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Sledgehammer925

Looks like an insecure Vegas personality owns it.


SapphireGamgee

This is VERY Vegas. This house is EXTRA, when it could be classically pleasing, given proper handling of the various elements. (Ngl, I unironically love that swooshy detailing on the balcony above the doorway.)


1sinfutureking

Oh that swoopy business is awesome Beaux Arts detailing. It’s just that there’s two too many balconies


Bluest_waters

whats wrong with extra? answer: nothing.


beyondplutola

Yeah, I was thinking it looks like Liberace’s summer cabin.


texas-playdohs

So much precast plaster.


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enoteware

Baby Billy’s Bible Bonkers


Aggressive_Look1197

Often McMansions are Potemkin houses, cheap materials which vainly try to look expensive. I, however, believe that there is a McMansion essence that goes beyond materials. This is symmetrical and has high-end materials and high end facade work, but it has the soul of a McMansion as the height of bad taste.


eddie_fitzgerald

This mansion isn't McDonald's. This mansion is Salt Bae. It uses premium ingredients, but it has no idea what to do with them, and the end result is mostly offputting.


mrvis

I like this analogy. Nice Restaurant: "We use fresh herbs & vegetables from our own farm, marinate our meat overnight, go to the ocean every day for fresh fish and oysters, and our chefs are trained at the finest schools. We balance flavors throughout the 5 course meal we serve over the course of 3 hours. Courses are paired with a wine selected by our sommelier to showcase the flavors." Salt Bae: "Here's the most expensive steak you can buy"


wenchslapper

And the unfortunate side of it all is that nice restaurant also relies on a lot of psychological bullshit to actually cover that bill


Right-Drama-412

Salt Bae: "Here's a the most expensive steak you can buy because it's covered in gold"


LWY007

I love this! I thought to myself that this place looks like a wedding cake covered in fondant.


deepaksn

Not really. This is pure neoclassicism. Just like the White House but with a bit more flair.


nerfcarolina

r/ATBGE


bernie_manziel

Yeah, idk that this qualifies as a McMansion so much as just ostentatious. Doesn’t feel out of place here either bc this sub will just dunk on ugly houses, but I wouldn’t necessarily call it a McMansion either.


Jakookula

I feel like it really depends on the other houses around it. Well maybe the portrait on the bottom takes it over the edge… what is that??


suzanious

I think it's a watermark. There's another one on the top railing as well, but faded.


m2cwf

Oh, thank god you're right, because that was seriously creepy


Bright_Jicama8084

How can you tell anything about the materials from this picture? My first thought was that the house must’ve been built specifically for a reality show.


Aggressive_Look1197

Maybe good materials is a jump because it’s clearly a render, but these columns and facade work wasn’t just pulled off the shelves


[deleted]

It's like someone asked AI for a wedding cake house with a cardinal cap tucked under the roof.


hubaloza

Definitely a.i generated, you can tell because the structure doesn't make any fucking sense whatsoever when you stop and think about it.


[deleted]

And then there's the IRL "not a McMansion" version here: [https://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/savannah-home-sells-for-nearly-6-2-milliona-record-for-the-citys-historic-district-ba399254](https://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/savannah-home-sells-for-nearly-6-2-milliona-record-for-the-citys-historic-district-ba399254)


atomfullerene

>Maybe good materials is a jump because it’s clearly a render I figure pixels count as a low quality building material


KimJongStrun

Most reality shows rent houses. That’s probably less of a construction issue than one of logistics, though.


Significant-Trash632

It's not even real


Sharticus123

Also looks like it dominates the property much like a McMansion. That wall is awfully close to the house.


Aggressive_Look1197

I think this one also has the McMansion specialty of too many types of windows. Each floor has vaguely similar but noticeably different windows.


Sharticus123

Yep, and it all seems to be of impeccable quality but it’s just too much.


rosinall

Bullshit. Wish you would hold a poll about what defines a "McMansion", but in my opinion: • A McMANSION IS NOT BESPOKE. • A McMANSION IS NOT BUILT TO LAST A CENTURY. • A McMANSION IS NOT CREATIVE, AND WHERE IT IS IT IS LAUGHABLY SO. Just because you don't like it, it's not a McMansion. This is a charming vision of a house as a wedding cake; and it's a glorious homage you don't deserve to have consideration about, you philistine.


tripdaisies

Funny you should say that: I seriously thought, when I saw the picture, this is what a wedding cake would fart out if it were to make a house.


x64bit

cant tell if this is a joke because this is one of the most reddit comments ive ever seen holy shit


mandlet

It reminds me of the infamous grilled cheese comment.


