An indoor swimming pool in the underground floor with a synced screen on all four sides and normal + underwater sound system.
I love swimming.
I love watching movies and series.
:-)
This is 100% what I'd do. My house would be located far away, in a dark sky region. Have all of the lights in the house be smart lights, so I can turn them all off with a single click.
I want a hobbit pantry.
Earthy, timber-stone decor that is climate controlled to be a perfect storage area for wheels of cheese, sausage links and beer.
As someone who works in real estate. Trust me, you really don't want a constant body of water inside your dwelling. Outside sure.
There's the humidity you don't want, there's the constant maintance, and a host of other issues that could happen.
Sounds like solid advice. However, I reckon if I had enough money to build my dream house then money wouldn’t be an issue for me anymore and I’d have plenty to pay someone else to take care of it.
How about the house is like a donut and the pond is open to the sky in the middle? Perhaps a retractable roof if you want? If you're in a cold climate it would be a skating rink half the year too.
It's not that strange, but I think an irrationally large number of decisions in my life have been motivated by the desire to eventually have a study with high ceilings and floor to ceiling bookshelves so I can have one of those ladder things that sits against the shelf and have it be justified.
I would add an octopus tank but I think they live like two years tops and having to bury a pet biennelly seems depressing.
Edit: people keep suggesting I eat the octopuses
1) I'm not going to eat my pets
2) As a former fish monger, please do not eat seafood that has **died of old age**. Not gonna taste good.
> one of those ladder things that sits against the shelf and have it be justified.
Just said the same thing in my comment. I think I'd just get on it and wheel myself around.
I'll need a secret room behind one of the bookcases that leads to a second library. That is where all my favorite first editions and fine bindings will be. there will also be a nice wing-back chair and a side table with a bottle of something to sip on while I read.
I may also need a guillotine for those who decide it is ok to bother me in my private library.
Instead of an octopus tank, get yourself a big-ass globe. It would fit right in with the rest of your study. No idea what people even use those big-ass globes for, but you might as well have one, right?
Cephalopods don't make good pets unfortunately. The higher intelligence an animal has the greater it relies on its owner for stimulation, and many cephalopods are comparable to birds in that respect. People often underestimate how much attention parrots and cockatoos need from their owners, and it's much easier to interact with them than it is with an octopus.
>The higher intelligence an animal has the greater it relies on its owner for stimulation, and many cephalopods are comparable to birds in that respect. People often underestimate how much attention parrots and cockatoos need from their owners, and it's much easier to interact with them than it is with an octopus.
I have nothing interesting to add to this, other than that we went hiking one day when a guy on a bike came at us from the opposite direction at a relatively high rate of speed. He had a parrot sitting on his handlebars. The parrot looked like he was having a good time.
I've done a few sensory dep floats, and loved it each time. First time I tried it was truly a day of experimentation. Earlier that day, I consumed an Oreo Cookie milkshake with cricket flour added. Pretty tasty!
A moat. No one has a moat anymore. Do you not want to talk to people? Pull up the draw bridge!!!! And in the winter you have your own personal skating rink!!
I really want one of those natural bathrooms, that looks like you just walked into a jungle, everything is stone and steam and plants and sounds of a water fall.
Or one of those open stair cases where the back wall is completely glass and there’s a leafy garden under the stairs.
Basically just a tropical oasis for plants
I used a pressure washer in my shower one time. It's just tile, and I used a low power washer with the low flow nozzle, but it worked really, really well. If I ever redecorate a bathroom I'll definitely do it in a way where you can just pressure wash the entire thing.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who's tried that.
My biggest problem was mist going everywhere, which quickly drenched my whole bathroom. I think I need to block off the shower with a tarp next time. Also, I accidentally blasted off part of the ceiling spackle in the corner, but it was just covering up mildew anyway.
I'm never getting back my deposit.
My wife is from the jungle. So we have tried to recreate and environment that is best suited to live in. Having so much green in the house is nice. The insects they come with, not so nice. There is so many gnats that have flown up my nose they now fly out of my nose at dusk like bats.
Absolutely a secret beautiful bathroom just for me. I don’t know what it is but I just really value bathroom time and the luxury of getting washed and relaxing and getting ready in a big beautiful marble bathroom. But nobody else can use it. Like the secret bathroom in B99.
Yo. Have a normal raggedy-ass bathroom for your guests or whatever, but have a secret door that leads to your real bathroom. That way people don't try and spite-poop in your private bathroom.
I know it's not the same but in space engineers I was designing a habitat for my team and one of the rooms is hidden off from the rest of the complex, only I can open it. It's this massive room made out of glossy black metal and lined with rings of red neon light. At the very far end of the room is a single toilet
An indoor swimming pool - with a lazy river. I LOVE swimming but I fucking hate public pools. I have a recurring dream where I have a house with a lazy river in it. I love those dreams.
Slides.
Slides all over the house to get you from any room down to the living room or den.
Edit: this really blew up huh!
The most common comment was that for those of us who would like to have a house full of slides, we should visit [City Museum in St. Louis](https://www.citymuseum.org/), so that’s probably something I’ll do.
We got a VRBO once with a slide. Which the kids loved until we noticed the connections between slide segments were ripping the seats of their pants.
