I just can't get over the massive platform block roof

Also, don’t worry about the empty hall space, the mailbox will probably spawn there later since you didn’t put one on the lot haha

James, you were so focused on whether you could do something in this build, you never stopped to think if you should.

I've always felt that McMansions were for people who just came into a lot of money and have no idea how to spend it. They're always just so incredibly tacky. The kind of people who think a chandelier in the bathroom is classy.

Not me thinking a McMansion was like a McDonald’s themed mansion 😂

Grey everywhere is absolutely not bringing down the vibes, this is exactly how these kind of properties end up decorated 😭 It was the perfect colour scheme lol

Feel free to repeat this challenge as often as you like - so freaking entertaining.

If theirs one thing I know about Mc mansions it's that the windows need to be ridiculous and that it needs way more roof than a house that size should ever have

‘White is a shade of gray’ James genuinely cracks me up. I loved this challenge 😂

“Maybe we need more columns” *triggers flashbacks to island living LP*

Our dream home ❤😂

It's so funny watching james struggle to make the kitchen dining living room all one room cause my kitchen dining and living room are all oneroom. Its super common where i live.

I would love to see James build an actual McMansion without restrictions 🤣🤣

You should move Oak into this house. It’s strange nature suits the cursed, teleporting baby.

Half walls are a thing in McMansions that would’ve served you well here. 😅

the funny thing is in the past few years McMansions in the US all have the same grey "wood" floors

Never thought I'd say this, but you managed to build something so chaotic it was too much even for me lol You sure nailed the aesthetic, though, I'll give you that. It's definitely a house!

James’ love language is actually columns 😂

The forced perspective made me think of a building challenge inspired by Alice in Wonderland. Where the sims appear giant in relation to the house and objects, but it's still livable.

I like everything else but that big platform on top is just not it for this one 😂

This is giving the vibes of early TS4 gallery builds. I would see houses just like this all the time.

Once you put in the garrish columns and the terrible roofline, it locked in the 'McMansion' theme. Perfectly disgusting hahaha

I have literally just finished watching Plumbella’s one and all I could think was how badly I wanted you to give it a try haha. Then I refreshed my homepage and see this. Today is a very good day!!

With peace and love the outside is giving funeral home and tbh that's pretty fitting for the McMansion vibe

Clicked so fast hoping it was Plumbella's challenge!

i love james' "yehehah!" giggle

The random column placement is really giving me flashbacks to a Virginia house we rented that had so many random columns it actively made the place difficult to put our furniture in

hearing james go "good luck babe hug kiss hug kiss plumbella" was very cute for some reason? super endearing. but also one floor mcmansion..... obsessed lol

A ridiculously tall roof would make the whole place look bigger too. Or an actual 2 story entry that is open so it wouldn't count since there is no liveable 2nd floor space. Also, I just had to do a census thing and one of the things they asked was how many rooms my house had (like they needed to know that!) and it said not to include the bathrooms so you could use that an excuse to make one of the other rooms separate. lol

...James...wtf? 😂 McMansions inside are modern, open plan and clean lines. You thought too hard on this one and resulted in cramped chaos. LOVE IT!!!!

The village where I live is growing rapidly, and almost every house built in the last 15 years is what I would consider to be McMansion. Huge looking houses on tiny lots with terrible layouts inside that waste a lot of space. They go oh so well with the rest of the neighbourhood, which is a mix of ranch and split level houses built in the 50s and 60s, on larger lots. We even still have a working well on our lot, although the municipal water hookup was mandatory.

Btw a little build mode tip for you; USE HALF WALLS FOR THE KITCHEN. they look amazing connected to a dining area and don't count as an extra room! (Also you can put plant pots and other small items on them, which is super cool!)

I think there's technically a 10x10 lot in the hidden world from Willow Creek but it's kind of a pain to get there lmao

When I read McMansion I immediately envisioned a tall, narrow, 3 story mansion with red and yellow colors and topped off with good ole golden arches. Had never heard that term before 😂

This both pained and delighted my architect's heart :'D Terrifying how well you hit that challenge! "Maybe we need more columns" - My favorite repeating theme!

copium McMansion is definitely a good description, lol! very fun challenge!

