hey folks, after doing some testing to prevent what happened with the last stream I haven't been able to get crowdcast to work and have to wait until tomorrow (the next business day) to talk to a tech support rep. Hopefully the issue with dropouts can be resolved by 8PM EDT tomorrow. I will update t...
2018-07-26 21:32:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello friends! Today I found the most precious (extremely) 70s A-frame. A-frames like this one are really just a step up from camping and the photographs frankly don't do it justice.
2018-07-20 17:04:44 +0000 UTC
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Hi Folks! Because of technical difficulties during tonight's livestream, I will be doing another livestream to make up for it next Thursday July 26th at 8-10PM EDT.
Sorry for all the trouble!
2018-07-20 02:20:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey folks, some storms knocked out the internet/cable on my block and it looks like the issue isnt going to be resolved before the original scheduled time for the livestream. The new date for the livestream is Thursday from 8:30-10:30 EDT. Apologies for the short notice and inconvenience.
2018-07-17 22:36:20 +0000 UTC View Post
My latest piece for Curbed about the sneaky irony of formal entertainment spaces.
2018-07-12 17:23:29 +0000 UTC View PostThe Texas search was so exhaustive and expansive, I couldn't possibly cover everything. Still, there were a couple of trainwrecks where for some reasons weren't included in the post. Some of them are weird but not terrible enough, and some of them are too small to be McMansions. Enjoy, Patreon!
De...
2018-07-12 17:03:21 +0000 UTC View PostHowdy! I bet you need some eye-bleach after those monstrosities. (Especially the Castle from Hell!!!) Fortunately, I'm here to deliver.
2018-07-12 16:55:16 +0000 UTC
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Be sure to fill out the poll for Worst McMansion in Texas!
2018-07-12 16:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm messin with texasÂ
2018-06-28 18:39:18 +0000 UTC View PostHowdy y'all!
Since the Texas posts are taking the form of a list of insane houses instead of a single house, for every two bad houses, I would like to present one good house to use as eyebleach. I'm posting this ahead of time in order to inoculate my lovely patrons against the horror show they are...
2018-06-26 20:51:23 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks! It was really hard picking this week's Tennessee McMansion. In my search for great material, I came about a number of really neat and frankly insane houses that weren't suitable for posting for a number of reasons, and I wanted to share a couple of them here with you! After all,
nobod...
McMansion Hell will be down this evening for maintenance. I've been having difficulties posting today's house and am doing some troubleshooting. The site will be back up by tomorrow.
2018-06-04 20:37:23 +0000 UTC View PostThank you all so much for your feedback and advice.
Reward delivery will be staggered throughout the month. The Crowdcast Q&A will happen from 8-10PM on the first Tuesday of every month. (There will be a scheduled post and reminder beforehand.)
I'm going to try for the essays...
2018-05-30 23:42:57 +0000 UTC View PostHello folks!
This has been a long time coming, but in honor of the new "season" of McMansion Hell, I'm updating the (in my opinion very dated and hard to keep up) Patreon Rewards. These are not final and are open to discussion!!
Here are the proposed new Reward Tiers:
Howdy folks! Today's Good House of the Week is this lovely seaside estate built in 2015. The house borrows from a variety of styles, including Colonial Revival, and vernacular styles such as the I-house (with a full width front porch, typical of architecture found in the Tidewater region). Today, we...
2018-05-25 18:14:46 +0000 UTC View Post
After turning in my thesis, I spent this week in New York to attend a design writing fellowship. I'm extremely excited to begin writing full time which hasn't even been a thing the entire time the blog has existed, as I started it when I first began grad school. I want to thank you all so much for y...
2018-05-21 19:23:07 +0000 UTC View Post
I posted some of these in a twitter thread earlier, but frankly there are a lot more of them and I thought y'all'd be the perfect audience for this absolute absurdity. Some of them are as PDFs.
A lot of these are broken now on Archive.org so these may be the only existing copies of some!&nbs...
2018-04-27 20:13:52 +0000 UTC View Post
To make up for infrequent posts due to grad school hell, I'm welcoming all of my patrons to join me on Crowdcast for a live Q&A and house roasting session! Be sure to come prepared with the most hideous houses you have to offer~
2018-04-15 23:50:45 +0000 UTC View PostHowdy folks! To make up for my lack of posts due to the final stretch of my master's degree, I'm inviting all of you to join me on Sunday, April 15th on Crowdcast for a Live Q&A and House Roasting session from 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT.
Be sure to come pre...
2018-04-08 01:28:44 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's house is a bit unusual looking, especially its hipped-on-gabled roof. However, inside is a cozy little house that is surprisingly large.
Hipped-on-gabled roofs were briefly popular in the late 60s and the 1970s, alongside other unusual roof shapes such as the Mansard. It's rare t...
2018-04-08 01:22:15 +0000 UTC View Post
sneak peek
2018-04-08 01:00:59 +0000 UTC View PostI'm not on haitus! I've been ill this past week and generally swamped with my last month of graduate school. There will be a house post tomorrow and a special Q&A/live house roast this Sunday to make up for the lost time. Thank you for your patience and understanding! Kate
2018-04-05 21:33:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi, I traveled A Lot and spent a lot of time thinking about this idea that I sincerely believe in.
2018-03-15 20:06:50 +0000 UTC View Post
I wrote this article after seeing the people in my life struggle with the image of their homes: whether or not they were ready for the judgement of company (both loved ones or strangers), or the peering eyes of social media. Folks who work in the worlds of architecture or design feel this need ...
2018-03-07 18:50:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey folks! check out this polemical bit I wrote for the excellent @studyhall about why "acoustic" office furniture is extremely dumb and useless.
See ya tomorrow with this week's McMansion!
2018-02-28 21:07:47 +0000 UTC View Post
beachy keen
2018-02-22 18:42:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Friends! I decided to post my Good House of the Week before my general post as a change of pace.
This 2001 home is probably one of the more stunning ones I've seen in my time doing McMansion Hell. It's almost a dead ringer for an authentic 19th Century Second Empire-style home, down to the c...
2018-02-22 16:26:15 +0000 UTC View Post