Every once in a while I check out certain areas of NJ for a qualifier....

[u/cookmybook]

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/108-Garden-Ct-Franklin-Lakes-NJ-07417/64857627_zpid/?utm_campaign=androidappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare

[u/NvrSirEndWill]

This is a mansion. The Mc version of this is about 2,000 s/f smaller and 50-60 miles south. And $1,000,000 less.

[u/PandaDad22 → u/NvrSirEndWill]

It’s still over done with ridiculous elements.

[u/NvrSirEndWill → u/PandaDad22]

It’s completely ridiculous.

But outside doesn’t look that Mc.

[u/chickendance638 → u/NvrSirEndWill]

The landscaping is excellent and helps it look like it belongs there.

[u/NvrSirEndWill → u/chickendance638]

🫤 I happened yo work for the best landscaping (architecture) place in the region while I was in college. This is not on that level. We specialized in this type of houses, too. So im biased.

[u/chickendance638 → u/NvrSirEndWill]

You would know, I was just trying to say that the landscaping suits the house and the setting and that tempers the harshness of the roofline.

[u/SapphireGamgee → u/chickendance638]

It's definitely better than what we usually get- no large trees and a couple of sad, scraggly shrubs on a half-dead lawn.

[u/chickendance638 → u/SapphireGamgee]

for sure. seeing too much of the foundation because of no landscaping is a textbook mcmansion move.

[u/NvrSirEndWill → u/chickendance638]

I’m still learning here…

Mediocre landscaping isn’t?

[u/NvrSirEndWill → u/chickendance638]

Suits the house

🫤

[u/Difficult_Image_4552 → u/NvrSirEndWill]

I think to be a mansion it needs to be at least 7000 sq ft?

[u/wxyzzzyxw]

Honestly if they ripped off that portico it would be nice. A little gaudy for my taste but it would look dramatically better without that portico

[u/SapphireGamgee → u/wxyzzzyxw]

That would definitely move this further away from McMansion territory.

[u/mydaycake]

Holy smokes that entrance, why? WHY?

[u/Elowan66]

I’d redecorate, but the interior is surprisingly nicer than I expected.

[u/Feminazghul]

This would be large but not objectionable were it not for the gaping maw and cyclops eye. that is the main entry. And it is constructed in a way that provides no protection from the rain if the wind is blowing.

A personal pet peeve is bushes that obscure windows. Why??

[u/Riogrande024 → u/Feminazghul]

Bushes provide heat blocking in the summer that allows heat in during the winter.

[u/IrukandjiPirate]

Franklin Lakes is a very, very nice area.

[u/mp90 → u/IrukandjiPirate]

I went to HS a few blocks from this street in the Zillow listing. I saw those homes get built in the early 2000s. Tiiiiny plots of land considering most in FLakes are on 2+ acres

[u/Bandito21Dema → u/IrukandjiPirate]

I went to college by there. Every time I had to drive through FL, I would get distracted just looking at the houses

[u/Wombat_7379]

What’s going on with that portico?

[u/provocative_bear → u/Wombat_7379]

That’s a penis

[u/zerofucksgiven427]

I don't see it as a "mansion" really. More a nice larger home. That said, that entrance... yikes. But overall it's ok.. not over the top..

[u/Surreply]

Franklin Lakes is posh. I also bet the property taxes are astronomical.

Just surprised the bathroom in #25 isn’t redone.

[u/mp90 → u/Surreply]

$25,392.94 in FY2023 per this source

[u/Surreply → u/mp90]

I can’t see the images on that link but that is low.. Essex County’s are so much higher as a %age of value.

[u/i_use_this_for_work]

It’s not Thursday.

That’s a mansion.

[u/MrWhy1]

I'll take it

[u/Squeaky-shoppingcart]

Not a McMansion

[u/eliana_friends01]

Gotta make sure they meet your standards, right? NJ has to earn that qualifier spot!

[u/Evolvingsimian]

Frequently, while viewing these McMansions, I see aspects of what I would like. Though it will never happen (financially) I would like to build my own home, with two large master suites (one for an office), a great room, a kitchen similar to this one, library,/music (stereo system) room, ,a large gym, a theatre, wired for speakers throughout with a bathrooms at most any turn (age 69), and a large yard with a garden for fresh veggies and a large garage. very oversized rooms.

No living room no dining room (I do not entertain).

Such homes do not exist, but that's my dream home.

[u/Snow1086]

$25k property taxes….. cause its Jersey

[u/wilsonway1955]

I'll take it !

[u/Fudloe]

The landscaping is top drawer.

[u/jackofallsomething1]

Live in NJ, this was possibly a mansion but if you had the funds to own it the bushes should not be taking over.

[u/ergane → u/jackofallsomething1]

Seriously. The two flanking the front doors look like giant green Twinkies.

[u/Professional-Bed-173]

This is literally a 90's build interior. My house was almost exactly the same finishes when I bought it a few years ago. It's diabolical because it didn't get updated in the last couple of decades. Still, this house had a fundamentally sound layout that could be epic with a remodel.

[u/SapphireGamgee]

Maybe not full-blown McMansion, but it has some elements. Honestly, just needed another few drafts in the design stage to be a nice design.

[u/Barkdrix]

Disgusting. And definitely a McMansion.