James snickering at all of his McMansion ideas had me dead. 🤣

Actually the roof got me seething and we gotta fight Semaj 😭😭 Cause whyyyyy lmao

Only Plumbella could create something so chaotic I love her

I live in a HUGE subdivision of McMansions made in the 90s. They take up about half of their lots. And they have SOOO much trimming and roofing on the front, but the sides and back are surprisingly bare. Sometimes there aren't even any windows on the sides. And maybe 1 windowed door to the outside and 1-2 windows on the back. Only the front (on the outside) is ostentatious.

This is that house with a Napoleon Complex.

the windows matched too nicely. mcmansions never use the same style of window twice lol

😂😂 omg ya should have flipped that layout bedrooms on the other side , ya dont know how badly I wanna fix this 😂

I love to see my simmers suffering just for fun 💜

Not me thinking McMansion was a McDonalds Mansion

"I feel like the potential fire hazard is very McMansion too" 🤣 this is too good hahahaha McMansion copium as James said

Thanks I hate it.

i think the kitchen and living space should have been switched with the bedrooms; kitchen in back with the back door, living room near the front, reading book in the half circle, etc. you did a great job though this video was so fun to watch!

I feel like not having a bathroom vanity mirror really adds to the McMansion feel 😂

We need more cursed builds. This was grey-t

I love seeing you experiment with different building styles! Would love another one of those!

Remembers a bin but forgets a computer and mailbox

Oh God this is legit a nightmare lmao. And technically theme and accent colors are different - so you can definitely get away with grey and something lol

Mom pick me up I’m scared

Love the definition of a room in this video, a completely separated space by walls with 1 little opening? Not a room obviously. But a completely open space with no walls, just lowered a bit? That's obviously a room

Yes, would definitely like to see more of these! The options on plumbellas generator can come up with some wacky challenges for sure!

I love that the sims tubers all support each other!

It’s almost tragic how much certain elements of this build remind me of the homes of my ‘wealthier’ friends growing up 😂

Loved her video! So happy you’re trying it out too!

This is so fun 😂 I loved plumbellas video too! I’d be happy to watch more of this build challenge! :D there seems to be a lot of different styles there!

I wanted to try this and mine said I needed 3 rooms on 4 floors. Re-did it and got 8 sims in 1 room on 1 floor! Wish me luck!

I'd love to see you try another one of these. there are some really interesting things you can experiment with!

0:38 PLEASE i need to see the three-story one-room orange asymmetrical industrial prison unit

omg why do i lowkey love this video so much. i could sit and watch a series of you building each scenario.

Love it!!! Laughing so hard at the end result - so ridiculous!! Please do another one! These are soooo funny.

I would love another video like this! It was a lot of fun watching!

This was so much fun to watch, I couldn't stop laughing the whole way through!! McMansions are hilarious, you really captured the McMansion essence XD

YESSSS, I've been so excited to see someone use her generator, soooo happy its you!

I would have exchanged one of the bedroom paintings for a bathroom mirror

Impressive. Very impressive 👏🏻 Also love how you go "Yeeaahhh" and then the laugh when you're excited 😂

This was so fun to watch! You should do these a lot more often

I love his little giggle. It's a verbal expression of how people feel when looking at those stupid McMansions in suburbia.

this is so much fun to watch! the challenge is so versitale too, please make more of this! :)

Love this build James 😍 you have amazing ideas ❤

I'd love to see more of these challenges 😊

I would love to see more videos with this challenge! It's so fun

This was so much fun! I'd love to see more of these. Thanks to Plumbella for that generator!

Love it, definitely do as many of these as you want 😂 was so much fun

This theme was perfect for you 😂 would love to see more of these challenges

This was so much fun. Can't wait for the Gallery to work again lol.. I'd say outside platforms should be allowed to not be a separate room, but as outside decorations. If you can fit a full on bbq/lounge/pool area outside, it's technically not a room, right? Can't wait to place this somewhere and generate a random budget for it

PLEASE do another one of these James! 😍

Some of those other challenges as you counted to three, dang that's a horrible build generator lol. Loved how you tried to pull it together, it makes so little sense but that makes it more real because McMansions are just like that. I used to live in a tiny California farming town that was on track to be swallowed by sprawl into a bigger city. So the houses were 99% old poor-to-modest rural area style housing. Then on the outskirts of that, in what had been the literal middle of nowhere but now was turning into commuter homes, there were these gigantic opulent McMansions. Except it was hot and dry there so the huge lot would be bulldozed before building and then nothing would grow there. Huge mansions surrounded by nonstop dirt. It's been nearly 20 years and some of those mansions are still dirt with like, one palm tree. Looks weird as fuck.

