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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:

  1. Posts can be about ugly houses in general
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. No Screenshots -->Crop your photos correctly.
  8. 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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No landscaping, can't find the front door, open sprawl... yeah not great.

here's the listing

reddit crosspost

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Alden, MI (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by notexecutive to c/mcmansionhell
 
 

Something something expecto pratrona

Zillow link

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You like bricks? You like pillars strangely placed for a view of your driveway? You'll love this... thing.

here's the zillow listing

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by notexecutive to c/mcmansionhell
 
 

This is... not good.

Jesus christ.

Article here

They call it a "sand castle."

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Yikes! Very yikes!!!

Here's the zillow link

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Help.

Listing here

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Disney Castle, but worse! It even has a mullet just accentuating how fake and stupid it looks. Texas, give me a break.

Here's the listing

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This just isn't good. At all. All of that wasted space makes me upset. Those trees that could still be here, too.

Listing here

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Looks good to me!

Zillow listing

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This house is just a mcmansion all around, and it's quite ugly. I dunno who built it but it makes me upset just how much wasted space and lack of design there is. Also, the horses? Jesus.

It's 2.5 mil btw

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It's quite... cheap looking, despite how big it is. The essence of a mcmansion really.

Here's the listing

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A nice craftsman home from ~1900.

Very tasteful, very comfy, very nice.

Reddit link

Listing link

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by notexecutive to c/mcmansionhell
 
 

It's the interior that really kills this home for me, but the outside is way too garish I think.

Zillow gone wild!

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by notexecutive to c/mcmansionhell
 
 

Such a nice colonial type home!

Redfin listing

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Beautiful Blue suburban! (Lil' simsie would be proud)

reddit post

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Do you like roofing?

From reddit

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Do you like stairs?

Do you like FALLING AND DYING??

This house might be perfect for you!

Zillow listing

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I don't know if i would want to live there. It seems so... excessive, even for mansion standards.

From reddit

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Palazzo Barberini, Pope Urban VIII's papal palace in Rome

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palazzo_Barberini

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by notexecutive to c/mcmansionhell
 
 

Another lovely home. Very comfy comfy!! ~~I can't find the listing for it though.~~

Here is the listing

Crosspost from reddit

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I like this one a lot. Very comfy!

From reddit

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by notexecutive to c/mcmansionhell
 
 

"What? It's just a normal house-- OH MY GOODNESS"

Crosspost from reddit

The house is a facade

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Crosspost from ZillowGoneWild

"We haven’t seen a Perfectly Florida home in a while and this penthouse in Destin is Perfectly Florida.

Currently listed or $2,495,000"

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