Has all the traits of a McMansion, but the 3800 sqft makes me question if it fits in this sub.
Link if you want to see all the images: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4917-Erie-St-Annandale-VA-22003/51879922_zpid/
Has all the traits of a McMansion, but the 3800 sqft makes me question if it fits in this sub.
Link if you want to see all the images: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4917-Erie-St-Annandale-VA-22003/51879922_zpid/
The street view history is worth checking out. Used to be a tiny rancher there, with big trees out front.
https://preview.redd.it/22s8l2kykh8g1.png?width=720&format=png&auto=webp&s=930f63185f57fe22322356e85ceecaac14e6fa6d
Sure, it was a little modest compared to other houses on the street, but it was very cute & homey. A shame what thay choose to do.
I've been looking at the map and just realized we lived just a few blocks from there when I was a little kid and my dad worked in DC. That whole area is just full of modest homes like this, kind of on the small side of course. I wonder if these eyesores are a harbinger -- hard to reconcile my childhood of bicycles and crabapple trees with whatever this thing is that they're going for.
Indeed, the house next to it became a normal McMansion first in 2014. At least it looks a lot more normal than whatever this is ...
If you look at the houses across the street, they are still like this. What a goofy ass choice to slap this abomination in the middle of the neighborhood
The flipper saw Groverhaus and felt inspired
No way a flipper would spend enough to build that facade.
yeah this was a passion project of the worst kind
Look how they massacred my boy
Dude, it looks like a taco bell/mcDonalds from the front.
It reminds me of the towns in western movies with the big facade on the front and just essentially barn for a building. Except a bar would actually be useful and efficient design.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_false_front_architecture
I lived in a town where this was the way downtown was designed. Pretty funny
Pretty common in frontier towns when cities went up nearly overnight. Sometimes it was temporary, sometimes it would get built out after being established, sometimes it just stayed put. Several now-historical buildings of the downtown core where I live are still the original facades
Winthrop?
Canadian prairies
https://i.redd.it/e7iktsxuei8g1.gif
Oh you mean Rock Ridge?
Somebody's gotta go back and get a shitload of dimes.
KINKY!
The horses and dummies flying in the air always sends me. 😂
I actually love that we’ve reached this stage in the proliferation of this ‘contemporary’ style.
It was always an ugly and ultimately cheap style, but somehow, in this one’s attempt to deceive, it has actually become the most honest about what it is.
Somewhere I heard it referred to as “shitbox modern” and in the absence of a better name it stuck.
That’s perfect
The garage door makes it sadder though. The area I'm in has seen an opposite; a proliferation of contemporary garage doors with rectangular smoked windows etc, but on 80s houses that are just as jarring...
Oh gosh, yeah, I didn’t even notice the garage door. That’s so ridiculous and funny, especially when, like you said, there are so many of those ugly contemporary ones being mismatched as badly as this one is, but in the opposite way.
"This isn't bad wtf-- oh."
Yeah, it's like a house mullet.
Realtor office in the front, college party in the back?
Lmao I said this out loud when I saw it too. Just very off putting, thought it was ight at first. Then boom a whole other style of shitty quickbuild house material for the rest.
😆
https://i.redd.it/hnu6e52tyh8g1.gif
💀😆
Except that this one is more like party in the front and not much business happening in the back.
This should be nominated for McMansion of the year !
If the whole house was that style it would at least be a choice. I don't like the style but I can appreciate that sort of modern-post-modern.
That was my reaction too. "It's not my cup of tea but it's not that...... OMG MY EYES"
Yeah, the front goes kinda hard, not gonna lie. A whole house in that style wouldn't be my cup of tea, but it'd be interesting.
The house presented here, on the other hand. Jesus.
Spent all the money on the front side, couldn’t afford stairs to connect the backdoor to the ground
I went back and looked closer and had a chuckle. It's pretty ridiculous considering the description in the listing referencing seamless access to the outdoors.
What’s your definition of “seamless”? Are you arguing that stairs would be a faster transition than an immediate drop? The builder thought ahead and is using gravity efficiently. Maybe a trampoline at the bottom can assist in a safe landing.
