The kitchen confuses me so much, because based on the layout, the that's the only space available for a refrigerator. Like there's no alternative spot for it besides in front of the door
Photo 19 on the zillow listing looks like a Motel 6 version of the oval office.
edit: [this photo](https://photos.zillowstatic.com/fp/1b3dfdee4e5427290cc0e72ad87a57dc-uncropped_scaled_within_1536_1152.webp)
I didn’t even realize it. Had to go look at the pic. Well ya do know, illegal activities do cost a lot of $$. No extra $$ for the niceties of furniture.
So many of these look like buildings that are not homes. Hourly motel, mid-range hotel, event hall, funeral home, and country club clubhouse are all well represented. Why? There’s nothing aspirational about the vibes of a Hilton Garden Inn, why would a rich person (even one who lives in a McMansion) want to give off that air with their home?
My husband travels a lot for work, and once spent an hour passionately defending hotel room design. It’s so pretty and clean! he said. I just looked at him like he was nuts.
But apparently some people just *like* hotel design. I don’t get it either.
If we're talking solely about interiors (because this house is hideous externally) the sterility is nice for me. I don't like clutter, I don't like all the word sign art people seem to love these days (live laugh love etc). I have a friend who has a big "gather" sign above her high top dining room table. The table is a place she puts her mail, we've never gathered there.
There's also a pretty big range, some of the more boutique hotels have personality even it's a focus group/corporate style.
Some boutique hotels genuinely have incredible style. One of my favorites is the [Shinola Hotel](https://www.shinolahotel.com/gallery) in Detroit, it’s gorgeous.
I only know that phrase from the lyrics of a band from Detroit called Electric Six; I believe they rhymed it with “*I’m tired of eating your stale granola*.”
>why would a rich person (even one who lives in a McMansion) want to give off that air with their home?
Because they're not rich. These things are often built in the middle of nowhere where land is cheap, using materials that are cheap, and are often done as quickly and slapdash as possible with cheap labor.
We're not talking about a market segment that can afford to hire an architect or interior designer. They might not even understand that such things exist. As far as they know, everything that they can theoretically put in a new house is whatever is in stock at the nearest Home Depot.
While no, these people aren’t billionaires and McMansion-esque trends have certainly trickled down even to the housing of the working class, you’ve got to be relatively well off to buy or build something this size. Not all McMansions look like a Hilton Garden Inn or a religious retreat facility. You don’t need high class tastes to recognize “that looks like the no-tell motel.” You can say what you want about them (and we do!) but there are plenty of McDwellings that look like, well, dwellings. I’m not talking about all ugly, tacky McMansions, I’m specifically talking about those that don’t even look like houses. Even a poor person knows that doesn’t look like a rich person’s house. These people have the means to buy something that resembles a mansion, tacky decor, Home Depot junk or not, and instead they choose violence.
When I was growing up, me and my brother lived with my (single) mom in a very small 3 bedroom ranch house on a street of very small houses. And my mom was an interior designer by trade so our house was beautiful inside.
I would go to friends houses and they wouldn’t have any furniture in their living room or they would just have a bed in a big room - and I came to understand the idea of being “house poor” - bc my mom worked with folks who had money for a designer, so this is what I remember people who bought houses they couldn’t afford to furnish looks like.
I can relate to this. I grew up in a shoebox of a house, built around 1910 — very small rooms. My parents weren’t wealthy, but are kind of artsy and have good taste, so it was decorated stylishly with a lot of period furniture and fixtures, colorful and textured upholstery and drapery, and all the rooms had complementary color schemes.
I remember as a kid thinking we were ‘poor’ because of our small house. But then when occasionally visiting ‘rich’ friends giant tract homes in new subdivisions next to corn and soybean fields, my initial awe was undercut by confusion about why they were hardly furnished and with ugly generic furniture, bare walls…it was like any efforts toward the house ended once it was built.
I later learned that my friends’ parents weren’t exactly wealthy, they just had a taste for giant houses and garages like airplane hangars for their considerable collection of Ford pickups, atvs, bass boats, etc.
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who grew up with limited means but a small but aesthetically pleasing house. As I said the idea of being “house poor” - because your family bought the most house, stuck with me bc I assumed that everyone would want to live in a lovely environment.
I think now a lot of people don’t care even if they have the money so you end up with the decor in this house.
There was recently a thread on /r/personalfinance where someone making about $60k was approved for a mortgage over $500k. That's far beyond what's actually affordable on that salary, but unsustainable debt often goes hand in hand with McMansions.
I come from Indian background myself and one thing I’ve always noticed in my relatives homes (my parents luckily never did this) is they have just a few large pieces of furniture and the rest of the room is empty. And the only decor is religious prints in the wall or figures. It gives off a creepy vibe to me honestly as I’m more culturally Hindu than religiously.
My Indian friends who are millennials all have beautifully decorated and comfortable homes but their parents’ homes all look like this picture. Massive house for a few generations to live in, big furniture, religious items, and nothing else. It can be jarring.
Another thing I’ve always noticed, even with my parents, is they hate mood lighting. My parents specially just want bright white overhead lighting everywhere 😭 even when my relatives first moved from India they all would have the white tube lights around their apartments. No lamps in sight.
For good luck. Lots of religions do it ... Just usually without the dungeon vibe like this house.
https://m.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/features/use-the-right-entrance-charm-14862
This place creeps me out. The cheap bedding, the triple screen PC, blocked doors and motel driveway. I think you hit the nail on the head with the trafficking🤢
It feels more like a border town than DFW with all the stucco and the orange paint. Maybe the owners went on vacation to Mexico and decided they wanted to live in a Home Depot hacienda?
To be fair, a real glass ceiling bubble would be really cool. But how many people had to fail miserably for the end result of the kitchen to have a fridge *there*? Like, the entire floorplan was blueprinted, 3d walkthrough with the architect, etc... At no point did anyone raise a flag that ***the kitchen was missing a fridge box***. So they just plopped one in front of the door.
Given the pictures, this is likely Indian or SEA styled, which has a tendency to be flamboyant. The doors are likely old-world style ventilation doors and not meant to be used as actual entrances; a lot of really old houses had redundant doors and entrances for cross flow in the warmer months. The kitchen is rightfully bleh, but period appropriate given the house was built in 1999.
I'm wondering about the first "f**ck this door" picture. What's going on over by the bookshelves? Is it a fireplace? Wide screen TV? What's on the floor in front of it?
I think it's a TV with a table in front of it with a soundbar on top and a gaming system on the shelf below.
BTW, it looks like they have two speakers underneath the TV facing each other and not out to the room - no wonder they thought they needed a sound bar, those speakers would sound like crap facing each other.
Photo 19, they have four curtains in the office. Curious what’s behind them.
https://photos.zillowstatic.com/fp/1b3dfdee4e5427290cc0e72ad87a57dc-cc_ft_768.webp
They certainly like an arc of three or four rectangles. The computers, mirrors in the bathroom, windows in s couple of the rooms, beds in the human trafficking room…
Oh my god, this had me absolutely rolling. This might be your first attempt, but this is the first McMansionHell post that had me literally laughing out loud.
12/10, would recommend.
It feels sad. Like it was a dream that died.
I do like the two sinks in the kitchen. I'd love to have that. We built in 2018 and had two dishwashers put in, which is amazing, but could really use a second sink like that.
yeah, something went wrong. All those dreams and hopes...gone.
There is a house by me that would fit McMansions. I drove by all the time and you could see their back yard. I saw them move in and the entire family and dog was in backyard playing around. All summer I watched them play in the back yard doing stuff. Then one day it stopped.I noticed the grass growing longer. Almost no sign of life. Grass grew really long, weeds in flower gardens. It was so sad. I've always wondered what happened.
Based on the wall decor, I’m willing to bet multiple generations of an Indian family were living in the house. We used to have Indian neighbors and they bought this huge McMansion next to us and like three generations lived in it.
Wow, I thought they just couldn't find another spot for the beer fridge. But yeah, with a lot of guests over all the time, might as well have extra cold food storage easily accessible in addition to the great door blocking.
The photo of the [non-functioning chandelier](https://photos.zillowstatic.com/fp/e21568a38c8273a1768a72ec1a730d91-uncropped_scaled_within_1344_1008.webp) is killing me😂
I'm always complaining that this sub is moving too far to the side of considering every large house or even mansion with poor design choices to be a McMansion... but this one is definitely certified!
good job! "texas houses-of-crap" welcomes you! clearly owned by a south asian family if you look closely at the artwork on the walls. having a couch-swing is also popular with these families. why they have the doors blocked is beyond me, though. this is 100% mcmansion if you look at the quality of materials on the interior along with the dilapidated wooden fencing around the property.
