Why We Love Huge Mansions (but those "McMansions" ...not so much)

Top: Biltmore Estate
Bottom: A well-designed French
Renaissance styled home

If you get a kick out of looking at all kinds of houses (like I do), if you go out of your way to find great houses when you travel, then you know what a mansion is.

And if you pay any attention at all to the design/decorating and building/real estate media, then you've almost certainly heard the pejorative term McMansion.

There are as many definitions of the term McMansion as there are design critics, but they're generally large, new homes, usually rather poorly designed, and often too big for the lots they’re on.

Sarah Susanka, author of The Not So Big House books, calls them "Starter Castles", because McMansions can also be small homes.  Small homes that aren’t content to have the appropriate style or character that small homes should have, and instead try with all their might to look like big homes.

So it’s hard to say exactly what a McMansion is, but I think I know a “McMansion” when I see it, and you probably do too…or do you?

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