I’m assuming that it’s “deck ready” rather than missing stairs
I hate new houses where you need to immediately spend $50-80K to install a flicking deck on a house that has a level backyard. It should have had a concrete pad and porch as part of the base house. Also no to little roof overhangs. I hate that too. The false facade is so 1990s style.
It's portal-ready.
1.7 million and it doesn’t come with a deck. WTF
I find this so unsettling in a way I can’t explain 😅
The front looks like it doesn’t actually exist. Like it’s a still frame from a video game or something.
Yes! It looks like the house is wearing a Halloween mask of another house. For whatever reason I find that super disconcerting.
I live in DC, so I legit might make a point to drive through and witness this horror in person next time I’m in that part of VA
Haha this is a great description. And now I am picturing Dwight Schrute wearing the CPR dummy's face. Unsettling.
https://preview.redd.it/eit99p48oh8g1.jpeg?width=1182&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ad9bd168ad77fc650126787f70791fbffee053a3
(And the front doesn’t even really look nice)
Ah, this is what I was looking for to perfectly represent that “house”.
From the back it looks like someone forced together two halves from modular homes of different lengths then patched the gap.
$1.7 million for a house with vinyl siding?
Why wouldn't they at least choose a colour that blends with the front? It looks like they cobbled it together from leftover materials from other jobs.
Those are the design rules for Shitbox Modern ™ it requires a sad flat elevation to squeeze the most possible floor space out of an undersized lot. Then you create these boring rectangles with different finishes to give the illusion of depth. Typically the style will have three surface types: * fake stone (concrete block) accent, * some kind of dark moody background colour (brick if you’re cheap but fancy, vinyl if you’re on even more of a budget) * a scab of wood (or “wood”) running vertical
And you’ll see it again and again until you begin to hate everything about this timeline.
Welcome to DC-area pricing. It's insane.
Don’t worry I’m sure it’s low-maintenance LUXURY VINYL and don’t forget the luxury
concrete block“cultured stone”.I didn't know the term "cultured stone" and I'm almost in tears laughing now. I went to a party at a house that had a pool with a fake rock formation along one side made from what I guess would be called "cultured boulders".
Looks like something my kid made in Minecraft
Don't put down your kid like that we know he could do better
this is PEAK
Peak enshitification.
I looked at the Zillow. This is one of the worst houses I have ever seen. I can only add one photo to a comment so here's the one I chose. Just a complete misfire on every level. They should tear it down and start over.
https://preview.redd.it/tgp1p8chrh8g1.png?width=271&format=png&auto=webp&s=9d9ebfa927faebafbaca71c9cb7c5966e800744a
That is the best place I’ve seen for stubbing toes in a while! Custom built!
Please somebody name and shame the builder for this place. Fucking hell.
I'll be honest I got a little obsessed. I won't name the owner but it's a REAL ESTATE AGENT. Don't know what happened here lol
A complete lack of design integrity that almost seems intentional.
That's architectural ragebait.
I see your toe stub corner and I raise you this
$1.8m
Ok 👍
Small, old ranchers in this area are going for $700-$800K. $1.8 million is dismaying but not at all surprising.
It’s Northern VA, not shocked by the price.
I think this home is grossly overpriced, even for the NOVA area. Upgraded homes in that specific area are going for significantly less. A home right up the road is pending sale for $2 million. However, that home sits on over an acre of land, nearly 6,700 sq ft, and is MUCH better designed.
This is the worst of both worlds.
Mullet for houses
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https://preview.redd.it/n017g48zki8g1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d1a169ef837a25313650c0932576bfc2183dc39
what in the god damn
Oof!
Lmao just made the same comment. Didn't know what else to say
This is the saddest house I've seen in a long time. How disappointed with your life must you be, how petty and lost, if this seemed like a change you needed to make?
It's new construction, somehow more than one person decided there are people who want this
Been on the market for ten months and now listed for rent. I genuinely am not sure there exists a person tacky enough to buy this house, not least because of the shoddy construction. It looks like there was no plan AT ALL for the interior. I'm honestly dumbfounded.
I’m glad it’s still in the market! It shows builders that there is a limit on what people will accept. Nearly $1.8 million dollars for THAT is criminal.
