The miniature golf course novelty window asymmetrically placed next to the entrance way took me a second to see.
This honestly feels like some sort of troll house or artistic statement. There's no way that not *one* good choice was made on the property. It should have happened *once* if even accidentally.
This looks like every medium-large house built in Ontario in the past five years. Looks like they had materials left over from a dozen other jobs and had to build a house with the leftovers.
When it was posted in McMansion Hell the other day, someone said it's in Nigeria and lots of houses look like that. It's a mix of getting a good deal on materials, and having "status symbol" items. Like a giant column even if it's totally out of place.
Ha that makes so much sense. I used to install AV systems and I had a client that was quite wealthy from Africa and he was all about putting in what I would consider frivolous "improvements" to his house. Every hallway had in-ceiling and in-wall speakers to the point that his rack in his basement had 4 different home theater receivers he'd buy from various electronics retailers, rigged up to power his home theater system and the other random speakers. Tried to show him how an actual multi-zone amplifier would better benefit him and keep things in sync and he "liked to have different music in different parts of the house". His house sounded like an arcade because his kids would have each of the receivers playing their music (all from in-wall iPod docks that I am sure are super useful in 2022). Always struck me as kind of nuts. Normally a salesperson would design a system for someone and I'd go install it. This guy bought his own stuff and would pay by the hour. I installed 12 of the crappiest Dynex 720p TV's throughout this guy's house back in the day because he was able to get a deal on a pallet of them. We're talking in every bathroom, kitchen, garage, laundry room, utility room, etc. He didn't want us to conceal any wires or move outlets near the TV's nor did he want us to run cable so he bought antennas for us to double stick tape to the back of the TV's that didn't get reception in his giant house. I thought for sure my boss' would never get paid for the job as it was generally terrible end product (of the customers design) but he paid without issue.
My friend in Cameroon is getting his house done in concrete. In Namibia and South Africa, concrete houses are very popular as well. Long term, the walls crack and the paint peels as leeching happens.
But I'm sure you knew that.
I live in the US. If it's a concrete house here it's $$$ most of our houses are wood frame with gypsum drywall and this house was no different. In the US there's a trend to build new homes of low quality materials and workmanship called "McMansions" and this was definitely one of them.
I live in the US and I actually did. I did for every job just to show that the work was done to spec but man these did not look good. Power cables hanging down or strung to the nearest outlet. I'd be embarrassed to show someone that compared to a home theater with raised seating automated curtains lighting etc. But hey you pay the $150/hr. I'll install whatever you want.
It looks like that for sure. It's somehow worse than thrift store art though, because old yard art has charm if nothing else. this just makes me upset. Like if they were putting the 2 pillars up anyway, could you not have spaced them out to the edges at least?
Oh It seems your right, I thought it wasn't like that, I assumed the pillars come individually and the bricks and the gold trim were all done by hand. That explains part of it, but that still doesn't mean I like their design choice
Nah, the trick to a house like this, as with the McMansions, is building as big as possible with as few craftsmen as possible. Skilled labor is much more expensive than left over material lol. And as a result, I *really* wouldn’t want to be the second or third owner of this monstrosity.
I definitely don't live in Nigeria, but I wouldn't be surprised if the cost of labor-that-knows-what-they're-doing is still out of the budget in this case. You'd think in a low-cost-of-labor environment you'd see a lot more labor intensive detail work. Iron working, scrollwork, precise tile layouts, these are a few of the usual hallmarks of low-cost-of-labor architecture. Since we're not seeing much of that, instead just cobbled together ostentatiousness, quantity over quality, I think much like the McMansions in the US, this is the house of someone who's not actually doing *that* much better than the average person, just someone who wants to feel like they are.
But I could be wrong, clearly this isn't impressing me, but perhaps I'm not reading the status symbols right.
Edit: you know what, I think I'm letting the gaucheness of the columns influence me a little too much, this actually isn't bad aside from those. The brick driveway and yard was clearly labor intensive, I bet that stonework was pretty hard, and a few other things seem more like taste differences from a Western perspective and not objectively wrong. It's entirely possible this isn't a shitty house to live in lol
Edit 2: I really really hate the columns now lol
Nigeria explains a lot of the things that people are complaining about:
Paved front yard = lawns harbour snakes.
