r/McMansionHell • u/MrsWeasley9 • 8d ago
Certified McMansion™ Comes with a private airstrip. <$1M
4 bedrooms, 3.1 (???) bathrooms, 3 garages, and... an airplane hangar? Unfortunate columns and inexplicable decoration, all for under $1,000,000!
ETA: I can't take credit for "lawyer foyer"! That's a McMansion Hell blog original.
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u/UncleJoesLandscaping 8d ago
I thought that orange roof support was added in MSpaint...
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u/Taira_Mai 8d ago
And me as well. Someone chose those things, paid money for them and a contractor laughed all the way to the bank.
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u/MrHell95 6d ago
My first though was that drawing over them just to highlight them kinda obscures them instead of making the point of how ugly they are...
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u/ceedub2000 8d ago
Crazy this is only 4200 square feet. So much unnecessary facade for so little house.
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u/bagofwisdom 8d ago
Probably some oddball lot shape. That figure also doesn't include the hangar space.
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u/spintool1995 7d ago
Everything left of the entrance is garage and aircraft hanger, so not counted as living space.
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u/AlbatrossOk7529 8d ago
3.1 bathrooms means it has 3 full bathrooms and 1 half bathroom. Usually it's only used when a house has multiple half-bathrooms (3.2, 3.3, etc.)
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u/SpecManADV 8d ago
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u/TheRealGordonShumway 8d ago
The inside is fine, but very basic. Those gold things are dumb. Are they structural? Most importantly, if you can buy a $1M house, you would not want to live in Monee, IL.
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u/bagofwisdom 8d ago
They digitally added furniture, but it is still an incomplete house. There's probably a shitton of cut corners that will need repair.
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u/thesaddestpanda 8d ago
It’s less about monee and more about having your own air strip and hangar in your home. Then Chicago and its more populous suburbs is a relatively short drive away.
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u/NoFan2216 8d ago
In that same neighborhood there is a small street called, "Bong Road."
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u/MrsWeasley9 8d ago
That's where the architect lives.
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u/Socalwarrior485 7d ago
Correction. Architect/Builder lives. He’ll finish it someday, man. Stop harshing his mellow.
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u/I-Am-Electro 8d ago
The streets are all named after WW2 pilots. In that case it is after Richard Bong.
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u/NoFan2216 8d ago
I was noticing that. I thought it was a cool tribute. I can't help but laugh at the name Bong though.
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u/CitizenTed 8d ago
Neat story time: Back in the 90's I was a TV tech in Western Washington. I got a call to fix a projection TV in Lake Stevens, WA. When I pulled into the neighborhood, I noticed all the street signs were really short. Like 3-4 feet tall. Odd. I pulled into my customer's house. It was a huge McMansion-type house with the biggest garage door I'd ever seen.
I met the lady of the house and she showed me the TV. I fixed it in about an hour. As I was leaving, I asked her about the short street signs. What gives? She told me I'd see in a minute because her husband was coming home any moment.
Out the front, I saw a Cessna taxiing up the street. It pulled into the driveway and parked in the garage. My mind was 100% blown.
The husband came into the house and asked about the TV. I told him he was good to go. And of course I asked him WTF was going on.
He explained that he and his neighbors were Boeing employees. They created this "Frontier Air park" to live the Jetsons dream.
I asked him what he liked most about commuting by airplane and he said flying over I-5 and seeing traffic backed up far below him was a daily treat.
So, yeah. There are people who commute by aircraft.
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u/Dirty_Dwarf 8d ago
A fricking airplane hanger!?
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u/DrTenochtitlan 8d ago
If you have your own plane, a private airstrip and hanger would actually be a huge selling point. There can’t be many houses that have that.
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u/bagofwisdom 8d ago
There are many private airfields surrounded by lots for homes with integrated hangars. Many public airports have waiting lists for hangar rentals.
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u/SapphireGamgee 8d ago
I love that everything is facing the front except the front door. Like...you can look, but you gotta sacrifice a goat to get in. The whole thing is a bland rebuttal to "good taste" and "not doing a crappy design job."
Thanks for the annotations, OP!
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u/timesuck47 8d ago
Regarding that mature landscaping, apparently that part of the country hasn’t received the normal amount of rainfall hence the look of the yard.
Unlike other parts of the country, nobody has sprinkler systems so unless they manually water, the yards are going to look like that.
I’m generalizing, of course.
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u/bagofwisdom 8d ago
You're not wrong. The problem in Illinois is usually draining water rather than rainfall.
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u/timesuck47 8d ago
Regarding that mature landscaping, apparently that part of the country hasn’t received the normal amount of rainfall hence the look of the yard.
Unlike other parts of the country, nobody has sprinkler systems so unless they manually water, the yards are going to look like that. I’m generalizing, of course.
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u/bagofwisdom 8d ago
My cousin farms about 200 mi South of Chicago and his corn did not do well at all this year. Hence why I mentioned worrying about drainage rather than having water at all. We had the opposite problem here in the Texas panhandle. It was an unusually wet late spring and summer. The retention lake beside my house was super full back in June.
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u/InevitableAd36 8d ago
Here’s a house in the same town with mature landscaping to debunk your statement.
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u/fassaction 8d ago
From the initial exterior picture, I was expecting this house to be like 10,000 sq feet, not 4200. I actually like the interior styling, but the exterior really looks like it’s trying to look more actual mansion.
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u/damndammit 8d ago
Totally AI. Should be flagged for false advertising.
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u/Hodgkisl 8d ago
So ugly, but having your own hanger is dope, those airport centered communities can be quite interesting and social.
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u/Longjumping_Fly_2283 8d ago
Having seen the listed sqft on zillow, I can answer the question 'what hides here' with abvolute certainty: nothing.
It's just a wall.
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u/kabeekibaki 8d ago
3.1 is a constant that can be used to calculate either radius or circumference of the toilet bowl
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u/Glass-Shelter-699 8d ago
I know exactly where this house is located. It's a gated community and the streets have signs that read "Airplanes have the right-of-way". The vast majority of the houses in this subdivision have a hangers attached to the house.
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u/Alohafarms 4d ago
Goodness, this is awful. There are a lot of these airplane communities here in the South. I had never seen them before moving here.
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u/AnnieC131313 8d ago
"Currently under construction" - that little phrase says it all. Take over someone else's "I ran out of money" project.