy - just in time for Valentines Day, too! If you don’t fall in love with it, I don’t know what to tell you.MCMANSIONS 101
McMansions 101. THE 10 CIRCLES OF MCMANSION HELL (THE MCMANSION SCALE) McMansions 101 #1: What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture? McMansions 101 #2: McMansion Front Entries. McMansions 101 #3: Columns. MCMANSIONS 101: ROOFS Roof Rule No 1: 2 shapes, and 2 shapes only (on the front elevation) Literally 90% of house roofs are either gabled or hipped. Like seriously, go out for a walk and look at the roofs. Gables and hips, y’all, gables and hips. Before we bring in the offenders, let’s look at some happy houses: Here is a happy house with one roof shape:cross
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Certified Dank™ Want to binge on fugly houses? You’ve come to the right place. Here is the archive of Certified Dank™ McMansions of the Week: Howard County, MD #1 Cook County, IL Oakland County, MCMANSIONS 101: WHAT MAKES A MCMANSION BAD... The McMansion has no concept of mass. McMansions often have so many secondary masses that the primary mass is reduced to a role of filling in gaps between the secondary masses. An example: Another issue with McMansions and mass is the use of too many voids. Some McMansions are so guilty of this they resemble swiss cheese in appearance. MCMANSIONS 101 SPECIAL EDITION: MANSION VS... Part One: Age. Most “true” mansions are generally old, as the McMansion did become a phenomenon until the 1980s. Few large houses were built in the 1970s because of the energy crisis, and large houses above 3000 square feet built before 1980 and especially before 1960 were usually designed by architects. However, there are many, manyhomes
ENCINO, CA | MCMANSION HELL Encino, CA. Sep 22, 2016. 1,142 notes. This week’s Certified Dank™ McMansion comes to us from Encino, Los Angeles, California. Encino has been recommended to me time and time again, so I figured it was time to see what all the fuss is about. And fuss they should. THE MAIL ORDER AMERICAN DREAM: AN Identifying Kit Houses Step 1: The Three Common Site Locations. One of the easiest ways to begin one’s search for mail order houses is knowing where to look in the first place. Kit Houses are most commonly found in these areas: 1.) First Generation Suburbs (Streetcar and Railroad Suburbs) (1906-1930) BETSY DEVOS’S SUMMER HOME DESERVES A SPECIAL PLACEBETSY DEVOS HOME IN MICHIGANKATE WAGNER MCMANSION HELL50 STATES OF MCMANSION HELLBLOG MCMANSION HELLBETSY DEVOS SUMMER COTTAGEMCMANSION HELL DEVOS Betsy DeVos’s summer home deserves a special place in McMansion Hell. Kate Wagner dissects the shingle-style Michigan summer home of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. In order to earn money to pay off my $42,000 student loan debt, I tore into Betsy DeVos’ ridiculously badhouse for Vox.
