McMansion

I know that not everyone will agree with me on this post, but you can't please everyone. It is my personal opinion that most of today's homes are built larger than we need them, with rooms we will rarely, if ever, use. I may be a sucker for old homes, but I think that most people would agree that the character and charm of an old house is not usually found in a standard house built today. I believe that this is in part because the expense of building a *'McMansion' is costly enough that details and opportunities for character and charm are overlooked in the race for bigger and better. However, with that being said, I stumbled upon this concept house and I must say that this is probably taking it too far in the other direction. Granted Americans live in luxurious spaces compared to most of the rest of the world, but even our space-conscious friends overseas I think would agree that it would take a special person, with a unique way of life to find this house tenant-able. Read more here: http://freshome.com/2011/08/28/soon-to-be-the-thinnest-crib-in-the-world-keret-house-by-centrala/

Not without some redeeming character but who NEEDS a house this large?! 

 This however seems cramped to me.....

You can get an idea of scale in this picture if you look at the person seated inside.

You want to build a HOUSE in there?!

*McMansion is a pejorative term for a large new house which is judged as pretentious, tasteless, or badly designed for its neighborhood. Alternately, a McMansion is a large house in a sub-division of similarly large houses, which all seem mass produced and lacking distinguishing characteristics, and at variance with established local architecture.^[1]

The "stunt word" McMansion seems to have been coined some time in the early 1980s.^[2] It later appeared in the Los Angeles Times in 1990^[3][4] and the New York Times in 1998.^[5] Other terms applied to this type of dwelling include "Persian palace,"^[6] "garage Mahal," "starter castle," and "Hummer house."^[7] An example of a McWord, McMansion compares the generic quality of these luxury homes with mass-produced fast food meals.