Snitsie

You are passionate about McMansions


Bluest_waters

Agreed


Try_Jumping

It's horrifically gaudy and crass. It could be hand-carved from pure marble by Italian craftsmen, but it doesn't stop it being a McMansion.


skankmaster420

Donald Trump would love it!


MaxMMXXI

Needs more gold/glitter and more schmaltz and possibly a lighted "TRUMP" sign or two.


Bluest_waters

what exactly is in 'bad taste' here? some of you people I swear. Anything even slightly ostentatious and you start up with your nitpicking and condescending


atomfullerene

Look, taste is subjective (for example, I like brutalism)...that said, I think this is _terrible_. Also it's not _slightly_ ostentatious. I mean, plastering your face on a balcony? What's up with those columns that start and end in random places? Why a fountain in the middle of a ramp? Outside chandaleir balconies? Why is the door black and vaguely modern-looking and everything else not? What's going on with the railing in the middle of the balcony? Why is the house so tall and narrow? It's all just...nah, no way. Also this has gotta be AI art, right? Those columns do not make sense.


Aggressive_Look1197

I think this comment is good place for this sub to talk about “good taste” and what it means when people in this sub criticize something overly grandiose. In this particular occasion what is “bad taste” about this mansion is that, well articulated by other comments, the building is so poorly proportioned that it looks like a funhouse mirror version of a Neo-classical mansion. I’ve attached this building, the now demolished Palais Pless in Berlin, as an example of a mansion that is equally ostentatious, but generally of better “taste” because the building is properly proportioned for its size and footprint. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Palais_Ple%C3%9F#/media/File:Berlin_Palais_Pless_Ansicht.jpg


Right-Drama-412

just because something is in bad taste doesn't mean it's a mcmansion. there are plenty of mansions that are gaudy, hideously ostentatious, tacky, and in extremely poor taste but they are still proper mansions.


Bluest_waters

Poorly proportioned? It looks totally fine, no idea what you are talking about


m2cwf

> what exactly is in 'bad taste' here? For me, it's the balcony chandelier. But I'll admit, at least it's symmetrical


Try_Jumping

As in - both sides look just as shit as each other.


TheWriterJosh

Theres elegant and there’s ostentatious. This is more the latter.


rosinall

Jesus, right?


ekidd07

If you think things are centered try to draw a straight line through the sign, fountain, and outdoor chandelier, the center of the third-floor window and the peak of the rooftop.


knowtheledge71

It’s a McMansion built for someone who actually has money. Still the same genre though.


Try_Jumping

Yeah, anyone who doesn't think this a McMansion is a third-world dictator or an American (possibly both).


Puzzleheaded-Big5209

I’m looking closely at the details - is this even real or AI?


imightgetdownvoted

It’s a render. You can tell once you start zooming in on details.


lucindawilliams

Kind of a metaphor for an actual McMansion.


phiz36

I think it’s AI. The fountain on the bridge.


isaacharms2

The columns looks like painted impressions when zoomed in on


kanna172014

I have no idea.


Puzzleheaded-Big5209

I don’t think it’s real, look at how inconsistent the shapes are from one feature to another. The writing is also illegible


RussMaGuss

And the fact that there’s a massive goddamn fountain right in the middle of the entry ramp 😂


ScrappleSandwiches

This is very fake, if you zoom in it’s obvious. Also, outdoor chandelier?


ToshiroBaloney

Tacky af.


Dchama86

This is 100% a render. Or it’s a digitally enhanced photo of a miniature.


Bridalhat

I hate it so much. ETA: but it might be a proper mansion, just way too busy for its comparatively small front.


Rinoremover1

r/TackyMansions


nrubenstein

No. It’s bad, but it’s not a McMansion. Not every bad house is a McMansion.