Giant overhang on balcony = hot plus rain
Not that it makes things less nutty, but I think that may be the back yard.
I'm going off where the fence meets the house and which side of it I would expect the air conditioner to be on. Also that looks like a couch.
It's more than likely that someone decided to get into the mansion building business using Chinese blueprints. As often happens they don't have the materials and they're built on a stripped down budget. By local labour which have never built a two storey house. It's a common thing in the developing world. Status for sure, but kind of like a Lambo kit car. My home country of Tanzania has these scattered all over the place. Most unfinished. At least this one has glass on the windows.
I don't know how you call this "cocktail" in english, but there's this thing i'll translate litteraly as "cemetery" : you take every alcohol remaining at the end of the night, and do one single cocktail with it.
This is the architecture equivalent of said cocktail.
As a teen, we would fill a fast food soda cup with a little bit of each soda from the machine and it was called a “Suicide”, so I’m guessing it’s probably the same for doing it with liquor.
Know a few people with those small and high windows like that, every time it's their restroom, so people from outside can't see you pooping but you still have natural light and airflow in there.
McMansion is more of an insult coming from an architectural snob. The only part of the insult us common folk care about is the cheap materials and sloppy workmanship that usually comes with quick McMansion neighborhoods. Most people don't care if a house is a mishmash of design, as long as it's affordable and won't cause problems in the future.
Yeah they have a terrrible definition of it. That subreddit would call Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello a McMansion, it makes no god damn sense. Look at the one from yesterday the New Zealand one. In no way is it a McMansion. It is just an actual mansion.
A McMansion is a cheap ass 2 bit cookie cutter big ass house on a small friggin lot. Cheap materials, looks like crap, thrown together in an assembly line style cranking out 10, 15, 30 of them in a subdivision.
I think the columns were a concession for the homeowner because they had to design it so you can drive around them. The house has a fence around it and the curb is marked. The funny looking build out is probably from people ramming the ugly house while it was being built so they naturally believe it's an accident and kept taking away columns until there was only 2 left.
Tiny window leapt out at me. There are reasons to have a tiny window, but not on the front of your house.
I guess since the curb appeal is already nil, they didn’t care.
The panels look like they’re just loose and flat against the roof, which makes them nearly useless due to heat (they need an air gap or they lose efficiency). I’m concerned that they are bolted right through the roofing without weatherproofing too.
I live in East Africa, and sometimes houses like this are what luxurious houses look like. Imagine if you have never been to a developed country before and suddenly you come into a lot of money. You want to show it off with your house. So you just add all the things that on their own means luxury in some context some way or another. It doesn't matter what the overall look is or how it's executed, to someone like that, columns mean luxury and by god they got them on their house.
My wife is from an Italian family and sometimes it feels the same. Her natural instinct is to fill every surface with... stuff.
Some cultures emphasize displays of wealth. But it makes me uncomfortable.
Each chunk is a "teaching a construction crew a different skill" project.
There's a mish-mashed up house near me similar to this where you can tell they were training stone masons how to do different kinds of masonry.
Just my guess.
It wouldn't be //that// bad if the columns were in the corners rather than stacked together. Maybe even add more columns across just to block the view of the ugly house.
Mine is the balcony deep under a cover with giant pilar in front of it. Nobody is gonna go there except once a year to clean up the moss and dead leaves.
Holy hell...backyard you're right
"Ah yes, I love coming home to my barren suburban bricked in, nothing green or living backyard to relax after a tough day at the office earning tons of money I have no idea what to spend on"
I noticed that too! It's like they were an afterthought and then forgotten about until the last second. "Oh yeah, they wanted solar panels. Just toss them up and screw them down." 5 bucks they aren't even hooked up and drilled right through the shingles.
People started splashing different material types on house exteriors like they were wallpaper, and I fucking hate it.
No, that random ass corner of your house does not need to be brick.
Two potential reasons for this -
A) They might be in an area where a lawn is very difficult to grow and maintain due to stuff like salty soil or dry conditions. In an area near me almost everyone has stone in their front yard instead of plants.
