If you had to design your dream house what would it be?

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It doesn't take the desert -- just low humidity. West Texas and the High Plains would all be good. Also, New Mexico or Arizona.

One thing that I'm always amazed by in some desert areas is how much people will pay for a few acres of desert land. I had a discussion a few years ago with some woman who was paying like $10,000 per acre for about the most useless desert land available. At that time, good quality farmland where I live would run about $1,000 to $1,500 per acre. I couldn't believe that she thought that she was getting a good deal on desert land that couldn't grow much of anything.

By the way, it is possible to have a swamp cooler in high humidity areas. They are apparently good for some large buildings. What they do is dry the air out by running it through a dessicant first. Then, they use a gas flame to heat up the dessicant to drive out the water that it absorbed.

I kind of like that idea in theory, but I'm not sure that it is all that practical. I do know a woman who does live in an old Baptist church. The last time I was there, the entire main part of the church was just for storage.

I see an old church for sale occasionally that has been converted into a home, but they always seem to want more than I think would be reasonable.

One issue to me about a house is knowing the levels of criminal activity in the area. One major requirement for a dream house from my point of view would be in an area without a lot of criminal activity.

There is very little criminal activity where I live and I feel very comfortable around here. I have a relative who lives in a small town about 100 miles away in which the relative says meth activity is very common. I never would have guess it about that area.

With the levels of unrest in many cities today, no house in those cities would be what I would consider to be a dream house. If I was going to move into a city, one of the primary concerns for me would be the amount of unrest in and around that community. Five years ago I thought highly of Minneapolis - St Paul but today there is nothing that would convince me to move there. That also goes for places like Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco.

I'm a 'cabin in the woods' girl too. I always imagine mine with a loft and an outdoor clawfoot bathtub

I also kind of like the idea of living in a church.

every time i've heard music in a church it was just sublime, the sound floats in mid-air.

That's a rather poetic observation. I could never come up with something like that.

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This place works for me, if it could be seaside with tinted windows and a weighted blanket.

thank you, but it is just a plain aural observation, you just have to go there and listen, you will hear it also, esp. with pipe organ, that is the original surround sound right there, esp. with antiphonal pipes at rear.

the colors are wonderful. all i need is a few hundred million dollars' net worth to be able to afford it.

The architect Herman Webster Mudgett had some intriguing design ideas.

i would love to visit the falling water house, but i don't think i could tolerate the constant water noise.

Those are the colours I have now. I have quite a few Moroccan rugs with crimson, shades of sage, and deep blue.

I don't have anything white in my house.

if you don't mind, can you tell me what you don't like about white?

Mostly, it hurts my eyes because it's too harsh. But then it's also cold, it's sterile (too modern), it's stark, it doesn't have much personality, and it gets dirty. I like rich, rustic colours and wood tones. I just feel more relaxed with antiques and handmade textures. My floors are all wood or flagstone. My brother loves white but it gives me the willies. I don't even use white screens on my computer.

I stand corrected though - my daughter has quite a bit of warm white in her bedroom but she designed it that way. It's actually pretty but it's just not my style.

is beige sufficiently off-white to be acceptable for you?