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mcmansionhell · 6 months

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pre-recession, post-taste

Hello, everyone. I hope this blog can bring some well-needed laughs in really trying times. That's why I've gone back into the archives of that precipitous year 2007, a year where the McMansion was sleepwalking into being a symbol of the financial calamity to follow. We return to the Chicago suburbs once more because they remain the highest concentration of houses in their original conditions. Thanks to our flipping predilection, these houses become rarer and rarer and I have to admit even I have developed a fondness for them as a result.

Our present house is ostensibly "French Provincial" in style, which is McMansion for "Chateaux designed by Carmela Soprano". It boasts 7 bedrooms, 8.5 bathrooms, and comes in at a completely reasonable 15,000 square feet. It can be yours for an equally reasonable $1.5 million.

Every 2007 McMansion needed two things: a plethora of sitting rooms and those dark wood floors. This house actually has around five or six sitting rooms (depending if you count the tiled sunroom) but for brevity's sake, I'll only provide two of them.

With regards to the second sitting room, I'm really not one to talk statuary here because beside me there is a bust of Dante where the sculptor made him look simultaneously sickly and lowkey hot.

Technically, if we are devising a dichotomy between sitting and not sitting (yes, I know about the song), the dining room also counts as a sitting room. The more chairs in your McMansion dining room, the more people allegedly like you enough to travel 2.5 hours in traffic to see you twice a year.

Here's the thing about nostalgia: the world as we knew it then is never coming back. In some ways this is sad (kitchens are entirely white now and marble countertops will look terrible in about 3 years) but in other ways this is very good (guys in manhattan have switched to private equity instead of betting the farm on credit default swaps made from junk mortgages proffered to America's most vulnerable and exploited populations.) Progress!

Okay I really don't understand the 50 bed pillows thing. Every night my parents tossed their gazillion decorative pillows on the floor just to put them back on the bed the next morning. Like, for WHAT? Who was going in there? The Pope?

Here's a fun one for your liminal spaces moodboards. (Speaking for myself.)

Yes, I know about skibidi toilet. And sticking out your gyatt for the rizzler. I wish I didn't. I wish I couldn't read. Literacy is like a mirror in which I only see the aging contours of my face.

When your kids move out every room becomes a guest room.

Anyway, let's see what the rear of this house has to offer.

The migratory birds will not forgive them for their crimes. But also seriously, not even a garden?

Anyway, that does it for this round of McMansion Hell. Happy Halloween!

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#architecture #design #mcmansion #mcmansions #ugly houses #interior design #bad architecture #2000s design #illinois

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natsumipocket · 1 month

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Fujifilm Nexia Q1 (2001)

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x4c0ld-hvnds4x · 5 months

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frutiger aero interiors 🏡

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#2000s #2000s aesthetic #2010s #2010s aesthetic #frutiger aero #frutiger aero moodboard #interior design #interiordecor #2000s design #gen x #house decor #nostalgiacore #00s nostalgia #nostalgia #early 2000s #early 2010s #2000s childhood

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distantobserver0 · 9 months

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Radio Shack Nova pyramid stereos.

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nidera · 4 months

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A Blue Angel's Feather (skin for SoundPlayer lilith)

#sound player lilith #うp #2000s design #web archive #download #y2k aesthetic

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planet-deltron · 3 months

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"Design Is" - Y2K styled postcard designs

I designed these Y2K-era internet inspired postcard designs for an old university assignment and thought it'd look great on my blog here.

#y2k #2000s #2000s art #cyber y2k #retro tech #cyber #y2k design #design #2000s design #90s design #old web #old internet

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m4d0lyn · 2 months

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#frutiger metro #y2k #purple #purple and black #emo #scene kid #2000s #2000s design #2010s design #design #nostalgia

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xxknoxvixenxx · 8 months

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made my own stencil and shirt bc vix has no fuckin money rn ⭐️

#jackass #jackass shirt #2000s #i would’ve made this even if i had money let’s be real #johnny knoxville #2000s nostalgia #bam margera #early 2000s #2000s fashion #2000s scene #steve o #2000s design #y2k fashion #y2k style

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manageablevinfinite · 10 months

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Mills malls in the 2000s had such unique designs, combining various aesthetics into one. now, they have either been renovated, are dead, or abandoned.

#2000s design #2000s #dead malls #mallsoft #vaporwave #mall

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flyzleaf · 6 days

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