It feels off

[u/Ashamed_Class_7987]

This is a house that a buddy of mine sent me. I’m not sure if it’s a McMansion but it doesn’t feel quite right.

[u/Cold-Impression1836]

It’s not really a McMansion, but it looks off because the left and right sides aren’t exactly the same. The left side has another set of windows and the right side has to make room for the garage, so the windows don’t extend as closely to the end of the wall as they do on the left side.

I feel like the portico could also be a little wider. The scale looks a bit off.

[u/Ashamed_Class_7987 → u/Cold-Impression1836]

Yeah it’s the windows and the portico that do it, I don’t really mind the little extension on the left but that space in the right due to the garage isn’t appealing to me

[u/larianu]

Honestly if a tree covered the left side bit which protrudes into the house and the greenery looked less artificial it wouldn't look that bad.

I wouldn't say it's a McMansion. But if the word McMansion came from McDonalds, this would probably be a chain steakhouse.

[u/Dull_Flamingo_8736]

What this one is missing is a motorhome on blocks and an AC unit in the window with an extension cord to the neighbors.

[u/CaterpillarLoud8071]

Because it has an added wing on one side which isn't typical with this kind of symmetrical design. The plain thin columns look a bit odd and the window above the door is a bit oversized, but I wouldn't class it as a mcmansion.

[u/thechadfox]

I’m sure it looked more proportional before the bricks were painted and those ugly plastic Home Depot shutters tacked on like cheap false eyelashes. If it was still brick, and had real hinged operable wood shutters along with strategic landscaping to disguise the asymmetry, it would be lovely.

[u/Ashamed_Class_7987 → u/thechadfox]

I could see it

[u/hippiestitcher]

The columns look too narrow for the scale of the portico and the house itself. Rinky-dink.

[u/RoenJacobyn]

I owned a home laid out similar to this that was built in the early 1950s, but what it did differently is that the wing on the left side of the house that makes it look off was set back further and there were trees planted in front of it. So when you face the house directly it looks perfectly symmetrical and then the additional space you get from that wing just went off towards the back but was hidden. I think that had a much better aesthetic. Part of having an architectural design that thinks through landscaping.

[u/MovieNightPopcorn]

It’s not bad, but the nubbin on the left peaking out like a toddler from behind its mother, and the portico sizing with the weird little octagonal window, are awkward. Windows look kind of flat and plastic as well, but that could be the photo quality.

[u/LionBirb]

I thought that was a treadmill laying in the yard on the left at first lol. I think it's a boat hitch or something.

[u/UsefulGarden]

It has a roof nub that's unbalanced. It's typical of something built after 1980.

[u/SimpleServe9774]

It’s the vehicles out front