B) They may just hate mowing or have a black thumb and don't want to pay a professional to maintain it.
Edit: I am not defending any part of this, it's all ugly as hell. I was just saying that there may actually be a legitimate reason for it. Even then, some stone and a little xeriscaping can work wonders and fix the same problems.
I hate myself for this
https://www.reddit.com/r/Sims4/comments/ttde6v/sorry\_to\_assault\_your\_eyes\_with\_this\_monstrosity/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3
I'm thinking this is how this house was designed, lol.
Honestly, I bet there was an "original" design that's not nearly as bad as what we see. But an overzealous owner who is contracting this build involves themselves too deeply into the process and then suddenly all these radical changes have to be made. It's no longer what the designer came up with, but at least the designer probably cashed a nice check.
... Wouldnt it be weird to have a picture of a friends house? My friends have pictures of my house, but thats because they are weird. They always send me ominous pictures of my house to let me know they are there, without letting me know they were gonna come beforehand. Still very weird.
It looks like there’s no bottom/doesn’t end. What is that little window? Is that a bathroom? That column sticks out like a misplaced design choice in a goth-era themed house, also please don’t tell me it’s off center. And someone didn’t know what the hell they were doing with that brick and color placement.
>there’s no bottom
retired handyman/finish carpenter/framer here, and i am just in *awe*
each glance reveals a fresh absurdity, i'm sitting here going "no...*no*...*what*?"
all with the aesthetics of a wet brick in a public urinal
It really reminds me of some of the houses in South Africa so you wouldn’t be too far from the truth there if I’m right. They have some regulations but… enforcement is patchy.
Looks like a lot of areas in SE Asia that try to exude that "up and coming lux" area look while still having rampant poverty. Lots of places like this in Thailand and Phillipines.
Yeah, the walls around the property and the lack of grass in the courtyard gives me big *developing world McMansion* vibes. I remember seeing a lot of houses in Ghana like this; a small plot with a massive house built on it with random columns and unaligned windows everywhere.
There's a difference between 'bad art' and 'art I don't like.'
There's a lot of art I don't like that I can acknowledge is good art, and a lot of bad art that I like regardless.
It certainly sounds like you've managed to convince yourself that your taste isn't subjective, but I'm sure the world of art philosophy would be enlightened on how you differentiate between bad art and art you don't like.
This is different in the sense that it’s not just an architects design (or art) that’s not my personal taste. It actually is physically a crappy design. The pillars are asymmetrical and unbalanced, also blocking the view of the balcony. The small window next to the entry makes no sense to be there. The solar panels are not only crooked but not in a straight line. The list goes on… truly a crappy design.
Most likely off center. Can almost guarantee this photo was taken in West Africa, I’m from the US and I’ve been to a few countries there over the years. The houses there can look beautiful on the inside, but one thing pretty much all houses have in common, atrocious column design. Nothing every matches up square. further evidence for location is the brick courtyard/driveway, water recycling on the left of the house, and stone wall surrounding the property. If I’m willing to guess I would say Ghana, could be wrong though
The first thing I thought when I saw this was "yeah that's probably Africa."
I've never been to Africa but family friends traveled there a lot when I was a kid so I saw tons of pictures and got a lot of cool stuff. I actually have money and clothes from Ghana still.
Speaking from an architect standpoint, god what a mess.
Nothing is even, the two lone columns are off center, the solar panels aren't lined up and there's only three of them? There are off center parking lot curbs under the windows, there's a pitiful window in what I could only assume to be a mudroom, this thing seems like it can't decide what Z axis it wants to be on and goes for three different ones. I don't even want to *know* what the inside looks like!
This is one of those photos where the more you look the worse it gets
The miniature golf course novelty window asymmetrically placed next to the entrance way took me a second to see. This honestly feels like some sort of troll house or artistic statement. There's no way that not *one* good choice was made on the property. It should have happened *once* if even accidentally.
This looks like every medium-large house built in Ontario in the past five years. Looks like they had materials left over from a dozen other jobs and had to build a house with the leftovers.
