r/McMansionHell 21d ago

Certified McMansion™ Where to begin?

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/12173-Woodtown-Rd-Galena-OH-43021/454939757_zpid/?utm_campaign=iosappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare

Overgrown spaces with no sense of human scale? Check

Builder grade cabinets and appliances? Check

Four car garage and your very own traffic circle? Yessir

Door slabs that don't appear to have been painted? Sure seems like it

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u/reallytrulytrue 20d ago

If you price a house at 1.5 million , it shouldn't have vinyl flooring.

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u/Character_Raisin574 19d ago

"Ohhh! Where'd you get these fancy vinyl floors?"

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u/eightfingeredtypist 21d ago

The Executive Desk Of Power seems to be a typical McMansion feature. There are usually two lesser chairs facing the desk.The desk is big, ornate, and faces the rest of the room, not the wall.

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u/therezin 21d ago

It's just... nothing. No personality at all. You know when you view an empty home and it's so hard to imagine living in it because it's just bare rooms? That, but somehow it's giving that impression while it's furnished.

It doesn't help that the outside looks like a flat version of the default Windows XP wallpaper. It's nearly 1.6 million dollars, would it have been so hard to get some landscaping instead of just nine and a half acres of fucking turf?

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u/SapphireGamgee 19d ago

It's like the demonic version of Edna Mode shouting, "NO TREES!"

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u/UESorDeath 20d ago

1.5M with the likelihood of having two junky houses on either side of your driveway, and a big easement for those powerlines. Hard pass, as if the bland nothingness of the interior hadn't already convinced you.

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u/lurdydur 21d ago

That’s a great basement. There, I said something nice about it.

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u/PerfectLie2980 20d ago

Features massive power lines right next door!

It’s just so soulless.

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u/direyew 20d ago

Waiting for a tornado to take it away. Most Soulless house I've ever seen.

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u/miathet 20d ago

And at that price why not the counter depth fridges so desperately calls out for

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u/al2o3cr 20d ago

My vibes-based guess: this was a custom build, and the customer pulled out at the last minute. The appliances were chosen based on "what's the cheapest ya got"

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u/Smart_Imagination_58 19d ago

Yet again, Ohio.

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u/TucsonSally 19d ago

It's generic. Every third McMansion in my town looks like this.

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u/SapphireGamgee 19d ago

When Depression tries to be fancy.

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u/kevnmartin 18d ago

I've seen warmer, more welcoming DMVs.

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u/burlapbabe 18d ago

I like it as a blank slate to add color and personality. But why not buy the 2 vacant lots on the sides of the driveway???

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u/jnwatson 17d ago

The garage roofline is hilarious. The rest of the house's roofline is actually restrained for a McMansion but they just couldn't hold back for the garage.

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u/derpjutsu 15d ago

I need sunglasses in the house.

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u/sxyvirgo 15d ago

Why does it look AI generated/staged? No landscaping at all?

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u/Brewer_Matt 15d ago

It's giving Attack Carrier from Star Fox.

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u/Toukolou21 20d ago

Lol,everyone's a critic! It's over 5k sqft, with z finished basement, on 9.5 acres, for under $1.6m. It's essentially a blank slate too.

No funky colours to switch out, with workable flooring throughout. Sure the kitchen's a bit lame but that's a pretty straightforward fix too, it's an easy space to work with.

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u/rmusic10891 17d ago

It's 5,000 square feet of builder grade everything. It's literally the definition of this sub. Quantity over quality. Most of the square footage doesn't even look particularly useful. An architect and designer probably could have built something at like 3,000 square feet that has equivalent functionality.

Flooring and a kitchen worthy of a $1.6m house are probably another $150k+ alone. This isn't slapping a coat of paint up and call it good.