I live here. My wife and I just went out to dinner tonight, driving by the McMansions on rt. 7, laughing our heads off. They are simply ridiculous and atrocious in appearance. And that double-gable look, with the HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE white deck running the length of the back of the house is gonna look REAL dated in about an hour and a half from now. When you look at the stately and gorgeous all brick federals built here in the 20 and 30 sitting on an acre or more of land, which could be had for less than half what a mcmansion goes for, well... There’s a sucker born every minute.
they demonstrate the classic syndrome of “champagne taste on a beer income.”
Part out the fancy plumbing and countertops to sell in India and Eastern Europe? Burn the wood in a regen plant?
I’m sure some people said the same thing about the Victorians at the beginning of the 20th century. Now you better not modify or stray from the original color schemes or you will be hung by your thumbs from the courthouse roof...
I used to live in Loudon: Waterford, then Leesburg respectively (once in a 200 year old house). Honestly, even though I’m a free market lover, I hate what the building boom has done to one of the prettiest (or formerly) counties in Virginia.
The McMansion subdivisions just west of Leesburg on Rt. 7 (especially looking south) were put up on some of the most gorgeous pieces of farmland in the Old Dominion. And they are awful. The stuff outside and on the way to Waterford too are dreadful. Big houses cheaply built—like practically all residential housing now built in America.
I’ll be surprised if they last 50 years. I’d hope to live to see it go back to farmland, but, that may have to wait for the 2nd Coming!
My boss has a large new house, not quite a mcmansion but large nevertheless and expensive, The tubs and sinks were fiberglass all the woodwork was plastic the brick on the front of the house was just veneer, all kinds of cost-control quality was evident.How long do you suppose they will last? Even providing they can find a second hand buyer. My house when I bought it was 40 years old, just about the time construction material quality was to start it’s descent. All my neighbors tell me it’s built like the proverbial brick S((!-house.