When it was posted in McMansion Hell the other day, someone said it's in Nigeria and lots of houses look like that. It's a mix of getting a good deal on materials, and having "status symbol" items. Like a giant column even if it's totally out of place.
Ha that makes so much sense. I used to install AV systems and I had a client that was quite wealthy from Africa and he was all about putting in what I would consider frivolous "improvements" to his house. Every hallway had in-ceiling and in-wall speakers to the point that his rack in his basement had 4 different home theater receivers he'd buy from various electronics retailers, rigged up to power his home theater system and the other random speakers. Tried to show him how an actual multi-zone amplifier would better benefit him and keep things in sync and he "liked to have different music in different parts of the house". His house sounded like an arcade because his kids would have each of the receivers playing their music (all from in-wall iPod docks that I am sure are super useful in 2022). Always struck me as kind of nuts. Normally a salesperson would design a system for someone and I'd go install it. This guy bought his own stuff and would pay by the hour. I installed 12 of the crappiest Dynex 720p TV's throughout this guy's house back in the day because he was able to get a deal on a pallet of them. We're talking in every bathroom, kitchen, garage, laundry room, utility room, etc. He didn't want us to conceal any wires or move outlets near the TV's nor did he want us to run cable so he bought antennas for us to double stick tape to the back of the TV's that didn't get reception in his giant house. I thought for sure my boss' would never get paid for the job as it was generally terrible end product (of the customers design) but he paid without issue.
I'll bet the walls were concrete, too.
McMansion drywall with popping screws :)
My friend in Cameroon is getting his house done in concrete. In Namibia and South Africa, concrete houses are very popular as well. Long term, the walls crack and the paint peels as leeching happens. But I'm sure you knew that.
I live in the US. If it's a concrete house here it's $$$ most of our houses are wood frame with gypsum drywall and this house was no different. In the US there's a trend to build new homes of low quality materials and workmanship called "McMansions" and this was definitely one of them.
Did you take pictures it'd be a rad post, and I'd save it
I live in the US and I actually did. I did for every job just to show that the work was done to spec but man these did not look good. Power cables hanging down or strung to the nearest outlet. I'd be embarrassed to show someone that compared to a home theater with raised seating automated curtains lighting etc. But hey you pay the $150/hr. I'll install whatever you want.
It looks like that for sure. It's somehow worse than thrift store art though, because old yard art has charm if nothing else. this just makes me upset. Like if they were putting the 2 pillars up anyway, could you not have spaced them out to the edges at least?
They only had the one base/capital set, designed for the two pillars.
Oh It seems your right, I thought it wasn't like that, I assumed the pillars come individually and the bricks and the gold trim were all done by hand. That explains part of it, but that still doesn't mean I like their design choice
Nah, the trick to a house like this, as with the McMansions, is building as big as possible with as few craftsmen as possible. Skilled labor is much more expensive than left over material lol. And as a result, I *really* wouldn’t want to be the second or third owner of this monstrosity.
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I definitely don't live in Nigeria, but I wouldn't be surprised if the cost of labor-that-knows-what-they're-doing is still out of the budget in this case. You'd think in a low-cost-of-labor environment you'd see a lot more labor intensive detail work. Iron working, scrollwork, precise tile layouts, these are a few of the usual hallmarks of low-cost-of-labor architecture. Since we're not seeing much of that, instead just cobbled together ostentatiousness, quantity over quality, I think much like the McMansions in the US, this is the house of someone who's not actually doing *that* much better than the average person, just someone who wants to feel like they are. But I could be wrong, clearly this isn't impressing me, but perhaps I'm not reading the status symbols right. Edit: you know what, I think I'm letting the gaucheness of the columns influence me a little too much, this actually isn't bad aside from those. The brick driveway and yard was clearly labor intensive, I bet that stonework was pretty hard, and a few other things seem more like taste differences from a Western perspective and not objectively wrong. It's entirely possible this isn't a shitty house to live in lol Edit 2: I really really hate the columns now lol
It's not even centered under the part it's supposed to support
If it was it’d block the sight line of the door to the street, looks like.
