Your Dream House

Published on April 2, 2006 By JillUser In Blogging

I love the home I'm in right now but I, like many others I'm sure, daydream about a "dream house". I've always wanted a pool but our backyard is too small and is also a wind tunnel. I would also love to custom design my bathrooms and kitchen with all the new stuff they have out these days.

I think the one thing a would really want would be a much bigger, well organize laundry room complete with two washers and two driers. I saw that show about the family with 16 kids who built their own home. They really did it right. They had two kitchens, one a stylized conventional kitchen and the other was a commercial kitchen. They had a huge pantry with several chest freezers and a garage door to it so they could simply pull right up and unload. The part I thought was genius was the laundry room. They had, I believe, six washers and driers. I can't fathom doing laundry for a family of 18!

So what features would your dream house have?

Comments (Page 2)

Dynosoar

on Apr 03, 2006

Tova7 has described my dream house!

We recently resurected our present home, and tried to incorporate as many modernizations as we could afford, but we did all the work ourselves and ease of completion factored strongly.

Added closets, 1 1/2 bathrooms, jacuzi tub, bar, media room, updated kitchen, ceramic tile, refinished hardwood floors, cable/alarm/DSL in all rooms,Central AC, and a 2nd floor deck off the MBR ( eventually will add a spiral stair to the backyard)new paint/wallcoverings in every room, upgraded most eletrical ( shoulda done more of that tho)

Not a bad job, but now we've overbuilt in the "hood" ( the house is 80 yrs old in a "transitional" neighborhood)

Now, if I could move this crib onto about 10 acres near the coast.................

JillUser

on Apr 04, 2006

That sounds wonderful Tova!

Dyno, I remember you blogging while you were doing some of that work. Sounds really nice! I love hardwood floors. I am going to try to talk Brad into letting me get hardwood in our dining room. We have carpet right now and I hate it.

The 2nd floor deck sound wonderful too. Sounds like a heck of a lot of work!

Dr Guy

on Apr 04, 2006

Dr. G, I live in my kitchen so a big kitchen is a must. We have a jacuzzi tub in our master bath and love it. Lot's of people say that it wouldn't get used enough to be worth it but we use it all the time.

Hey! We can buy your house!

Dynosoar

on Apr 04, 2006

Jill,

You read that stuff I wrote years ago?!?

It would have made great cable TV, " This Damned Old Expensive House From Hell" is the working title.....

Can't really complain too much, we bought it out of repo for about 30k, spent 40k in renovations, and now have a 150k tax value ( we did all the labor, so it's not that great of a windfall) Now I have a paid for 4500sqf 4br, 31/2 bath, 2 story w/ all formal rooms, den, and office. 10 and 12 ft ceilings, 7 fireplaces...and a utility bill that could support a family of 5.

MasonM

on Apr 04, 2006

Reading about you people's current and dream houses is pretty interesting. My current home is a 20ft travel trailer I bought last year. It isn't big, or fancy, or even especially nice, but it's all mine and is really kinda neat in many ways. I've had fairly large houses with less storage space than this little thing has.

From the couch to the fridge is 2 whole steps. The bathroom is all of 20ft away. Everything else is in between. And cleaning is a breeze.

It's kinda like camping all the time.

Dr Guy

on Apr 04, 2006

That is a guy home! Anything more is our love's home!

MasonM

on Apr 04, 2006

True Guy. Remeber Martin Riggs' (Mel Gibson) place in Lethal Weapon? Same idea.

JillUser

on Apr 04, 2006

Hey! We can buy your house!

You'd have to move to the Detroit area though

It would have made great cable TV, " This Damned Old Expensive House From Hell" is the working title.....

I'd watch that! And yes, I have been reading your stuff for a long time now.

From the couch to the fridge is 2 whole steps. The bathroom is all of 20ft away. Everything else is in between. And cleaning is a breeze.

I used to absolutely love my grandparents' motor home. There were special nooks and crannies for everything. There is a lot to be said for a minimalistic life.