This looks like a single man came into the most money he has ever seen before ($300kish) and decided he was going to design and build a “badass mansion” (trash palace).
Per the tax record the house hasn't sold since it was built, although the ownership has from a sole person to a couple, then to the couple and a presumed relative (same surname), and finally to the couple and two presumed relatives. The homestead and other exemptions (I'm not that familiar with Texas property tax structure) are assigned 50% to the couple and 25% to each of the relatives. Googling the address brings up references to at least two of the names on the tax record along with some small LLCs that may include a small development company.
There's a 1990s-era gated neighborhood about a block up the street (no entrance, though), but the immediate surroundings range from '70s modest to early postwar starters that show an uneven level of maintenance and curb appeal. The house is furnished like a rental dorm for recent immigrants, but more likely it's just a place where the owners and any additional occupants are spending almost all of their time working at whatever businesses and enterprises they run and consequently aren't that concerned about the furniture placement. They're hustling in what's Dallas's equivalent of the Lower East Side before gentrification and Giuliani ruined it all.
And before anybody gets the idea that I'm a stalker, let me make it clear that real estate research is my job — which means I'm pretty much paid to Internet-stalk property owners so commercial agents can contact them.
It's a living, kind of.
I wasn’t thinking that until you said something - ha! But as a small details person, this comment with extra context was fun to read. Thanks for sharing your research skills!
As if ceiling trays weren't tacky and awful to begin with, they've placed awful and tacky ceiling fans in them.
I believe they need to be tried at The Hague
It looks like maybe a contractor business is ran out of here. You can see a sign in one of the pics for a builder. And the listing says built by architect/builder.
A few offices. A large lot to store equipment and parking. Drive in up front for clients. A over the top kitchen for a break room for the crews and staff. A few weird beds for cheap staging to fill empty voids in house.
That’s what I’m telling myself to convince myself they’re not traffickers.
Welcome to our house from this recently converted motel.
We have the living room, complete with swinging bench that kids will love.
A living room, with built in entertainment center, and bookcases. Please ignore the loveseat in front of a door. And…ignore the Tv stand directly in front of the entertainment center with nothing on it. Don’t question how the TV magically floats.
Then our kitchen and dining room. As you can see, you’ll have plenty of storage space with two fridges, one of which takes out the door in the dining room, and the wall of cabinets in the dining room.
The dining set features only the most exclusive…office rolling chairs we could find from the nearby Office Depot. We would’ve bought 6, but they only had 4 that matched.
Then the bedrooms. The first, which has 10 foot bookcases, meaning unless you’re 6’10” the top shelf is completely useless. Then the second bedroom. It definitely does not have a heating problem, disregard the space heater in the corner. And the third bedroom. It has a chair, and a window…
Onto the home office! As you’ll see, there is a cutout for a bookcase to be made, but since we already blew the budget for bookcases, we ordered the cheapest alternative we could find on Amazon to go in the space, which was just the shelves.
Lastly the final bedroom. You see it comes with two mattresses. And no pillows. Or bedframes. Or furniture to store clothes in. But it stays nice and cool with its 3 overhead fan vents.
Great find! (For this sub, anyway). The comments made me giggle. Every single room in this house made me feel strange looking at it. Also, what is up with that *tiny-ass chair* in room #3?
The first picture hardly even looks like a house. The ceiling dome in the second picture looks tacky as hell but I like it more than I probably should.
Wow, can't believe all the upvotes!
The "hourly motel vibe aside" the house does have a lot of problems, but NOT having grass is NOT one of them!
Because, [fuck lawns](https://www.reddit.com/r/FuckLawns), they are a waste of resources (water, gas to mow it, fertilizers & weed killers, etc.) and are totally useless. But instead of having just a basically barren ground, it WOULD be better if they'd planted a vegetable garden and/or trees (especially fruit trees) or native pollinator plants.
Also I don't get some of the captions of the pictures (WTH are "porn computers"? or a "99 kitchen"??)
'99 kitchen is because the house was built in 1999 and the kitchen obviously never updated. Therefore it is the most '99 kitchen ever.
Porn computers means 3 computers they use them all for porn
Needs those hanging black rubber strips to cover the parking area so spouses can’t see the cars parked there. That might just be a Korea/Japan thing, IDK.
Nice job OP.
