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It doesn't have to. These are just general rules that usually make things look good. You can make good-looking things that don't follow the rules if it's done t
by imgabe 10y ago
It doesn't have to. These are just general rules that usually make things look good. You can make good-looking things that don't follow the rules if it's done thoughtfully and with a design purpose in mind.
McMansion builders are not doing thoughtful design with some sort of aesthetic vision, though. They're slapping together the cheapest materials they can find, as quickly as possible to make the highest profit. That's why it ends up looking bad. They didn't use 5 different kind of windows because they had some design vision that requires it. They used 5 different kinds of windows because the contractor said "Hey, I've got a bunch of different windows left over from other jobs, let's use them here so we don't have to buy new ones."
- freehunter 10y agoThank you, that's what I kept expecting the article to say. I was waiting for them to say "this looks bad because they cheaped out", "this looks bad because it was designed around spare parts", "this feature is a sign that they were cutting costs", etc. But they didn't. They just said "this is bad, moving on, this one's bad too, next one..." As it stands, it's a McMansion of an article. A lot of things thrown together without any rhyme or reason, sold to people who don't know any better, and marketed as the epitome of high culture. It did nothing to further my understanding of what is a good house and what is a bad house except "if you cut it in half, you have two identical halves... most of the time... but not always". I understand why McMansions suck, and I can use the same reasons to say the same thing about the McMansion Hell articles. They're full of "this is bad" without any "this is why" attached. And a lot of the "this is bad" stuff appears on houses that are definitively not McMansions (like villas and 13th century manors).
- nommm-nommm 10y agoThe post is part of a blog. If you read other posts in this blog all those things are expanded on and explained more. I guess each individual post is disjointed. they aren't meant to stand alone but be part of a collective.
- Jean-Philipe 10y agoI totally agree with you. It's generally a good idea to actually read something before commenting.
- Jean-Philipe 10y agoI think the original point of this blog was just to make fun - as it says on most articles, it's satire. Meant to entertain and make fun in the first place.