Edited for typo: I meant $1.8 million not $8 million
Its nearly 2 million. Still criminal.
Its like baby's first minecraft build
$1.8 and no steps out the back door!
It’s a BYOS home.
Somehow I feel like I’d get stabbed in this shower
https://preview.redd.it/uht94dpknh8g1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b7fb2f355b4c0579e6fc59f2c30ee6713ad3f079
Modernism in the streets, McMansion in the sheets
Oh my god, this is hideous!!!
This is actually fucking hilarious
The ol Taco Bell tech..ok I like it picasso
This is a movie set and I refuse to believe otherwise. It's like a house trying to hide another house because it's ashamed. I hate it so much.
The mullet of postmodernism
Is this for real? I can’t believe this.
https://i.redd.it/wmjrbjr6lh8g1.gif
The guy who came up with this:
https://preview.redd.it/zz8jsqm5nh8g1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b562b602f97ec70146324dd550b854a0c56cca02
That is crazy. Talk about facadism. 😲
In a weird way it’s reminiscent of the storefronts you’d see in the Old West in the 1800s. There’s something off-puttingly commercial about it.
You ever been cat fished by a house? Well now you have.
Wait, what? This is new construction not a crappy remodel?!?!?!?
It’s like the old west with the nice storefronts and the clapboard behind the facade lol
Post modern old west saloon aesthetics
How to make all of your neighbors hate you
Looks like Chipotle
This is what I call a McMansion. Faux mansion on the front, broke on the back.
What the actual hell?
This is what's known in the biz as "failing to commit to the bit".
Source: I made it up
This is both hilarious and a nightmare. It's insane that someone spent money to make a boring unattractive home into a hideous monstrosity. They legitimately thought this was an improvement.
Love the copy & paste bathrooms
An attempt at what? At first I thought it was a Wendy’s.
I've never seen a house wear a mask before.
D I A B O L I C A L
Tasteless, generic crap spec-home. Love how the kitchen island completely breaks the flow of the kitchen. Stupid placing of the fireplace. 0 landscaping. Already 60+ days on the market, I hope it sits for a year and the builder loses their shirt on this bs.
I audibly gasped at the second picture and my wife asked me what was wrong. I didn't have the heart to show it to her.
Is this the architectural version of a mullet?
Thanks, I hate it
Was there though?
In an older, less politically correct time, this would have been called a “Queen Anne front with a Mary Ann behind.”
The entry way is a big miss. They had the layout for a grand staircase and instead threw up a wall and angled the stairs.
Yo what the fuck
Showed this to my wife and she said I ruined her day
The interior of this home is like 300k house with all the extremely cheap windows and other items throughout the house. The inside is so cheap and the color scheme is freaking awful.
Ok obviously the exterior is horrendous but I think the interior is worse. I want to see a floor plan bc none of this makes any damn sense.
I see this time & time again that architects only make the front elevation interesting and put absolutely no effort into the other elevations! I really don’t understand it…
This whole thing though, this is just terrible. Looks like a fast food drive thru
me:
photo 1: looks like a fire station
photo 2: burst out laughing
photo 3: well, that was a roller coaster to mediocre land.
Just why... I mean modern can be cool but this.. Why did they change and do a basic siding style on the sides and back of the home? Were they attempting to flip, then ran out of money so they are now trying to offload it? It's the only thing that makes sense.
Me when I try my best to build a mansion in the sims
An accent wall on the front of the house
I thought Arlington at first glance, maybe Falls Church; Annandale was a bit of a surprise.
What fresh hell is this? No taste. Just money down the drain.
It looks like a Wendy’s.
What an embarrassing mess.
The owner...
https://preview.redd.it/eu4k40o5ho8g1.jpeg?width=966&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a98e6f852cb0242cf2adabb8ad464bc665163ffb
Business in the front, suburban development in the back.
It’s a McMinecraft house!!
this is what would happen if you gave Botox to a 1990's midwestern middle-class suburban home
I was all set to defend the front…til I saw the back and sides.
House mullet
https://preview.redd.it/vvlaq30wph8g1.jpeg?width=267&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0b2f2e42d243280f3e2b814adee3c60902e06442
This is the strangest thing I have ever seen
Draw the rest of the damn owl
Dios mío que es eso??
