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That icon of American childhood, the treehouse, has succumbed to the McMansion phenomenon. The place of refuge that you may remember as little more than a haphazardly mounted platfor... ...
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Car dealerships have been offering things like gas cards in attempts to sell the SUVs and large trucks clogging up their lots, as consumers... ... Source: airamerica.com --- 17 days ago
We can act if we want to If we don’t nobody will - Men Without Hats Check out the Scurvy Rickets on this chick!! Shiver me Timbers, I oughta keel-haul those scallywags! AARRRRRGGGHHH! CSI: Petland read more ... Source: inspiredaustin.com --- 33 days ago
I have posted a few times regarding the McMansion ordinance: McMansion Ordinance Tweaks Possible All McMansion topics The Austin Contrarian blog has better covered the topic: Austin Contrarian – McMansion I am currently remodeling my own home which is within the ring, so I have personal experience in dealing with the ordinance. It didn’t really affect our design, however [...] ... Source: www.kgw.com --- 19 days ago
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Back in February we profiled a series of empty McMansions in Arcadia. Most of them were brand new, big and overpriced. After a total of 217 days on the market, the following McMansion on 8th Street finally sold. Original listing price: $2,980,000 ($398/sf) Final sales price on 6/12/08: $2,600,000 ($347/sf) The 13% price reduction might not seem significant [...] ... Source: tupto.com --- 10 days ago
Probably because the McMansion was so ridiculous, but you can still see it thanks to LiveLeak. a2a_linkname="CNN removed the McMansion video"; a2a_linkurl="http://tupto.com/money/cnn-removed-the-mccain-mansion-video/"; ...
Source: opinion.latimes.com --- 26 days ago
There's a big hole in the ground, one block square, at the more-or-less southwest corner of Broadway and First. And I like it that way. This site was to have been a federal courthouse -- the biggest one in the country. The 70-year-old courthouse a few blocks away looks august and severe and all the things a federal courthouse should look like, but it's as outdated as the iceman. The feds budgeted a third of a billion to build this new courthouse on the site of a demolished state building. Now, writes my Times colleague Cara Mia DiMassa, it'll cost three times that -- over a billion bucks. And some judges don't even like the way the way it would handle the court's space problems. So now what? There's talk of starting the whole courthouse process all over again. Heck, in this real estate market, you could buy every federal judge a McMansion and make it over into a mini-courthouse with all the other necessary functions, and maybe some unnecessary ones (the pool already comes with the house.) Security? What's more secure than federal courtroom functions scattered all over West L.A., rather than concentrated in one juicy granite and marble target? Back to that hole where the courthouse was meant to be. They tore down the hideous Junipero Serra State Office Building on that site a few years ago. Maybe it was asbestos problems, maybe it was earthquake damage -- maybe someone just rightly declared it an esthetic hazard and summoned the w ...
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In this installment of 10 Questions for . . . , Senior Editor Daniel DiClerico speaks with Marianne Cusato, author, architect, and number four on Builder magazine's "Power on 50" list of the housing industry's most influential people. Cusato talks about the rise of the McMansion, what makes a great neighborhood, and why the green movement still has room to grow, and gives her opinion on "no-maintenance materials. When did the McMansion era begin? It all started in the 1980s. McMansions were a natural reaction to other bad architecture: cookie-cutter homes. Someone came in and said, "These houses are ugly. What can we do?" And the answer was, "Let's add this, let's add that, let's make them bigger." Little by little the houses kept growing and growing. There was an "I see your gable and raise you two" attitude. At the same time money and gas were really, really cheap. So it was easy to expand outward. It's not just the architecture then. It's also the location? The issue is that the farther out homes get from stores and other amenities, the more we depend on the home to meet all of our daily needs. We used to be able to meet our needs with a 5-minute walk, then a 5-minute drive, now it's a 45-minute drive. That means if you want to watch a movie, you need a media room. A developer in Texas told me recently that he can't sell a home without a room called the "hair salon." But aren't developers just giving people what they want? Everybod ...
