Original sentence: Another complaint is that the ornament looks 'cheap' or perfunctory.Criticism of McMansions has a certain element of class distinction.Critics often consider the McMansion's owners, even if wealthier, to have less refined taste than the critics' own.For example, a common cost-saving measure is to use brick or stone only on the front of the house, and substitute vinyl or clapboard siding on the sides and rear.One common aesthetic complaint is that McMansions are overly ostentatious; for example, the front facade may include multiple gables, plus blind dormers, porticos, and a staggered garage (moved forward from the body of the house, and facing the street).This could also encompass traditionally functional elements (like shutters) now used as non-functional ornament, or more generally a poor choice of ornamental elements for that building and site
Edited sentence: Another frequent complaint is that the tendency to stagger the house's front layout, making the garage face the street and moving it forward, detracts from the rest of the house's already overdone facade, which often includes blind dormers and porticos.Criticism of McMansions has a certain element of class distinction; owners of such homes may have high incomes but are generally considered to have less refined tastes than their critics, even if they may have more money.It is also asserted that these features are generally included only at the front of the house where they are most visible, rather than toward the sides or rear where they are more traditional and functional.Many architectural critics declare the excessive use of gabled roofs on most McMansions to be particularly contrary to good design.Some McMansions even look like bloated versions of tract houses, demonstrating poor design that might be tolerable in inexpensive housing but utter contempt for any canons of architectural merit.Some aesthetic critics assert that the architecture of McMansions is poorly considered, ostentatious, not properly balanced against lot size, or otherwise undesirable in their proportions.Such criticism may also extend to the fact that traditionally functional elements of large homes have been adapted as ornamental, and have been juxtaposed to features alien to that original context.This creates a great degree of discontinuity and inconsistency in design.Typically, McMansions will employ a brick and/or stone facade on the front, using wood clapboard siding (usually artificial) on the sides and rear to cut construction costs