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earlier me and mr teeny were watching the sunday morning real estate show, which we call 'house porn' and were discussing what we might want in some theoretical future home. This isn't about location really, it's about what is IN the house.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 26 October 2003 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I want at least one room with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves and the ladder that rolls along the wall. I also want a spiral staircase somewhere in the house and an island in the kitchen.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 26 October 2003 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I want one of those showers with the water jets that shoot out from all sides (though it would make soaping up tough, eh?), a home theatre with nice comfy couches and chairs, and Martha Stewart's kitchen.

― Bryan (Bryan), Sunday, 26 October 2003 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I have always wanted a house which has a really huge entrance hallway, big enough to put a massive Christmas tree in.

― C J (C J), Sunday, 26 October 2003 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Not a proper scan of the legend, but:

http://www.digibarn.com/collections/posters/mac-groening/Image18.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 26 October 2003 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I want a big coal fire, and a huge open kitchen with an Aga, and a grandfather clock in my hall and a public room with a grand piano and lots of plants and dark wood furniture everywhere.

Oh, and a spiral staircase for me too please.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 26 October 2003 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

what is an aga?

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 26 October 2003 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

a kitchen that i get to design, so i can cook with the 7 arms of Shiva, everything within reach and no wasted motion.

more windows than walls, with a view from each of them, the house perched high up like a cat.

much closet space, a dressing room near the bathroom.

and no 45 degree angles, no 90 degree angles. everything must be *round*

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 26 October 2003 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Aga is a line of professional appliances

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 26 October 2003 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)

yes but what is AN aga? oh yes and tons of windows and closet space are U&K.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 26 October 2003 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Prob a stove or fridge

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 26 October 2003 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

A big range-type cooker like this...
http://www.fayscabinetry.com/graphics/g-photo_right.jpg

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 26 October 2003 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

don't they make huge stainless steel stoves also?

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 26 October 2003 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

For all your Aga-Rayburn needs and queries

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 26 October 2003 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

mmmm appliance porn.......

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 26 October 2003 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

mmm yes lovely!

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 26 October 2003 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

An enormous Xanadu type mansion in which I shall become increasingly isolated from reality.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 26 October 2003 18:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I have an aga!! (well actually it's a Rayburn, but same difference)

― C J (C J), Sunday, 26 October 2003 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

that website lets you build your own kitchen--my round kitchen is under the "Shaker" style! this is dangerous, dangerous

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 26 October 2003 18:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Something urban (Boston/NYC/Seattle/Portland), lots of space. Concrete or hardwood floors (I hate carpet) are absolutely essential.

I like modern design, but most of it's too impersonal to me. The human touch is absolutely necessary.

I desperately want a Whirlpool Personal Valet as my first appliance for this dream home- http://www.personalvalet.com/

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 26 October 2003 19:22 (twenty-two years ago)

wow--once the price ($999) comes down (if ever) that Personal Valet is a must-have

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 26 October 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Aug/08032003/nation_w/80856.asp

― Priscilla Beaulieu Magnatech (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 26 October 2003 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I would also love wall-to-wall shelving for books.

The outside should look like this.

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 26 October 2003 20:56 (twenty-two years ago)

much closet space, a dressing room near the bathroom.

Word. Recently I've been wondering if the condo board would object if I cut my bedroom in half to make an enormous walk-in closet/dressing room (ideally with doors to both my bathroom and bedroom). As for my current kitchen, I almost can stand in the middle and reach everything, but that means it's so small I can't have another person in there with me when I'm doing stuff.

A lot of row houses in DC have small front yards and back yards. Every so often I think it would be nice to have those, so I could have a couple dwarf fruit trees in the front and a small kitchen garden in the back.

― j.lu (j.lu), Sunday, 26 October 2003 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Then of course every once in a while I think about my dream Outer Banks beach house:

Semi-oceanfront, but with a view of the ocean from at least one of the decks.
Backs onto an undeveloped area (one summer, staying at a place like this, we saw several deer at dusk).
A dumbwaiter to carry groceries and luggage to the upper floors (contemporary beach houses are built on stilts so that there isn't a basement or much of a ground floor for hurricanes or storm surges to flood).
Four or six bedrooms; each one has its own powder room (toilet and sink), but every two bedrooms shares a bathroom with one of those large hot-tub type bathtubs.
And if money is no object (land is the biggest expense in Outer Banks real estate), a helicopter pad to bypass the roads.

