Ideal Home: Stone Cottage, Exposed Beams, Antique Furniture

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The discussion revolves around ideal home designs, with participants sharing their visions of dream houses. Many express a preference for rustic, stone-built cottages featuring exposed beams, large fireplaces, and antique furnishings. A significant focus is on creating cozy, inviting spaces, often with large kitchens and open layouts that encourage social gatherings. Some participants envision underground homes for temperature regulation and security, while others prefer homes in rural settings surrounded by nature, emphasizing the importance of light and views. The conversation also touches on personal preferences for amenities like observatories, libraries, and outdoor spaces, reflecting a desire for both comfort and functionality. The tone is light-hearted, with playful banter about guests and shared experiences, highlighting the communal aspect of home life.
  • #51
wolram said:
Gale17
I read your post twice to see if i prefer yours or mine, mine won but i have
different needs, i would be happy if you visit mine, can i visit yours?

heh, of course i'd visit yours... sounds like it'll be a real party over there... course, i'll be quite the young'un, but it'll be good company.

and you definately ought show up at my place. two reasons i want my home: one is to have a wonderful, happy, fun place for my children to call home, and the other is to entertain guests. of course there's my master suite and library for my (and my husband's...) sanity... but mostly its about everyone else in my life. if i ever get a house like that, you can bet i'll be having everyone over for dinner at least once.
 
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  • #52
Oooh, I like Gale's house too! :smile:
 
  • #53
Evo said:
Oooh, I like Gale's house too! :smile:

yes wouldn't it be great if we visited on the same day, may be you would
allow me to take your hand for a walk aoound the lake?
 
  • #54
wolram said:
yes wouldn't it be great if we visited on the same day, may be you would
allow me to take your hand for a walk aoound the lake?

aawwww, that's soo cute! i'll put up a nice gazeebo, covered in vines and flowers. and a few benches out for you guys. and if you want to borrow the canoe or boat or whatever, i'll leave a little wine and a few glasses for you. be back in time for dinner, cause i like to cook nice big meals when i have company, and i'd be very sore at you if you let your food get cold.
 
  • #55
wolram said:
yes wouldn't it be great if we visited on the same day, may be you would
allow me to take your hand for a walk aoound the lake?
Definitely! I'd be crushed if you didn't offer.

Gale said:
aawwww, that's soo cute! i'll put up a nice gazeebo, covered in vines and flowers. and a few benches out for you guys. and if you want to borrow the canoe or boat or whatever, i'll leave a little wine and a few glasses for you. be back in time for dinner, cause i like to cook nice big meals when i have company, and i'd be very sore at you if you let your food get cold.
Wow, what an incredible hostess! (I'm never late for food :wink: )
 
  • #56
Gale17 said:
aawwww, that's soo cute! i'll put up a nice gazeebo, covered in vines and flowers. and a few benches out for you guys. and if you want to borrow the canoe or boat or whatever, i'll leave a little wine and a few glasses for you. be back in time for dinner, cause i like to cook nice big meals when i have company, and i'd be very sore at you if you let your food get cold.

Ok moma gale we won't be late, and thanks for the gazeebo an stuff.
 
  • #57
wolram said:
Hi kaos

I haven't kept up with sci fi much, but live on a death star? what does one do
on a death star?

We die . Danged x-wing/force combo again
 
  • #58
kaos said:
We die . Danged x-wing/force combo again

That sounds painful, do you have a regeneration chamber, so you can
fight another day, or are you vacuum dust.
 
  • #59
Hmmmmm...(just kidding :smile:)

My ideal home would have lots of windows - I love bright, sunlit rooms. It would be set in a small clearing in the center of a large, wooded lot (so, that would be brightly sunlit by day, and nothing but stars and moonlight at night, quiet and secluded enough that I don't see my neighbors unless I go looking for them (or vice versa). Inside, it would have a large kitchen with all the best appliances, but to the extent possible, they'd be concealed behind wood panels that blend with the cabinets (I like the conveniences, but it starts to make a kitchen feel cold if the appliances dominate it). Just a half wall separating the kitchen from the family/living room (ideally, this would be a breakfast bar so quick meals or chatting with friends over coffee could be done in my cozy kitchen space...that's why it needs a warm feel because friends gather in kitchens). The family room needs to have bay windows to capture as much sunlight as possible during the day plus room for plants, almost a mini-greenhouse, including one of those little water bubbler things that sounds so tranquil. The family room will have a fireplace too, and will be decorated in warm Earth tones with carpet on the floor. I don't need a separate living room and family room, just one large dual-purpose room; a place that's both inviting for company yet comfortable for just relaxing. The family room and kitchen should both open to a formal dining room (I do enjoy the formal dinner on occassion). The kitchen shouldn't be totally open to the dining room, just a convenient doorway for serving, but the family room should be more open to the dining room, perhaps separated only by french doors or something else so that one can either have a small, intimate dinner party within the formality of the enclosed dining room, or a large, family gathering where the dining table can be expanded outward into the family room to accommodate many more guests for a veritable feast. Off to the other side of the kitchen would be an office. This would be decorated in rich, deep paint colors and wood tones...cherry or mahogany. Again, it must have plenty of bright light, but perhaps high windows over built-in bookcases, and just one nook just the right size for a sofa surrounded by windows and recessed lighting above for basking in luxury while reading. This would be a large room too, as I live in my office as much as my kitchen/family room.