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Architecture Fun primers on architectural history. Who said learning has to be boring? What the Hell is Postmodernism? What the Hell is Modern Architecture? (Part 1) What the Hell is Modern 50 STATES OF MCMANSION HELL: TOP 10 WAUKESHA Jun 13, 2019. 3,231 notes. Howdy Folks! We’re continuing our out-of-order-for-dramatic-effect tour of the 50 States of McMansion Hell today with perhaps one of the most underrated McMansion counties in the country: Waukesha County, Wisconsin. These houses were so bizarre it was hard to choose just one to do a takedown of. MCMANSION HELL FROM A TO Z: PART ONE (A-H) Part One is A-H; Part Two will be I-P; Part Three will be Q-Z. By the end of this three-part series, my hope is that even the least architecturally inclined (e.g. my relatives) will be able to identify a McMansion from a mile away, and the world will be a better ENCINO, CA | MCMANSION HELL Encino, CA. Sep 22, 2016. 1,142 notes. This week’s Certified Dank™ McMansion comes to us from Encino, Los Angeles, California. Encino has been recommended to me time and time again, so I figured it was time to see what all the fuss is about. And fuss they should. MCMANSIONS 101: WINDOWS Window Win #1: Use the same window and trim styles across the entire elevation. Ok, this is SUCH an easy rule to follow, but still every friggin time, McMansions foul this up in the worst way. Like, following this rule can make a generally ugly house look pretty ok: In the case of this house, the muntin spacing is the same for all windows 50 STATES OF MCMANSION HELL: OAKLAND COUNTY Greetings friends! Believe me - believe me - this house is going to make up for Monday’s missed post (I’m going to move away from theory next week but more about that later).This may be one of the tackiest McMansions in McMansion Hell history.Behold, my friends, behold! This incredible chateau, built in 1994, boasts 5 bedrooms and 5.5 baths, totaling around 5,300 square feet. MCMANSION HELL FROM A TO Z (PART TWO: I-P) McMansion Hell from A to Z (Part Two: I-P) Oct 2, 2016. 863 notes. Greetings! Even though I’m currently suffering from a nasty cold, I have yet to miss a Sunday post, and this week is no exception. Last week, we covered McMansion Hell from letters A-H , and this week furthers our journey through letters I through P in the alphabet ofugly.
WORST OF MCMANSIONS: CANADA EDITION Worst of McMansions: Canada Edition. Jan 29, 2017. 1,943 notes. Hello Friends! Today I’m going to do something different. As you all know, this past week has been very stressful for those of us living in the USA. Rather than write a document about mortgages and bonds, I’ve decided to do something a lot more light-hearted: ugly house BETSY DEVOS’S SUMMER HOME DESERVES A SPECIAL PLACE Betsy DeVos’s summer home deserves a special place in McMansion Hell. Kate Wagner dissects the shingle-style Michigan summer home of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. In order to earn money to pay off my $42,000 student loan debt, I tore into Betsy DeVos’ ridiculously badhouse for Vox.
WHAT THE HELL IS POSTMODERNISM? This is the crux of the failure of PoMo: Postmodernism was about using architectural ornament within a modern context because we have emotional connections and connotations to architectural ornament. These buildings were about saying through ornament “I AM A HOUSE” or “I AM A BANK” mixed, of course, with a bit of clever architectural humor.McMansion Hell
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Howdy, folks! I hope all of my fellow Midwesterners are enjoying this year’s false spring. Seventy-degree days notwithstanding, the snow will indeed be back, and, as such, I have prepared for you a house to enjoy (?) alongside a miserably late-in-the-year hot cocoa. Now, this house isn’t as oppressively horrible as the last one, however, the point of the Yearbook is to show off how houses evolved overtime, and also to celebrate some of the kookier time capsules left out there. Our current house falls into the latter category, and to be honest, I find it weirdly endearing. Located just outside of Detroit, this 5 bed, 4.5 bath house tops out at over 10,000 square feet. Yes, you read that right. 10,000. You’ll see why later. Anyways, if you want to purchase said house, it can be all yours for just under $1,000,000. A steal!??? FOYER
In America we don’t have barons, only robber barons, so I’m going to assume whoever built this house did so on the backs of thousands of exploited 19th century child laborers or whatever. Bad stuff.??? ROOM
Unsure of the purpose of this room, genuinely, because all other rooms are accounted for. This one’s just empty. It’s just existing. Vibing, as one might say.TV (???) ROOM
Don’t mind me, I’m just getting out my birding binoculars in order to watch Seinfeld reruns.KITCHEN
Considering the history of the Midwest and the fact that Sears and co. cut down all our old growth forests in order to do cheap furniture and balloon framing, this whole wood paneling bit is really part of a much larger historical milieu.DINING ROOM
The American Bicentennial lurks in the background of all of these houses, its legacy permanently ingrained in too-dark rooms across thenation.