I like to go by McMansion Hell's criteria in defining a McMansion: 1) 3000+ square feet 2) 5 or more bedrooms 3) a massive garage 4) Built after 1980 Important features include cheap and poorly executed imitations of classical architectural features; disproportional entryways and roofs; mismatched styles and windows; asymmetry that feels off balance; needlessly complex roof line; little to no landscaping; etc. James, I think your build perfectly encapsulates the feeling of a McMansion within the constraints of the challenge.

“What’s a McMansion?” - and then first thing you build is the turret. You nailed it! 10/10

I love the chaos of this. I watched her video yesterday and hoped other simmers would participate

love this, u crushed the challenge the way it came together

It’s like you read my mind. When I was watching Plumbella’s video and she was showing some examples and then did one herself I remember thinking “I’d like to see James do this!” And here you are indeed doing the challenge. Awesome! I think you mastered the McMansion exterior concept. It looks so much like the neighborhood a friend lives in. All the houses are nearly identical and have that same small house pretending to be a mansion look. The interior of my friend’s house probably would’ve worked for you since her house is two bedrooms and one bath. You enter the front door and immediately to your left is the kitchen which the room is entirely open so from the kitchen you can stand at the island and literally watch tv on the far wall. The kitchen is actually small with the refrigerator, stove, and some counters and cabinets along the wall and then the sink and dishwasher are part of the island right across from that. There’s a small bar with two barstools that separates the kitchen space from the dining room space and she just has a round wood table with four chairs. Her sofa/couch is just passed that with its back to the kitchen and then she does indeed have a fireplace with her big tv mounted above it and there’s bookcases on either side. From the front door entry space like I said left goes into the kitchen/dining/living space, right in front is the door to the bathroom and then to your right is a hallway that leads to the two bedrooms. One of the windows that faces the outside front yard is literally along this hallway. She has plants on a small table in front of that window. Her bedroom has a walk-in closet that’s has one wall that connects to the bathroom, one wall to the living room (you can hear the tv on the other side when it’s on) and one to the outside. You’re absolutely correct that the houses are built without much yard space. Her house sits on a lot the same size as my house does, yet my two bedroom/one bath house built in the 1940s leaves a lot of yard space. My bathroom and bedrooms are smaller, but my kitchen is bigger. She does also have like a laundry room in her house just off the kitchen, it’s not really a separate room, more like what you did in your build, but my house doesn’t have that. Her house is newer having been built in the early 2000s, too. But yeah, I think you captured the McMansion vibes really well!

17:45 but like... we are obviously going to make a vampire family live in this household, right? Grey/dull-toned, rich and ambitious, small yet large. The parent vamps are the head-masters of the house of course, and their only child is supposed to lure other individuals in the household, to transform them into a vampire, specifically into their family. Anyways, before a ramble on, I thank you for your videos as they are a blast and leave me with interest and a smile on my face.

Idk. Maybe could have used more random roofing. The neighborhood next to my parents I swear required a certain surface area to be roofing so you could encourage as much leaking as possible.

this is so cool! Please do another Plumbella challenge sometime! :D

I just love your channel and builds and game play!!!love your laugh also!!!

This was so ridiculous (in a good way)! Thank you for the much needed laugh as you built this opulent McMansion. It actually reminds me of a lot of homes in Texas (my state).

Impressive, but hideous. I love it.

That was fun! I would like to see another cursed build challenge 😂

I love that the solution to every problem is more columns.

I love this. Please do more of these lol

I would like to see you do this challege again! It's fun ❤

I am loving all of these plumbella builds 😂

I have been using this build generator a bunch! It is so fun!

Please, _please_ so this challenge again! Make it into a whole series, in fact!