The second floor would be the bedrooms. Three or four bedrooms seems sufficient. The master suite (bedroom, bathroom, walk-in closets) would be at one end, then the staircase would come up the center, and the other end would have the cluster of smaller bedrooms. One would be a guest room, with its own private bathroom. The other one (or two) would be children's rooms with higher windows. These would be separated from the guest room by the guest room bath and a second, interior bathroom that opens into the hallway for kids to use (my ideal house will have a husband and children living in it too :biggrin:). The laundry room will be on the second floor too. I'm not lugging laundry all the way to some basement laundry room when it's all coming from the second floor.

Outside, I want a big, covered porch in the front with rocking chairs, and a deck and patio area in the back surrounding a small pool (oh, and the deck MUST be made of that maintenance-free composite material), then beyond the patio, ferns and hostas and a little stone path transitioning out into the wooded part of the yard (no lawn to mow!).

But, not that I've thought about this at all or anything. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :biggrin: :smile:
 
  • #60
I just read Gale's post and it looks like she and I have very similar ideas of what we want in a house. :biggrin:
 
  • #61
Moonbear said:
I just read Gale's post and it looks like she and I have very similar ideas of what we want in a house. :biggrin:

If i could provide the finances i would gladly help with your dream homes, how
much should i need, may be vegas could provide us, or may be a raid on fort
knox
 
  • #62
wolram said:
how much should i need
Usually around $100 per square foot for a finished-out home.

The lot, driveway, sidewalk, plumbing to the street, etc., are extra, though.
 
  • #63
Danger said:
I would have a tall observation tower
Are you referring to a cupola...

http://www.ultimatesecurehome.com/images/cupola.jpg http://www.ultimatesecurehome.com/images/Home_front_big.jpg

...or to something taller?
 
  • #64
I have thought of a variation/hybrid of Gale's and Danger's concepts.

A multi-tiered house built into a hill-side or mountain-side, overlooking a lake and/or looking down a valley toward a lake or the sea/ocean. Each floor has a balcony with hanging gardens. To one side would be a stream and/or waterfall.

Top level has an observation dome housing a large Dobsonian telescope - at least 30 inches (76 cm) diameter reflector or a Keck-type system.

Lots of windows or skylights to let in natural light.

Certainly flower and vegetable gardens.

A nicely stocked wine cellar (bodega).

Actually, I have a few places in mind.
 
  • #65
Remote log cabins in the woods by the lake? Don't you guys watch horror movies? :-p

Does anyone like Georgian, Federal(ist), Neoclassical, or Antebellum homes? http://www.mountvernon.org/virtual/index.cfm/ss/29//cfid/2210564/cftoken/59021841 ), they'd be just about perfect. The columns would stay, of course. :smile:
 
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  • #66
hitssquad said:
Usually around $100 per square foot for a finished-out home.

The lot, driveway, sidewalk, plumbing to the street, etc., are extra, though.

Hmmmm, with al the brain power at PF, the dream homes i have in mind
would need several Mill to build, anyone know of an unworthy multi million
air?
 
  • #67
I think it's not important where you live.you know the only important thing is whom you live with! o:) but well,I like to live in a home with abiggarden full of trees and flowers which is made by stones.have lots of rooms and windows !It should be located in a quiet and beautiful village and there should be a beautiful beach... :rolleyes: maybe paradise o:)
 
  • #68
Lisa! said:
it's not important where you live.you know the only important thing is whom you live with! o:)
And the size of their... :rolleyes:

Whoops, said too much.
 
  • #69
Lisa! said:
I think it's not important where you live.you know the only important thing is whom you live with! o:) but well,I like to live in a home with abiggarden full of trees and flowers which is made by stones.have lots of rooms and windows !It should be located in a quiet and beautiful village and there should be a beautiful beach... :rolleyes: maybe paradise o:)

Hmm, paradise is not on my map, but if you want to join the gang we will
find you a place after the heist, are you a good driver? or good with locks?
 
  • #70
wolram said:
Hmm, paradise is not on my map, but if you want to join the gang we will
find you a place after the heist, are you a good driver? or good with locks?
No need, we sirens can use our feminine wiles. :wink: Well, I guess Smurf can use his feminine wiles too.
 
  • #71
honestrosewater said:
No need, we sirens can use our feminine wiles. :wink: Well, I guess Smurf can use his feminine wiles too.

Ok, but you must allow us guys the MACHO stuff, i am trying to hire danger
as a scare tactic, you know i think we could pull this off without any violence.
 
  • #72
wolram said:
Ok, but you must allow us guys the MACHO stuff, i am trying to hire danger
as a scare tactic, you know i think we could pull this off without any violence.
:smile:
Maybe you should rent some heist movies to sharpen your skills. Hm, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid... no, wait, they die. Um, Heat... uh, no, die... Set It Off... die... die... die.. this isn't looking so good for you. Do the theives ever make it to paradise?
 
