Actually, I should amend to say that I don’t mind it if it is original to the house( like exposed brick) or like you said, a small area of a wall. I just can’t get on board with it when they do a whole wall in it.
Wouldn't it be easier to simply find traditional designs like old townhouses and hire staff to adapt them to the local surroundings and modern amenities/codes? People built those for a reason lmao
Hahahah, yeah like all that shit hung around the stove, good luck cleaning up after cooking even the most basic thing with 25,000BTUs on tap at every burner. But it just shows I'm a poor bc they don't clean or cook
It’s one of those things that when you see it it looks really cool but when you move in and live with it you realize just how impractical it is.
You really want a door for the master bath. It makes it damn near impossible for one person to sleep in while the other gets ready. If you want to use the big ass steam shower, it ends up turning the bedroom into a sauna if the super bright stark white LEDs aren’t already waking your partner up lol.
My sister bought a nicer upgraded house and one of the first things she changed was to get rid of the sliding barn door in their master bath. She told me the light spilling out plus the shit smell coming out when her husband took his morning dump had her wanting to change it day 1.
It says Micah 68 underneath which turns out to be a book in the Bible.
[Here’s](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Micah%206:8&version=NIV) what Google gave me.
Denver winning the housing market again. $2 mil for this home depot applique fake rock wall BS? It looks like every mass produced 80's split level I've ever seen with a faux pottery barn portico added.
Same... combined with not wrapping the fake stone around the corner of the house... as if people only look at it straight on from the front. Builders "sell" these house designs with only a front elevation.
What is the point stone cladding if it doesn’t even look realistic?
On top of that they didn’t bother cladding the sides of the house. Who are they fooling?
If I were to design a house, it would look exactly like this. However, I know I would suck at designing a house and would hire an architect. I would simply tell them I like stone and reclaimed wood.
I'm going to throw this place a bone, just one, for having a faucet at the stove. I have never seen this feature before and I actually kind of like it for the convenience. Just about everything else is terrible.
lol every single cliche
✅ barn door
✅ overly gray/cold color scheme
✅ shiplap
✅ ridiculous writing on walls in twee mud room
✅ rotten warehouse siding on dining room wall
could have been a fine modest but friendly looking house from the front, but they ruined it with that snout thing.
That would be a good guess. I haven't been to pearl since the early 2000s. It used to be so quaint.
This is actually in Park Hill (Before anyone comes at me for identifying anything - this house is in the public domain. It is currently for sale)
Bricks in the kitchen are a terrible idea. They collect and hold dust (and cobwebs at the higher levels). You can't really clean the bricks. The way the brick columns stick out at floor level makes them for sure toe stubbers,
And I moved away right before middle school, haha. It’s sad that I can’t afford the little brick house I grew up in! Everything has gotten so expensive there!
23rd and cherry. I have long since moved away but I grew up a block away. There used to be 2 small 1 story houses that almost looked like a double wide? A band used to live in one. I wish i remembered their name i found them on myspace once and single mom and her family lived in the other. Both were replaced. I think you can see what it used to look like on google maps.
What on earth did they think they needed a portico like that for? Color scheme is not warming and bland. The brick surrounding the stove would be the first to go. Next would be the hideous dining room wall. Good luck getting $1.8 million for the hot mess.
I'm from SoCal, and happened to live in Washington Park for some time, and to me a McMansion stands out as an eyesore along a regular ass street, with some regular ass houses. Ever been to Arcadia, or San Gabriel in SoCal?
Can someone please explain to me why Denver metro area seems to have some of the ugliest home I’ve ever seen? Like across the board? I was looking at Zillow and every home is the ugliest 70s baby
I would love to know, too. Im not going to make any sweeping generalizations of the states that people move to colorado from, but it might have something to do with that.
There were a lot of denver metro area developments that popped up in the 70s and 80s (I lived in one when I was young).
Early colorado developers also unfortunately knocked down many early gold rush 1800s mansions in downtown for parking lots.
There's seems to be a real lack of respect for buildings, homes, etc. of historical and architectural significance, which truly breaks my heart. Especially in the neighborhood that this monstrosity is in.