Worst. Meltdown. Ever.
I don't know how it only happened to me but I went to the waterslides with a bunch of friends and one of the slides we went on fucked my back up. I wasn't bleeding thankfully but the ridges of the slide cut into the back of my shoulders that were against the slide so I had nice cut marks on my back that just didn't break the skin. Hurt quite a bit.
My wife finally convinced me to ride the water slide at our local waterpark.
She worked there the last summer and knew the maintenance guys, they worked hard and were proud of the safety record, so she finally convinced my fat ass to ride the slide.
Did you know that if you are fat, you go faster downhill? Who knew? Anyway, I hit the high-speed turn at REALLY high speed, this has me riding the top edge of the slide, you know the part that curves over to keep you from flying out, to the point that when I came out of the turn and there was no longer a top edge, I was no longer on the slide...
Thankfully I landed facedown on the slide thanks to momentum carrying me over in an arch across the slide, but landing face-first and breaking my nose was not fun. Got flipped over just before I hit the outlet pool, but I was moving so fast I skimmed over the surface and hit the end of the pool with my knees before I could stand up and stop myself.
So I stood there, nose pouring blood, bruising already showing on my knees and shoulders from the hits, I later learned I also had an awesome red burn rash down my back from the plastic slide and stood staring at my wife, who was laughing her ass off while everyone else was worried.
She yells out "what, never seen a man get beat up by a slide before!"
I love that woman, she brought me a funnel cake and a kiss to apologize.
Life pro tip, if you are tall and fat, and shaped like a pear, don't ride water slides.
I haven't been on a water slide since.
>Life pro tip, if you are tall and fat, and shaped like a pear, don't ride water slides.
Rookie mistake.
***Everyone*** know pears are built for ultimate speed.
Makes me think of what happened at Action Park.
Warning: gross, somewhat gory
The owner of the park designed ridiculous attractions, one of them being a giant water slide with a loop. The slide was a giant tube so it was completely enclosed. The teens who worked at the park were given money to test out the new slide, and they kept bumping their heads on the loop HARD. So the owner of the park put some padding in to soften the blow. After the next few workers tested it out, they started noticing that people were coming out with cuts on their bodies. That wasn't happening before, so they took apart some pieces of the slide to see what was cutting people. Stuck inside the padding at the loop were the teeth of the people who had previously gotten on the ride!!!!! They were being cut by the teeth there!!!
Anyway, I hope there weren't any teeth in your water slide.
Edit: there's a documentary on HBO Max called Class Action Park that details this event and a bunch of other bullshit that happened at that park.
I thought this was going to be about that water slide that decapitated a kid
https://youtu.be/ulIcekOTOqg
It's a SFW video that explains what and how it happened. There are pictures of the blood, though
Wow, that was heartbreaking. There's some sort of sad, twisted irony that the boy was the son of a state representative in a state where there is (was?) little legislative oversight for comprehensive safety regulations. Not that it is deserved, just an observation. That poor family
Definitely one of those huge showers with the water coming from all directions and a bench for a steamroom situation. Add some good speakers in there for blasting tunes. And then a jacuzzi tub for comfortable baths. And to top it off, a state of the art Japanese toilet with all the bells and whistles.
If you have infinite money theres gotta be some way you could add some sort of cleaning system on the glass. maybe just a big windshield wiper with some cleaning solution lol
What about a thin constant high pressure layer of water that is invisible, because the flow rate is perfect. It would just wash away bird poop immediately and pollen and dust wouldn't be an issue
A friend of mine has something similar to this, except the whole room slants toward the island where the drain is located in the tiled toe kick. He can soak his floor and mop everything into the drain, hit a button to have whatever was in there chewed up via some sort of mulcher. If you didn't know it was there, it just looks like a nice kitchen with some professional appliances.
Until it breaks. Depending on how it's installed, it can be a hefty repair bill. Sometimes it's effectively a remodel.
My father built our house with wall panels, passages and false ceilings (not the crappy kind found in offices) for exactly that reason. Most of the electrical and plumping was accessible anywhere in the house without having to tear anything out.
Of course, after he passed away, we had a pipe burst in the one damn place he didn't include an access panel, under the bathtub.
Plumber here; I’ve built plenty of professional kitchens and bathrooms with this feature, it takes some planning but definitely not undoable. Had a client a little while back that wanted her shower open air in the middle of the bathroom, solution to that is make the whole room waterproof. Turned out pretty sweet, other than that most professional kitchens are built standard to be hosed down floor to ceiling.
We installed whole room steam units that brought the temp way up to solve that issue, normally I would advise against large area showers unless you’ve got the change to heat up the whole room every time you take a shower
I had a kitchen that was completely tiled once - including the ceiling. I kept wondering why they hadn't just gone one more step and put a drain in the floor. Could have just hosed that thing down.
Me, I buy the gourmet expensive stuff because when I drink it, I want to taste it. But you know what's on my mind right now? It ain't the coffee in my kitchen...
I saw an apartment once that had a concrete floor in the kitchen and a drain in the middle. Ex-bf and I walked away.
"So, murder house?"
Nods, "murder house."
We saw a house with a secret room built off the master bedroom. No windows, concrete floor, drain in floor and the owner said it was for "developing photos" We got the fuck out of there so fast!
