What qualifies a home as a McMansion?

No Jane
Your roof lines serve a purpose. That disqualifies you.
I think this is a good example.




I have to admit, I wish my actaul house was this nice
That said! I would never trade the awsome property I have for one of these. And certainly when I build a bigger house it wont look like this.

I suppose that is a good thing that we keep all of these city folk corraled up on tiny lots, keep them from ruining anymore of our countryside than they insist upon. The only real trajedy is that they are cutting down far more trees than they need to, then using way too much oil to heat/cool the things. However, many of them are insulated far better than than any houses built before the late 70's and use about the same amount of energy although they may be twice as big, now if we can just convince these folks to build no more house than what they really need, the we can really cut energy use.

And despite what we may say to make ourselves feel better, many of those people have tons of money, and many don't, just like the country folk.