Anonymous
Post 01/28/2015 16:26     Subject: Re:What is a McMansion?
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2015 16:21     Subject: What is a McMansion?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:To me its a huge house in a development where all the houses look exactly the same and on small plots with no mature trees. Often the development has some cheesy name like "whispering lakes."

The Mc in Mc Mansion refers to McDonalds e.g. These are homes that are fabricated cheaply and quickly and are standardized.


This. I didn't know there were other definitions at odds with this.


There's not, really, but around here we don't have too many of those developments unless you go pretty far out into the 'burbs. So people try to say that any tear-down and re-build is a McMansion when some of them are just large homes, some are actual mansions, and some are super tacky and weird but don't have the characteristic cheap mass produced bland pre-fab "look" of a true McM.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2015 16:20     Subject: What is a McMansion?
For me, McMansions are huge houses built on small lots, so that you end up looking through your window and you can see your neighbor doing their business in the house right next door. A true mansion would have tons of land around it to signify that it is a manor house.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2015 16:14     Subject: What is a McMansion?
Anonymous wrote:To me its a huge house in a development where all the houses look exactly the same [/b]and on small plots with no mature trees. Often the development has some cheesy name like "whispering lakes."


"Wesley Heights" and "Forest Hills" are cheesy names, too, when you think about it.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2015 16:02     Subject: What is a McMansion?
Anonymous wrote:To me its a huge house in a development where all the houses look exactly the same and on small plots with no mature trees. Often the development has some cheesy name like "whispering lakes."

The Mc in Mc Mansion refers to McDonalds e.g. These are homes that are fabricated cheaply and quickly and are standardized.


This. I didn't know there were other definitions at odds with this.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2015 15:57     Subject: What is a McMansion?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Cheap materials. Walls made of plaster/stucco instead of real stone/brick/wood. Vague maediterranean look, but often can just look blandly American and unobtrusive. No character, no intricate craftsmanship. When the apocalypse comes these houses will be the first to day because of their shoddy work.

The kind of house that could be built in three days for the Real Home Makeover show. Tasteless.




I think you're the dumb one. That was a great description. Maybe the PP hit a nerve though...


You "think" a house can be built in 3 days.......


Have you never watched Extreme Makeover Home Edition? They tear down the old house, build and furnish those McMansions in less than a week. Don't weigh in if you dont know WTF you're talking about.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2015 15:56     Subject: What is a McMansion?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Cheap materials. Walls made of plaster/stucco instead of real stone/brick/wood. Vague maediterranean look, but often can just look blandly American and unobtrusive. No character, no intricate craftsmanship. When the apocalypse comes these houses will be the first to day because of their shoddy work.

The kind of house that could be built in three days for the Real Home Makeover show. Tasteless.


LOL! Perfect!




Anonymous
Post 01/28/2015 13:37     Subject: What is a McMansion?
Anonymous wrote:A McMansion is a house. Where I would live is a home.


Ridiculous.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2015 13:33     Subject: Re:What is a McMansion?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Another Beauty!

https://www.redfin.com/VA/Arlington/3120-N-Pershing-Dr-22201/home/11256804


Again you all have failed, McMansion would mean mass produced or repeated design over and over again.



Here is McMansion ville
http://binged.it/1zYxWRM



https://www.google.com/maps/@39.014472,-77.519898,3a,75y,84.49h,85.93t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sRcEJ7DN6lC1bAprbZIyifw!2e0
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2015 13:27     Subject: What is a McMansion?
Anonymous wrote:If you had the opportunity to afford and get one, you would. Some responders need to stop hating on folks that enjoy living in a spacious home.


Maybe, but not in house shown at 10:45
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2015 13:24     Subject: Re:What is a McMansion?
Anonymous wrote:Another Beauty!

https://www.redfin.com/VA/Arlington/3120-N-Pershing-Dr-22201/home/11256804


Again you all have failed, McMansion would mean mass produced or repeated design over and over again.

Anonymous
Post 01/28/2015 13:20     Subject: What is a McMansion?
If you had the opportunity to afford and get one, you would. Some responders need to stop hating on folks that enjoy living in a spacious home.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2015 12:52     Subject: What is a McMansion?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Cheap materials. Walls made of plaster/stucco instead of real stone/brick/wood. Vague maediterranean look, but often can just look blandly American and unobtrusive. No character, no intricate craftsmanship. When the apocalypse comes these houses will be the first to day because of their shoddy work.

The kind of house that could be built in three days for the Real Home Makeover show. Tasteless.




I think you're the dumb one. That was a great description. Maybe the PP hit a nerve though...


You "think" a house can be built in 3 days.......


Look up the word hyperbole.


I searched the entire internet and I still don't know what you mean.


Pro tip: try a dictionary.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2015 10:49     Subject: Re:What is a McMansion?
Another Beauty!

https://www.redfin.com/VA/Arlington/3120-N-Pershing-Dr-22201/home/11256804
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2015 10:45     Subject: Re:What is a McMansion?
Beauty!