The decoration is pretty terrible. Insanely overly ornamental decorations on the wall mirror and the mirror in the bathroom, next to paintings with a very plain frame. A very bright blue toilet and sink in a bathroom where the rest of the theme seems to be metallic. A kitchen where there seems to be a mix of 70s style and modern stainless steel. Wow, and all the other bathrooms are very ugly. And how many bathrooms are there? The only decent one is the beige one. But, then there’s the all-beige office which is… wow.
The outside is nice. The floor-to-ceiling windows are awesome, but the heating cost would be pretty awful. Basically, good architecture, but some really questionable design choices.
I mean, it’s pretty far from the best MCM I’ve ever seen, but the great room is pretty nice. The bedrooms really would have benefitted from floor to ceiling windows and the bathrooms are actively hideous. Not sure I’d want to live in Peoria either, but the price is reasonable.
Also as an aside, I don’t think you can count 1960s MCMs as McMansions. I associate the term with those houses built in the mid-2000s that are 6500 sq ft with four car garages but are built so cheaply that the walls shake if someone slams the front door.
it’s Thursday Design Appreciation. “On Thursdays we celebrate the opposite: good suburban architectural design.”
Understood and I apologize if I violated protocol. This came up in /all and I am both an MCM owner and enthusiast, so I felt the need to say something. I’ll still stand by my observations - we tend to be Eichler folks out here but I love everything from Frank Lloyd Wright to the Starship Enterprise. I categorically withdraw the comment about it not being a McMansion, though, since that was not its intent.
I don’t see anything wrong with this. It’s just a large “modern” style house. This would go for 1.5-2 mil in my market.
“Thursday Design Appreciation” means that the house posted is meant to be an actually good house. But only on thursdays.
I assume the “design appreciation” in the title means this is actually nice, not a hellish McMansion.
Other than the carpet usage (if I had the means to buy this place I assume I’d have the means to tear out the carpet and put in hardwood or tile) I quite like this. It seems to be matched to the landscape reasonably well. I’d hate to maintain it, though.
Idk… I kinda dig it
it’s Thursday Design Appreciation. “On Thursdays we celebrate the opposite: good suburban architectural design.”
Oh! Well that makes me feel better for appreciating it lol
Someday I’ll use my medications and I’ll be able to read an entire title
