Now this is an example of the kind of house which grew to favour in Sydney during the 1990s. It is
popularly described as a standard "McMansion". In the newer, self styled prestigeous areas such as Castle
Hill or Dural and in many south western Sydney enclaves, countless thousands of these have been built.
Typically they are genuinely large homes built on the basic plan of a cube with a pitched roof.
Standard specs include a two car garage, two bathrooms, rumpus room, secondary eating or "family"
room, lounge room and four (or five) bedrooms. If you spend a little more, you also get eaves and some
form of facade to disguise the essentially box design. The less like a box it looks, the more you have
spent on the facade. This one still looks like the box it essentially is. Don't get me wrong. They
are genuinely nice dwellings as a rule - just sort of "stamped out" a bit. This one also shows solar
electricity panels which is to be encouraged. More and more of the newish homes feature them.