TOH Article in Today's Paper

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I've been gettting TOH magazine for a couple of years since we are planning a kitchen (now enroaching on living-room and family area) remodel. This past month was their 25'th anniversary edition and included some of the top 25 best changes to home building over the past 25 years. They also had a few comments of trends they found not so good. In grand irony bordering on high elitism, one of the "bad" trends was the rise of the "McMansion" with a few elitist comments about how these 6000 sf homes were rising over the "graves" of older large homes. The message seemed to be, "these homes we remodel that are in the millions are meant for the worthy and deserving, don't even imagine that the likes of *you* should aspire to such large digs."

Greg ...

Nope. They're talking sze. The exact wording of the paragraph is "It used to be that a 3000-square=foot house was big; now it's got to be 5,000 or

Lee

I love the folks who bitch and moan when the real estate market bombs in their local and they all claim to have "lost $x million" when in reality they have NOT lost anything unless the property value NOW is less than they paid for it originally.

Saw an article on a guy crying the blues that the bottom fell out of the real estate market, and his home that he paid $50k for back when is not ONLY worth $100k, instead of the $1mil+ that the crazy market had valued it at. Should have sold it when it was valued at $1+mil or shut up

John

To me a McMansion is a 5,000SF house on a 10,000SF lot built of gyp board and T1-11. Not a multi-million $ house.

-J

The problem is that in some parts of the country multimillion dollar houses are not multimillion dollar houses, they're cheap crap houses tastelessly done in a good location.