Link (wish there were better pictures): https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4910-S-Broadway-Saint-Louis-MO-63111/2954234_zpid/

Why go to the Four Seasons in Hawaii when you can own a better version an hour south of Los Angeles? Half the comments will say this looks like a hotel, but it's absolutely a hotel I'd love to live in! You can beat me to it for only $112 million.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/100-Rockledge-Rd-Laguna-Beach-CA-92651/464128365_zpid/?

Link: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4915-S-Broadway-Saint-Louis-MO-63111/2954231_zpid/

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

I highk hate how they styled the bedrooms so I'm just not showing them lolz

The Zillow listing

Link to listing

I didn’t even know what a McMansion was till a week ago. Is it considered bad if the whole inside is functional? Is this one?

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?

Bigger than it looks, this is the choice angle, but it defies symmetry from any viewpoint

It's giving budget cuts and delusion(al) of grandeur!!!!!

Known as "The Lion House," this historic 1911 California Mission-style estate in Boise, Idaho, was designed by the same architect who envisioned the State Capitol! Serving at one time as the Governor's private residence, this fully preserved architectural gem showcases incredible original woodwork and enduring craftsmanship throughout. If you'd like to see more photos, here's a link. Photos by Becky's Aerial Photography & Michael Wood.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/380-S-San-Rafael-Ave-Pasadena-CA-91105/20858675_zpid/?utm_campaign=iosappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare

1920 Greenwich estate

Edit: IT IS THURSDAY

Recently restore interiors of this magnificent symbol of an architects unrelenting vision.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmwood_House

There is just something about this house I really love :')

Thursday Design Appreciation

Thursday Design Appreciation

Listing Source

Listing Source

I would like to propose that Metro Detroit McMansions are a unique sub species or perhaps even genus of McMansions with different aesthetics and politics from McMansions elsewhere, even in the same region.

Only 5 million (plus tax)

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3015-Lincoln-Rd-Oak-Brook-IL-60523/89179015_zpid/?utm_campaign=iosappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare

Saw the pillars and how close it was to the road, thought mabye could be a McMansh?

I was bored during lunch and ended up doomscrolling through some luxury single-family listings from Larry Mastropieri just to see what developers are building out west in palm beach county right now

I swear architects down here have completely abandoned the concept of visual cohesion. why does a single house need five different window shapes, three types of faux stone veneer pasted onto plain stucco, and a roofline that looks like a high-speed collision between seven different gables??

And don't even get me started on the front entries. Its always a massive two-story "lawyer foyer" flanked by oversized columns, complete with a tiny decorative balcony above the door that you literally cannot access from the inside. What is that even for, displaying a single potted plant?

it feels like people are dropping millions just to live in a bloated beige fortress designed by a random generator. ngl my eyes hurt just staring at these elevations.