  • #73
honestrosewater said:
:smile:
Maybe you should rent some heist movies to sharpen your skills. Hm, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid... no, wait, they die. Um, Heat... uh, no, die... Set It Off... die... die... die.. this isn't looking so good for you. Do the theives ever make it to paradise?

It is no good planning this heist if you can not be serious, the PF gang will
use innovation, some of that womanly guile and super intelligence, on this
caper, now get your thinking caps on, we have to build rome in a day.
 
  • #74
wolram said:
It is no good planning this heist if you can not be serious, the PF gang will
use innovation, some of that womanly guile and super intelligence, on this
caper, now get your thinking caps on, we have to build rome in a day.
Build Rome in a day? I thought we were planning a heist. :-p :smile: Or is building Rome part of the plan? We will use it as a distraction, a decoy? Wow, that's good thinking. But where will we get the materials to build a whole city in a day? We'll have to plan another heist. Don't worry, I'm on it. :wink:
 
  • #75
honestrosewater said:
Build Rome in a day? I thought we were planning a heist. :-p :smile: Or is building Rome part of the plan? We will use it as a distraction, a decoy? Wow, that's good thinking. But where will we get the materials to build a whole city in a day? We'll have to plan another heist. Don't worry, I'm on it. :wink:

NO, building rome in a day refers to building our ideal homes, oh this getting
difficult, i am sure your just winding me up, now remember nothing under
10 m i l l i o n uk.
 
  • #76
Okay, this should make you happy. Thanks to Ivan, I have found the perfect disguises:

http://carcino.gen.nz/images/image.phpi/6fe5d350/nuns_with_guns.jpg
No one will ever suspect nuns. :smile:
 
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  • #77
honestrosewater said:
Okay, this should make you happy. Thanks to Ivan, I have found the perfect disguises:

http://carcino.gen.nz/images/image.phpi/6fe5d350/nuns_with_guns.jpg
No one will ever suspect nuns. :smile:

aaaaaaaaaaaaa, they scare the wits out of me, good thinking Rose bonnie.
 
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  • #78
Nuns with guns??
Why not monks instead? :confused:
 
  • #79
arildno said:
Nuns with guns??
Why not monks instead? :confused:
I can't think of any type of artillery that rhymes with monks. :-p
Maybe we could throw skunks at people?
 
  • #80
monks with sponks. Sounds kinky..
 
  • #81
Monks in bunks,
Monks with clunks,
Monks with drunks,
Monks who dunks,
Monks and hunks,
Monks and punks,
Monks with skunks,
Monks in trunks??
 
  • #82
arildno said:
monks with sponks. Sounds kinky..
:smile: What is a sponk?
 
  • #83
I don't know if monks have sponks or not. That's what's so kinky about monks.
 
  • #84
honestrosewater said:
:smile: What is a sponk?

Its a corruption of spank, ie his mother gave him a good sponking.
 
  • #85
It sure has nothing to do with spunk, at least.
 
  • #86
And all this started with those gun totting nuns, any way i have added a cellar
in my plans, just big enough for some fine wines, and i am planning a water
mill, so zooby doesn't have haul water, it will mostly be hidden by the trees
so it won't detract the view.
 
  • #87
wolram said:
And all this started with those gun totting nuns, any way i have added a cellar
in my plans, just big enough for some fine wines, and i am planning a water
mill, so zooby doesn't have haul water, it will mostly be hidden by the trees
so it won't detract the view.
Ooh, I like spinning wheels. :)
 
  • #88
honestrosewater said:
Remote log cabins in the woods by the lake?
You mean cabins built with logs that look like remote controls?
 
  • #89
Another thread kill stolen away from honestrosewater.
 
  • #90
I remember when this thread had a topic.
 
  • #91
I think Wolram's house most represents my ideal home.

Being from Michigan I love lakes, the outdoors, and the wilderness. My house would be in the middle of the woods- perhaps on lake Michigan ,or just on some nondescript lake miles from nowhere. The light would cast a suttle autumn glow in the late afternoon on the golden brown leaves that would cover the ground.

The home would be a medium size- suitable for entertaining but not a mansion. A roaring center fireplace is of course a must, where I could entertain guests with some nice wine or a brandy (sherry, beer-pick your poison from the full bar) with a library and a den. comfortable furniture but otherwise very rustic- oak or stone- or a combination of both. Maybe even a log cabin. A large double decker back porch overlooking the lake where I could ponder life and listen to the crickets and katy dids, or watch the fireflies dancing. The lower level would be a walk out from the basement level, with a hot tub front and center so I could view the lake from there.

Someday..
 
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  • #92
hitssquad said:
You mean cabins built with logs that look like remote controls?
:smile: I have no idea what you mean, but sure, whatever makes you happy. I don't think I want to be a thread killer anyway - Look at what it did to Moonbear! :rolleyes: :biggrin:
 

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