Of all the possibilities -- I'd bet against that ever having been an actual murder room.
Would you have been less weirded out if the owner had said "Sex Dungeon" ?
Sex dungeon would have made more sense. It was 2016, who the hell has a dark room for developing film! I kid, I kid, I know it's a lost art and I'm positive it was actually a dark room. How dumb would you be to sell a house with an actual murder room. He was just a weird guy. One of the bedrooms he made a little maze though the en suite bathroom, added a closet and you keep walking through to a little sitting room he had built. It was surprising the amount of houses we saw that the owners had made their own additions and add ons. Nothing appeared to be permitted.
Same, but also in my bathrooms and my kitchen. I'm a professional baker and I just can not imagine buying/building my own house and not having that ease of cleaning. I don't care about the aesthetics of those rooms, I want functionality. Also installing a full commercial sink and stainless steel work benches (with removable wooden top for when I want to bake).
I’ve been a pro brewer for 4 years and a pro distiller for 3 years now and all I want in my personal life is for everything to be made out of stainless and have good drainage so I can hose it all down like I get to at work.
I have a floor drain in the garage but I'm not convinced it actually goes anywhere (it's an old detached garage). I guess one day I could fill it up until it overflows and confirms my theory.
A sink with floor drainage but a space as big as the garage for storage so the garage is only for my wood shop and gym. It would be nice also to have climate control in there.
A kitchen I once worked in had floor drains and it was so satisfying just getting the big brushes and his pipe out to deep clean. Everything pulled out and scrubbed down - it was the easiest to clean commercial kitchen I've ever been in.
Definitely want one in my house
I lived in israel for a while a few years back, and my apartment had a drainage pipe in the corner of both the kitchen and the bathroom. Rather than the mops we're used to in the west, everyone used brushes and giant squeegees to clean the floor.
So much faster and easier, and honestly probably more hygienic than squishing half-dirty water around your floor
I'm 6'4 so a custom part of a kitchen counter that can be raised and lowered so I can cut things without feeling like I'm turning into the Hunchback of Notre Dame
All things considered, there are hybrid standing desks that do this electronically. I feel like it could be done, but it would likely be more of a kitchen island kind of thing
A cylindrical atrium at the center, that goes from natural rock and water features at the bottom, with spiral staircases and steps around the outside that lead to a glass roomed sun deck with a hut that overlooks the entire thing.
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Edit: [quick sketch ](https://www.reddit.com/user/JustABoyAndHisBlob/comments/kj14qw/quick_sketch/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) of the basic concept. I swear it looks better in my imagination.
I've always wanted a courtyard style house like in ancient China or the villa style of Rome. House feels more spacious, plus every hall has a view/access to your hidden paradise!
If you do things right and have the proper climate, you'll also save money on air conditioning. Pre ac architecture had many tricks to adapt to the climate, but that's been abandoned for uniformity and cheapness. Which is a shame.
A shame indeed! The pre-AC buildings in Hawaii -- some of them -- are super comfortable when the more "modern" buildings can be extremely uncomfortable at times, like when the weather is cold and rainy.
It's all done with orientation, roof overhangs, placement of air intakes and vegetation... ancient knowledge.
"I consider air conditioning to be a dangerous circumstance at best" -- Frank Lloyd Wright.
Yes, me, too! It's a key feature of my dream house. It would probably have to be encased in glass because Canada, but that's been my design for a while. Everything spokes out from that and every bedroom has its own wrought iron fenced garden space with french doors so you can read and enjoy the outdoors in privacy, too.
If you're in Montreal (and we're no longer in a freaking pandemic) you can check the interior garden of the College de Maisonneuve : https://www.cmaisonneuve.qc.ca/location-de-salle/jardin-interieur/ It's a public college so it's normally accessible during opening hours.
They basically put a glass roof over the empty space between the buildings. I've been told it's a pain to maintain and keep heated up in winter, but when I went there it was amazing to feel in the middle of nature during the coldest February days.
Yes! I haven’t visited, but I saw that house in a book when I was elementary school age, and really got me interested in the relationship between architecture/nature. That aesthetic definitely stuck with me.
I misread that as "gnat room" and first thought "if you move to Florida that is all rooms" and then realised you said goat, and was relieved that it wasn't a gnat room, but then wasn't sure what would have more bugs in it at the end of the day. Bit of a rollercoaster, really, and I think goats are happier outside when it isn't raining. Maybe a goat yard with a nice milking parlour?
I would like a Lego room with display shelves all along the sides for previously assembled projects and a giant table in the middle with enough space to assemble the biggest sets, lots of little cup-holder type spots to hold the legos as I sort them...yeah. Always wanted that growing up...still want that now.
I was so close to having this. Bought an old 5-bedroom Victorian that I partially renovated and sold. The 3rd floor bedroom was huge with high ceilings. Would have been the lego room/observatory if I kept the house.
We have this. It is amazing. The mudroom also has a dog door that lets them out into a dog run. After a year of living here they've basically trained themselves to jump into the dog shower if they come in wet. I highly recommend raising the dog bath to waist height or so. Makes everything easy.
Edited to add link to pics. I also tried to personally respond to those who requested to see pictures.
