Return of Copper-tone?

[sudsmaster]

Tonka Toy Mansion

That was a friend's description in the 80's of an old landlady's "palatial" home that was built on no more than 1/6 acre lot in Oakland. It was actually kind of nice on the inside, in a bizarre faux Conquistator motif, but no yard to speak of. Never did find the room filled with gold, tho ;-)

 

[dalangdon]

I blamed the big furniture trend on Friends...

The TV show, that is. That whole "Monica's Apartment" look was really unfortunate.

That, and the increasing size of the average American backside.

Although I must admit that we have a ridiculously large couch in the TV room, and it's perfectly welcome there. It seats two adults, three small dogs, and a surly oversized cat very comfortably

 

[whirlcool]

I know in model homes they usually use down sized scale furniture to make the rooms look larger. One of the tricks of the trade.

Recently, a suburb of Houston passed an ordinance stating that a home could not occupy more than 60% of the lot. What was happening was that people were building these McMansions with virtually no open ground. The homes were taking up all of the lot, right down to the sidewalk. The city claimed it was destroying the "look and feel" of the community. Strangely enough, this suburb is very popular with lawyers and doctors.

 

[sudsmaster]

Tonka Toy Castle

Correction, he called it a "Tonka Toy Castle", not a mansion. This was long before the McMansion moniker came about. Oh, and the landlady's deceased husband was a doctor... all the houses in that neighborhood seem to have huge footprints on tiny lots, probably part of an "executive development" or some such nonsense.

Hmmm. Maybe I should put a bid in for model home furniture. The people who owned this house before me were rather short - at least shorter than me. I like some of the furniture that came with the probate sale... two occasional chairs that I find quite comfortable. "Just right".

 

[danemodsandy]

McMansions

If anyone is interested, I wrote an article about McMansions a few years ago; it's still online for free reading.

Go here:

http://www.jetsetmodern.com/mcmansion.htm

 

[63getelevision]

I hate McMansions, and not because I will never have one. Like Sandy mentioned, an entire nice middle class neighborhood erased for someone's twisted idea of luxury living. Some Victorian neighborhood in a Wisconsin city was buldozed in '68 for middle class tract houses. One old house was saved because of a historic tie to the woodworker that built it. Frankly, I'd like to be there when the McMansions fall to redevelopement, or they start housing multi families, or are divided into apartments.