Ok, how would you live and build your home ?

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Oberon

a) Fully powered by solar and wind energy, perhaps also water. Nice and open, with a well near by. As off the grid as possible in order to reduce amenities bills. Otherwise, a swimming pool would be nice, a garden model railway and man cave, lots of storage space for the items the wife would collect en mass and a similar house next door for the mother with the usual home-help items to help her out in her old age. Minus the pool and railway though, but she would like to keep chickens.

b) Same as the above but with less leisure items and more fortifications and farming material.

c) A castle with plenty of land for farming space.

Works for me but only when minus the mother/mother-in-law