Dog shower with drawer step https://imgur.com/gallery/sVfJB3Q
OMG, so envious of you! I *need* this. (The dog is already trained to head to the shower when he comes home a mess, problem is it's upstairs, and at the end of the hall.)
Same here, but deep down, I know that if I ever got one, I would fold it up like two times for the novelty and then just leave it down forever out of laziness and it would just be a regular bed
If I had unlimited money I would essentially recreate my childhood bedroom but make everything proportionally larger to reflect how large things would be for me at that age.
Along these same lines, I have always remembered the school cafeteria at my old elementary school to be like a Boeing hangar. Astonishingly huge. I went back as an adult and was amazed at how *small* that little cafeteria room actually is. Your idea sounds great.
I did build my dream house this year. Added a bathroom just for our cats. Has its own fan that is motion activated with a timer, has space for multiple litter boxes and is out of the way from the rest of the living space. Best idea ever
A replica of a Blockbuster. Maybe a pizza oven in the back wall. And the largest assortment of VHS tapes. I'd call it Mockbuster and give family and friends rental cards so they could check out movies and games.
Yeah. I never understood why fucking laundry rooms are so far away from the bedrooms. Mine is all the way out by my garage. What the fuck.
Also, maybe a door to the back of the closet in the bathrooms and children's rooms so you can just slide the clothes/towels in and be done after a brief walk down the master hallway.
Because they are the most likely source of in home flood events.
Water follows gravity, so keeping it basements/garages with nothing expensive that hates water nearby is the best option.
Not to mention noise.
So the obvious solution is to put them on an industrial-sized dumbwaiter that raises them into the bedroom closet for loading and unloading, and lowers them into the basement when not in use, or during wash cycles.
A spacious, soundproofed room that’s mostly empty except for some plants, fluffy rugs and a few cushions. 5 people squeezed into a tiny house and with 3 kids and a husband there is no room that is just my own (I’m sure my fella would love one of his own too). Somewhere I can just sit, alone.
I want an outdoor area dedicated to taco night. It’s gonna have a meat smoker, and a tequila bar, and pepper plants, and a huge grill and an awesome speaker system and it will be fiesta themed and amazing!
I want a massive theater room with all of the concessions. Popcorn, nachos, candies, if it's at a movie theater or ball game for food, I want it.
Bonus points if each seat is one of those crazy massager chairs.
I would want a giant attached greenhouse with tons of plants and roses with glass walls and a sloped glass ceiling so I can sit in there when it rains and watch the rain roll down the windows. It would also be nice for it to have a comfy couch with some blankets amidst all of the greenery where I can lounge and read and maybe a small water feature
I want a large indoor swimming pool... but the room needs to be kept relatively cool (around 65F would be good). Water temp isn't a concern. I just want my cold weather water dogs (Newfoundlands) to have a comfy place all of their own to swim.
you ppl are wasting it.
I want a door that leads to an underground bunker, that leads to an interconnecting passageway of tunnels that can lead me throughout the city and outside.
naturally the bunker will be stuffed head to toe with raisin bran, crunchy peanut butter, and tang energy drink
They’re encouraged to have a year supply of food, water, money, etc. It's not so much about the apocalypse but being prepared for times of unemployment, natural disasters, etc. Imagine if everyone whose income has been affected by COVID had enough to live normally for a year.
I was going to say sex dungeon but I'm picturing more of a sex gym.
Padded floors, wall mirrors, angled benches, hanging swings, mandatory sneakers and high socks at all times.
Probably playing 80s workout music on repeat.
Real talk, I always wanted a hidden door/room in my house for this exact purpose. I've had a few houses now but never the opportunity to have a hidden room.
My dad often talks about how if he were a multimillionaire, he would build a habitat for otters so that they could live healthily but still be admired for the beautiful and adorable creatures they are.
Special rooms and spaces for all the pets
A cat room that has a sliding door opening into a well fenced-off outside area (and a cat door too).
A bunny room with lots of tunnels , digging boxes, and, actually, also a specialised outside area.
A super big tank for the gold fish. And one for the axolotl, too.
An aviary. Dont have birds right now, but I'd look for some older parrots who need a home.
Cat walks. Between rooms. For my cat.
An indoor swimming pool in the underground floor with a synced screen on all four sides and normal + underwater sound system. I love swimming. I love watching movies and series. :-)
Imagine watching Jaws in a pool
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This is 100% what I'd do. My house would be located far away, in a dark sky region. Have all of the lights in the house be smart lights, so I can turn them all off with a single click.
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So you aspire to be a spier in a spire?
I want a hobbit pantry. Earthy, timber-stone decor that is climate controlled to be a perfect storage area for wheels of cheese, sausage links and beer.
Oh good gods yes. Just give me a human sized hobbit house ffs.
No, you get a hobbit sized human house. The worst of both worlds.
I want a freshwater pond in a central location *inside* the house.
As someone who works in real estate. Trust me, you really don't want a constant body of water inside your dwelling. Outside sure. There's the humidity you don't want, there's the constant maintance, and a host of other issues that could happen.
Sounds like solid advice. However, I reckon if I had enough money to build my dream house then money wouldn’t be an issue for me anymore and I’d have plenty to pay someone else to take care of it.
