McMansion summary

The central point in the essay "The McMansion Next Door: Why the American House Needs a Makeover" is essentiallly that American houses have become similar in design and have kept getting larger and larger. One example that gets used is that custom built houses are still built for people who are well off but that when children are asked to draw a house it is almost inevitable that they will draw a box with a triangle on top. This representation of a house remindes people of "home" but the currently marketed houses are gennerally to big for everything in their near context. Later the author states this is getting to be so evident that poeple who care about design are remodeling old houses instead of buying new ones. The author also points out that young people who love cool design are not going to buy huge mass culture houses as their first house. The author then concludes by saying that our houses should reflect who we are and that if that happens our grandchildren may draw something new when asked to draw a house.