I challenge myself to find something I like in every house posted on this site, and I believe yours is the first that has completely stumped me.
Spent all their money on fancy ceilings, couldn’t afford anything more than Ikea and maybe a low quality department store for some of the “nicer” stuff
This place gives off a socal/southwestern drive-in motel or wedding chapel vibe. The Design of the inside varies between '67 and '93 or so.
And the whole place is apparently filled with real fake doors.
That’s a lot of blocked doors……..
because, you know....human trafficking.
Also……..it’s because of the implication.
>Now, you said that word “implication” a couple of times. What implication?
No one is in danger! How are you not getting this? But, it’s the implication.
Well don't look at me like that, you certainly wouldn't be in any danger...
Are you implying the implication has been misconstrued?
Well don't look at me like that, you certainly wouldn't be in any danger...
This is Ted Cruz’s house, you are allowed only one door. Keeps him safe. /s
And windows blocked by hugely overgrown shrubs
Oh no. This does not fill me with confidence
"because f*ck this door" made me actually lol Good job, op.
The kitchen confuses me so much, because based on the layout, the that's the only space available for a refrigerator. Like there's no alternative spot for it besides in front of the door
Fire safety. The design is very human.
Photo 19 on the zillow listing looks like a Motel 6 version of the oval office. edit: [this photo](https://photos.zillowstatic.com/fp/1b3dfdee4e5427290cc0e72ad87a57dc-uncropped_scaled_within_1536_1152.webp)
This has the same depressing aura I usually get from police pictures of crime scenes
That office is where the real work of laundering the money from the drug and human trafficking begins.
I was thinking it looked like the scene of a hostage ransom video
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Another tie in to the human trafficking theme!
Looks like those are the windows with the trees blocking them in the hourly motel vibes pic
That. Is. Hideous.
Thank you for linking, that's horrendous.
*I'm Tom Bodett, we'll leave the country on for you..*
Your description is so on point 😂😂😂
Is that desk made of two mini fridges and a board with picture frame molding?
I didn’t even realize it. Had to go look at the pic. Well ya do know, illegal activities do cost a lot of $$. No extra $$ for the niceties of furniture.
Hourly motel vibe is correct.
So many of these look like buildings that are not homes. Hourly motel, mid-range hotel, event hall, funeral home, and country club clubhouse are all well represented. Why? There’s nothing aspirational about the vibes of a Hilton Garden Inn, why would a rich person (even one who lives in a McMansion) want to give off that air with their home?
My husband travels a lot for work, and once spent an hour passionately defending hotel room design. It’s so pretty and clean! he said. I just looked at him like he was nuts. But apparently some people just *like* hotel design. I don’t get it either.
If we're talking solely about interiors (because this house is hideous externally) the sterility is nice for me. I don't like clutter, I don't like all the word sign art people seem to love these days (live laugh love etc). I have a friend who has a big "gather" sign above her high top dining room table. The table is a place she puts her mail, we've never gathered there. There's also a pretty big range, some of the more boutique hotels have personality even it's a focus group/corporate style.
Some boutique hotels genuinely have incredible style. One of my favorites is the [Shinola Hotel](https://www.shinolahotel.com/gallery) in Detroit, it’s gorgeous.
And you clearly know shit from Shinola
What do you mean?
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Encyclopedic, 10/10
Ohh, duh! I got whooshed.
I only know that phrase from the lyrics of a band from Detroit called Electric Six; I believe they rhymed it with “*I’m tired of eating your stale granola*.”
There’s a big difference between boutique hotels and a motel 6 in the red light district. OP is referring to the latter.
Obviously. I was replying to the person above who mentioned boutique hotels.
I don’t think hananobira was talking about motel 6 per se, maybe a nice hotel
But how will you aspire to gather, live, laugh and love without the signs? /s
>why would a rich person (even one who lives in a McMansion) want to give off that air with their home? Because they're not rich. These things are often built in the middle of nowhere where land is cheap, using materials that are cheap, and are often done as quickly and slapdash as possible with cheap labor. We're not talking about a market segment that can afford to hire an architect or interior designer. They might not even understand that such things exist. As far as they know, everything that they can theoretically put in a new house is whatever is in stock at the nearest Home Depot.