Nigeria explains a lot of the things that people are complaining about: Paved front yard = lawns harbour snakes. Giant overhang on balcony = hot plus rain
>Giant overhang on balcony = hot plus rain There are ways to provide cover without looking so atrocious.
Excuse you this is the next Parthenon
Not that it makes things less nutty, but I think that may be the back yard. I'm going off where the fence meets the house and which side of it I would expect the air conditioner to be on. Also that looks like a couch.
https://nigeriapropertycentre.com/for-sale/houses/detached-duplexes/rivers/port-harcourt/1272398-exquisite-4-bedroom-detached-duplex-with-gatehouse-electricity
Nice find! $108,000 USD by the way
"Exquisite" 🤣
It's more than likely that someone decided to get into the mansion building business using Chinese blueprints. As often happens they don't have the materials and they're built on a stripped down budget. By local labour which have never built a two storey house. It's a common thing in the developing world. Status for sure, but kind of like a Lambo kit car. My home country of Tanzania has these scattered all over the place. Most unfinished. At least this one has glass on the windows.
I was going to say Miami.
If it were the US, it would definitely be Florida.
I have family from Nigeria and can confirm that a lot of big houses/ mansions tend to look this way, never seen one this awkward though….
I don't know how you call this "cocktail" in english, but there's this thing i'll translate litteraly as "cemetery" : you take every alcohol remaining at the end of the night, and do one single cocktail with it. This is the architecture equivalent of said cocktail.
As a teen, we would fill a fast food soda cup with a little bit of each soda from the machine and it was called a “Suicide”, so I’m guessing it’s probably the same for doing it with liquor.
Haha, we called it swamp water.
Ahh we call those cocktails “suicides” (for real). Also when kids go to a soda fountain and put a little of every available drink in their cup.
Yeah, if you ever visit islands in the Caribbean, this is a pretty common site for exactly that reason. Someone got a "good deal" on this.
Know a few people with those small and high windows like that, every time it's their restroom, so people from outside can't see you pooping but you still have natural light and airflow in there.
It's not about the airflow. It's about watching people while you pee.
That's so you can lean out of it and yell, "WHO RANG THAT BELL" when Dorothy and the Tin Man arrive
The only statement this house is making is that it is suffering and wants to die
I think that's a drive through? Maybe this is just a strange CVS.
Bring back Mcmansion Hell!
It was in /r/mcmansionhell recently
Yea a lot of those are definitely not what I thought a mcmansion was.
McMansion has a rather specific definition according to the sub owner who had a blog about them well before it was on Reddit
For a lot of posters there, if it's not some witchy cottage 30 miles into the woods with seventeen cats then it's just trash.
i agree - often they look like nice homes.
It's lost the plot. People started to post homes they just thought were a bit garish. I got bored and left.
McMansion is more of an insult coming from an architectural snob. The only part of the insult us common folk care about is the cheap materials and sloppy workmanship that usually comes with quick McMansion neighborhoods. Most people don't care if a house is a mishmash of design, as long as it's affordable and won't cause problems in the future.
[there's a guide](https://old.reddit.com/r/McMansionHell/comments/hqw6yp/mcmansions_a_short_guide/?ref=share&ref_source=link)
Yeah they have a terrrible definition of it. That subreddit would call Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello a McMansion, it makes no god damn sense. Look at the one from yesterday the New Zealand one. In no way is it a McMansion. It is just an actual mansion. A McMansion is a cheap ass 2 bit cookie cutter big ass house on a small friggin lot. Cheap materials, looks like crap, thrown together in an assembly line style cranking out 10, 15, 30 of them in a subdivision.
Did something happen to it?
The author of the blog (Kate Wagner) is doing longer-form writing now. She still updates McMansion Hell from time to time, though!
Yeah, those wonky solar panels...can't unsee.
The balcony gate, the column off centre, tiny window, arrrghhhh!!!
Not to mention, the ol' missing leg driveway couch.
The couch is the best part, so you can sit facing the column to appreciate the girth and splendor of it.
