Basic Trope: A very large house owned by a character.
- Straight: Alice's owns a very large 10,000 square foot house with 8 bedrooms (3 are master bedrooms), 6 bathrooms (4 of which are full-sized), a large foyer, living room, kitchen, big finished basement with a home theater, and large backyard with a pool and big playground, and has an elevator to get between the floors.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice's mansion is one of the largest in the world. It is a Big Labyrinthine Building with 250,000 square feet of living space and that spans over 100 acres. It has 25 master bedrooms, 20 full-size bathrooms, everything mentioned above plus every possible entertainment venue, a fitness center with hundreds of machines and weights, the other features found in a fitness gym (such as a YMCA), and a backyard large enough to contain a wave, Olympic-sized, regular, and kiddie pool plus a hot tub with slides attached to all of them, and a huge playground with many outdoor venues including a kart racetrack. The house even has a map to help people get around.
- Alice's mansion functions as an entire city (and has everything a real life-city would) as it has thousands of bedrooms and bathrooms, dozens of recreation centers (which contain most of the unique facilities listed above) adminstrative offices, classrooms, restaurants, stores (and even an entire mall), museums, and even multiple theatres and concert halls. In the backyard there is an amusement park rivaling the size of Disneyland. It has also its own power plant and sewage treatment facility. Also, people get lost in it and no one has seen the entire thing.
- Alice's mansion takes up the entire planet and has hundreds of floors across the entire planet.
- Alice's mansion is literally infinite.
- Downplayed: Alice's house is a good deal larger than normal. It has 4,000 square feet, 6 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms (with only one full-sized, attached to the master bedroom), an above-average sized foyer, living room, and kitchen, plus a small home theater in the finished basement. Its backyard has a small pool and a simple store-bought playground.
- Justified:
- Alice won a big multimillion dollar lottery and used most of her winnings to buy the house.
- Alice inherited the house from her parents after their passing.
- Alice is a conservative girl who felt it necessary to buy a large house for her future family.
- Alice shares the house with her extended family, and everyone splits up the costs.
- The story takes place in a far future post-scarcity society where owning a huge house is normal.
- Inverted: Alice lives in a tiny house. It measures a microscopic 400 square feet, all of which is contained within one room; the bed is suspended above a ladder (like a bunk bed with only the top bunk), the toilet and sink are under it, and the kitchen is right beside the entrance and extremely simple.
- Subverted:
- Alice invites her friends to her house, which she told them is very large. They enter its subdivision and realize its an average sized house, about 2,000 square feet.
- Alice only owns a tiny portion of the building she lives in.
- The house was All Just a Dream.
- Double Subverted:
- But when they enter the house, they realize it is much Bigger on the Inside, with everything a typical modern mansion contains.
- Later it is revealed to have actually been owned by someone else.
- But she wakes up into an equally large house.
- Parodied: The interior of Alice's house is contained within Hammerspace, with millions and millions of square feet and an absurd about of features.
- Zig-Zagged: Alice's house is magical; she can change it and it's structure to be anywhere from a tiny house to the largest on Earth by far.
- Averted:
- Alice lives in an average 2,000 square foot house with 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms (one master, one full), and an average size foyer, living room, kitchen, and backyard.
- Alice lives in a modest 3 bedroom duplex.
- Alice lives in an apartment.
- Alice lives in a trailer home.
- Alice is homeless.
- Enforced: Troperville, the city that Alice lives in, has a mandate that requires all newly built homes to be very large and fancy.
- Lampshaded: "Wow Alice, your house is HUGE! Mine is nowhere near as big, so I'd like to hang out here a lot more!"
- Invoked:
- Alice works hard throughout her entire life and eventually saves up enough to make a down payment on a big house.
- Alice petitions the City of Troperville to build very large houses, one of which she plans to take ownership of.
- Exploited:
- Alice's friends only hang out with her because she has a large house with many amemnities they can use.
- Alice invests in a large house because she knows its value will continue to increase for a number of reasons.
- Defied:
- Alice wants to live a modest, simple life, so she attempts to sell her parents' house right after their passing and donate 95% of her profits.
- "You want to use THAT building as your house?"
- Discussed: "Why are more people moving into these huge houses? That includes you, Alice."
- Conversed: Alice and Bob talk about how so many characters in The Tropeman Show live in huge houses they shouldn't be able to afford.
- Implied: Alice and her friends talk about all of the different features and amenities of their houses without stating their exact sizes or amount of beds/baths.
- Deconstructed:
- Alice has too much trouble affording all the monthly payments on her big house, including the many expensive utilities.
- Many citizens of Troperville protest the city government for allowing so many unaffordable big houses to be built, as they take up so much space that prevents smaller, cheaper, and more livable ones from being built instead.
- Reconstructed: Alice petitions the city of Troperville to help with her payments; several citizens and city employees answer her call by offering to rent rooms in the house, making it possible for Alice to cover her expenses.
- Played for Laughs: Alice's friends mock her for spending so much time, energy, and money on her house, calling her lonely and materialistic - facts she agrees with and laughs at in turn.
- Played for Drama: The pressure Alice faces to upkeep her house causes her to go into debt and eventually be Driven to Suicide.
- Played for Horror: A serial killer breaks and enters into Alice's house, and the time he spends there allows him to get familiar with its layout to formulate a plan to murder her.