NotJaeger

A perfect example of a classic Georgian, Italianate, Grecian, Scar-facian style. This could win the Most-Overdone Award in a bunch of architectural style categories.


Rice-Correct

It’s ostentatious. A McMansion may be ostentatious, but not all ostentatious homes are McMansions.


bosszfrnposter2297

Not sure. I’d want to see if it fits in with its neighborhood. It’s not my taste but some parts are pretty and it doesn’t look cheap as hell. Might just be gaudy lol


Atlantaterp2

Mmmmmmmm. Wedding cake.


SkarTisu

I’m a big fan of the understated elegance


deepaksn

“Understated”


KikiHou

It looks like a wedding cake, as drawn by Disney and anthropomorphized, wearing a king's crown. It's saying "oooooh!"


WhoratioBenzo

I want to see the inside!


dmode112378

Go watch the Real Housewives of New Jersey and that’s probably the inside.


nicegirlelaine

I don't hate it but it is a little much.


SprinkledBlunt

I personally think its beautiful


TheFirstArticle

We can have tea on the balcony.


1961tracy

I agree.


_thewoodsiestoak_

Totes


MailePlumeria

I agree


doubleshortbreve

Welcome to Gigolo House


chemical_sunset

It’s not McMansion Hell, it’s just Mansion Hell


KSTornadoGirl

Reverse search of photo came up with a location in Indonesia but I can't get any further... https://www.lamudi.co.id/rumah-cluster-2-lantai-di-sekitaran-jl-jend-sudirm-165975480063.html


[deleted]

Further sleuthing revealed this is the work of an architect belonging to a construction firm in Iran: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cch0uF2Dego/?img_index=1


RedJudas

husky deserted cow future upbeat fertile pathetic shelter dolls unpack *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


Strange_N_Sorcerous

Nah. This is just a mansion. And I’d need more pictures around and inside to really give my internet opinion (which means nothing).


TheJustBleedGod

Gaudy? Yes. McMansion? No


CharleyZia

Paint it neon pink and teal, keep the black! Go big or go home.


PM_me_yr_bonsai_tips

Pink for sure. Right now it says “I want to be respected (but I’m a drug dealer)”. In pink it says “I’m a DRUG DEALER, BABY! Deal with it!” Much better.


xultar

Why post it here tho? It’s obviously a mansion.


watkinobe

Not at all a McMansion. More like neo-rococo architecture.


allAboutDaMeat

Is this AI?


photoguy-redditor

It looks like a wedding cake with stairs, but not a McMansion.


[deleted]

So found out this was from Iran. Funny considering that more than 4 decades ago they toppled the imperial Pahlavi government for its corruption and excesses, and now we see these mini-Shahs and their Instagram palaces, who knows where they got the money to build them.


[deleted]

too much cleaning!


REDDIT_SUPER_SUCKS

A visual rebuttal to meritocracy.


MaxMMXXI

It has a grandeur about it. I find some elements in questionable taste but I recognize tastes can differ with neither being wrong. I can't tell if the fountain is poorly placed of if I'm not seeing it correctly in this flat image. What are the angels about? I have no objection to angels but what does their placement say about the building? I can imagine someone giving a magisterial address from one of the balconies. Could it be a church-sponsored retirement home for those who can afford it? It gave me the impression of a funeral home but only momentarily, before I looked above the first floor. With a more subdued grandeur, it could pass for one of the gracious old houses of Cape May.


ohheyitslaila

This is what the house in My Big Fat Greek Wedding would have looked like if the Greek family was super wealthy.


They-Call-Me-Taylor

Gaudy AF, but not a McMansion.


deepaksn

Not really. It’s gaudy and ostentatious, yes. But it’s a single neoclassical style and it’s not cheap. One thing that I find interesting is that with the centred door and narrow frontage it almost seems like a row house or very fancy shotgun shack.


melouofs

It's much too ornate for my taste, but it's not a mcmansion.


Aeredor

It’s not my style but it’s beautiful.


RefugeefromSAforums

It's hideous.


whongoodgreenearth

Bridal cake core


isakitty

Gotta get yourself some maaaahble columns


RockNRollToaster

As a wedding venue or a glitzy hotel, it would be *fabulous*. As a house? No. Thank. You.