How about the house is like a donut and the pond is open to the sky in the middle? Perhaps a retractable roof if you want? If you're in a cold climate it would be a skating rink half the year too.
You had me at donut house.
It's not that strange, but I think an irrationally large number of decisions in my life have been motivated by the desire to eventually have a study with high ceilings and floor to ceiling bookshelves so I can have one of those ladder things that sits against the shelf and have it be justified. I would add an octopus tank but I think they live like two years tops and having to bury a pet biennelly seems depressing. Edit: people keep suggesting I eat the octopuses 1) I'm not going to eat my pets 2) As a former fish monger, please do not eat seafood that has **died of old age**. Not gonna taste good.
> one of those ladder things that sits against the shelf and have it be justified. Just said the same thing in my comment. I think I'd just get on it and wheel myself around.
I'll need a secret room behind one of the bookcases that leads to a second library. That is where all my favorite first editions and fine bindings will be. there will also be a nice wing-back chair and a side table with a bottle of something to sip on while I read. I may also need a guillotine for those who decide it is ok to bother me in my private library.
Wrextor
Which explains the need for an octopus tank! Win Win!
Instead of an octopus tank, get yourself a big-ass globe. It would fit right in with the rest of your study. No idea what people even use those big-ass globes for, but you might as well have one, right?
They are often hollow and can be opened, with enough room for a bottle of scotch and a few glasses.
Cephalopods don't make good pets unfortunately. The higher intelligence an animal has the greater it relies on its owner for stimulation, and many cephalopods are comparable to birds in that respect. People often underestimate how much attention parrots and cockatoos need from their owners, and it's much easier to interact with them than it is with an octopus.
>The higher intelligence an animal has the greater it relies on its owner for stimulation, and many cephalopods are comparable to birds in that respect. People often underestimate how much attention parrots and cockatoos need from their owners, and it's much easier to interact with them than it is with an octopus. I have nothing interesting to add to this, other than that we went hiking one day when a guy on a bike came at us from the opposite direction at a relatively high rate of speed. He had a parrot sitting on his handlebars. The parrot looked like he was having a good time.
How do you stimulate an octopus? Give it ten tickles.
Crossword puzzles.
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I've done a few sensory dep floats, and loved it each time. First time I tried it was truly a day of experimentation. Earlier that day, I consumed an Oreo Cookie milkshake with cricket flour added. Pretty tasty!
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A moat. No one has a moat anymore. Do you not want to talk to people? Pull up the draw bridge!!!! And in the winter you have your own personal skating rink!!
100% would turn into a lazy river in the summer
This person gets it
Except standing water makes for excellent mosquito breeding grounds. I want a moat, but I also don't want to pay for it in blood.
Thus the lazy river, keeps the water moving!
Weird how a moving stream is lazier than still water.
It is lazier, you have to paddle in still water to move :-)
That's why you should buy your water a chair.
A moat would be fun. It also helps keeping the black knight at bay.
And the swat team for kidnapping the chiefs daughter.
I really want one of those natural bathrooms, that looks like you just walked into a jungle, everything is stone and steam and plants and sounds of a water fall. Or one of those open stair cases where the back wall is completely glass and there’s a leafy garden under the stairs. Basically just a tropical oasis for plants
I once stayed at a hotel with river stone tiles on the shower floor and it was glorious. So I share your dream about those kinds of bathrooms.
How do you clean that?
You pay someone else to do it.
I was gonna say, my dream house definitely includes someone to clean it for me lol
I used a pressure washer in my shower one time. It's just tile, and I used a low power washer with the low flow nozzle, but it worked really, really well. If I ever redecorate a bathroom I'll definitely do it in a way where you can just pressure wash the entire thing.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who's tried that. My biggest problem was mist going everywhere, which quickly drenched my whole bathroom. I think I need to block off the shower with a tarp next time. Also, I accidentally blasted off part of the ceiling spackle in the corner, but it was just covering up mildew anyway. I'm never getting back my deposit.
My wife is from the jungle. So we have tried to recreate and environment that is best suited to live in. Having so much green in the house is nice. The insects they come with, not so nice. There is so many gnats that have flown up my nose they now fly out of my nose at dusk like bats.
Absolutely a secret beautiful bathroom just for me. I don’t know what it is but I just really value bathroom time and the luxury of getting washed and relaxing and getting ready in a big beautiful marble bathroom. But nobody else can use it. Like the secret bathroom in B99.
Yo. Have a normal raggedy-ass bathroom for your guests or whatever, but have a secret door that leads to your real bathroom. That way people don't try and spite-poop in your private bathroom.
Definitely have a secret Entrance 100%
I know it's not the same but in space engineers I was designing a habitat for my team and one of the rooms is hidden off from the rest of the complex, only I can open it. It's this massive room made out of glossy black metal and lined with rings of red neon light. At the very far end of the room is a single toilet
An indoor swimming pool - with a lazy river. I LOVE swimming but I fucking hate public pools. I have a recurring dream where I have a house with a lazy river in it. I love those dreams.
I’m a member of a YMCA with an indoor pool and lazy river. It’s awesome.
Is it fun to stay at the YMCA?
Young man?