― j.lu (j.lu), Sunday, 26 October 2003 23:12 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe the Eames House? though i've never lived in a house.

I would also love wall-to-wall shelving for books.

I wonder if Mary's parents' place looks like my parents' apt.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 26 October 2003 23:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Hstencil's parents' place had a similar look, if I get your drift.

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 26 October 2003 23:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I want a house that cleans itself and cooks food for its inhabitants.

― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Sunday, 26 October 2003 23:52 (twenty-two years ago)

A house that goes with me if I want a new vista somewhere would be nice.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 27 October 2003 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I have Bongo's Dream Dorm on a fading and hole-y t-shirt

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 27 October 2003 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)

actually, the more I think about it, my parents' place kinda is my dream house. Maybe I should just move back in with them (groan).

― hstencil, Monday, 27 October 2003 00:20 (twenty-two years ago)

i think i'd like a normal apartment, but a very spare one. my version of house porn is just imaginging that i could get by successfully with many fewer possessions.

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 27 October 2003 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Stence's parents' home is very dreamy, esp. the canopy of trees that surrounds it, and anchors the whole neighborhood.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 27 October 2003 00:24 (twenty-two years ago)

butler, vintage recording studio, arbotoreum, plasma tv, garden, maid

― kephm, Monday, 27 October 2003 03:29 (twenty-two years ago)

built into the side of a cliff on the coast of south america maybe
lots of cats also

― kephm, Monday, 27 October 2003 03:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I've always wanted a secret room. A little nerd den in which I could never be found.

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 27 October 2003 03:39 (twenty-two years ago)

six years pass...

i've been thinking+ amassin' ideas on the web to install in my nu house:

* I'll store books under the steps of the stairs to go in the basement, with sliding glass doors to protect em from dust.

* i imagine a folding bed could be practical https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg9qnWg9kak

* sauna built in shower.

* farm fountain http://www.farmfountain.com/images/indexff4_01.jpg

* some solar electric system, rain water harvesting, wind generator, solar hot water system

― Sébastien, Thursday, 16 September 2010 14:09 (fifteen years ago)

* original artwork signed by David Bromstad

― Gorecki or Go Home (Paul in Santa Cruz), Thursday, 16 September 2010 19:25 (fifteen years ago)

Would love this, but don't have the money yet, will start saving soon.
http://www.primelocation.com/international-property/details/id/SOTH0017110
website is depressing btw.

― not_goodwin, Thursday, 16 September 2010 19:41 (fifteen years ago)

* bedroom door = formicarium

― Sébastien, Friday, 17 September 2010 00:34 (fifteen years ago)

I want to live in an apartment in a big city. (I'm assuming that I'm the only ILXor that's never lived in an apartment.) My husband wants to build a house in the woods and live there. However, it looks quite likely that we'll be stuck living in a run-down mobile home in Central Florida for the rest of our lives.

― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Friday, 17 September 2010 02:06 (fifteen years ago)

I've lived in this house for 23 years. We own it outright - no mortgage!! I have my own room for my books and computer. It's an old, funky, not especially pretty, not really ugly, passable little house with crappy wiring and ancient plumbing. I no longer dream of other homes. This one will do in a pinch.

― Aimless, Friday, 17 September 2010 02:11 (fifteen years ago)

a magic house where nothing ever breaks

― Gerard Depardeauxnt (jjjusten), Friday, 17 September 2010 02:12 (fifteen years ago)

I really like the upscale lego modernist prefab homes marketed by LivingHomes.

http://static.flickr.com/65/206154789_804625d336_o.jpg

neat timelapse

― your message can reach dozens (Sanpaku), Friday, 17 September 2010 02:48 (fifteen years ago)

thirteen years pass...

1965 craft beauty on farm near cortez co

https://www.vrbo.com/en-sg/p2062142vb

― he/him hoo-hah (map), Thursday, 8 August 2024 23:34 (one year ago)

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