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McMansions & Le Petit Chateaus
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Posted Saturday Feb 3, 2007 09:22 #
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McMansion is a slang architectural term which first came into use in the United States during the 1980s as a pejorative description and an idiom. It describes a particular style of housing that—”as its name suggests—”is both large like a mansion and as culturally ubiquitous as McDonald's fast food restaurants."
In addition to ubiquity, almost every reason to poke fun at McDonald's has been applied metaphorically to "McMansions". These criticisms include the deviation from traditional local or regional architectural style, a mass-produced appearance, and perceived negative impacts on nature and neighborhoods
Posted Saturday Feb 3, 2007 18:35 # -
In other words, crap.
Posted Saturday Feb 3, 2007 21:50 # -
http://www.thehamptonsofhinsdale.com/models.php
I think Wexford is involved in this?
Posted Sunday Feb 4, 2007 12:03 # -
Probably, if there's money to be made. "Pricing from the 700s - hey we've got em beat. I think the "Herbert Road Row Houses" or whatever they're called start at $725K, and of course, the King Kong VC goes to the outer reaches of space at $1.6mil I believe. But for that you get a view over Heavenly Hot Dogs, so it's probably worth it. Anybody know what typical payments are on something like that? That reminds me, I always respected King Kong because he didn't take any crap from the airlines.
Posted Sunday Feb 4, 2007 12:19 #
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