McMansion Hell versus the dubious monster homes of Waukesha County, Wisconsin

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The way Kate has explained it, most McMansions are feature checklists rather than holistically-designed houses, so the wild-ass floor plans and eldritch roofline geometry are byproducts of trying to cram a bunch of disparate features like “lawyer foyer”, “2-story great room”, “15-acre semi-detached master suite”, “10 car garage”, “fireplaces in every bedroom”, “squash court”, and “all 29 bathrooms need their own window” into a single structure.

This is what makes me crazy about these things.
It’s not like there isn’t a (literal) blueprint of how to design and build a large house that makes sense.
In any style you want.
Say what you will about the older giant homes say in Beverly Hills or whatever, but at least you can get a design cue from a Spanish Revival or something made earlier in the 20th century that’s not COMPLETELY obnoxious.