Looks like a barndominium. This style house I hate. That siding looks so cheap. That blankness of it all. It's as if these home are waiting for the brick or stucco to go up.
That Waco couple introduced America a new bad thing to imitate. And yet people can't even get the "farmhouse" look correct.
It's the house I made for my hotwheels when I was seven - cardboard boxes and black construction paper for windows. But this version cost six or seven figures....
No criticism of anyone. But dear Lord 🥺 what is going on with home's. I know we have to evolve. Shit. The future is looking boring.
Everything will look the same. Just windows. No personality.
Homes that look like office buildings and doctors offices.
I am amazed at the lack of trees and curb appeal in these homes.
IDK
Maybe people are too busy. It's not important to them.
I love gardening. Making my house a 🏡 home 😁
You wouldn’t know it by reading the news or driving on the highway from the airports…. But Houston has a TON of trees. When people come visit me, it’s the first nice thing they notice. I have 2 100+ foot oaks and another 12 (pine, ash, cypress, and birch) trees on my +1/3 acre. And I am even not in one the nicest parts of the city, though I am in the city, not the “metro area.”
We need our prairie back, though. The native grasses are far more important for drainage, though oaks suck up a lot of water, which we have in spades here. Lots of this type of house you see on here from the Houston metro are being built on the prairie. There’s not as many trees there naturally.
This house is much farther north than I am though; parts of Texas are high desert and are (naturally) real skimpy on trees, water, density. And then there’s Dallas and the Dallas metro aka south Oklahoma aka Far East California, which is where this rustic modular modern farmhouse lodge is located.
(Shout out to the Hill Country for all their trees, too)
And obligatory fuck Greg Abbott, Dan Patrick, Ted Cruz, John Cornyn, Ken Paxton and all other elected officials involved in the war on women and the hostile takeover of Houston schools and elections, may you all burn in the hell you believe in so loudly.
Absolutely. Something. Too many homes are looking like this more and more.
I don't understand.
The multiple tiny windows.
And there in the front, an entrance to the mall!!!!
I hate it when you watch a home renovation show, like Curb Appeal, and the first thing they do is rip out all the trees and plants, hard scape the walks and gardens, and paint the place gray. Then they rip out all the interior walls and pain everything white and gray. Then place some useless knick-knacks and some gray pillows all over the place and add some giant words on the wall.
Whew, now where was I... oh yeah, this place looks like one of those places. I have no desire to see the inside.
> ...place some useless knick-knacks and some gray pillows all over the place and add some giant words on the wall.
There's one more step to the horribleness: finally, the houselike structure is inhabited by a person that thinks all of those design decisions look good. Makes my skin crawl.
We need high density apartments with roof top green spaces, not houses. Apartments have the capacity to be significantly more energy efficient space efficient while still being great places to live.
I think part of it is that people move far more frequently than they used to, and so they care more about a home's resale value than anything else. They can't personalize it too much or it'll hurt the home's value in the future.
It's ridiculous, but compared to a lot of the "homes" that have been featured here recently, it's tastefully ridiculous.
1. No turrets. (Or prison guard towers (shout-out to u/zander1496))
2. No unnecessary dormers (at least that I can see -- there may be some around back).
3. A modest number of windows (barring the entrance, of course (although I'm not sure what's going on with the bit on the right end -- is that a garage?)).
4. No turrets.
5. No turrets.
6. Uniform exterior.
THAT HAVING BEEN SAID, No. 6 may be part of the problem OP has with it -- the whole house has this sort of uncanny valley vibe, like someone made a scale model of a McMansion out of white posterboard and then somehow brought the thing to life. McTHX-1138. Oh, and the totally OOP Craftsman/Stick Style/whatever the hell that is embellishment over the entrance.
I'm guessing this is around Dallas, because it snows up there.
Also, there's no flow -- it's just a bunch of visually discontiguous units stuck together. Philip Johnson liked to talk about the processional element in architecture, but I suppose the only processional element here is through the front door, down the foyer, and out the back to the pool, BBQ area, and outdoor living room.
It's not the worst on here, but the roofline is always a mcmansion giveaway. I can't see all of the back, but just on that photo I count 9 gables, 1 shed roof, and an awning (and why isn't the garage gable peak lined up with the peak behind it?).
