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Barndominium

The fancy name for turning a cheap metal barn into an overpriced house so you can pretend you’re living the simple life.

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Builder Grade

The housing equivalent of fast fashion, which looks decent on the surface but won’t survive more than a few seasons of actual use.

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Obama Presidential Library

The concrete panopticon that overran budgets, evicted neighbors, and turned a public green space into Obama’s personal ego vault.

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National Trust for Historic Preservation

The organization that romanticizes the past but supports the exact policies making the future look like a third-world rerun

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Kitchen Island

The overpriced granite altar that every suburban couple fights over during home renovations, even though it mostly collects mail and abandoned Amazon boxes.

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Case Study Houses

The mid-century modernist experiment where architects built glass boxes in the California hills and pretended that living in a fishbowl was the future of human happiness.

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Roof

The architect’s brilliant solution to make sure rainwater finds its way inside the house while pretending to protect it.

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