Describe your ideal living space.
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For me, it’s a stand alone house at the end of a cul-de-sac backed up to 20 acres of BLM land. My house would have a good sized fenced in back yard with a BBQ grill, hot tub, and horseshoes.
My house would be 3 bed, 3.5 bath ranch style with an open floor plan and a kitchen prep/cook area that faced out towards the living room. My house would have a roof deck with a kick-ass high powered telescope.
How about you? Do you prefer a high-rise apartment? Condo by the Bay? A van down by the river?
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I love my house. 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, at the 3000 foot level elevation, with a view of Mt. Shasta and 25 miles of ranch and trees before I see another house.
What would I change? Internet access for sure (hughesnet sucks), and maybe another restaurant close by. If we want to go to a supermarket, a movie, or a fast food place, it’s a half an hour drive to Redding.
For having to be stuck in the Chicago suburbs I found a slice of heaven. As it is my deck and back of the house overlooks a wetland, lovely garden and partial woods outback, killer master suite, full finished basement. I have my man cave, jamming studio and my wife has her yoga studio. I have a pretty good spread and really can’t improve on it other than having it overlook the Puget Sound.
@Cruiser Pretty nice, Even a hummingbird at the feeder.
Thanks @Adirondackwannabe the boat launch is only a 5 minute drive and I can be zipping up river to the sand bar in the summer.
I designed a house once for a school project. It was two stories, standing in a ring, with an open patio and pool in the center. A balcony runs around the entire second floor overlooking the open patio.
The entry stands between the den and dining room. The den is two steps down, and the only part of the house which is two stories. Stairs go to a balcony which overlooks the den, and opens to the patio balcony.
The den is stone floor with a huge fireplace.
The dining room is medium sized, large enough to entertain small intimate groups, but not big enough for large dinner parties or echoes. a counter with veneered doors provide a wall when dining, but a snack bar during informal times, and an easy way to pass food from the kitchen to the dining room.without
The room on the other side of the den is a library, and blocks sounds from the game room next to it from carrying to the den or dining room.
The room between the game room and the kitchen is a crafts room, with sewing machine, paints, easle, lots of built in drawers for supplies, a work table, etc. Sink for clean up is installed
Upstairs, each bedroom is a suite. There is a room with bed, shelf space for trinkets, pictures and such, a chaise, or bean bag, all comfort zone stuff. Ajoining each bedroom is a bathroom, and closet/room, with adjutable tri fold mirrors, Jewlry cabinet built into the wall, computer desk,etc.
Oh, the kitchen! I love an island kitchen, with an ajoining spacious pantry area.
Of course, the setting for such a home is rural.
Wow, @gailcalled, the view from the bathroom isn’t shitty. heehee, couldn’t help myself.
I really like the atrium style the balcony provides.
It’s so great that some of you are living in your dream home. That makes me feel good.
My old house, a darling little 2 bedroom cottage on 5 idyllic acres with 20 vacant acres across the road, on a dead end private road, and I was the middle house of only 3. The neighbors were both on 10 acre parcels and I could only see the very back of the uphill neighbors horse barn through the trees and a feeble light from the downhill neighbors at night.
I had a huge Oak studded pasture, my deck overlook a seasonal creek that got to white water proportions in the spring and my front yard had huge old Oaks on a sprawling lawn and a ranch gate to keep out the wandering Jehovahs witnesses. It was awesome.
My deck overlooked the creek and ravine and I had a hot tub perched on the little cliff that overhung the ravine. It was the best house ever and I will mourn losing it for a long time to come. I am hoping to recover from my losses and maybe, maaaybe, make my way back to a more rural setting again.
This sounds like a fun question. Gotta run right now, but I’ll get back to it later : )
A hotel room with A/C and a king sized bed. Also A full kitchen and a super long bath tub for tall people and black out curtains.
Something like this would be totally perfect. I’d love to live in a small, older cottage somewhere quiet.
@Coloma I’m sure you’ll find your Walden Pond again!
@gailcalled in my mind will always win these types of questions.
Somewhere in a city, asafe place, but right in the crosshairs of public transportation so I could actually feel not so burdened by my low vision.
A pet-friendly apartment (or maybe a townhouse) where I could have a dog. A nice spacious 2 bedroom. One bedroom to sleep in, one for all my various hobbies. It would have a desk, a laptop, some bookshelves, writing materials, comfy chairs, and some storage.
The kitchen is my favorite place to be. Nothing fancy, just standard appliances. The only requirement is a nice-sized island with storage underneath.
I’d like lots of natural sunlight and a small balcony, enough to sit outside and have a planter with herbs.
Even though I want to be able to easily get around without a car, I’d like it to be relatively quiet.
It would be a on a hilly meadow with tall trees including citrus trees. About 2,500 sq ft with a finished basement. It would have a colonial mansion look to it furnished in English antiques and some shabby chic stuff with gorgeous hardwood floors and a big kitchen with a granite topped island, two ovens and an eight burner gas stove. It would also have a cast iron wood burning stove in the den of blue or red. A long, private road would lead to the five acres on which it stands housing two Arabian horses. Two miles from the end of the driveway would be a Walmart, Target, world class hospital and a few dozen restaurants. No matter where you stand outside you cannot see any other homes. It has a whole house generator, a 20×40 foot pool with salt water and hot tub. Sitting on the covered front porch you can watch deer feeding on grasses in the fall and winter. Bird feeders and bird baths everywhere.
Instead, I’m stuck in this stupid neighborhood with HOA dues.
@Kardamom Great… how would you deal with mosquitoes, and dust?
@talljasperman Screen porches. Also, Palm Springs is not known for dust or bugs. The mountains above can have a few mosquitoes and and flies, but a screen porch will take care of those pesky bugs.
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