Please post McMansion pictures here!

[Anonymous]

Note the double-high entryway. I think that's kind of a requirement. Also, no mature trees. Though at least someone had the restraint to leave off the "cosmetic" shutters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anything that looks like the house is photobombing a photo of the garage, like this:

You, sir or ma'am, are HI-larious.

I actually had to look up photobombing and what it means. Now that I know, it is totally true!

[Anonymous]

you have all FAILED!!! If mcmansion is to be a copy (mcdonalds) of mass produced large homes then I would have expected that all the homes look the same or some overlap. They all look different and unique! Therefore the term McMansion cannot be used.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

What's wrong with that one? Maybe its not perfect, but it hardly seems in a league with the other examples posted here.

I see what you're saying, but I know if you could see the surrounding 3 houses (on either side, and in back), you'd understand. You can sort of see the house to the left. The McMansion towers over it by 40 feet (aka, 3 stories), blocks all the light from that direction except at high noon, and come riiiiiiiiight up to the lot line .

As a PP noted, that's part of the definition of a McMansion, in addition to any aesthetic considerations.

There's a house near me in CCDC that is actually really pretty. has high end finishes, too. It would be, truly, beautiful and wonderful on a 2 acre treed lot in Rappahanock County, Va. Unfortunately, all 6,000 sq ft of it, all 4 stories posing as 3 stories, are on a .25 typical city lot. The builder got a variance no doubt because of his oral sex prowesss with the zoning folks on North Capitol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

What's wrong with that one? Maybe its not perfect, but it hardly seems in a league with the other examples posted here.

I see what you're saying, but I know if you could see the surrounding 3 houses (on either side, and in back), you'd understand. You can sort of see the house to the left. The McMansion towers over it by 40 feet (aka, 3 stories), blocks all the light from that direction except at high noon, and come riiiiiiiiight up to the lot line .

As a PP noted, that's part of the definition of a McMansion, in addition to any aesthetic considerations.

There's a house near me in CCDC that is actually really pretty. has high end finishes, too. It would be, truly, beautiful and wonderful on a 2 acre treed lot in Rappahanock County, Va. Unfortunately, all 6,000 sq ft of it, all 4 stories posing as 3 stories, are on a .25 typical city lot. The builder got a variance no doubt because of his oral sex prowesss with the zoning folks on North Capitol.

Umm no variance you moron, thats standard setbacks. How small of a home do you want? What is the magical number? 1000 sqrft per acre?

[Anonymous]

This ones qualifies as a Garage Mahal McMansion, because of the ridiculous prominent placement of, well, you can see. Bonus points for the gratuitous and masturbatory turret.

[Anonymous]

again none of these homes look a like good try

[Anonymous]

the true mcmansion are those developments out in ashburn or farther out

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

What's wrong with that one? Maybe its not perfect, but it hardly seems in a league with the other examples posted here.

I agree. I don't like the front entrance, but the garage isn't bad and it's also on a decent-sized lot. Not a McMansion.

I like the other details and wouldn't want to live in a box simply because it adheres to some rigid sense of functionality.

[Anonymous]

Umm no variance you moron, thats standard setbacks. How small of a home do you want? What is the magical number? 1000 sqrft per acre?

There was a variance, on file downtown, but it's wonderful that you feel comfortable on DCUM displaying your stupidity with abandon. Also amazing how you can read my mind and know exactly which house of the 1,000 or so in CCDC I was describing! Quick: what's the next winning Powerball number combo??

The house I mentioned exceeds height limits by use of creative grading, and it rec'd a variance from the back lot line.

[Anonymous]

All the houses but one seem pretty normal to me.

[Anonymous]

McMansion 619 up, 70 down
A large and pretentious house, typically
of shoddy construction, typical of "upscale" suburban developments in the late
20th and early 21st centuries. Such houses
are characterized by steep roofs of complex design, theatrical entrances, lack of stylistic integrity and backsides which are
notably less fussy than their fronts. They are often placed closely together to maximize the developer's profits and appeal to people who value perceived social status over actual, physical, economic or historic value.

[Anonymous]

Here is what the side of a mcmansion looks like:

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anything that looks like the house is photobombing a photo of the garage, like this:

You, sir or ma'am, are HI-larious.

It's ma'am, and thank you!

I think I've posted the majority of these, and have limited mine to the infill development type. I will move on to cookie cutter subdivisions in the outer burbs later. Those are usually worse.

[Anonymous]

Garage Mahal! LOL!!!