Your dream house

[Onkel Neal]

Ok, so I'm sure you're like me and through the years you formulated a "dream house", one that you honestly think some day you will end up with. I know I still do

So, actually I have several dream houses, depending on the time of year and my mood.

First is a cottage in the mountains of Colorado, or maybe Wyoming. Nicely wooded acres, with a lake downhill about 100 yards away. My cottage would be study and rustic, and inside very warm, plush with lots of heavy paneling. The ground floor would be split into the kitchen and living room, wrapped around the big stone fireplace. An open staircase would lead to my bedroom and study. It would snow me in 4 months of the year, so I would not have to go anywhere until spring. Isolation!

My other dream house is a lighthouse constructed of dressed stone. Yeah, the lighthouse would have circular living quarters split into 5 levels, each level smaller in diameter until the top, the lantern room.

Lantern room with balcony (accessed from below by ladder)
5th level: Sleep chamber & bathroom (accessed from below by ladder)
4th level: Study (accessed from below by circular staircase)
3rd level: kitchen (accessed from below by winding staircase)
2nd level: Living area (accessed from below by staircase)
Ground level: Storage and pantries

Naturally, this has to be on a seafront property, ideally on the US east coast or Scotland in a lightly populated area, with lots of rocky cliffs and cold, pounding surf.

[Task Force]

mine... (not in any order.)

1 an yacht/boat... would have everything I want... living room, kitchin, nice bed rooms, and a nice bathroom.

2 would be a victorian cottage somewhere in rural germany... dont know, just sounds nice.

3 House that looks like a lighthouse, complete with a dock to store boats, jetskis, ect similar to neals design...

4 A house in the moutians, around 3 stories with a lookout nest thingy out at the top... perferable by a lake, w/ waterfall/stream.

Didnt go into much detail, but those are the settings id like.

[Happy Times]

A traditional 18th-19th century Ostrobothinian house and surrounding buildings. Many are still available and can be moved and restored if need be.



A modern American styled house that fits nicely to the Finnish countryside also.

These are my favorites at the moment, im hoping to be living in one within five years time.

[Hitman]

My dream's house would be to recover the palace that my family had here until they sold it. It is a beautiful building of the 19th century with lots of artwork inside (Paintings in the roof and such), but now it has been converted into an official building

As long as its a place with someone I love (My gf of course) Its paradise.

[Jimbuna]

I'd like something in the countryside but not too far away from the towns and cities......plenty of rooms including a hobby area and a study, in its own grounds and preferably with a lake or a river.



Now for those moments when you don't want to be disturbed...

[Ships-R-Us]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Ok, so I'm sure you're like me and through the years you formulated a "dream house", one that you honestly think some day you will end up with. I know I still do

So, actually I have several dream houses, depending on the time of year and my mood.

First is a cottage in the mountains of Colorado, or maybe Wyoming. Nicely wooded acres, with a lake downhill about 100 yards away. My cottage would be study and rustic, and inside very warm, plush with lots of heavy paneling. The ground floor would be split into the kitchen and living room, wrapped around the big stone fireplace. An open staircase would lead to my bedroom and study. It would snow me in 4 months of the year, so I would not have to go anywhere until spring. Isolation!

My other dream house is a lighthouse constructed of dressed stone. Yeah, the lighthouse would have circular living quarters split into 5 levels, each level smaller in diameter until the top, the lantern room.

Lantern room with balcony (accessed from below by ladder)
5th level: Sleep chamber & bathroom (accessed from below by ladder)
4th level: Study (accessed from below by circular staircase)
3rd level: kitchen (accessed from below by winding staircase)
2nd level: Living area (accessed from below by staircase)
Ground level: Storage and pantries

Naturally, this has to be on a seafront property, ideally on the US east coast or Scotland in a lightly populated area, with lots of rocky cliffs and cold, pounding surf.

I simply would love to have a small log cabin just outside the village of Mogollon, NM up on the hill on the road to the cemetery, "but not at the cemetery", heated with a wood fired old fashioned kitchen cookstove,with no electricity and lit by kerosene lamps. Within would be an old fashioned overstuffed chair with books about American History none later than the mid 19th century. The fireplace would be ornate and built from local stone with a hand hewn mantle. This cabin would have only one room. It would have running water fed from the stream just above the property which is also used for automatic garden irrigation.
My transportation to town would be a "democrat" wagon pulled by a mule, and I would have a "buckboard" wagon for my utility vehicle. I would have no tv and only a battery operated radio as a warning system for impending doom only.

PS: The cemetery there houses nearly the whole town that succumbed to the worldwide influenza outbreak of 1918. Looking at the dates of all family members that died one by one each week, the mother usually being the last to die is an unforgettable experience.

Neal,

you live in Houston, man. Have you ever lived where you'd be isolated for 4 months of the year because of winter? Or where it regularly snows & gets very cold? If not then don't think of it as some kind of paradise before you try it.

I can dig your idea of a lighthouse-house, although I'd probably want to have my lighthouse in the warmer climates. Maybe in the Canary Islands or South China Sea or some nice warm place like that.

[Ishmael]

Well, this is where I live now. Rancho De Los Weehee in lovely Bathlehem, New Mexico in the Rio Grande Valley. 1 1/4 acres, 5 wells and full water rights, fertile bottom land, walls 2 1/2 feet thick and my front door has both a deer antler for a door handle and a rifle loop for fighting off hostiles. The Outlaw Josey Wales house much?



Before that I actually lived in two places built, literally, On The Dock Of The Bay:

Down the Road To Paradise. Picture this view every time YOU came home:



You wind up here:



at #9 Sandy Beach Road:





Later, we moved down the walkway to #32:

[CaptainHaplo]

Unfortunately my dream homes are ones I get to build myself - and my better half is almost as adamantly against me building our next home as she is with the style I want - which is a rather large, concrete geodesic dome. She just can't "wrap her head around living in a round house", as she puts it. I blame HGTV, as she watches that and has seen some of the homes on there and just can't figure out the "point". I keep telling her they are round - thus they have no point, and she just looks at me funny.

Of course, it doesn't help that I mentioned building it near the water right outside Charleston SC so we could stay in it safely whenever everyone else had to leave due to hurricanes. Yes I know - not real bright on my part, but I personally think that would be cool as all get out. When she said she didn't like that idea, I said ok lets move to tornado alley and I will earth berm it so there is no danger......

This happened a fair number of years ago - I have since learned to keep my mouth shut. I would be rather pleased to just put it on a mountaintop fairly close by (since the thunderstorms really get wicked up there) where I am now (since I live in the mountains) - but I laugh at all the "Flor-idiots" that do that because in the winter, you can't get up or down the "driveway" - so that idea is out.

The only dream home we can agree on is the "cliffhanger" home I once saw plans for - basically the home hung on the side of a cliff with a "underwater" level that you could go and relax in while looking out the "walls" at the ocean life. It came with its own dive access / waterlock chamber and you could add a water surface level with dock for a boat. She loves water so that went over fine. *Thank god I didn't mention her having to suit up and go for a swim to clean the underwater rooms external "walls"!