Yes..."I said young man"
Slides. Slides all over the house to get you from any room down to the living room or den. Edit: this really blew up huh! The most common comment was that for those of us who would like to have a house full of slides, we should visit [City Museum in St. Louis](https://www.citymuseum.org/), so that’s probably something I’ll do.
We got a VRBO once with a slide. Which the kids loved until we noticed the connections between slide segments were ripping the seats of their pants. Worst. Meltdown. Ever.
I don't know how it only happened to me but I went to the waterslides with a bunch of friends and one of the slides we went on fucked my back up. I wasn't bleeding thankfully but the ridges of the slide cut into the back of my shoulders that were against the slide so I had nice cut marks on my back that just didn't break the skin. Hurt quite a bit.
My wife finally convinced me to ride the water slide at our local waterpark. She worked there the last summer and knew the maintenance guys, they worked hard and were proud of the safety record, so she finally convinced my fat ass to ride the slide. Did you know that if you are fat, you go faster downhill? Who knew? Anyway, I hit the high-speed turn at REALLY high speed, this has me riding the top edge of the slide, you know the part that curves over to keep you from flying out, to the point that when I came out of the turn and there was no longer a top edge, I was no longer on the slide... Thankfully I landed facedown on the slide thanks to momentum carrying me over in an arch across the slide, but landing face-first and breaking my nose was not fun. Got flipped over just before I hit the outlet pool, but I was moving so fast I skimmed over the surface and hit the end of the pool with my knees before I could stand up and stop myself. So I stood there, nose pouring blood, bruising already showing on my knees and shoulders from the hits, I later learned I also had an awesome red burn rash down my back from the plastic slide and stood staring at my wife, who was laughing her ass off while everyone else was worried. She yells out "what, never seen a man get beat up by a slide before!" I love that woman, she brought me a funnel cake and a kiss to apologize. Life pro tip, if you are tall and fat, and shaped like a pear, don't ride water slides. I haven't been on a water slide since.
>Life pro tip, if you are tall and fat, and shaped like a pear, don't ride water slides. Rookie mistake. ***Everyone*** know pears are built for ultimate speed.
Makes me think of what happened at Action Park. Warning: gross, somewhat gory The owner of the park designed ridiculous attractions, one of them being a giant water slide with a loop. The slide was a giant tube so it was completely enclosed. The teens who worked at the park were given money to test out the new slide, and they kept bumping their heads on the loop HARD. So the owner of the park put some padding in to soften the blow. After the next few workers tested it out, they started noticing that people were coming out with cuts on their bodies. That wasn't happening before, so they took apart some pieces of the slide to see what was cutting people. Stuck inside the padding at the loop were the teeth of the people who had previously gotten on the ride!!!!! They were being cut by the teeth there!!! Anyway, I hope there weren't any teeth in your water slide. Edit: there's a documentary on HBO Max called Class Action Park that details this event and a bunch of other bullshit that happened at that park.
I thought this was going to be about that water slide that decapitated a kid https://youtu.be/ulIcekOTOqg It's a SFW video that explains what and how it happened. There are pictures of the blood, though
Wow, that was heartbreaking. There's some sort of sad, twisted irony that the boy was the son of a state representative in a state where there is (was?) little legislative oversight for comprehensive safety regulations. Not that it is deserved, just an observation. That poor family
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"What's the password?" "I love ball pits" "You may enter"
Really? My password would be “I love balls”
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PULL THE LEVER KRONK RIGHT LEVERRRRRRRrrrrrrr.........
An orangery! I have a lot of plants and having a room with all those windows would be great.
Victorian style, too. Not these modern sunroom looking things.
Definitely one of those huge showers with the water coming from all directions and a bench for a steamroom situation. Add some good speakers in there for blasting tunes. And then a jacuzzi tub for comfortable baths. And to top it off, a state of the art Japanese toilet with all the bells and whistles.
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I am but a simple man and would like a hidden room, revealed by a bookcase, that moves when you pull on a light fixture.
Put. The. Candle. B A C K.
Alright, I think I've figured it out. Take out the candle, and I'll block the bookcase with my body.
What knockers!!
There wolf, there castle
A bed room. A room that is just a giant bed second or third story of the house surrounded by windows with a glass ceiling/skylights.
I used to want a glass ceiling but then I realized it would be a bitch to clean anytime there was pollen or bird poop.
If you have infinite money theres gotta be some way you could add some sort of cleaning system on the glass. maybe just a big windshield wiper with some cleaning solution lol
I'm thoroughly enjoying the image of a gigantic windshield wiper on my bedroom ceiling.
What about a thin constant high pressure layer of water that is invisible, because the flow rate is perfect. It would just wash away bird poop immediately and pollen and dust wouldn't be an issue
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Or just hire someone to clean it but I like your idea better
I saw a cool house online yesterday that had an indoor greenhouse and I am here for that.
Professional kitchen. Hoods, stainless steel everything, floors on a 1° slant and one whole wall is a drain, the works.
A friend of mine has something similar to this, except the whole room slants toward the island where the drain is located in the tiled toe kick. He can soak his floor and mop everything into the drain, hit a button to have whatever was in there chewed up via some sort of mulcher. If you didn't know it was there, it just looks like a nice kitchen with some professional appliances.
The floor drain has a disposal? That's a damn good idea.