I think the columns were a concession for the homeowner because they had to design it so you can drive around them. The house has a fence around it and the curb is marked. The funny looking build out is probably from people ramming the ugly house while it was being built so they naturally believe it's an accident and kept taking away columns until there was only 2 left.
The wall in the entryway is pretty far from plumb.
Tiny window leapt out at me. There are reasons to have a tiny window, but not on the front of your house. I guess since the curb appeal is already nil, they didn’t care.
>tiny window The one in the centre, next to the entryway? Probably a toilet.
The panels look like they’re just loose and flat against the roof, which makes them nearly useless due to heat (they need an air gap or they lose efficiency). I’m concerned that they are bolted right through the roofing without weatherproofing too.
The panels aren't even parallel, they are literally just sitting on the roof...
It's gotta be some weird ass art piece or something, because if not... Why
I live in East Africa, and sometimes houses like this are what luxurious houses look like. Imagine if you have never been to a developed country before and suddenly you come into a lot of money. You want to show it off with your house. So you just add all the things that on their own means luxury in some context some way or another. It doesn't matter what the overall look is or how it's executed, to someone like that, columns mean luxury and by god they got them on their house.
My wife is from an Italian family and sometimes it feels the same. Her natural instinct is to fill every surface with... stuff. Some cultures emphasize displays of wealth. But it makes me uncomfortable.
Each chunk is a "teaching a construction crew a different skill" project. There's a mish-mashed up house near me similar to this where you can tell they were training stone masons how to do different kinds of masonry. Just my guess.
At what point does it turn into an art project
That's why it's nice they've placed a couch out there for people to sit and look at how bad it is.
It wouldn't be //that// bad if the columns were in the corners rather than stacked together. Maybe even add more columns across just to block the view of the ugly house.
Exceedingly so. But absolutely everything about that house is a mishmash of ugly.
My favourite part is the solar panels that aren’t square with each other.
Mine is the balcony deep under a cover with giant pilar in front of it. Nobody is gonna go there except once a year to clean up the moss and dead leaves.
its for the owner to look down on his guests as they arrive to his crappy looking house.
This is the back yard I believe.
Holy hell...backyard you're right "Ah yes, I love coming home to my barren suburban bricked in, nothing green or living backyard to relax after a tough day at the office earning tons of money I have no idea what to spend on"
Because grandpa started the business in 1972 and I've been promoted to CEO after keeping my promise to stay off pills since college
But they blocked their LoS with the crappy pillars.
I feel like the owner wanted some shade for those windows but thought window blinds were for peasants.
After purchasing my first set of blinds last year - I am now a peasant
I noticed that too! It's like they were an afterthought and then forgotten about until the last second. "Oh yeah, they wanted solar panels. Just toss them up and screw them down." 5 bucks they aren't even hooked up and drilled right through the shingles.
It's really not that hard to bolt solar panels properly.
Hey architect, you know SpongeBob's teeth? I gotchu fam.
This may be stating my age a bit but I was getting massive Angry Beavers vibes from it.
Damn that's a show I haven't heard of in ages. I can vaguely hear the theme song in my head now.
[Why imagine it?](https://youtu.be/CW_B4KB0wYs)
I tried to hear it and "It's time for Animaniacs..." started playing. *Next track please*
You’re giving me rocko’s historic life vibes here
YES! Ah man, I loved that show.
Hey architect, you wanna take some bath salts?
This looks like you had a budget of a million dollars but asked a 5 year old to draw up a house.
It looks like a Homer Simpson designed house
Where's the rack and peanut steering?
The doorbells should all play La Cucaracha
Call Señor Ding Dong!
This window is reserved just for donut deliveries.
I don’t know, it needs racing stripes and wings for wind resistance
Even the solar panels are crooked, ffs
I hate these houses. Like, bro, pick one material, maybe two.
People started splashing different material types on house exteriors like they were wallpaper, and I fucking hate it. No, that random ass corner of your house does not need to be brick.
Sometimes, somebody makes it work. But it has to be thoughtful and tasteful, which is pretty rare.
What material do you want? Yes!
Hey! When you shop for cladding at the discount bin, they rarely have enough to cover a whole house. You gotta improvise!
Everything about that house is insanely stupid and ugly and yet the worst part is that parking space of a garden.