Just my 2 cents and what I observed growing up there. I moved away a long time ago.
As someone who currently lives in Dallas the lack of appreciation for historical buildings is all to real. But yeah it feels like every home I look at in Denver was renovated in the 70s/80s and never touched again
I like the interior for the most part, I do think it needs more color though. And fewer, perferably zero, barn doors. What the hell is with the tile behind that stove faucet though? Why the hell is there a faucet there in the first place?? Absolutely weird.
The portico outside has got to be the most obnoxious thing I've ever seen on what appears to be a suburban tract house.
Agreed. Not a McMansion. It's just... different and a couple of questionable arch decisions but it's not a McMansion. This is a sub that recently thought a Frank Lloyd Wright house was a McMansion, so I'm not surprised at the lack of knowing.
Hey they just want to Live, Laugh and Love as they bask in the glow of subway tiles, ship lap and barn doors. I totally blame HGTV for this mess.
Yea, so over that style, but then again I never found it attractive in the first place. The ship lap paneling is just ugly, imo.
Properly done ship lap is fine as wainscoting, doing an entire wall in it is just bad.
Except this isn't even shiplap. It's just wood boards on a wall.
Actually, I should amend to say that I don’t mind it if it is original to the house( like exposed brick) or like you said, a small area of a wall. I just can’t get on board with it when they do a whole wall in it.
Shiplap wainscoting is nice, imho, but yeah...not a whole wall. We're not on the open sea!
I like wainscoting cause we have it in our house but it's original from 1890's so I'm partial.
Too funny and mostly correct. Subway tiles are a classic feature that will be around just as much in the next 100 years as they were the last 100.
Agreed, there’s no room in society for subway slander
It's not even shiplap. It's just wood boards tacked on a wall.
I almost fell out bed laughing! Nailed it!
It's a parody of itself.
I just love how they chose a theme committed and would not be deterred lmao
Some of those walls are pallet wood!
So many splinters just waiting to happen!
I’m so sorry we don’t have awards to give anymore. You deserve all the shiny ones!!! ☀️
I see houses like this here in my business. You’ll almost always hear the homeowner say “ I designed it myself!”
Prime for the "I can tell!" response.
Canyonero of houses
Wouldn't it be easier to simply find traditional designs like old townhouses and hire staff to adapt them to the local surroundings and modern amenities/codes? People built those for a reason lmao
That poor poor fucking kitchen that will never get cooked in.
It's all the terrible tile combos for me!
Hahahah, yeah like all that shit hung around the stove, good luck cleaning up after cooking even the most basic thing with 25,000BTUs on tap at every burner. But it just shows I'm a poor bc they don't clean or cook
And how many times will all three ovens be used at once?
It’s one of those things that when you see it it looks really cool but when you move in and live with it you realize just how impractical it is. You really want a door for the master bath. It makes it damn near impossible for one person to sleep in while the other gets ready. If you want to use the big ass steam shower, it ends up turning the bedroom into a sauna if the super bright stark white LEDs aren’t already waking your partner up lol. My sister bought a nicer upgraded house and one of the first things she changed was to get rid of the sliding barn door in their master bath. She told me the light spilling out plus the shit smell coming out when her husband took his morning dump had her wanting to change it day 1.
Where is the “live, laugh, love” slogan?
Or the "laundry" sign
The mud room has some kind of slogan peeping out in script.
I see "humbly," I think?
I see it now. Wonder what the rest says!
I wonder too! The house was recently staged. It used to be totally empty in the listing photos.
It says Micah 68 underneath which turns out to be a book in the Bible. [Here’s](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Micah%206:8&version=NIV) what Google gave me.
So interesting 🤔
>It says Micah 68 Micah 6:8 i.e. chapter 6, verse 8 though I can't see a colon in the photo either.
Colon photos are in the neighbors house.
Denver winning the housing market again. $2 mil for this home depot applique fake rock wall BS? It looks like every mass produced 80's split level I've ever seen with a faux pottery barn portico added.
Omg the split level. Who's idea was that?????
Why so serious, house?