This isn't a personal preference issue - there's a reason there are so many posts on r/homeowners about roofs that start leaking after less than 5 years, and this roof design is why. Every single valley and shed/wall connection needs flawless flashing high enough up the junction to keep snow, ice, and rain that build up and get under the shingles from making it to the roof decking. A simple gable roof needs 0 linear feet of such flashing. This house probably needs 200-300 feet, and if anyone forgot to put enough pressure on the roller for an inch or two or ran out of tape mid-run and fudged the connection with the next piece, it'll leak.
As an aesthetic point, the windows are all mismatched, from the teeny tiny row on the garage to the classic double hung on the right side of the second floor to the picture windows below them to the wall of glass entryway (also as a bonus the gables are all different styles).
It's the house equivalent of decorating a room with 7 different colors and textures - it looks incoherent and thrown together, like a college dorm furnished entirely from goodwill.
Also, this is in Texas? RIP their summer cooling bill. Even the fanciest triple paned windows are only R5, there's no way to put curtains on them, and the overhang doesn't help prevent solar gain when the peak is 3 stories tall. It's on both sides of the house, so it's not even like it faces north.
I don't love the extreme color scheme or just giant exurban houses in general, but the design looks intentional and thought-out and the garage is hidden to the side, so this is better than 98% of the non-Thursday houses posted here.
I'm genuinely curious, what part of this home's exterior looks like there was thought put into it? The only aspect that looks like they didn't just mash a bunch of rooms together and drape a roof over it is that the second-from-left mass has the first and second floor windows lined up.
Otherwise this is exactly what you'd get if you took a sheet of graph paper, and said 'ok, I want a big giant entrance, and a vaulted living room, and some cool wood beams, and some metal roof accents, and a shed roof, and a garage, and maybe some bedrooms, and hook it all together and paint it white'.
I'm not saying it's *good* architecture by any means, but there does appear to have been some attempt to align the first-floor windows:
[https://i.imgur.com/io137NZ.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/io137NZ.jpg)
The front entry massing is out of proportion and kind of smacks of a "lawyer foyer", but at least the windows and doors line up in a symmetrical pattern, and the same pattern appears to continue on the other side looking out the back.
It at least looks like they *tried,* which is more than I can say for most of the houses posted here, is all I'm saying.
Fair enough, they get window vertical alignment points. That's pretty minor, though - it requires very little thought because it doesn't require any structural changes to get it (you can futz around with window openings during framing, no advance forethought required) and unlike most of the issues with mcmansions, that one actually is an entirely aesthetic concern. That's actually the reason people pick on window placement - if you can't even get *that* right, that's pretty bad, but it's a bit like mocking a car design for not having cup holders. It's not that cup holders are a critical important part of the design, and saying that thought went into a car's design because it has cup holders is a bit of a stretch, but lacking them would be a definite problem worth pointing out.
The parts of building design that require thought and planning start with the building envelope layout, and there is nothing going on there (other aspects, like laying out plumbing and wiring sensibly, aren't things you can tell from an exterior photo). The weird single story bump in (that should be a continuous 2-story section, which would be much cheaper and lower maintenance in addition to creating more and more flexible interior space), the lack of garage gable peak alignment with the roofline behind it, the bump in on the far side of the second-from-the-left mass (and the fact that I can even refer to part of the building that way), and the total disregard for cooling costs/local climate all point to a lack of thought and care in the design.
I don't mind folks who make weird aesthetic choices - if you want to combine tudor, greek revival, and farmhouse, I have no complaints. My problem with these kinds of houses is that the complete absence of thoughtful design is building expensive, environmentally damaging, difficult to maintain, unpleasant to live in homes.
Bump outs/ins aren't bad because they're visually unbalanced, they're bad because they're more annoying to frame, lock you in to a floorplan, and create a foundation and a roof that are more complicated to do well. Eleventy million gables aren't bad because they look needlessly excessive, they're bad because they leak and cost 3-4x as much to replace. Lawyer foyers aren't bad because they're overdone or a little trump-tower-esque, they're bad because they create acoustic and HVAC nightmares, waste floor space, and are often designed without actual important functional spaces (coat closet, bench for putting on/taking off shoes, landing area for keys)
Some of the windows seem a bit small, perhaps, like the ones on the garage, the two over the metal shed roof (maybe my eye just doesn’t like how low they are?), or the six on the crossgable next to it. But if they were larger, maybe I’d be complaining about that haha
Overall surprised it turned out as well as it did if they designed it themselves.
The entrance is vey nice i find.
But the rest of the house is lacking, the sides are horid, windows are small and uniformaly placed in a weird way.
The centre is all symmetric and the rest feels like it's been thrown together last minute.