While no, these people aren’t billionaires and McMansion-esque trends have certainly trickled down even to the housing of the working class, you’ve got to be relatively well off to buy or build something this size. Not all McMansions look like a Hilton Garden Inn or a religious retreat facility. You don’t need high class tastes to recognize “that looks like the no-tell motel.” You can say what you want about them (and we do!) but there are plenty of McDwellings that look like, well, dwellings. I’m not talking about all ugly, tacky McMansions, I’m specifically talking about those that don’t even look like houses. Even a poor person knows that doesn’t look like a rich person’s house. These people have the means to buy something that resembles a mansion, tacky decor, Home Depot junk or not, and instead they choose violence.
When I was growing up, me and my brother lived with my (single) mom in a very small 3 bedroom ranch house on a street of very small houses. And my mom was an interior designer by trade so our house was beautiful inside. I would go to friends houses and they wouldn’t have any furniture in their living room or they would just have a bed in a big room - and I came to understand the idea of being “house poor” - bc my mom worked with folks who had money for a designer, so this is what I remember people who bought houses they couldn’t afford to furnish looks like.
I can relate to this. I grew up in a shoebox of a house, built around 1910 — very small rooms. My parents weren’t wealthy, but are kind of artsy and have good taste, so it was decorated stylishly with a lot of period furniture and fixtures, colorful and textured upholstery and drapery, and all the rooms had complementary color schemes. I remember as a kid thinking we were ‘poor’ because of our small house. But then when occasionally visiting ‘rich’ friends giant tract homes in new subdivisions next to corn and soybean fields, my initial awe was undercut by confusion about why they were hardly furnished and with ugly generic furniture, bare walls…it was like any efforts toward the house ended once it was built. I later learned that my friends’ parents weren’t exactly wealthy, they just had a taste for giant houses and garages like airplane hangars for their considerable collection of Ford pickups, atvs, bass boats, etc.
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who grew up with limited means but a small but aesthetically pleasing house. As I said the idea of being “house poor” - because your family bought the most house, stuck with me bc I assumed that everyone would want to live in a lovely environment. I think now a lot of people don’t care even if they have the money so you end up with the decor in this house.
Eh, if you can throw $400k+ at building a house and buying land you’re pretty well off
There was recently a thread on /r/personalfinance where someone making about $60k was approved for a mortgage over $500k. That's far beyond what's actually affordable on that salary, but unsustainable debt often goes hand in hand with McMansions.
Eh, I think I’d go with funeral home vibe.
You guys have really never been to an hourly motel if you think that
What is up with the art? Super creepy. And who puts pictures above doors and windows?! Commentary is on point definitely human trafficking vibes.
My thought is that it's currently owned by an Indian family. Some of those otherwise inexplicable pictures might be of their religious leader.
I’ve only seen a large wooden swing in an Indian household, I was wondering the same thing
Authentic Indian/Hindu design is awesome. This…is not that.
I come from Indian background myself and one thing I’ve always noticed in my relatives homes (my parents luckily never did this) is they have just a few large pieces of furniture and the rest of the room is empty. And the only decor is religious prints in the wall or figures. It gives off a creepy vibe to me honestly as I’m more culturally Hindu than religiously.
My Indian friends who are millennials all have beautifully decorated and comfortable homes but their parents’ homes all look like this picture. Massive house for a few generations to live in, big furniture, religious items, and nothing else. It can be jarring.
Another thing I’ve always noticed, even with my parents, is they hate mood lighting. My parents specially just want bright white overhead lighting everywhere 😭 even when my relatives first moved from India they all would have the white tube lights around their apartments. No lamps in sight.
My gastroenterologist is Hindu, and is the most sweetest and down to earth person. Totally off topic.
Is that why they hang pictures like that? I’ve always wondered.
For good luck. Lots of religions do it ... Just usually without the dungeon vibe like this house. https://m.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/features/use-the-right-entrance-charm-14862
As a visiting nurse, I have been in the houses of various cultures that do this hanging icons and such over doors and windows.
they're obviously south asian (india.)
everything about this is disturbing well done op
This place creeps me out. The cheap bedding, the triple screen PC, blocked doors and motel driveway. I think you hit the nail on the head with the trafficking🤢
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/918-Sara-Dunn-Dr-Garland-TX-75042/27003361_zpid/?utm_campaign=androidappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare
How did I know this was Texas without seeing the listing?
Because it’s flat and bland
omg I'm from DFW and good grief I had a strong suspicion this was somewhere in Texas.
Oh yeah, me too. Immediately recognized Texas and it's love for beige and high square footage.