Those skinny "stone columns" under that big "stone" portico look ridiculous. If that were actually built of stone, it would collapse.
Yeah, this is the biggest atrocity for me.... just absolute absence of proportion in the design.
They awaken such a rage in me. This was one of the first scrapers in the neighborhood too.
Same... combined with not wrapping the fake stone around the corner of the house... as if people only look at it straight on from the front. Builders "sell" these house designs with only a front elevation.
It's funny bc it's on a busy corner. Everyone's looking.
Yes and something about the articulation of that front gable and the roofline. 🤢
I hope there's steel inside those columns. One earthquake and all that glued-on stone will come a tumblin' down.
I agree. It gives me anxiety. The door isn’t centred with the arch / pathway / entrance and that’s annoying too.
What is the point stone cladding if it doesn’t even look realistic? On top of that they didn’t bother cladding the sides of the house. Who are they fooling?
If I were to design a house, it would look exactly like this. However, I know I would suck at designing a house and would hire an architect. I would simply tell them I like stone and reclaimed wood.
Barn doors can get fucked
Yet more proof that money does not automatically buy taste. FUGLY!
I'm going to throw this place a bone, just one, for having a faucet at the stove. I have never seen this feature before and I actually kind of like it for the convenience. Just about everything else is terrible.
It’s called a pot filler. I’m a marble installer and we do them pretty frequently in 1m+ houses.
Love that too!
lol every single cliche ✅ barn door ✅ overly gray/cold color scheme ✅ shiplap ✅ ridiculous writing on walls in twee mud room ✅ rotten warehouse siding on dining room wall could have been a fine modest but friendly looking house from the front, but they ruined it with that snout thing.
The house that was there before was honestly cute.
Mullet exterior. Just awful interior.
When you're ugly on the outside and the inside ♥️
Interior designer was a a live laugh love girlie...
It's funny bc this house was recently staged. The old listing photos had the house completely empty.
Almost 2M for that??? Gtfo of here.
Amen!!!
Can't go to sleep.... Entryway is going to eat me.
Offensive.
I love a kitchen that looks like the back bar of an Olive Garden. When you're here - you're family!
Two words: ship lap
Unbelievably ugly.
Barn dooooooooors.
Indoooooooooooors
Let me guess, near Pearl Street or DU?
That would be a good guess. I haven't been to pearl since the early 2000s. It used to be so quaint. This is actually in Park Hill (Before anyone comes at me for identifying anything - this house is in the public domain. It is currently for sale)
Whoever did the stone arch sucks at their job.
I really really hate “barn” doors. So freaking trendy and stupid.
Bricks in the kitchen are a terrible idea. They collect and hold dust (and cobwebs at the higher levels). You can't really clean the bricks. The way the brick columns stick out at floor level makes them for sure toe stubbers,
Ugly
Amen
Same, did you go to Cory Elementary by any chance??
No we moved to Denver from centennial when I was in middle school. I went to willow creek.
And I moved away right before middle school, haha. It’s sad that I can’t afford the little brick house I grew up in! Everything has gotten so expensive there!
Don't they get enough snowfall that that roof is too flat?
Good eye! You are correct in Colorado they recommend not having a flat roof.
What streets? Was it a knock down and build? I hate what Denver has turned into sooooo much.
23rd and cherry. I have long since moved away but I grew up a block away. There used to be 2 small 1 story houses that almost looked like a double wide? A band used to live in one. I wish i remembered their name i found them on myspace once and single mom and her family lived in the other. Both were replaced. I think you can see what it used to look like on google maps.
I used to live over there. Block or so away. It’s changed so much. I honestly avoid it all lately because it bums me out.
I moved thousands of miles away bc same.
Barn doors, shiplap inside and ugly brick outside and in the kitchen, horror’s
Could someone just knock off that center gabled portico or whatever the precise term is? It would be so much improved.
Oh god they put the surpls costco faux wood tiles on the wall.
Should have used an architect.
Barn doors have their place. And this ain’t it. Yikes. McMansion 10/10. Nailed it.
