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

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Big Bang Theory floor plans:



That would have to be a really odd shaped building.

I often dream of living either in a lighthouse or about changing some abandoned salt mine into a home. I don't have a circadian sleep cycle anyway and don't care about daylight too much. Wouldn't mind to trade daylight for rooms with beautiful walls like this:


People in Coober Peby in Australia live in similar homes. Just smaller, and not salt mines, but opal mines.

I know that feeling quite well When I was a kid - I used to play Elite, which is a computer game with lot of freedom and people could choose if they wanted to become a merchant or a pirate or a sellsword. I usually ended up just flying as far into the unknown as possible. It felt so calm and comfortable there. (until the fuel ran out)

greetings, Eyes welcome to WP that is some cool pad up there, wherever it's at in the world.

You are such a nerd, Captain Jameson! Now you'll just need to save up again for another galactic hyperdrive. Should have stayed on Lave...

Here's a rather interesting underground (actually earth-sheltered) house:

http://www.ourundergroundhome.com/index.php.html

I wouldn't mind an earth sheltered house, but not where I live at present. I'm close to a creek and during a heavy rain the water from the surrounding fields would probably be too much.

But somewhere else in the area on a higher spot would be really nice.

We have a number of canyons. Building a house into the side of a canyon would be great.

those subterranean places work best in arid/deserty areas.

Those salt mines are usually around mountains areas I think. Some even in colder areas, like Ural mountains in Russia, but they are very deep (hundreds meters) and it's not cold there. Hundreds of meters deep feels bit crazy, but skyscrapers are also hundreds of meters vertically and it works. plus I wouldn't even need an elevator. One way slide and once you're down there, you'll never want to go back up anyway
Just found they turned one salt mine into a spa/clinic in Salihorsk in Belarus. Could be an easy way to try how it feels to be underground for a week or two.


Nice, so you played it too I just had to leave...there were too many NTs on Lave ...bit funny - felt like i'm on a wrong planet and need to escape as a kid already... long before this forum existed and long before I knew what AS is.

A midcentury modern beauty, preferably a Frank Lloyd Wright house (although I'll never even come close to being able to afford one, but let's pretend for a moment) with huge closets, a heated pool, a hot tub, a cute little tiki bar, an amazing swing set for the kids that I could also use. My bedroom would be pastel pink with pale yellow furniture. Classic monster movie paintings and memorabilia everywhere. A large painted portrait of me as a classic pinup because why the heck not?

I've thought about this quite a bit..

It would be acoustically perfect.

And have a big kitchen. In the middle of nowheresville. Off grid is fine. I can use my electricity selectively.

in order to listen to music? or to play music?

For a variety of purposes. I want a room that's completely silent. And I want the rest of the house to have no echos. And all the door knobs and all hardware would be silent. It would have to be wired for great sound to listen to records and I do play music too. No wireless anything. And at night, I'd like to turn the electricity off completely. No LED lights anywhere. And it would smell like fresh air all the time, some of the house could be open to outside.

I'd like it to have no right angles. Lots of natural textures and curves, no flat surfaces except maybe functional tables, counters, and windows. Lots of wooden things, furniture, beams, etc. Lots of sparkly things in the windows with sunlight. And lots and lots of plants inside. A whole wall of windows Southwest facing. Half green house, half actual house. I'd like to live in an acoustically perfect sparkly greenhouse!

An eighteenth century country house in the English manner, but more isolated. I'd have legions of servants and a Rolls-Royce.

that certainly is novel

I guess it is, isn't it. I wish I could make that happen. Maybe someday I will be able to do it.

just as i wish and hope one day i could make my own dream house i described earlier.

A funky little studio I think. Kinda small, but with big floor to ceiling windows in some areas. Hardwood floors, some exposed brick walls. Open plan floor, maybe with some strut beams. One of those weird staircases that just come out of the wall.
Being honest, it's probably never going to happen but hey maybe