Kate Wagner
Architecture critic; created McMansion Hell in July 2016, roasting suburban houses while teaching what makes a building work, and writes on architecture and cycling elsewhere.
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A style like the McMansion never disappears, it only changes shape over time.
The McMansion never truly goes away. It merely changes shape over time.
mcmansionhell.comSaid 28 May 2026This on korrents
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Children now use vulgar slang, absorbed from viral internet content about political violence, that would have caused an uproar among parents a decade ago.
Ten years ago, that would warrant an angry parent email. Now children say cuck to each other in elementary school because they learned it from a Charlie Kirk assassination fancam.
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Virtual staging is a form of lying because it can make a space look bigger or smaller than it really is.Their words
Beyond that, I think virtual staging is literally a form of lying. You can use it to make a space look bigger or smaller than it is.
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This is not to say that I'm nostalgic for the classical McMansion (though many are) only that it, like, most other facets of architectural and everyday life, have become progressively cheaper and more bland.
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The McMansion never truly goes away. It merely changes shape over time.
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The web's collective silly viral jokes have given way to niche cultural trends driven mainly by incel forums.Their words
It's so funny that for a month we collectively pretended that every man alive cared about the roman empire. Just the kind of cute thing we used to do online before cultural microphenomena became primarily driven by incel forums.
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Ten years ago, that would warrant an angry parent email. Now children say cuck to each other in elementary school because they learned it from a Charlie Kirk assassination fancam.
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From one piece chud atlantis 3 beliefs · mcmansionhell.com
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After all, the internet loves a neologism more than it loves its elaboration.
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Photographs of maximalist house interiors will increasingly be edited or idealized with AI.Their words
This makes the house a historical document because from this point onward such rooms will henceforth be yassified with AI.
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McMansions are built as expressions of a mythology of bootstrapism, castle doctrine, and individualism.Their words
It is rare that the McMansion ever approaches the mythical, though it is, of coursed, steeped in its own mythology - of bootstrapism, castle doctrine and, importantly, a total commitment to individualism.
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From one piece McMansion Hell urges all New Yorkers to Rank Zohran Mamdani #1 for Mayor of NYC 3 beliefs · mcmansionhell.com
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The ruling class is content with a party that hinders political change rather than advancing it.Their words
the ruling class is perfectly content with a party that hinders rather than ushers in change.
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I am forever skeptical of the power of the ballot box to enact lasting change, especially in recent years.
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the ruling class in this country does not want you to have affordable housing.
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A style like the McMansion never disappears, it only changes shape over time.
The McMansion never truly goes away. It merely changes shape over time.
mcmodernslopcore Said 28 May 2026
Architecture and everyday life have grown progressively cheaper and blander over time.
This is not to say that I'm nostalgic for the classical McMansion (though many are) only that it, like, most other facets of architectural and everyday life, have become progressively cheaper and more bland.
mcmodernslopcore Said 28 May 2026
Virtual staging is a form of lying because it can make a space look bigger or smaller than it really is.
Beyond that, I think virtual staging is literally a form of lying. You can use it to make a space look bigger or smaller than it is.
mcmodernslopcore Said 28 May 2026
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Children now use vulgar slang, absorbed from viral internet content about political violence, that would have caused an uproar among parents a decade ago.
Ten years ago, that would warrant an angry parent email. Now children say cuck to each other in elementary school because they learned it from a Charlie Kirk assassination fancam.
mctuscan heaven Said 2 Mar 2026
The web's collective silly viral jokes have given way to niche cultural trends driven mainly by incel forums.
It's so funny that for a month we collectively pretended that every man alive cared about the roman empire. Just the kind of cute thing we used to do online before cultural microphenomena became primarily driven by incel forums.
mctuscan heaven Said 2 Mar 2026
McMansions are built as expressions of a mythology of bootstrapism, castle doctrine, and individualism.
It is rare that the McMansion ever approaches the mythical, though it is, of coursed, steeped in its own mythology - of bootstrapism, castle doctrine and, importantly, a total commitment to individualism.
chud atlantis Said 14 Nov 2025
Photographs of maximalist house interiors will increasingly be edited or idealized with AI.
This makes the house a historical document because from this point onward such rooms will henceforth be yassified with AI.
chud atlantis Said 14 Nov 2025
The internet cares more about coining a neologism than about explaining what it means.
After all, the internet loves a neologism more than it loves its elaboration.
chud atlantis Said 14 Nov 2025
The ruling class does not want ordinary people to have access to affordable housing.
the ruling class in this country does not want you to have affordable housing.
