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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsIf you were to build your dreamhome, what would it look like? Show us a picture.
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Cathedral ceiling (check)
Stone fireplace (check)
View of nature (check)
Wood everywhere (check)
Incitatus
(5,317 posts)applegrove
(118,654 posts)d_r
(6,907 posts)applegrove
(118,654 posts)it apparently.
d_r
(6,907 posts)not tired of it yet
elleng
(130,905 posts)applegrove
(118,654 posts)mowing a lawn. Never again.
elleng
(130,905 posts)I'm renting it, haven't moved in yet, and landlord does the lawn!
applegrove
(118,654 posts)Response to applegrove (Original post)
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AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)outside:
Inside:
Bedroom
kitchen
Backyard/ Patio
Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)BainsBane
(53,032 posts)OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)both inside and out
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)Here would be my new house....and a nice shade of blue too!
of course its bigger on the inside than the outside...
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)...total improbability drive.
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)...I like this one:
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)Looks rather compelling.
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)jmowreader
(50,557 posts)You know you have a Genuine Frank Lloyd Wright House if it has a flat roof that leaks.
BainsBane
(53,032 posts)Sorry, I can't limit myself to one picture.
I'd like a cottage-style house with a beautiful garden.
a sunroom
A spacious, light airy kitchen that leads to an herb garden
Cozy spots to curl up with a book.
amazing closet space
a clawfoot tub
Did I mention I want a house cleaner?
JustAnotherGen
(31,823 posts)Please come visit me after we are done renovating our new house! The exterior might not appeal to you (100 Year old English Tudor) but the gardening I'm going to do and the interior overhaul? You will appreciate it because you have such EXCELLENT taste!
BainsBane
(53,032 posts)I'd love to see it. I've love to visit, but if I can't pictures would be great.
JustAnotherGen
(31,823 posts)It's going to be light and bright!
applegrove
(118,654 posts)cliffordu
(30,994 posts)Wow.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)femmocrat
(28,394 posts)lastlib
(23,233 posts)...and a desk the size of Rhode Island, and a workshop the size of Wyoming. And power tools!
hunter
(38,311 posts)BainsBane
(53,032 posts)hunter
(38,311 posts)I've no fondness for mega-structures or arcologies at all.
Nothing that requires a homeowners association to function.
Xyzse
(8,217 posts)Being originally from the tropics, I like solid cement and stone construction. However, since I've been living in the US, I now know how central heating is uber important.
I like the idea of clean spartan lines from the outside, and the idea of having part of the house boxing off a square garden.
I have oriental and occidental influences, and so I like the idea of the sense of control and utilitarian design in Japanese houses while I enjoy the Western sense of coziness.
I mean, the closest thing I can think of at the moment for it is this house:
http://www.home-designing.com/2012/01/when-a-stranger-calls-movie-house
Perhaps one day I'll scan it, but it is in a large sheet that I used during college ARCH class before I decided that I didn't want to be an architect after all.
tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)More construction pics: https://picasaweb.google.com/102536162170163114327/HouseConstruction#slideshow
More inside pics: https://picasaweb.google.com/102536162170163114327/InsideTheFinishedProduct#slideshow
Xyzse
(8,217 posts)almost bankrupted myself in the process but we eventually made it through
hunter
(38,311 posts)My parents did too, but they sold it.
So did a few of my siblings.
Seeing what they all went through in the final stretches of construction to get it done, no thanks.
I'd rather recycle something existing, or build something up from recycled and natural materials, the later being my preference, but there's not many places one can do that.
Our current home was largely chosen by location. It's close to my wife's work. We both were Los Angeles commuters back in the 'eighties. No thank you, never again.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)Extremely cute son too.
tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)that kid is pistol too
applegrove
(118,654 posts)tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)and yes it is on a canal on L.I.
Chan790
(20,176 posts)I don't even care what it looks like because I'm never going to be home.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)madamesilverspurs
(15,803 posts)Where I can fish for trout from the porch. Heaven.
Raffi Ella
(4,465 posts)something like this, backed by deep woods and surrounded with old trees and gardens.
lots of light, big fire places, old hardwood flooring with that gorgeous patina to them.I'd have horses and big dogs and do all the gardening myself. Oh and a built in sound system throughout the house and a finished outside area with an outdoor kitchen and a pool.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)Good sturdy door:
Along with a blast proof silo:
ETA: http://www.silohome.com/missile_silo_for_sale_ultimate_survival_shelter_2012_shelter_fallout_.htm
mucifer
(23,542 posts)maybe you remember my choice:
I'd like to go thru the door!
politicat
(9,808 posts)?11519
It's the Tumbleweed Sebastarosa. I'd like to put it on a suburban trending urban lot. (Long, narrow lot, high walk-ability score... Basically the town I live in now, or one quite like it in a rainier place.)
The major modifications are: extend the front porch to full width; extend the downstairs back bedroom to full width and run the downstairs bath all the way to the back wall, adding in space for washer/dryer, a soaking bathtub and a double laundry sink. (I play with textiles.) The rest of the back room is a working studio, with built-in shelves, clerestory windows and sky lights. French doors to the back porch. On a full, finished basement foundation, so Mr. Me can have his robotics lab. Move the front door to the left great-room window and make the kitchen U shaped; nix the odd pantry and what-the-hell space between the kitchen and bath. Pocket doors everywhere. Pellet stove heating. Upstairs, build in floor to ceiling wardrobes instead of the closets. Smaller bedroom is a library. Garage on the back, if possible, either two car width or a double one car, so that we actually have a place for wood working stuff.
We don't do guests or children, so three bedrooms is more than we actually need, but our heirs will be happy if they can sell our house after we're gone. Small because I hate cleaning and I'm better about being tidy if I don't have space to spread out.
applegrove
(118,654 posts)I love me floor plans.
politicat
(9,808 posts)Most kids love coloring books -- not me. They could give me a Sunset magazine house plans mag and a pad of graph paper and a pencil. I built castles and cabins and communes.
Love a house plan. Love them more when there's something obviously *wrong* and it must be fixed.
applegrove
(118,654 posts)of kitchens and counches from magazines and paste them on the interior 'walls' of the box. It was fun.
Jamaal510
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applegrove
(118,654 posts)noamnety
(20,234 posts)with at least one bottle wall: