Somehow you’ve gotten your dream home. The cabin in the mountains, penthouse downtown, castle nestled deep in the woods, nuclear bunker in the hills, or whatever. Whats the bit you’d add that might raise a brow from others? The fireman’s pole? The slide? The moat? The hidden room behind a bookshelf where you keep your stuffed animals?
A cheese room. With lots of cheese. Different kinds, different ages and from different places. But still only cheese. I fuckin’ love cheese!
Oh, I can relate so hard! Want one too! Cheese is one -if not THE - best invention ever!
Mine is utterly mundane: I want one of those little tower nook things like on Victorian houses. I think it’s just called a turret?
You are correct, a turret. You and my wife have the same dream. She wants to put a bunch of pillows on the nook and read.
Heck yes book turret buddies.
Towers or turrets.
Towers go to the foundation.
Turrets start above the first floor.
This is my dream too, but I want a retractable roof so I can set up a telescope. Also my house would be in the middle of nowhere so I can see the stars.
Maybe a cupola?
Pneumatic tube system. Brass steampunk shit like in old banks and skyscrapers would be fine, as would clear plastic ones like drive through pharmacies.
I want a hidden control room, where I control the internet, piped in music, cameras, security and other automations of the house.
In this way, when there is a complaint of something not working, I just disappear to that room and tinker to my heart’s content. Problems mysteriously gets fixed (by me).
This should be a nice and comfortable room, with plenty of space, a bathroom and a skylight.
A huge garden/green house in the center with fruit trees and berry vines, etc. and in the center of that, a sort of pool/pond. The whole place has a path circling through it with various benches and seats and musical instruments on display/for use. Piano, harp, hurdy gurdy, etc.
My wife and I looked at a smaller version of that when hunting for our first house. No way we could have afforded it, though. And there was so much asbestos… 🥺
Your comment reminded me of this house. https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/5122-31st-Ave-S_Gulfport_FL_33707_M64527-56065
And the more recent story where a lady found an indoor pool in her house and turned it into an indoor pond area.
I want a nap room. Not to be confused with a bedroom, as the bedroom is for sleeping and a nap room… well should be self-evident. Nice climate control, piped in white noise type sound I can change easily (From regular white noise to rainy background to sounds of the woods to lo-fi chillhop), and multiple things to nap in, a hammock, lazyboy, and couch at minimum.
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I’d add a bean bag chair for good measure.
A wife.
A secret passage. I’ve always wanted one. My parents built their home and I was genuinely disappointed that they skipped this vital element.
If it’s a true secret passage they probably didn’t skip it.
A Roman style inner courtyard!
A landing strip for model aircraft with lights.
I want to build a stadium-sized structure with a retractable roof around my house.
I just imagine you having guests over, closing it up and saying something like, “wow looks like its gettin’ real late, I better hit the hay.” as a prelude to kicking them out at like 1 p.m.
A completely isolated, sound-proof, distractions-free study room.
You’re thinking something like this:
I’m talking something like this:
(Yes, this is a thing. Asian thing, I believe.)
One of these things.
Is that a dragon incubator?
A built in, small walk-in refrigerator with TARDIS doors. I want it to be bigger on the inside.
A tower. I’m dreaming of it since I was a child and it’s weirdly specific, made from wood with a stone base to the first floor, and the roof has a mechanism to unfold a 1-person balcony. It’s not to be above other people, it’s more like a “I’m seeing everything but I’m safe and only I can decide who’s getting in my tower” -thing. Plus: I love wind and fresh air and hate the feeling of being underground or even trapped in a box. Would base jump and day, but would not set a foot into an underground mine if you give me a million dollars. Some day I’ll have a tower… Actually waiting for the land prices around here to fall a bit to buy building ground, no joke. Don’t know if my wife says yes to doubling the house building money for a meager tower though, lol
