I would sooner build my own house on raw land before I ever bought whatever the hell #housing companies are building lately.

They cost a million dollars, have 13 rooms to put all the useless stuff you bought then NEVER used, and look like a toddler designed their fantasy house and they went with that.

They're hideous, isolated, and I understand why people are starting to call them #McMansions.

Housing like fast food in the USA is expensive, awful and not worth it.

#rant #losangeles #economy

*sniff*

It's just so... _so much_

https://www.tumblr.com/mcmansionhell/741171396971053056/weve-found-it-folks-mcmansion-heaven?source=share
#ArchitecturalCriticism #McMansions #McMansionHell #McMansionHeaven

“More than half a century of urban planning prioritizing sprawl has gotten us to where we are now: choked by endless freeways, benumbed by carbon-copy strip malls, secluded in catchpenny houses with no sense of human scale.”

#KateWagner critiques the USian commitment to “endless consumption” through the lens of the prolific McMansion.

https://thebaffler.com/outbursts/bad-manors-wagner

#Urbanism #Architecture #Mcmansions #Consumerism

Some Texas #McMansions have fake nubs. The roofline is shaped to suggest a giant, weird bathroom on a second floor that doesn't exist.

(Taghing @mcmansionhell , who is probably already aware of this.)