A Big Blue House Gets the McMansion Hell Treatment

Kate Wagner has discovered a home for sale in Alvin, Texas (near Houston), that she says really should be in Florida, I guess because it's blue and it has portholes. Now, I'm not averse to houses coming in unconventional colors, having one such house myself, but I can't imagine using the same color scheme in every room. This 8-bedroom, 10-bathroom home takes blue to the extreme. But it's not just the color; it's the oversized everything and the rococo decorating that make this place as ugly as you can make a nearly $3 million home.

You can try to be kind and say that the person who had this built had a clear vision of what their personal dream home would be, and made sure it happened. But then you see it was built in 2023! That means that the person with the dream saw the finished product and said, "Naw. I don't want this." Or else the landowner was confident that someone in the area with plenty of money would really want a house with so much blue you can't do much about it. Read Wagner's takedown at McMansion Hell.

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I was wondering how it would be had they actually used real sod instead of that astroturf. It would smell nice after mowing it, I suppose. Sooo many wrong things in one house.

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They forgot to remove the dark blue painter's tape covering all the molding on the walls and doorways!I would spend tons of money repainting the walls and ceilings a white or off white color, maybe a light gray. The floors are very pretty without all that blue paint. But the rooms are so big they don't give off a cozy "I'm home!" vibe. More like "Hello? Is anyone there?" vibe. Definitely not worth 3 million when you add up all the repair bills. And that lawn?! sheesh

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You are so overwhelmed by the blue that you don't notice details at first. Going back, I think 1. I would be exhausted walking from one work station to the next in that kitchen, 2. the master bath shower is so big you'd never get warm, and 3. Astroturf on a balcony is just plain tacky.

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Looks like a 10 year old's crayon drawing.

I could understand portholes on the 1st floor, if not for the full sized windows elsewhere, but why on the upper floors, and why the mixture of some round and some square?