However, I have a problem with zoning house police who restrict building smaller houses, or two smaller houses on one lot while allowing on ginormous house on one lot If it's 50% lot coverage, the house or houses should be any size the owner wants them to be.
Good design principles are essential for a large home or even a mansion. A combination of aesthetics, efficiency, low maintenance, careful use of energy and water, and if possible even recycling of sewage and garbage.
Technologies that should be considered include tile stoves for heat, a cooler system for dry climates, rain capture, conduit and insulated home water, conduit electrical and communications, conduit sewage, underground heat and cold sinks, aerogel insulation in walls and appliances, hot water solar preheating, basement and sub basement, pneumatic elevators, secret and security passages and rooms and duress escape.
And lots more besides.
I come to these threads to see if the resident pompous, hoity-toity, pretentious folk weighs in... no surprise....
My parents had a home in Crystal, Minnesota (by Minneapolis). It was a bit over 6,000sq/ft for 3 floors and had 6 bedrooms, 4 baths. The basement opened to the backyard and the roof was high pitched and had 2 bedrooms and bath and a walk in attic. The place had a balcony overlooking the creek with a pond in view. The house was built in 1962. People like big homes.
I bet in the olden days people liked bigger caves.
Is 2500 sf a mcmansion?
I would think a mcmansion would be larger
I prefer old bungalows with board walls and wood stoves. Create a convection current and no ac is needed. Electricity less than thirty bucks a month.
Liberals sure do love telling others how to live their lives.
My motto is if you can afford it and you want it build it. America is supposed to be a free country. My personal nightmare is one of those huge boxes on a postage stamp lot but hey everybody doesn’t want 5 acres and a log cabin. :-)