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A Community about large, cheaply built, suburban homes with design flaws and a lack of architectural integrity also known as “McMansions.” On Thursdays we celebrate the opposite: good suburban architectural design.

Based off the famous subreddit r/mcmansionhell, we will essentially do all the same here, as is over there. Please do your best and crosspost if you need too!

We need mods!! Please please help!

A Short Guide

Friends at c/badrealestate!

Here are the rules:

Posts can be about ugly houses in general
Post appropriately and with correct tags WITHIN the title so it is easy to search. -->Tags: "Thursday Design Appreciation" or "HouseTDA", "Just Ugly", "Shitpost", "Certified McMansion™", "Discussion/Debate", and "Interior" are available.
All post subjects must be single family homes -->Only post suburban, single family homes. No apartments or duplexes, etc. The community is focused on specifically traditional suburban architecture.
Don't post addresses or other easily identifiable information unless it is publicly listed. -->Keep the information about the property you are posting basic and general. However, if the home is listed on a public website you are permitted to post a link to the public listing.
Direct Images Only, no links please. -->Post correctly cropped, direct images and not links to websites. Image hosting links, such as Imgur, are an exception, but we still prefer a direct image. Zillow house page, for example, is ok if it directly links to the photos and such.
No Spam -->No posting an excessive amount in a row on the same day or posting the same comment on several posts at once. We have seen it, we just didn't react to it. Please understand that.
No Screenshots -->Crop your photos correctly.
Thursday is special. To celebrate that, you can post nice houses you appreciate.

Helpful links:

Kate Wagner's Guide to McMansions

Architectural Guides

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notexecutive@sh.itjust.works

Ponchatoula, LA - Certified McMansion™ (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by notexecutive@sh.itjust.works to c/mcmansionhell@sh.itjust.works

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If you like a huge parkinglot in front of your house, and really shitty facade and fake balcony(s), well, this is the house for you! And... a mosquito farm during the summer!

Here's the listing!

here's the reddit post

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wow, I think that's actually an amazing house for the price!

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Presumably in terms of floor space, amenities and location because in terms of design and style that house is horrible. I can also only imagine that it is laid out awfully.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Idk about the location, but it's a huge property, a huge house, has a pond, a full-sized soaking tub, and a bunch of cool shit that you can't get for less than several million dollars around here. Plus 7 bedrooms is pretty awesome. I guess I'm just impressed how much you can get for the money in other parts of the country. A little 1200 sq ft house is a million dollars here. It's depressing tbh.

[–] abraxas@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Holy shit, yeah. But it's definitely still a McMansion when you note that most of the first-floor flooring is poured concrete and the second floor all plywood.

This is a potentially beautiful house, but needs a whole hell of a lot more work than you'd see at first glance. I was looking at a (much smaller) house in my area like that. If I'm going near the top of my budget (which is admittedly lower than this listing) I need a house that's move-in ready. That means value-store rugs on top of all those floors for however many years I can't imagine.

And 7 bathrooms is stupid for 7 bedrooms.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

One thing I've noticed about mansions is that they seem to have a ridiculous number of bathrooms. Since this is clearly masquerading as a mansion, it needs all 7 bathrooms at least! Lol