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Funny. One of the homes they showed is in my area, and I had driven by it recently (since we're thinking about moving). And they're definitely right. It's a weird mix of horribleness. Especially the kitchen with its "update", aka let's throw in a couple of premium appliances and $2k worth of marble and call it a day.

http://www.mcmansionhell.com/post/162143229176/50-states-of-...

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/19735-Chartwell-Hl-Excels...

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> Especially the kitchen with its "update"

Wow. I really expected you were exaggerating but it really is terrible. There's not much square footage why the hell didn't they put in new cabinets at least?

Didn't the writer say this was one of the only kitchens shown on the blog that she likes? That doesn't mean you have to agree of course, I Just don't really know what makes a good kitchen :)

Could this be an approach to defend the blog? Community project to take fresh images of the same houses, make the images available to the site under a liberal license.

What I don't get is that the images themselves aren't even owned by Zillow. They get the pictures from the governing Multiple Listing Service (MLS). In this case, that's NorthstarMLS.

These images are available absolutely everywhere, on every real estate site imaginable.

Pretty sure there have been multiple porn shoots in this room:

https://photos.zillowstatic.com/p_c/IS66svl699b5v60000000000...

Don't ask me why I believe this or how I'd know such a thing, all I'm saying is I sense it in my gut.

That said, I think pornography is the basic aesthetic we're all resisting, when we hate on McMansions.

It's that instinctive reptile-brain hatred of doing nothing and getting everything, no matter how tasteless the getting renders the gotten.

Is that...just a slab of marble hanging over the bar stools?

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