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A Community about large, cheaply built, suburban homes with design flaws and a lack of architectural integrity also known as “McMansions.” On Thursdays we celebrate the opposite: good suburban architectural design.

Based off the famous subreddit r/mcmansionhell, we will essentially do all the same here, as is over there. Please do your best and crosspost if you need too!

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A Short Guide

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Here are the rules:

Posts can be about ugly houses in general
Post appropriately and with correct tags WITHIN the title so it is easy to search. -->Tags: "Thursday Design Appreciation" or "HouseTDA", "Just Ugly", "Shitpost", "Certified McMansion™", "Discussion/Debate", and "Interior" are available.
All post subjects must be single family homes -->Only post suburban, single family homes. No apartments or duplexes, etc. The community is focused on specifically traditional suburban architecture.
Don't post addresses or other easily identifiable information unless it is publicly listed. -->Keep the information about the property you are posting basic and general. However, if the home is listed on a public website you are permitted to post a link to the public listing.
Direct Images Only, no links please. -->Post correctly cropped, direct images and not links to websites. Image hosting links, such as Imgur, are an exception, but we still prefer a direct image. Zillow house page, for example, is ok if it directly links to the photos and such.
No Spam -->No posting an excessive amount in a row on the same day or posting the same comment on several posts at once. We have seen it, we just didn't react to it. Please understand that.
No Screenshots -->Crop your photos correctly.
Thursday is special. To celebrate that, you can post nice houses you appreciate.

Helpful links:

Kate Wagner's Guide to McMansions

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Peoria, IL - Thursday Design Appreciation (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This one caught my eye. Definitely somewhere i would want to live.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I mean, it’s pretty far from the best MCM I’ve ever seen, but the great room is pretty nice. The bedrooms really would have benefitted from floor to ceiling windows and the bathrooms are actively hideous. Not sure I’d want to live in Peoria either, but the price is reasonable.

Also as an aside, I don’t think you can count 1960s MCMs as McMansions. I associate the term with those houses built in the mid-2000s that are 6500 sq ft with four car garages but are built so cheaply that the walls shake if someone slams the front door.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

it's Thursday Design Appreciation. "On Thursdays we celebrate the opposite: good suburban architectural design."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Understood and I apologize if I violated protocol. This came up in /all and I am both an MCM owner and enthusiast, so I felt the need to say something. I’ll still stand by my observations - we tend to be Eichler folks out here but I love everything from Frank Lloyd Wright to the Starship Enterprise. I categorically withdraw the comment about it not being a McMansion, though, since that was not its intent.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Idk... I kinda dig it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

it's Thursday Design Appreciation. "On Thursdays we celebrate the opposite: good suburban architectural design."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Oh! Well that makes me feel better for appreciating it lol

Someday I'll use my medications and I'll be able to read an entire title

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I assume the “design appreciation” in the title means this is actually nice, not a hellish McMansion.

Other than the carpet usage (if I had the means to buy this place I assume I’d have the means to tear out the carpet and put in hardwood or tile) I quite like this. It seems to be matched to the landscape reasonably well. I’d hate to maintain it, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

it's Thursday Design Appreciation. "On Thursdays we celebrate the opposite: good suburban architectural design."

[–] weariedfae 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't see anything wrong with this. It's just a large "modern" style house. This would go for 1.5-2 mil in my market.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"Thursday Design Appreciation" means that the house posted is meant to be an actually good house. But only on thursdays.

[–] weariedfae 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Oh TIL, sorry. I thought it was sarcastic.