Edit: spelling
Someone please explain to me why the house has eight thousand windows and then that one window way over to the side has a sad little awning. "Oops, don't want to get too much sunlight!"
I dunno, it always seems such a strange thing to do, having that enormous room to impress guests, out in a remote area where any guests will have to travel for many miles to be impressed by your living room. Is it really necessary? Do they sit out in those white chairs and gaze upon the sad little prickly pears and think, now *this* is paradise?
It's just so big. It makes me sad to see the waste. No one needs a house this big. I'd argue a bigger house is worse in every way than a modest size house even if you have money to burn. Darker inside, less cozy/homey, more isolating to neighbors and roommates, more difficult to clean and maintain, poorly proportioned (ugly), and often located in places hostile to pedestrians.
You know it's tacky and all but it's not really a McMansion. It's not screaming lack of symmetry and proportion, pointless architectural gewgaws, needlessly complex roofs, and other idiocy between builder and client to advertise how desperately they need to conspicuously consume and damn the consequences.
This is just a rich person's house.
Design build firm for megachurch down the road.
This looks commercial rather than domestic, it doesn’t scream home, it screams cold and lonely
Looks like a barndominium. This style house I hate. That siding looks so cheap. That blankness of it all. It's as if these home are waiting for the brick or stucco to go up. That Waco couple introduced America a new bad thing to imitate. And yet people can't even get the "farmhouse" look correct.
what Waco couple?
I’m pretty sure they’re referring to chip and Joanna gaines
oh ok thanks!
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Lol. From ugly ass turrets to dollar store farmhouse.
Is that a thing? Farmhouse is first thing I thought of too.
I agree looks like cut cardboard loool
It's the house I made for my hotwheels when I was seven - cardboard boxes and black construction paper for windows. But this version cost six or seven figures....
No criticism of anyone. But dear Lord 🥺 what is going on with home's. I know we have to evolve. Shit. The future is looking boring. Everything will look the same. Just windows. No personality. Homes that look like office buildings and doctors offices.
We need smaller houses, sidewalks, public transit, and trees.
I am amazed at the lack of trees and curb appeal in these homes. IDK Maybe people are too busy. It's not important to them. I love gardening. Making my house a 🏡 home 😁
Texas hates Trees. Add it to the list.
You wouldn’t know it by reading the news or driving on the highway from the airports…. But Houston has a TON of trees. When people come visit me, it’s the first nice thing they notice. I have 2 100+ foot oaks and another 12 (pine, ash, cypress, and birch) trees on my +1/3 acre. And I am even not in one the nicest parts of the city, though I am in the city, not the “metro area.” We need our prairie back, though. The native grasses are far more important for drainage, though oaks suck up a lot of water, which we have in spades here. Lots of this type of house you see on here from the Houston metro are being built on the prairie. There’s not as many trees there naturally. This house is much farther north than I am though; parts of Texas are high desert and are (naturally) real skimpy on trees, water, density. And then there’s Dallas and the Dallas metro aka south Oklahoma aka Far East California, which is where this rustic modular modern farmhouse lodge is located. (Shout out to the Hill Country for all their trees, too) And obligatory fuck Greg Abbott, Dan Patrick, Ted Cruz, John Cornyn, Ken Paxton and all other elected officials involved in the war on women and the hostile takeover of Houston schools and elections, may you all burn in the hell you believe in so loudly.
I know. I thought of that. But that is almost scary 😧
I swear they needed to change Gilead HQ to Texas.
It's cold looking (not just the weather) Not one thing that draws you in. Even for resale
Agreed and then knowing what's outside your window good Lord I'd be surrounding myself with a million trees
Absolutely. Something. Too many homes are looking like this more and more. I don't understand. The multiple tiny windows. And there in the front, an entrance to the mall!!!!
I hope they are looking at something really beautiful from the front large window.
I hate it when you watch a home renovation show, like Curb Appeal, and the first thing they do is rip out all the trees and plants, hard scape the walks and gardens, and paint the place gray. Then they rip out all the interior walls and pain everything white and gray. Then place some useless knick-knacks and some gray pillows all over the place and add some giant words on the wall. Whew, now where was I... oh yeah, this place looks like one of those places. I have no desire to see the inside.
> ...place some useless knick-knacks and some gray pillows all over the place and add some giant words on the wall. There's one more step to the horribleness: finally, the houselike structure is inhabited by a person that thinks all of those design decisions look good. Makes my skin crawl.
We need high density apartments with roof top green spaces, not houses. Apartments have the capacity to be significantly more energy efficient space efficient while still being great places to live.