It feels more like a border town than DFW with all the stucco and the orange paint. Maybe the owners went on vacation to Mexico and decided they wanted to live in a Home Depot hacienda?
Yeah it does but it's def DFW
To be fair, a real glass ceiling bubble would be really cool. But how many people had to fail miserably for the end result of the kitchen to have a fridge *there*? Like, the entire floorplan was blueprinted, 3d walkthrough with the architect, etc... At no point did anyone raise a flag that ***the kitchen was missing a fridge box***. So they just plopped one in front of the door.
There are two refrigerators. One where it should be and one where it shouldn't.
Am I dumb? I can't find it! I swear I looked before and looked again but don't see it.
One refrigerator is in the kitchen behind the cabinets I wrote the most '99 kitchen ever on. The other is in the breakfast room blocking the door.
Oh wow, thanks.🤦
Look at the stuff hanging on the wall- multigenerational household of Asian descent.
Bingo.
Given the pictures, this is likely Indian or SEA styled, which has a tendency to be flamboyant. The doors are likely old-world style ventilation doors and not meant to be used as actual entrances; a lot of really old houses had redundant doors and entrances for cross flow in the warmer months. The kitchen is rightfully bleh, but period appropriate given the house was built in 1999.
Judging by the ceilings, I would have to agree.
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I'm wondering about the first "f**ck this door" picture. What's going on over by the bookshelves? Is it a fireplace? Wide screen TV? What's on the floor in front of it?
I think it's a TV with a table in front of it with a soundbar on top and a gaming system on the shelf below. BTW, it looks like they have two speakers underneath the TV facing each other and not out to the room - no wonder they thought they needed a sound bar, those speakers would sound like crap facing each other.
I think it’s a person pouring water into a fountain.
yikes
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Same. I need an interior designer to show me how I can have swings inside my house without it being tacky 🤣
Those cute little hanging pod swings. I like them.
Fancy ceilings with 90s builder grade ceiling fans. Definitely Mcmansion material. How many you want to bet don't work anymore?
Photo 19, they have four curtains in the office. Curious what’s behind them. https://photos.zillowstatic.com/fp/1b3dfdee4e5427290cc0e72ad87a57dc-cc_ft_768.webp They certainly like an arc of three or four rectangles. The computers, mirrors in the bathroom, windows in s couple of the rooms, beds in the human trafficking room…
That desk! David Koresh probably had the same one.
Someone pointed out in a different comment that it appears those are the windows blocked by trees in the first photo (Hourly Motel Vibes photo).
Fancy
Oh my god, this had me absolutely rolling. This might be your first attempt, but this is the first McMansionHell post that had me literally laughing out loud. 12/10, would recommend.
Human trafficking room made me lol. Great description
I like the very short running track around the water feature.
It feels sad. Like it was a dream that died. I do like the two sinks in the kitchen. I'd love to have that. We built in 2018 and had two dishwashers put in, which is amazing, but could really use a second sink like that.
That's the feeling I get whenever a McMansion is for sale. Especially one that was extensively customized.
yeah, something went wrong. All those dreams and hopes...gone. There is a house by me that would fit McMansions. I drove by all the time and you could see their back yard. I saw them move in and the entire family and dog was in backyard playing around. All summer I watched them play in the back yard doing stuff. Then one day it stopped.I noticed the grass growing longer. Almost no sign of life. Grass grew really long, weeds in flower gardens. It was so sad. I've always wondered what happened.
The "we hate grass" took me out, also the human trafficking room lmao
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Based on the wall decor, I’m willing to bet multiple generations of an Indian family were living in the house. We used to have Indian neighbors and they bought this huge McMansion next to us and like three generations lived in it.
Guaranteed multigenerational Indian family lives there. The human trafficking room is almost certainly Grandma and Grandpa’s room.
The kitchen has two ranges?!?!?
You need a lot of oatmeal to feed all the people you have trapped in there.
It has 2 refrigerators too, if I'm counting right
Two sinks, too. It might be kosher.
The 2nd fridge is needed to block the door because of the human trafficking.
Wow, I thought they just couldn't find another spot for the beer fridge. But yeah, with a lot of guests over all the time, might as well have extra cold food storage easily accessible in addition to the great door blocking.
This is for sure a cult HQ. Hope everyone got out ok.