MAIN BEDROOM
Shivering at the thought of my feet touching cold tile floor every morning. That’ll wake you up.OTHER BEDROOM
You know, the grandness of the chandelier has diminishing returns if you put one in every single room. Then it becomes just another lightfixture.
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BROWN TUB BROWN TUB BROWN TUB (the rarest of all mid-century tubs)PLEASURE GROTTO
Ok now _this _is why I chose this house. It also explains why this house is 10,000 square feet - at least half of that is just this pool alone. The funniest bit is, I can’t for the life of me tell WHERE this pool is by looking at the exterior of the house. In fact, I’m not sure how they managed to fit so much house in that small of an envelope, but at this point, it’s so weird I’m inclined not to ask further questions. Some things in the universe are not meant to beknown to us.
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Ok I changed my mind. WHERE IS THE POOL. WHERE DID THEY FIT THE POOLIN ALL THIS.
Anyways, I’ll let that haunt you for a little while. In the mean time, I’d like to take this space at the end of the post to announce that I’ve started a little side project devoted to my other love in life, professional cycling. It’s a newsletter called _derailleur_ that aims to tell the stories of contemporary professional cycling in an unconventional, narrative-driven way. If you’re into such things, feel free to check it out: derailleur.substack.comMEANWHILE:
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hey so in my spare time, when i am not an architecture critic, i like to draw. this has merged with my other love in life (professional cycling) and as such i have dedicated the last six months of my evening hours to drawing cyclists. tl;dr i made a tumblr where i’m posting my art if you’re into that kind of thing. this isn’t monetized in any way and i don’t take commissions - it’s just a nice (if strange) hobby i enjoy. see you all monday with a new house post <3cycling not a house
there will be a house soon tho and it's bad THE MCMANSION HELL YEARBOOK: 1978Feb 2, 2021
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Howdy Folks! Today’s house comes to us from Iredell County, North Carolina, and trust me, it is quite a doozy - just in time for Valentines Day, too! If you don’t fall in love with it, I don’t know what to tell you. This 5300 square foot, 4 bedroom, 4.5 bath house, comes in at $625,000, making it more of a bargain than most McMansions usually are, and while the Tudors never came to America, a place that had not yet been “discovered” by the time the Tudors were in power in England, fear not - for all the repression and stuffiness of 15th century Britain can still be found within these darkened doors.LAWYER FOYER
If your house doesn’t constantly give off I AM MARRIED vibes, your spouse might start having _indecent thoughts_. One must stay vigilantat all times.
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Look, hutches are good storage, okay. Sturdy. We as a generation (millennials) need to get back into knickknacks. Minimalism is dead.Long live kitsch.
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Honestly, this house is so dark and repressed it makes high school me look like a libertine.KITCHEN
“What do you mean ‘dopeness’ isn’t a qualifier for granting a property historical landmark status?”MAIN BEDROOM
Love is in the air. Also the air is really, really stale in here rightnow.
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If your bathroom doesn’t emulate a luxuriant grotto, wyd???BEDROOM 2
please, my floor ducks, they are so cold,,,,SUNROOM
I have got to stop using epic ironically. I already lived through 2008once.
That’s it for the interior! Let’s just step outside for a quickbreather…
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Well, I hope you had a good time traipsing through what can only be described as a treasure trove of different matching fabrics. Be sure to stick around for the next part of “Underground” which is coming your way shortly! IF YOU LIKE THIS POST, AND WANT TO SEE MORE LIKE IT, CONSIDER SUPPORTING ME ON PATREON! THERE IS A WHOLE NEW SLATE OF PATREON REWARDS, INCLUDING: GOOD HOUSE OF THE MONTH, AN EXCLUSIVE DISCORD SERVER, WEEKLY DRAWINGS, MONTHLY LIVESTREAMS, A READING GROUP, FREE MERCH AT CERTAIN TIERS AND MORE! NOT INTO RECURRING DONATIONS BUT STILL WANT TO SHOW SUPPORT? CONSIDERTHE TIP JAR!
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