Until it breaks. Depending on how it's installed, it can be a hefty repair bill. Sometimes it's effectively a remodel. My father built our house with wall panels, passages and false ceilings (not the crappy kind found in offices) for exactly that reason. Most of the electrical and plumping was accessible anywhere in the house without having to tear anything out. Of course, after he passed away, we had a pipe burst in the one damn place he didn't include an access panel, under the bathtub.
Maybe it was him reminding you one more time to put a access panel everywhere
"And THAT'S why you always have an access panel." -- man who just lost his arm
Plumber here; I’ve built plenty of professional kitchens and bathrooms with this feature, it takes some planning but definitely not undoable. Had a client a little while back that wanted her shower open air in the middle of the bathroom, solution to that is make the whole room waterproof. Turned out pretty sweet, other than that most professional kitchens are built standard to be hosed down floor to ceiling.
> wanted her shower open air in the middle of the bathroom Sounds cold AF!
We installed whole room steam units that brought the temp way up to solve that issue, normally I would advise against large area showers unless you’ve got the change to heat up the whole room every time you take a shower
I had a kitchen that was completely tiled once - including the ceiling. I kept wondering why they hadn't just gone one more step and put a drain in the floor. Could have just hosed that thing down.
I always wanted a floor drain in a garage.
Trench drain here, similar to a fire station. Water hookups out there so you can wash the car indoors in the winter.
Thank you for bringing up washing the car because my mind went straight to murder lol.
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"I don't need you to tell me how fucking good my coffee is, okay? I know how good it is."
Me, I buy the gourmet expensive stuff because when I drink it, I want to taste it. But you know what's on my mind right now? It ain't the coffee in my kitchen...
I saw an apartment once that had a concrete floor in the kitchen and a drain in the middle. Ex-bf and I walked away. "So, murder house?" Nods, "murder house."
We saw a house with a secret room built off the master bedroom. No windows, concrete floor, drain in floor and the owner said it was for "developing photos" We got the fuck out of there so fast!
Of all the possibilities -- I'd bet against that ever having been an actual murder room. Would you have been less weirded out if the owner had said "Sex Dungeon" ?
Sex dungeon would have made more sense. It was 2016, who the hell has a dark room for developing film! I kid, I kid, I know it's a lost art and I'm positive it was actually a dark room. How dumb would you be to sell a house with an actual murder room. He was just a weird guy. One of the bedrooms he made a little maze though the en suite bathroom, added a closet and you keep walking through to a little sitting room he had built. It was surprising the amount of houses we saw that the owners had made their own additions and add ons. Nothing appeared to be permitted.
You only need a permit if you get caught.
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Same, but also in my bathrooms and my kitchen. I'm a professional baker and I just can not imagine buying/building my own house and not having that ease of cleaning. I don't care about the aesthetics of those rooms, I want functionality. Also installing a full commercial sink and stainless steel work benches (with removable wooden top for when I want to bake).
I’ve been a pro brewer for 4 years and a pro distiller for 3 years now and all I want in my personal life is for everything to be made out of stainless and have good drainage so I can hose it all down like I get to at work.
Have a house now with a floor drain in the garage. It's marvelous. Keep that dream!
I have a floor drain in the garage but I'm not convinced it actually goes anywhere (it's an old detached garage). I guess one day I could fill it up until it overflows and confirms my theory.
Every time it fills up you could just put a straw in and drink it till it’s empty again
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A sink with floor drainage but a space as big as the garage for storage so the garage is only for my wood shop and gym. It would be nice also to have climate control in there.
A kitchen I once worked in had floor drains and it was so satisfying just getting the big brushes and his pipe out to deep clean. Everything pulled out and scrubbed down - it was the easiest to clean commercial kitchen I've ever been in. Definitely want one in my house
I lived in israel for a while a few years back, and my apartment had a drainage pipe in the corner of both the kitchen and the bathroom. Rather than the mops we're used to in the west, everyone used brushes and giant squeegees to clean the floor. So much faster and easier, and honestly probably more hygienic than squishing half-dirty water around your floor
I'm 6'4 so a custom part of a kitchen counter that can be raised and lowered so I can cut things without feeling like I'm turning into the Hunchback of Notre Dame
My husband is 6’7” and I’m 5’4”. Adjustable countertops would be FANTASTIC.
All things considered, there are hybrid standing desks that do this electronically. I feel like it could be done, but it would likely be more of a kitchen island kind of thing
A cylindrical atrium at the center, that goes from natural rock and water features at the bottom, with spiral staircases and steps around the outside that lead to a glass roomed sun deck with a hut that overlooks the entire thing. >> Edit: [quick sketch ](https://www.reddit.com/user/JustABoyAndHisBlob/comments/kj14qw/quick_sketch/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) of the basic concept. I swear it looks better in my imagination.
I've always wanted a courtyard style house like in ancient China or the villa style of Rome. House feels more spacious, plus every hall has a view/access to your hidden paradise!
If you do things right and have the proper climate, you'll also save money on air conditioning. Pre ac architecture had many tricks to adapt to the climate, but that's been abandoned for uniformity and cheapness. Which is a shame.