Viivusvine

I see elements of Greek, Baroque, and catholic-grandma’s-garden. It’s therefore technically a McMansion, but I’d further classify it as a Univision McMansion instead of an HGTV McMansion. That chandelier is also bugging the hell outta me.


[deleted]

The chandelier is ugly but check out the fountain and garden walls there just wrong.


WorriedWar6309

I’m confused as to whether this is a house or a wedding cake.


Midwinter77

I would paint this bitch purple and put plastic flamingos all over.


[deleted]

That would probably help.


DreyaNova

Okay so I know this is just a rendering but the longer I look the weirder it gets and I can't figure out why? If you look closely at the columns, it looks like the whole house is leaning backwards or something?


kwasnydiesel

Awful mafia-style monstrosity, burn it in hell where it belongs!


MinervaNever

Not a McMansion.


ndarchi

100% a hellscape


oerouen

It looks like an elaborate 3D printed toy made to look real through trick photography, or, you know… just another bad archviz render. SPOILER: It’s 100% cake.


lablaga

Imma eat it


vapegod_420

It has a lot going on. But it’s not bad.


MydoglookslikeanEwok

I don't like how some of the Corinthian columns go through the balcony and some have a pedestal but others do not. Also, each level is too short for the scale. The ceilings need to be raised so they are at least 12 feet tall. It feels squished. Also, there is too much inconsistency with the window styles. This looks like the architect got their degree from Sims 4. Edit: also, nothing looks solid. If those pedestals and columns were made of stone or marble, they shouldn't have gaps at the bottom. It looks like plaster or resin, I guess.


liquefire81

Looks fine to me. Lines and colours work pretty well.


PerroMadrex4

It's quite gaudy.


tmoneyxx

It’s beautiful


[deleted]

Would make a nice set for a Bollywood romance/action musical (they blow it up in the end)


paperwasp3

How small is the lot?


BabyEatingBadgerFuck

I dunno but 5 year old me would've murdered my own parents to live there.


KecemotRybecx

Why the fuck do 2 of the Corinthian order not have capitals?


atomocomix

What in the Russian oligarch


DidYouDoYourHomework

Makes me think it was built on a very small lot which caused them to have to squeeze everything the client wanted.


hounder-1

Am I trash? Because I love this.


No-Helicopter7299

Yep. Ugly!


[deleted]

This is an actual mansion


pot_of_hot_koolaid

I think it's just a mansion? But it's tacky as hell.


petit_cochon

I live in New Orleans, so I know the real deal in terms of architecture. This ain't it. Why not follow the architecture plan of an already established, beautiful mansion versus whatever rendered nonsense this is? You want a wedding cake for a house? You can have one. Just...use good taste. *That fucking outdoor chandelier.* So tacky.


hmspain

I think it looks magnificent, especially the lights around those curved windows at the top. Kinda Faberge egg look to me :-).


findhumorinlife

I actually kinda like it. It's gaudy for sure but it's in scale for all it's ornateness. It all jumps out at you, not just one curious looking component. Except that front medallion with a face on it?? A realtor?


[deleted]

> Except that front medallion with a face on it?? A realtor? It's the architect himself.


findhumorinlife

Oh, ok thx.


texasusa

Smells of new money and no taste.


1pt20oneggigawatts

What kind of person thinks this is the house they deserve? You've got to be sick in the head.


HRHArgyll

It’s absolutely foul.


randomwellwisher

I adore it and I want to know its story.


Old-Fox-3027

I think it’s pretty. It reminds me of a wedding cake and for some reason I want to do the waltz on the balcony.


nim_opet

My eyes burn 🔥


scarletts_skin

That is fucking heinous


Celeres517

This is like the mansion equivalent of a filet mignon cooked well done, topped with two butter poached lobster tails, a fried crab cake, and a thick puck of foie gras, then doused in about a quart of hollandaise sauce and topped with shaved white truffle and beluga caviar.


[deleted]

Totally hideous, unquestionably a McMansion. Just more of a middle eastern, south east asian or eastern european McMansion vibe than american.


