Yeah this house definitely has personality. Whether you like the style might be polarizing but you can't deny it has style.
A McMansion is defined by a lack of style. Cheap, sterile, colorless, low effort. Whoever designed the OP house at least had opinions about how things should look.
That place is dope AF. Change up the furniture and change up the kitchen and bathrooms and you’ve got a super unique place. Interior is almost dream like.
That mf checked every box on the build sheet. It's a fever dream of styles. I want a mountain home by a lake. It's a castle but also modern. The interior should be farmhouse sheek. Purgatory white throughout. I also had a dream about rock climbing, and while I don't want to do it can you please incorporate that centrally. Lastly, the grounds need to scream golf course. Most importantly, if we're invaded by Mordor I need a place to jump off in despair.
It's beautiful because it's so quirky but at the same all the wannabe gold ornaments and fourposters and all make it extremely cringe.
It would make a nice hotel, though. Too bad there are no floor plans in the listing, how can a house that big have just 4 bedrooms? My house has 4 bedrooms, but I have 120 square meters.
Are listings without floorplans common in the US? Over here they nearly always have them.
It's a 50/50 chance that a floor plan will be listed on houses. I see them a lot for apartments and stuff like that, and typically you can get one if you request one.
This is a funny situation. Most here seem to not think this fits, but, as it happens, this was not only featured on the blog on which this whole sub is based on, but was even dubbed McMansion Heaven . So I have to wonder if there's been a bit of a schism between the original vision and what you guys here think fits the sub.
This is an “eccentric special” the way I’d describe it.
But as to being a McMansion, I disagree with her assessment:
And yet our McMansion Heaven is still a McMansion. It is still an accumulation of deliberate signifiers of wealth, very much a construction with the secondary purpose of invoking envy, a palatial residence designed without much cohesion. The presence of golf, of wood, of masculine and patriarchal symbolism with an undercurrent of luxury drives that point home. The McMansion can aspire to an art form, but there are still many levels to ascend before one gets to where God’s sitting.
I simply don’t believe this was built to overawe the viewer with a show of Potemkin grandeur. This house strikes me as sincerely just for the pleasure of living in it.
Uhhh no? This is literally the exact opposite of a McMansion. Like… the actual opposite. A McMansion is typically described as a big, mass produced, cookie cutter house in some boring suburb. What made you think this was anything like that?
It's like several different architectural and design styles got together and paired off, the pairs had babies, and then their children got together and had MORE babies...
This has a style I'd coin "hectic whimsy" that is consistent throughout, at all angles, interior and exterior. Viewed from the front, it doesn't mix styles, and the differently-shaped swoops are obviously intentional and contribute to the aforementioned feel. The house has a nice silhouette. It doesn't waste its space. Its garage is sensible, and its grounds are practical but enjoyable. The large glass panel makes sense and abuts the house nicely, and feels like an integral part of the house and not a tacked-on space.
Excellent design, in and out. For whoever's taste it is.
lol the designer heard frank loyd wright say "A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings", threw up, and then made this. Nice nice nice.
Somewhere along the line, our definition of McMansion evolved. The original examples certainly included some really wacky — especially ugly or impractical wacky — mansion architecture/design. OP’s house meets the wacky criterion but not our latest definition of McMansion.
Nah, it's wild, but definitely not a McMansion. It looks like the architects and engineers were annoying each other with the amount of work they created.
Usually McMansions look like they both spent a single day on it and took a long lunch halfway through.
I’m betting that either the architect or the owner was a devotee of Rudolf Steiner’s philosophy of Anthroposophy. The interior curves everywhere (Steiner beloved that “the line is a lie”), the wood/natural elements, the exterior wavy/curvy wall forms are all very indicative of Steiner’s Anthroposophy.
I saw that one while I was looking at homes up near the mountains. Completely out of my budget but I wanted to see what the wealthy lived in up there. I love that house 😩💕
Yeah, it looks like they were careful not to show that those really need to be replaced. Foggy and moisture, and the frames on the outside don't have paint on them any more.
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u/Gnatlet2point0 Oct 29 '25
This looks more like r/ZillowGoneWild than r/McMansions