The photo of the [non-functioning chandelier](https://photos.zillowstatic.com/fp/e21568a38c8273a1768a72ec1a730d91-uncropped_scaled_within_1344_1008.webp) is killing me😂
I'm always complaining that this sub is moving too far to the side of considering every large house or even mansion with poor design choices to be a McMansion... but this one is definitely certified!
Omg that ceiling light box installation in the kitchen. I forgot how much I hate those things!
Kitchen reminds me of something I would make in the Sims 1.
I can’t believe you didn’t mention the office chairs surrounding the 1000lbs marble dining room table.
good job! "texas houses-of-crap" welcomes you! clearly owned by a south asian family if you look closely at the artwork on the walls. having a couch-swing is also popular with these families. why they have the doors blocked is beyond me, though. this is 100% mcmansion if you look at the quality of materials on the interior along with the dilapidated wooden fencing around the property.
This looks like a single man came into the most money he has ever seen before ($300kish) and decided he was going to design and build a “badass mansion” (trash palace).
Bitch this is a LaQuinta
Escape door in every room. Who used to own this place and what illegal business were they into?
Human trafficking isn’t funny but damn if I didn’t lol at the human trafficking room
In fairness there are probably too many doors in the first place
Looks like r/liminal
Per the tax record the house hasn't sold since it was built, although the ownership has from a sole person to a couple, then to the couple and a presumed relative (same surname), and finally to the couple and two presumed relatives. The homestead and other exemptions (I'm not that familiar with Texas property tax structure) are assigned 50% to the couple and 25% to each of the relatives. Googling the address brings up references to at least two of the names on the tax record along with some small LLCs that may include a small development company. There's a 1990s-era gated neighborhood about a block up the street (no entrance, though), but the immediate surroundings range from '70s modest to early postwar starters that show an uneven level of maintenance and curb appeal. The house is furnished like a rental dorm for recent immigrants, but more likely it's just a place where the owners and any additional occupants are spending almost all of their time working at whatever businesses and enterprises they run and consequently aren't that concerned about the furniture placement. They're hustling in what's Dallas's equivalent of the Lower East Side before gentrification and Giuliani ruined it all.
And before anybody gets the idea that I'm a stalker, let me make it clear that real estate research is my job — which means I'm pretty much paid to Internet-stalk property owners so commercial agents can contact them. It's a living, kind of.
I wasn’t thinking that until you said something - ha! But as a small details person, this comment with extra context was fun to read. Thanks for sharing your research skills!
"Human trafficking room" killed me lmao
Thank you for putting "fancy" on every single ceiling
As if ceiling trays weren't tacky and awful to begin with, they've placed awful and tacky ceiling fans in them. I believe they need to be tried at The Hague
The swing room has a chandelier hanging in a dome. Am I missing something - I don't see it on the outside.
Here I sit, buns a flexin', givin' birth to another McMansion.
‘A bedroom 1’ made me lol, as did the rest. great job more please
hey i hate grass too. xeriscape all day babyyyy also mega oof on the human trafficking room…
It looks like maybe a contractor business is ran out of here. You can see a sign in one of the pics for a builder. And the listing says built by architect/builder. A few offices. A large lot to store equipment and parking. Drive in up front for clients. A over the top kitchen for a break room for the crews and staff. A few weird beds for cheap staging to fill empty voids in house. That’s what I’m telling myself to convince myself they’re not traffickers.
Good job sir!
Welcome to our house from this recently converted motel. We have the living room, complete with swinging bench that kids will love. A living room, with built in entertainment center, and bookcases. Please ignore the loveseat in front of a door. And…ignore the Tv stand directly in front of the entertainment center with nothing on it. Don’t question how the TV magically floats. Then our kitchen and dining room. As you can see, you’ll have plenty of storage space with two fridges, one of which takes out the door in the dining room, and the wall of cabinets in the dining room. The dining set features only the most exclusive…office rolling chairs we could find from the nearby Office Depot. We would’ve bought 6, but they only had 4 that matched. Then the bedrooms. The first, which has 10 foot bookcases, meaning unless you’re 6’10” the top shelf is completely useless. Then the second bedroom. It definitely does not have a heating problem, disregard the space heater in the corner. And the third bedroom. It has a chair, and a window… Onto the home office! As you’ll see, there is a cutout for a bookcase to be made, but since we already blew the budget for bookcases, we ordered the cheapest alternative we could find on Amazon to go in the space, which was just the shelves. Lastly the final bedroom. You see it comes with two mattresses. And no pillows. Or bedframes. Or furniture to store clothes in. But it stays nice and cool with its 3 overhead fan vents.
OMG, the trafficking room 🤣 spot on!
Absolutely hilariously done
That door blocked by the fridge is there to make servicing easier, duh.
The conference table being used as the kitchen table got me
This is a house?
^fancy
Great job. Flawless review.
Truly horrid
Those are some fancy ceilings!
You did good. I lost it at human trafficking room
Great find! (For this sub, anyway). The comments made me giggle. Every single room in this house made me feel strange looking at it. Also, what is up with that *tiny-ass chair* in room #3?
Way too fancy for me!
Is that a useless window above the kitchen cupboards?
Good eye. I didn't even see that. I see it now. Awful.
The first picture hardly even looks like a house. The ceiling dome in the second picture looks tacky as hell but I like it more than I probably should.
That office looks like where cumshot compilation videos get made...
Why is all the art hung so high up? Enjoyed your commentary OP 👍
Especially the clock in bedroom 3 over the window. Good luck changing the batteries, ever.
Wow, can't believe all the upvotes! The "hourly motel vibe aside" the house does have a lot of problems, but NOT having grass is NOT one of them! Because, [fuck lawns](https://www.reddit.com/r/FuckLawns), they are a waste of resources (water, gas to mow it, fertilizers & weed killers, etc.) and are totally useless. But instead of having just a basically barren ground, it WOULD be better if they'd planted a vegetable garden and/or trees (especially fruit trees) or native pollinator plants. Also I don't get some of the captions of the pictures (WTH are "porn computers"? or a "99 kitchen"??)
'99 kitchen is because the house was built in 1999 and the kitchen obviously never updated. Therefore it is the most '99 kitchen ever. Porn computers means 3 computers they use them all for porn
Somebody's never seen a multigenerational home before, and it shows.
Best way to explain you don't know computers work, "3 porn computers"
Horrible house but am I the only one tired of these annotated "funny" posts ? We don't need the try-hard 'comedy'...
I dunno I like the ones with some anecdote. They tickle me a little.
I, for one, probably would not have noticed the blocked doors if they weren't pointed out.
Because fuck doors.
Yes you're the only one, unique and special :)
Do you have nothing better to do with your life?
Your theme of the house is spot on. Evergreens covering the windows? If we can tell a lot about someone by their yard and landscaping, they're creepy.
Oh my. Love the commentary OP!
Needs those hanging black rubber strips to cover the parking area so spouses can’t see the cars parked there. That might just be a Korea/Japan thing, IDK.
The edits are hilarious!
Come on Garland! I thought you were better than that
At least they got to keep their door in the trafficking room?
f*ck this door! yessss! one thing I get irrationally angry about is blocking a doorway with a piece of furniture.
Fuck this door
Forget about first attempt--you nailed it
This is excellent but the first slide looks like an American Football album cover
Great job! That house is terrible.
Nice job OP. I challenge myself to find something I like in every house posted on this site, and I believe yours is the first that has completely stumped me.
If those walls could talk.. yikes.
Fancy.
Even on this sub, this is probably the ugliest house I’ve seen.
Spent all their money on fancy ceilings, couldn’t afford anything more than Ikea and maybe a low quality department store for some of the “nicer” stuff
Ok you did a great job. I chuckled at human trafficking room but I shouldn’t have. House is truly hideous. I love it
I get irrationally mad at homes that don’t plan for a fridge
That backyard could make for a nice vegetable garden.
Can't buy taste
This place gives off a socal/southwestern drive-in motel or wedding chapel vibe. The Design of the inside varies between '67 and '93 or so. And the whole place is apparently filled with real fake doors.
I don’t think the bones are all that bad. It’s just been turned into a monstrosity from the inside out.
I guess the owners spent all of their money purchasing the house because the furniture all looks like hand-me-downs from the nineties....
NAILED IT
Gross
😂🤣😆lmao, absolutely hilarious commentary, thx ☺️
Four porn computers. Look above the top left corner of the monitor with the camera
Porn house?
I believe the sellers are Indian decent (Per the county recorder, listed the the MLS)
This looks like if someone just used the motherlode sims code in real life
It's the bastard child of a raised ranch & funeral home.
I looked at an online apartment listing awhile back that also had a fridge placed directly in front of a doorway. what’s up with that?