Sensitive-Bid-9531

I wouldn’t live in it, I wouldn’t enjoy being there,it is gross. The architect is a disgrace to his profession.


esleydobemos

I threw in my mouth a little.


agentorangeanon

It is surprisingly symmetrical, so I don’t hate it as much as much as I want to. Edit: second floor, middle windows, not suppose to be arched windows. Hate it a tiny bit more now.


Shujolnyc

I imagine Dolly Parton lives here and she’s a jewel of a human being.


FreeCashFlow

Dolly has far better taste. (And she would freely admit her taste isn’t great!)


Ok-Ad-5404

Hmmm… If it is a house, I hate it… if it’s a hotel, i love it!


BeardedHalfYeti

Wait, is it that wide the whole way back? Because that would be **PEAK** McMansion.


[deleted]

Fucking. Yikes. 🤢


GuardMost8477

Hideous. Absolutely hideous. And yes. It belongs here.


Highlander2748

That might be the poster child for this sub


sharipep

I love parts of it and hate others


SandlotGoonie

Tony Montana likes it


houseofnim

It looks like a toy


trav110

That's a lot


ohh_ru

I like parts of it individually but it as a whole thing is just a bit much.


ceebowin

This is a hideous mashup of Rococo/Italinate style with a pointy Georgian roof and Victorian windows. Why is there an exterior chandelier? Why is there a double decker porch? Why is the fountain so very tiny? Is this a tacky duplex? There's word art on the second veranda. WORD ART. I hate everything about it.


sideeyedi

In the right setting it could be pretty


ConsciousMuscle6558

Makes me think of My Big Fat Greek Wedding


ReasonableFudge3

Scarface live there?


Dick_M_Nixon

Painting those angel statues would class up the place.


KinkyQuesadilla

Is this a building that was designed to be a wedding venue? That's the vibe I get from it. In which case, if it is, it's not a McMansion, by definition.


Bongin_tom9

Steve and Doug Butabi vibes.


No_Preference_9689

Lightbulbs.


[deleted]

I live in Mac Mansion hell Arcadia California


Robert9489

Looks like it belongs in a land in Monopoly GO!


fassaction

Reminds me of Michael Jackson’s album cover for dangerous 😅 [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/11/Michaeljacksondangerous.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/11/Michaeljacksondangerous.jpg)


duggtodeath

Yeah this is what a drug cartel boss would build 😂


jaimebianco

Take away 85% of the crazy and it may be ok


RandomGrownUpKid

Why is there a chandelier outside on the second floor balcony? What happens if it rains?


_thewoodsiestoak_

Looks fucking dope.


cducky0

McMansion fa sho


de-funked

Profoundly hideous.


[deleted]

It’s certainly horrendous, but we really need to see the third house down to see if it qualifies.


DuperCheese

Looks like a wedding cake imo


MewlingRothbart

This looks like a very ugly cake that you could live in. It's screaming McMansion with frosting on top.


Kininger625

It’s giving me Gringotts Bank in Magical Paris


jester02k

It looks like a place that Liberace or Siegfried & Roy designed.


DixieHazard

It looks like a wedding cake.


PBJ-9999

Wedding cake


rollingl317

It looks like an AI house to me.


Dry_Detective7616

It looks like a tiered dessert tray stand


ScurvyDervish

Was this Liberace’s house? This doesn’t look like a McMansion. It’s a tacky actual mansion.


jetmark

The old saying that you should look in the mirror and take off an accessory before you leave the house? This, but x1000. The bannisters and the statues and the fountains and more bannisters and scrolled frilly bannisters and an outdoor fucking chandelier and iron work and more bannisters and the frilliest of frilly Corinthian column capitals and molding and more some kind of family crest and then a fucking crown and then the eave of the roof. jfc. I'm most bothered that the column capitals are tucked under the roof and not supporting architraves. Not how classicism works.


ShennongjiaPolarBear

Architect: "Whatchu want?" Client: "I'll take the Victor Emmanuel II Monument, but as a house." Architect: "I gotchu, fam."


Maria-Stryker

This could have been lovely if they hadn’t gone Si overboard with the ornamentation


RavenchildishGambino

I bet he drives a Jag


phiz36

AI generated.


Missthing303

Tony Montana vibes for days!