McMansion Hell urges all New Yorkers to Rank Zohran Mamdani #1 for Mayor of NYC Said 16 Jun 2025
The ballot box has only limited power to bring about lasting political change.
I am forever skeptical of the power of the ballot box to enact lasting change, especially in recent years.
McMansion Hell urges all New Yorkers to Rank Zohran Mamdani #1 for Mayor of NYC Said 16 Jun 2025
The ruling class is content with a party that hinders political change rather than advancing it.
the ruling class is perfectly content with a party that hinders rather than ushers in change.
McMansion Hell urges all New Yorkers to Rank Zohran Mamdani #1 for Mayor of NYC Said 16 Jun 2025
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Blog McMansion Hell Their blog on architecture, the suburbs and why buildings look like that. Has a feed.
Takedowns of individual houses, alternating with posts teaching a period, a material or a planning decision.
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- mcmodernslopcore 28 May 2026 Howdy, howdy, folks. For many years (ten now, about which, more soon) McMansion Hell has featured many prominent and diverse atrocities from all over these great United States and sometimes beyond them. However, most of…
- mctuscan heaven 2 Mar 2026 Howdy folks, I have some good news, which is that, after seven months, I’ve finally recovered from Long Covid. This is not something I particularly want to talk about in depth but it was the worst thing that ever…
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- chud atlantis 14 Nov 2025 Hello everyone, sorry to go so long without posting something. I caught covid in August and it’s taken me months to start feeling relatively back to normal. I am still struggling with fatigue and some neurological…
- For Patreon, I wrote about developer slop flooring, the history of walking on plastic, and what fake… 2 Jul 2025 we are living at the nadir of flooring: an essay | McMansion Hell For Patreon, I wrote about developer slop flooring, the history of walking on plastic, and what fake floors say about the world we live and build in.
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- FYI, this post is now available for all to read! 16 Jun 2025 mcmansionhell: Bonus Post: The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo, a treatise The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo: a treatise | McMansion Hell…
- McMansion Hell urges all New Yorkers to Rank Zohran Mamdani #1 for Mayor of NYC 16 Jun 2025 I know I am just a blog about ugly houses but I want to say something important here: the ruling class in this country does not want you to have affordable housing. They don’t want you to have clean, reliable publ…
- Bonus Post: The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo, a treatise 17 Apr 2025 The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo: a treatise | McMansion Hell
- simulacra for bootlickers 7 Apr 2025 FYI, this post is a little more NSFW than usual with the language. Usually I think McMansions are kind of funny. Sometimes, I even like them. If I didn’t like them at least a little bit, I don’t think I&rsqu…
- About my last few months. 6 Mar 2025 the hairshirt doldrums About my last few months.
- on neuschwanstein castle (part 1) 28 Dec 2024 This is an essay in two parts. Neuschwanstein Concept Drawing by the stage designer (!!) Christian Jank (1869). There exist in architecture clear precedents to the McMansion that have nothing to do with suburban real es…
- New on Patreon: New Jersey Bonus Post (5 additional, “wonderful” rooms!“ 30 Nov 2024 new jersey bonus post: 5 additional, wonderful rooms | McMansionHell New on Patreon: New Jersey Bonus Post (5 additional, “wonderful” rooms!“
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- 2007-core nostalgia extravaganza 1 Sept 2024 Quick PSA: someone on Facebook is apparently impersonating me using an account called “McMansion Hell 2.0” – If you see it, please report! Thanks! Howdy folks! I hope if you were born between 1995 and…
- namesake mcmansion 31 Jul 2024 Howdy folks! Today’s McMansion is very special because a) we’re returning to Maryland after a long time and b) because the street this McMansion is on is the same as my name. (It was not named after me.) Hen…
- the motel room, or: on datedness 22 Jun 2024 I. Often I find myself nostalgic for things that haven’t disappeared yet. This feeling is enhanced by the strange conviction that once I stop looking at these things, I will never see them again, that I am living…
- texas gothic revival 1 Jun 2024 Sometimes I just want to get on my hobbyhorse, which for about a year now has been the middle ages but surely will soon be something else. (Please hyperfixation gods, make it financial literacy.) Anyway, I meandered aro…
- ode to a faux grecian urn 2 Apr 2024 Howdy everyone, Today’s house, built in 2001, comes to you from, you guessed it, the Chicago suburbs. The house is a testimony to traditional craftsmanship and traditional values (having lots of money.) The cost o…
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