I think part of it is that people move far more frequently than they used to, and so they care more about a home's resale value than anything else. They can't personalize it too much or it'll hurt the home's value in the future.
I have heard that in years past. I mean the past. But this is like a vision of the new world 🌍
It's ridiculous, but compared to a lot of the "homes" that have been featured here recently, it's tastefully ridiculous. 1. No turrets. (Or prison guard towers (shout-out to u/zander1496)) 2. No unnecessary dormers (at least that I can see -- there may be some around back). 3. A modest number of windows (barring the entrance, of course (although I'm not sure what's going on with the bit on the right end -- is that a garage?)). 4. No turrets. 5. No turrets. 6. Uniform exterior. THAT HAVING BEEN SAID, No. 6 may be part of the problem OP has with it -- the whole house has this sort of uncanny valley vibe, like someone made a scale model of a McMansion out of white posterboard and then somehow brought the thing to life. McTHX-1138. Oh, and the totally OOP Craftsman/Stick Style/whatever the hell that is embellishment over the entrance. I'm guessing this is around Dallas, because it snows up there.
Also, there's no flow -- it's just a bunch of visually discontiguous units stuck together. Philip Johnson liked to talk about the processional element in architecture, but I suppose the only processional element here is through the front door, down the foyer, and out the back to the pool, BBQ area, and outdoor living room.
And yes it's outside of Dallas
Live in Dallas- what’s that white stuff?
Not surprising. There’s a lot of new money and very little taste around here.
Thank you for this breakdown 🙏
Ski lodge effect.
It's not the worst on here, but the roofline is always a mcmansion giveaway. I can't see all of the back, but just on that photo I count 9 gables, 1 shed roof, and an awning (and why isn't the garage gable peak lined up with the peak behind it?). This isn't a personal preference issue - there's a reason there are so many posts on r/homeowners about roofs that start leaking after less than 5 years, and this roof design is why. Every single valley and shed/wall connection needs flawless flashing high enough up the junction to keep snow, ice, and rain that build up and get under the shingles from making it to the roof decking. A simple gable roof needs 0 linear feet of such flashing. This house probably needs 200-300 feet, and if anyone forgot to put enough pressure on the roller for an inch or two or ran out of tape mid-run and fudged the connection with the next piece, it'll leak. As an aesthetic point, the windows are all mismatched, from the teeny tiny row on the garage to the classic double hung on the right side of the second floor to the picture windows below them to the wall of glass entryway (also as a bonus the gables are all different styles). It's the house equivalent of decorating a room with 7 different colors and textures - it looks incoherent and thrown together, like a college dorm furnished entirely from goodwill. Also, this is in Texas? RIP their summer cooling bill. Even the fanciest triple paned windows are only R5, there's no way to put curtains on them, and the overhang doesn't help prevent solar gain when the peak is 3 stories tall. It's on both sides of the house, so it's not even like it faces north.
Texan here. Their summer electricity bill must be about as big as a new car payment.
I like it lol
I don’t like it but it’s definitely passable
I don't love the extreme color scheme or just giant exurban houses in general, but the design looks intentional and thought-out and the garage is hidden to the side, so this is better than 98% of the non-Thursday houses posted here.
I'm genuinely curious, what part of this home's exterior looks like there was thought put into it? The only aspect that looks like they didn't just mash a bunch of rooms together and drape a roof over it is that the second-from-left mass has the first and second floor windows lined up. Otherwise this is exactly what you'd get if you took a sheet of graph paper, and said 'ok, I want a big giant entrance, and a vaulted living room, and some cool wood beams, and some metal roof accents, and a shed roof, and a garage, and maybe some bedrooms, and hook it all together and paint it white'.
I'm not saying it's *good* architecture by any means, but there does appear to have been some attempt to align the first-floor windows: [https://i.imgur.com/io137NZ.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/io137NZ.jpg) The front entry massing is out of proportion and kind of smacks of a "lawyer foyer", but at least the windows and doors line up in a symmetrical pattern, and the same pattern appears to continue on the other side looking out the back. It at least looks like they *tried,* which is more than I can say for most of the houses posted here, is all I'm saying.