MasonM

on Apr 04, 2006

There is a lot to be said for a minimalistic life.

Agreed!

Trudygolightly

on Apr 05, 2006

I was in this upscale home that had heated tile floors...I want that too.

My apt. has radiant heating, there's coils under the flooring. Not only is the floor warm, since heat rises it's quite a low cost heating systme.

My ideal or dream home would be of pink adobe bricks, rounded doors instead of sharp angular ones.

The shower would have multiple showerheads, have rocks built into it so it would look like a cave or waterfalls. There would be a place to sit down, and there are grab bars for safety.
The tub would be more like a pool you could walk down into with railings on each side. Plusating jets would soothe sore muscles.

My bedroom would face east, would have a heated waterbed like I used to, and would have a veranda with french doors and the Golden Retriever and the Collie would have their own sleeping area. The Llasa would sleep on the bed if she wanted to

The living room would have built in tv, vcr/dvd and doors to slide shut over it. There would be a fireplace in the center of the room, one half of the room would be for entertainment with a sectional that reclines. The other half of the room would be for conversing with people, comfortable on massive overstuffed chairs.

There'd be a large kitchen with the pots and pans overhead, there'd be a center island with built in stove top cooking, the oven would be built into the wall and it would be a microwave oven/convection oven/regular oven combination. Stainless steel freezer, stainless steel refrigerator/two door style.
The cupboards would have push button open doors instead of handles, and in fact all doors would have push button openers.

The garage would be a 2 car garage with an addition for a workshop. The garage would lead to the stable/paddock area where there would be a couple of Belgians and a thoroughbred mare.

There would be an outdoor pool, and a garden with tall hedges making a maze and a manmade waterfall in the middle of the maze.

There, all done! I DO dream

JillUser

on Apr 05, 2006

Trudy, sounds wonderful! I want the shower you described too.

foreverserenity

on Apr 05, 2006

Wow Trudy, when you get it can I come live with you? Me and four other people!

My dream home would have a pool in back, with a tennis court, a lovely garden and lots of space for romping and barbecueing.

Inside would be a 7 bedroom, 5 bath dream (who wants to clean all those bathrooms!) There would be a family den, a sitting room, dining room within the large kitchen which would be outfitted with everything I want. There would be a large veranda that surrounds the house from every angle. Oh yea, and a game room especially for my son. And last but not least a gym outfitted with the best equipment. And a home office too! Now who's going to clean all that? I had better have a contract with those Merry cleaning people!LOL!

DJBandit

on Apr 05, 2006

I have been putting together (in my mind and on my PC) my dream home for years now. I found a great program that allowed me to make an arquitectual design of it then raise the walls 3 dimetionally and I was blown away. I have way too many ideas about my dream home so if you don't mind and with your permission, I wish to make a spin-off article from your article about my dream home so that I don't take up so much space on you article and that way I can see what some of you think about my ideas. keep in mind that what I plan for I feel I can only reach by either having a job that pays a lot and will have to save for a long time or hit the lottery. But I believe it would be worth it.

I will get to my article at once and have it up ASAP. Great article BTW.

JillUser

on Apr 05, 2006

I will get to my article at once and have it up ASAP.

I look forward to reading it!

DJBandit

on Apr 06, 2006

Now you've done it Jill. You woke up my insparation to finally do the entire design of the house. I opened my 3D home design software and begane to make it happen. I added features to the house that I could not figure out how to do before. So far almost everything I want to do to the house seems to be coming out fine. I think it might be a few days for me to make the article since I plan on using images from my software to illustrate some of the features. I guess I'm ganno go all out with this article. One thing I was thinking while starting this projects was I think some people might say that I gave to much info and that maybe people might copy my ideas. I believe that if my ideas are good enough and can make some peoples lives easier than I don't mind sharing my ideas. I plan on making most of the stuff from scratch except the electronic stuff of course. Every minute I spend on the PC makes the house better and better.

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