Source: www.philly.com --- 23 days ago
'Stay out of my life." It's an understandable request - a plea, really - coming from a guy who's moved with his wife into a cul-de-sac McMansion in a hilltop complex in Los Angeles, and who's getting nothing but hostility and grief from his next-door neighbor. ... Source: www.philly.com --- 26 days ago
If you're familiar with the renderings of suburban ennui that put Cheever, Updike and Didion on the map, you have to wonder why it has taken art so long to gets its hands on the McMansion-and-Hummer crowd. Cameras were focused on the suburbs early - look ... Source: talkingpointsmemo.com --- 37 days ago
Okay, seems like the finger-pointing is breaking out in the McCain campaign over the green screen / Walter Reed / McCain McMansion goof in last night's McCain speech. Last night at the Google/Vanity Fair party celebrating the last night of the RNC, McCain chief Rick Davis was telling people the whole thing was the fault of McCain ad man Fred Davis. ... Source: www.orlandosentinel.com --- 17 days ago
•For the pseudo McMansion people with no curtains on Palmer Avenue: What — did you leverage yourself so much you had nothing left to buy curtains? We drive by; you're in boxers — that's gross. Your wife thinks she's hot — she's not. Do us all a favor. Buy some window treatments. Your house isn't big enough to be a McMansion. ... Source: news.fan-sites.org --- 19 days ago
Hey! I have added 11MQ scans of Ellen Pompeo in the October Issue of Allure Magazine at E-POMPEO.ORG. Enjoy! X11MQ//Allure Magazine Scans - October Issue Related posts: New Layout at E-Pompeo.org (0) New Gallery Updates at E-Pompeo.org (0) McMansion + Gallery Updates at EPC (0) Grey’s Anatomy Screencaps (0) ... Find more results for McMansion on RSSMicro.com |
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The mansion includes: 10 fireplaces (in the desert, mind you) 13 bedrooms 14.5 bathrooms 13,000 square feet a wine tasting room an air conditioned playhouse for the kids 6 car garage an extra second garage surrounding the poll 3 ramadas with full size bars 22 flat screen tvs And don't forget, this is only one of McCain's 12 homes. I especially like McCain's office that sure looks awfully similar to the Oval Office. Seriously, what kind of man designs his office to look like the Oval Office? Here is the news report video: ...
I have long hated McMansions for a simple aesthetic reason: they're ugly. With their stone veneer facades (an authentic Atlanta chateau!), "Palladian windows" (rounded on top, usually over the front door) and four-car garages, most of these starter castles are atrocities from the outside. They're equally abominable on the inside: who among us has walked through a "Great Room" and not expected to meet The Bachelor 's Chris Harrison waiting with a rose? Of course these houses (can a McMansion ever be a "home"?) are more than just ugly. Their lack of proportion is revealing: Don't the owners realize how transparent they're being, moving into a house with a footprint nearly equal to its plot of land? A faux chateau for the faux successful. A Hummer House for a Hummer driver who can't get a hummer without paying for it. There's no place like ... wait, is that my home? Or am I in the one next to it? They're a child's version of "fancy," in the same way that a child's favorite color is purple. Ironic, since the adults who move into these Garage Mahals, these Frankenhouses, often have one or no children at all! I remember visiting one when I lived in Plano, TX (Plano's Palazzos are among the most exquisite). The colleague of mine who lived there had one child. I remember seeing the kid play wanly with a bunch of toys strewn sadly in the back corner of the uncarpeted Great Room. Who knew that loneliness could echo? I don't care so much i ...
What's not to love about "The Real Housewives of Atlanta?" These designer divas live the deluxe life -- they're insanely rich, reside in huge homes and make no qualms about being shallow. You won't be able to take your eyes off this dishy dramarama! Watch these Hautelanta women balance their busy social calendars, kids, careers, and most importantly their power shopping sprees -- every Tuesday at 9:00 PM on Bravo . Here's the close-up on the five fashionistas: DeShawn Snow Married to NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers captain Eric Snow, DeShawn lives in a ginormous McMansion, is a mother of three and is active in local philanthropy. Kim Zolciak Blond bombshell and single mom Kim is an aspiring country singer and self-described "black woman trapped in a white body." Dating a shadowy sugar daddy named "Big Poppa," she drops $68K on a new Escalade .... without a test drive. NeNe Leakes An outspoken mother of two and wife of a successful real estate investor, NeNe hopes to open a luxury boutique hotel. Lisa Wu Hartwell Asian/African-American entrepreneur Lisa is married to NFL linebacker Ed Hartwell. This spitfire appears to be the show's most likeable housewife -- hopefully she'll get her claws out! Shereé Whitfield Socialite mom Shereé is the show's villain, and the tension is already tangible with NeNe. In the midst of a divorce battle with former NFLer Bob Whitfield, she's hoping to receive a seven-figure lump settlement. ...
We think we have a new crush and she goes by the name Cathleen McGuigan . Her piece, " Bad News About Green Architecture ," in the upcoming issue of Newsweek , is a terrific calling out of how much further the green movement, particularly in regard to design, has to go. Granted, this is not particularly new, as we were reporting on the negative co-opting of the term "green" by marketers across the globe , but McGuigan puts a nice spin on it by complaining that just because something takes home some flashy LEED award ( we're looking at you, China ), that doesn't mean that anything involved with the building even remotely follows the tenants of greenness (e.g. the "Green McMansion" or the greening of Vegas hotels). But she comes full circle and explains that these transitions are all part of the initial growing pains into something new and hopefully, people like Renzo Piano (she really likes his new California Academy of Sciences building ), will help save us all from ourselves, eventually leading to "green" becoming bland and ordinary from hyper-familiarity. New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media ...