What in God's name is up with the "make your house look like a fire station" trend going around now?
Someone woke up one morning, and chose... violence.
That's an architectural flashbang
Something tells me this house emulates its owner. All flashy on the front, but once you get further in, you realize it's just another basic bitch.
Reminds me of an episode of one of those house flipper/renovation shows I saw where they did the same thing, slapped a "modern" facade on an old house in an attempt to match the newer modern style houses in the neighborhood. It looked bad but I don't think it looked as bad as the one in this post lol.
I knew in less than a second this was northern Virginia 😂 great find OP
The door to nowhere aka the ankle fucker 5000 out the back is a nice feature
A modern version of an old west town
I’d classify it as McMansion because of the context - all those <2000 sq ft ranches surrounding it.
Different elevations, diferente budgets
the back looks like a duplex.
this is a weird house.
It’s like a Halloween mask. I mean the face is nothing like the rest of it.
If there was a mullet for houses, this would be it...
I'm a newbie here, so sorry, but honestly, I love the modern look. I'm totally ok with it. But then you look at the side, and the back and you're like, what the heck. And then you look around at the neighbors and think, nope, this facade doesn't work here.
"what's wrong with this?"
"Oh"
Talk about a facade!
There. That house can’t hurt anybody, again!
It's actually not too late. If he gets Black siding for his house and takes off the white trims and get the same tinted windows in the back it would look legit. It's only that throwing it off
https://preview.redd.it/4jgo9orp8q8g1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bb58011b3c131f09364f6b4ed56de75b6b6cb01b
This is so bad, if I lived in that neighborhood I'd honestly consider trying to fundraise enough money to buy it, raze it to the ground, and build something nice and normal-looking in its place. I feel for the neighbors who are visually assaulted by that monument to tastelessness every time they look out the window.
Is the interior all rendered?
This is wild
The longer I look, the more cursed this becomes.
Wild, its like the next gen of mcmansions
shit, that looks like a dentists office in a russian suburb.
Party in the front, 9 to 5, wife and 2.5 kids in the back.
This is business in the front and party in the back!
That's actually hilarious
I hate this with the fire of a thousand suns.
What in the Beetlejuice?
That’s sad, yet also predictable.
That house has Maralago Face.
Looks amazing from the front but the rest of it looks like a crack house
This house is Hall-of-Fame-level catastrophically awful.
Its like one of those store fronts in the west
The only redeeming quality in this soulless abomination is the green bathroom tiles
https://preview.redd.it/3nkoc4aduk8g1.jpeg?width=1206&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c6da1f15dd67d6db2dbe5715fa9c922fc26cd1e5
the facade is so ugly.. i have trouble finding the exact style this is called, it looks like a mcdonalds…
This is horrendous.
Textbook McMansion.
I have OCD and the front pleases me, but the rest? Yikes.
Everything inside is gray and mismatched. The only thing I like is the wood flooring.
I would certify this.
Complete mullet house.
Also, the kitchen requires to go around an island to wash stuff that comes out of the fridge...
This house might make a good case for why we should have HOAs. Well, maybe not HOAs but at least an AARB.
There's so much wrong, I can even start. The farmhouse garage door is sending me.
Now that's a mcmansion, circle drive thru around would make it epic.
There's one of those, bigger actually, on the seafront at Penmon, east of Beaumaris, Anglesey.
Totally out of place, obscenely overdeveloped from an old farm outbuilding. It's a holiday home; occupied some weekends and a few weeks on the summer. Can only imagine the size of the brown envelope which changed hands between the developer and the planning authority.
They could not have picked a more bizarrely out of place garage door
McDonalds house mullet? McDonalds in the front, house in the back?
What's the opposite of a butterface
https://preview.redd.it/7204dhewgm8g1.jpeg?width=2560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1fe98a42ea5fd1a56a59841351e50a571f378338
Took me a minute to realise it wasn't Minecraft....
It's the mullet of houses.
At least centre the front door in the opening.
Housing by Lego
Of course not a McM and it's butt ugly but it is a finely done example of a style for people that love this kind of soulless architecture
This gives me a headache
We got Beverly Hills in the front and Compton out back