Ideal Home: Stone Cottage, Exposed Beams, Antique Furniture

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The discussion revolves around participants' ideal home designs, focusing on preferences for architecture, location, and interior features. The scope includes personal aspirations, aesthetic choices, and lifestyle considerations.

Discussion Character

  • Exploratory
  • Conceptual clarification
  • Debate/contested

Main Points Raised

  • Some participants express a desire for stone cottages with exposed beams, large fireplaces, and antique furniture, emphasizing comfort and aesthetics.
  • Others propose alternative designs, such as underground homes with observation towers and modern amenities, highlighting unique environmental considerations.
  • Several participants mention preferences for rural or secluded settings, with specific locations like northern Michigan and Pembroke being favored for their natural beauty and dark skies.
  • Some express a desire for open-plan living spaces and specific features like large kitchens, cinemas, and observatories, blending traditional and contemporary styles.
  • There are discussions about the practicality of large homes versus smaller, more manageable spaces, with some participants suggesting that any clean and decent home would suffice.
  • Participants share personal anecdotes and experiences related to their ideal homes, including reflections on past encounters with firearms and preferences for outdoor living.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants generally share a common interest in ideal home designs, but multiple competing views remain regarding specific features, styles, and locations. The discussion does not reach a consensus on a singular ideal home.

Contextual Notes

Some participants express uncertainty about the feasibility of their ideal homes, reflecting on personal circumstances and environmental factors that may influence their choices.

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Individuals interested in home design, architecture, and personal lifestyle preferences may find this discussion engaging and thought-provoking.

  • #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
 
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  • #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.
 

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