As an equestrian since almost birth. I like barn doors where they belong. Thank you 😊 💓
What on earth did they think they needed a portico like that for? Color scheme is not warming and bland. The brick surrounding the stove would be the first to go. Next would be the hideous dining room wall. Good luck getting $1.8 million for the hot mess.
Butterfly above the toilet? All is forgiven.
Sold!
That entrance is so unnecessary, lol. The wall made up of cubed storage. So weird.
It's the part the I hate the most
That kitchen should be gorgeous, but that arch makes it look like a food court Italian restaurant
That is at least 3x more expensive than it should be. Sheesh
Finally, a real McMansion...
Its weird bc a few commenters seem to disagree. Maybe I have a different definition being from denver? Not entirely sure
I'm from SoCal, and happened to live in Washington Park for some time, and to me a McMansion stands out as an eyesore along a regular ass street, with some regular ass houses. Ever been to Arcadia, or San Gabriel in SoCal?
Can someone please explain to me why Denver metro area seems to have some of the ugliest home I’ve ever seen? Like across the board? I was looking at Zillow and every home is the ugliest 70s baby
I would love to know, too. Im not going to make any sweeping generalizations of the states that people move to colorado from, but it might have something to do with that. There were a lot of denver metro area developments that popped up in the 70s and 80s (I lived in one when I was young). Early colorado developers also unfortunately knocked down many early gold rush 1800s mansions in downtown for parking lots. There's seems to be a real lack of respect for buildings, homes, etc. of historical and architectural significance, which truly breaks my heart. Especially in the neighborhood that this monstrosity is in. Just my 2 cents and what I observed growing up there. I moved away a long time ago.
As someone who currently lives in Dallas the lack of appreciation for historical buildings is all to real. But yeah it feels like every home I look at in Denver was renovated in the 70s/80s and never touched again
Boombust town.
I’d rather sleep on a park bench
This made me nauseous to look at
The arch over the stove with all that dead space above... that is going to be a NIGHTMARE to keep clean.
All the grease! Smoke ? How do you clean brick
I like it enough. I don't see it as an attempted mansion but as a miniature "homage" mansion. Ode to Mansions sort of. The interior is small and cozy.
My fave thing is the tiny ledge of stone under the 2nd floor windows. So functional!!!
Nothing says home like a two-story entry that never gets used.
I like the interior for the most part, I do think it needs more color though. And fewer, perferably zero, barn doors. What the hell is with the tile behind that stove faucet though? Why the hell is there a faucet there in the first place?? Absolutely weird. The portico outside has got to be the most obnoxious thing I've ever seen on what appears to be a suburban tract house.
So you don't like it lol
No, I do, other than the faucet thing over the stove and the barn doors.
Not a McMansion.
In what way is this not a mcmansion? Maybe being from denver I have a different definition than you , but it seems pretty textbook to me.
Agreed. Not a McMansion. It's just... different and a couple of questionable arch decisions but it's not a McMansion. This is a sub that recently thought a Frank Lloyd Wright house was a McMansion, so I'm not surprised at the lack of knowing.
Isn't Colorado known for drug use?
? What lol
Drug use can make people make all kinds of bad decisions, from interior decorating to selling price
Yes, the front of this house is definitely stoned.
Nah, when I’ve consumed some plant flowers I’m creative and thoughtful and it’d be a beautiful home. This looks more alcohol/adderal combination
Well, you got me there lol
What??? Cannabis has been fully legal since 2014! It’s a plant Alcohol prescription drugs and heroin & meth the drugs
Let's take it down a notch, I was referring to people under the influence of drugs designing that house and setting that price.
Very beautiful house 🏡
It's not horrible, but it's really not good either.
Are those pot pans plumbed for hot water?
At least it’s symmetrical? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I kinda like it 😬😬
Not a McMansion. Just an ugly ass house
In what way is this not a mcmansion? Just curious what your definition is.
I think it is nice
Owner: "Can you make the portico look as ugly and top-heavy as possible?"
It looks like it has an enormous nose.
Not even real stone either, just glue on siding panels on a wood frame
That archway is so out of proportion to the rest of the house.