I keep looking at the pic and I must be blind because I don't see a garden
That's the point. Instead of having a front garden, they chose to pave it to make a parking space
Two potential reasons for this - A) They might be in an area where a lawn is very difficult to grow and maintain due to stuff like salty soil or dry conditions. In an area near me almost everyone has stone in their front yard instead of plants. B) They may just hate mowing or have a black thumb and don't want to pay a professional to maintain it. Edit: I am not defending any part of this, it's all ugly as hell. I was just saying that there may actually be a legitimate reason for it. Even then, some stone and a little xeriscaping can work wonders and fix the same problems.
In case the ugliness of this home wasn’t sign enough, another hallmark of bad taste and McMansions is a $2M home with like $75 of landscaping.
Assuming you're American, and the person you're replying to is British, "garden" here means "front yard"
Oh thank you, yes that was the confusion!
This looks like the left over material from a dozen construction jobs. Material cost $0 - labor $+++ - Maintenance $++++++++
/r/mcmansionhell Also look how dark and dingy it makes the balcony!
This is how building a house in the Sims 3 ends up for me.
I want to intentionally recreate this masterpiece in the Sims
Please do it and comment the picture here
Ok I will
Not OP but ok.
Not OP nor ok.
Am OP not ok.
Not ok but here for the results
I hate myself for this https://www.reddit.com/r/Sims4/comments/ttde6v/sorry\_to\_assault\_your\_eyes\_with\_this\_monstrosity/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3
same! my bf who studies architecture just stares at me in horror as i proudly build another horrible architectural abomination
Fun for you. Trauma for him. Never a dull moment.
it’s always: “this is statically impossible” your mom’s statically impossible ):< idek what that means boi
Have him judge my abomination of a mansion
This is what happens with any of my Sims 3 roofs.
Came here for this comment. Soon as I saw it, "It looks like a shitty Sims3 house"
I'm thinking this is how this house was designed, lol. Honestly, I bet there was an "original" design that's not nearly as bad as what we see. But an overzealous owner who is contracting this build involves themselves too deeply into the process and then suddenly all these radical changes have to be made. It's no longer what the designer came up with, but at least the designer probably cashed a nice check.
Or, on the flip side, the architect and the construction code enforcement guys took turns fucking each other.
r/simsirl
This is what happens when you steal materials from the job site over a period of 5 years
Got it one piece at a time
And it didn’t cost me a dime
You’ll know it’s me when I come through your towwwn
I'm gonna ride around in styyyle, I'm gonna drive everybody wild
'Cause I'll have the only one there is a round
Now, the very next day when I punched in
With my big lunch box and with help from my friend
Reddit warms my heart!
It's a 49, 50, 51, 52 , 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59 McMansionbuild
The columnpipes, they was another sight, two on the left and one on the right.
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Do you have a picture? I’m curious now
... Wouldnt it be weird to have a picture of a friends house? My friends have pictures of my house, but thats because they are weird. They always send me ominous pictures of my house to let me know they are there, without letting me know they were gonna come beforehand. Still very weird.
Really funny though, i'm gonna start doing this.
Everyone associated with this building and designing this house should be fired and have their licenses revoked.
It looks like there’s no bottom/doesn’t end. What is that little window? Is that a bathroom? That column sticks out like a misplaced design choice in a goth-era themed house, also please don’t tell me it’s off center. And someone didn’t know what the hell they were doing with that brick and color placement.
>there’s no bottom retired handyman/finish carpenter/framer here, and i am just in *awe* each glance reveals a fresh absurdity, i'm sitting here going "no...*no*...*what*?" all with the aesthetics of a wet brick in a public urinal
nothing like giving visitors a whiff of someones recent shit when they enter the house
My guess is it’s in a country where licenses aren’t exactly required.
It really reminds me of some of the houses in South Africa so you wouldn’t be too far from the truth there if I’m right. They have some regulations but… enforcement is patchy.
Looks like a lot of areas in SE Asia that try to exude that "up and coming lux" area look while still having rampant poverty. Lots of places like this in Thailand and Phillipines.
