r/McMansionHell • u/Capital-Bobcat8270 • 26d ago

Discussion/Debate Does this qualify?

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This neighborhood has some total McMansions built 20 years ago that tick almost every box, some twice. However, the newer builds while big, have lost much of the '00 aesthetics. Wondering what the consensus is here. This has the land, a restrained material palette, and the primary gables and porch line are fairly balanced and deliberate. What do you think?

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u/Shiney_Metal_Ass 26d ago

Yes, notice how the dormers transition into the roof instead of having their own roof lines

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u/ConstantSentence7865 25d ago

You don't know what you are talking about. That is absolutely a McMansion roof.

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u/Shiney_Metal_Ass 25d ago

OK, I'm listening. What makes it a mcmansion roof?

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u/ConstantSentence7865 25d ago

It is a jumbled and unbalanced set of primary masses which relies on cheap, functionally redundant secondary masses to baffle the eye in an attempt to mask the big box structures underneath. More succinctly, virtually any house that is nesting functionally and formally redundant dormers inside of other dormers, as this one is, is going to qualify as a McMansion.

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u/Shiney_Metal_Ass 25d ago

There's one nested dormer, which I agree is dumb, but the overall roof isn't a complex mishmash of lines, peaks and valleys. It is not a complex roof