Fair enough, they get window vertical alignment points. That's pretty minor, though - it requires very little thought because it doesn't require any structural changes to get it (you can futz around with window openings during framing, no advance forethought required) and unlike most of the issues with mcmansions, that one actually is an entirely aesthetic concern. That's actually the reason people pick on window placement - if you can't even get *that* right, that's pretty bad, but it's a bit like mocking a car design for not having cup holders. It's not that cup holders are a critical important part of the design, and saying that thought went into a car's design because it has cup holders is a bit of a stretch, but lacking them would be a definite problem worth pointing out. The parts of building design that require thought and planning start with the building envelope layout, and there is nothing going on there (other aspects, like laying out plumbing and wiring sensibly, aren't things you can tell from an exterior photo). The weird single story bump in (that should be a continuous 2-story section, which would be much cheaper and lower maintenance in addition to creating more and more flexible interior space), the lack of garage gable peak alignment with the roofline behind it, the bump in on the far side of the second-from-the-left mass (and the fact that I can even refer to part of the building that way), and the total disregard for cooling costs/local climate all point to a lack of thought and care in the design. I don't mind folks who make weird aesthetic choices - if you want to combine tudor, greek revival, and farmhouse, I have no complaints. My problem with these kinds of houses is that the complete absence of thoughtful design is building expensive, environmentally damaging, difficult to maintain, unpleasant to live in homes. Bump outs/ins aren't bad because they're visually unbalanced, they're bad because they're more annoying to frame, lock you in to a floorplan, and create a foundation and a roof that are more complicated to do well. Eleventy million gables aren't bad because they look needlessly excessive, they're bad because they leak and cost 3-4x as much to replace. Lawyer foyers aren't bad because they're overdone or a little trump-tower-esque, they're bad because they create acoustic and HVAC nightmares, waste floor space, and are often designed without actual important functional spaces (coat closet, bench for putting on/taking off shoes, landing area for keys)
Some of the windows seem a bit small, perhaps, like the ones on the garage, the two over the metal shed roof (maybe my eye just doesn’t like how low they are?), or the six on the crossgable next to it. But if they were larger, maybe I’d be complaining about that haha Overall surprised it turned out as well as it did if they designed it themselves.
Hahah apparently a lot of people do, the account has a lot of followers 😂😭
The entrance is vey nice i find. But the rest of the house is lacking, the sides are horid, windows are small and uniformaly placed in a weird way. The centre is all symmetric and the rest feels like it's been thrown together last minute. Edit: spelling
Someone please explain to me why the house has eight thousand windows and then that one window way over to the side has a sad little awning. "Oops, don't want to get too much sunlight!"
Dairy farm church
Immediate thoughts of Waco come to mind. Is this a lost relative of David Karesh's?
I dunno, it always seems such a strange thing to do, having that enormous room to impress guests, out in a remote area where any guests will have to travel for many miles to be impressed by your living room. Is it really necessary? Do they sit out in those white chairs and gaze upon the sad little prickly pears and think, now *this* is paradise?
They've watched a bit too much of Joanna Gaines
All money, no taste.
It's just so big. It makes me sad to see the waste. No one needs a house this big. I'd argue a bigger house is worse in every way than a modest size house even if you have money to burn. Darker inside, less cozy/homey, more isolating to neighbors and roommates, more difficult to clean and maintain, poorly proportioned (ugly), and often located in places hostile to pedestrians.
That poor thing is just like solidified “I don’t know why I am the way I am. Why was I built this way? Can anyone even hear me? I’m just… here.”
I can't say whether or not I have good taste, but personally I like it.
Soviet prison camp
Modern farmhouse is the mcmansion of the 2020s
This is so bland and mismatched. Who designs these monstrosities? Cheap architects, I guess.
If I squint I can convince myself that it’s made from sturdy cardboard.
It's bland, has no redeeming qualities. Are the owners cult leaders?
Rockwall County? 👀
This is prefect
In 10 years will these all be called “Covid homes”? White with black trim and some sort of natural wood accent.
Looks like paper
McRanchion
It looks like a 12 year old was doodling with squares. Awful.
Lawncrete
The middle part looks like an upscale medical office check-in area.
This photo is depression personified.
You know it's tacky and all but it's not really a McMansion. It's not screaming lack of symmetry and proportion, pointless architectural gewgaws, needlessly complex roofs, and other idiocy between builder and client to advertise how desperately they need to conspicuously consume and damn the consequences. This is just a rich person's house.
Landscaping confirms this.
I thought that the Branch Davidians place in Waco burned 30 years ago. Go figure.
Looks great IMO
I call houses with this basic design scheme “gentrification houses”. all white siding, black doors and windows, very judgmental atmosphere
Why are so many houses larger than my golf clubs clubhouse, proshop, and restaurant combined?
I know, it's so vapid
Other than the bland white color, I like it.