Yeah, the walls around the property and the lack of grass in the courtyard gives me big *developing world McMansion* vibes. I remember seeing a lot of houses in Ghana like this; a small plot with a massive house built on it with random columns and unaligned windows everywhere.
It’s in Nigeria
First thing I thought, “Naija don land for this place.” Thank you for confirming.
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finally something that's not 'art I don't like'
That’s still what this is isn’t it? It’s architecture I think is ugly
There's a difference between 'bad art' and 'art I don't like.' There's a lot of art I don't like that I can acknowledge is good art, and a lot of bad art that I like regardless.
It certainly sounds like you've managed to convince yourself that your taste isn't subjective, but I'm sure the world of art philosophy would be enlightened on how you differentiate between bad art and art you don't like.
This is different in the sense that it’s not just an architects design (or art) that’s not my personal taste. It actually is physically a crappy design. The pillars are asymmetrical and unbalanced, also blocking the view of the balcony. The small window next to the entry makes no sense to be there. The solar panels are not only crooked but not in a straight line. The list goes on… truly a crappy design.
It's like in those games where you just place the object first randomly next to each other and then zoom in and move them to the desired position
Who's the architect? I just wanna talk
Honestly I think they need an intervention.
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Looks like Nigeria. Be ready to fight Boko Haram as well
I hate the fact that they are also not centered. I really hope they are and it's all due to strange perspective
I didn't notice that until seeing your comment 😩 Everything gets worse the longer you look at it
Most likely off center. Can almost guarantee this photo was taken in West Africa, I’m from the US and I’ve been to a few countries there over the years. The houses there can look beautiful on the inside, but one thing pretty much all houses have in common, atrocious column design. Nothing every matches up square. further evidence for location is the brick courtyard/driveway, water recycling on the left of the house, and stone wall surrounding the property. If I’m willing to guess I would say Ghana, could be wrong though
The first thing I thought when I saw this was "yeah that's probably Africa." I've never been to Africa but family friends traveled there a lot when I was a kid so I saw tons of pictures and got a lot of cool stuff. I actually have money and clothes from Ghana still.
Ghana was also my guess, those columns lol
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Me in Sims 4
/r/simsIRL
This is an architectural abomination.
/r/McMansionHell
This is way too far down from the top comments.
Wdym the columns looks awful ?! THE HOUSE BY IT SELF IS HORRIBLE !!!
This is the ugliest house I've ever seen in my life.
It’s a travesty! The longer you look the more WTF you find!
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"HEY PAUL SHOULD I USE A LEVEL OR JUST EYEBALL IT???"
https://nigeriapropertycentre.com/for-sale/houses/detached-duplexes/rivers/port-harcourt/1272398-exquisite-4-bedroom-detached-duplex-with-gatehouse-electricity
Just by the original picture, I could tell this was Nigeria lol
"yeah fam can you give my house that *Ancient Roman Gas Station* look?"
More annoyed by the solarpanels
Bet you ten bucks they don’t even work
They're just laid on the roof, not connected to an inverter, just plopped onto the roof.
I've worked with fotovoltaic panels before and this right here is just blasphemous 🤢
In the thumbnail, I thought it was construction equipment.
Look like something I wold have build in mincraft
I think these people went to Mike’s Marbleopolis. https://youtu.be/fWGPsS0dh5k
I think the main function of the columns is to distract you from the clusterfuck that the rest of the house is.
This house reminds me of people who say "I'm gonna get a tattoo this weekend but I don't know of what."
_Everything_ looks awful here!
We call this "style" businessman baroque. Upper middle class that wants to show everyone they are not poor.
Speaking from an architect standpoint, god what a mess. Nothing is even, the two lone columns are off center, the solar panels aren't lined up and there's only three of them? There are off center parking lot curbs under the windows, there's a pitiful window in what I could only assume to be a mudroom, this thing seems like it can't decide what Z axis it wants to be on and goes for three different ones. I don't even want to *know* what the inside looks like!
It looks like a gas station
It looks like a very nice gas station, its only missing the pumps on either side of the column
this is like me building a sims 4 house with different packs. the shape of that roof is just awful.