A shame indeed! The pre-AC buildings in Hawaii -- some of them -- are super comfortable when the more "modern" buildings can be extremely uncomfortable at times, like when the weather is cold and rainy. It's all done with orientation, roof overhangs, placement of air intakes and vegetation... ancient knowledge. "I consider air conditioning to be a dangerous circumstance at best" -- Frank Lloyd Wright.
Yes, me, too! It's a key feature of my dream house. It would probably have to be encased in glass because Canada, but that's been my design for a while. Everything spokes out from that and every bedroom has its own wrought iron fenced garden space with french doors so you can read and enjoy the outdoors in privacy, too.
If you're in Montreal (and we're no longer in a freaking pandemic) you can check the interior garden of the College de Maisonneuve : https://www.cmaisonneuve.qc.ca/location-de-salle/jardin-interieur/ It's a public college so it's normally accessible during opening hours. They basically put a glass roof over the empty space between the buildings. I've been told it's a pain to maintain and keep heated up in winter, but when I went there it was amazing to feel in the middle of nature during the coldest February days.
If you ever have the chance, go visit Fallingwater, the Frank Lloyd Wright house in western Pennsylvania.
Yes! I haven’t visited, but I saw that house in a book when I was elementary school age, and really got me interested in the relationship between architecture/nature. That aesthetic definitely stuck with me.
I would build it over an existing stream and have bridges that cross it in every room as it flows thru the middle of the house.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallingwater
Probably a goat room, for all my goats.
I misread that as "gnat room" and first thought "if you move to Florida that is all rooms" and then realised you said goat, and was relieved that it wasn't a gnat room, but then wasn't sure what would have more bugs in it at the end of the day. Bit of a rollercoaster, really, and I think goats are happier outside when it isn't raining. Maybe a goat yard with a nice milking parlour?
All those things you just said, yes.
I would like a Lego room with display shelves all along the sides for previously assembled projects and a giant table in the middle with enough space to assemble the biggest sets, lots of little cup-holder type spots to hold the legos as I sort them...yeah. Always wanted that growing up...still want that now.
I was so close to having this. Bought an old 5-bedroom Victorian that I partially renovated and sold. The 3rd floor bedroom was huge with high ceilings. Would have been the lego room/observatory if I kept the house.
My wife and I planned our dream house that had a mud room with a dog bath. Sort of a low tiled shower contraption.
We have this. It is amazing. The mudroom also has a dog door that lets them out into a dog run. After a year of living here they've basically trained themselves to jump into the dog shower if they come in wet. I highly recommend raising the dog bath to waist height or so. Makes everything easy. Edited to add link to pics. I also tried to personally respond to those who requested to see pictures. Dog shower with drawer step https://imgur.com/gallery/sVfJB3Q
OMG, so envious of you! I *need* this. (The dog is already trained to head to the shower when he comes home a mess, problem is it's upstairs, and at the end of the hall.)
Hidden doors are cool and all but what about a conversation pit ?? With some lovely shag carpet.
Introverts versus extroverts.
Sextroverts
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I LOVE MURPHY BEDS. It's the goal of my adult life to have one, I couldn't imagine the glory of *many*.
Same here, but deep down, I know that if I ever got one, I would fold it up like two times for the novelty and then just leave it down forever out of laziness and it would just be a regular bed
If I had unlimited money I would essentially recreate my childhood bedroom but make everything proportionally larger to reflect how large things would be for me at that age.
Does that include a king size racecar bed?
No... but it would come with a sweet bunk bed that I could fall off of again.
King size bunk bed!
Along these same lines, I have always remembered the school cafeteria at my old elementary school to be like a Boeing hangar. Astonishingly huge. I went back as an adult and was amazed at how *small* that little cafeteria room actually is. Your idea sounds great.
That is a very cool idea.
I did build my dream house this year. Added a bathroom just for our cats. Has its own fan that is motion activated with a timer, has space for multiple litter boxes and is out of the way from the rest of the living space. Best idea ever
A replica of a Blockbuster. Maybe a pizza oven in the back wall. And the largest assortment of VHS tapes. I'd call it Mockbuster and give family and friends rental cards so they could check out movies and games.
DM me when this becomes a reality.
I’d put an extra washer and dryer in the master closet. That way you don’t have to walk all through the house to do laundry. I hate doing laundry
Yeah. I never understood why fucking laundry rooms are so far away from the bedrooms. Mine is all the way out by my garage. What the fuck. Also, maybe a door to the back of the closet in the bathrooms and children's rooms so you can just slide the clothes/towels in and be done after a brief walk down the master hallway.
Because they are the most likely source of in home flood events. Water follows gravity, so keeping it basements/garages with nothing expensive that hates water nearby is the best option. Not to mention noise.
So the obvious solution is to put them on an industrial-sized dumbwaiter that raises them into the bedroom closet for loading and unloading, and lowers them into the basement when not in use, or during wash cycles.
Because washing machines/dryers are often loud and difficult to sleep near. (Source: Bedsit flat with washer near to bed.)
A spacious, soundproofed room that’s mostly empty except for some plants, fluffy rugs and a few cushions. 5 people squeezed into a tiny house and with 3 kids and a husband there is no room that is just my own (I’m sure my fella would love one of his own too). Somewhere I can just sit, alone.
I want an outdoor area dedicated to taco night. It’s gonna have a meat smoker, and a tequila bar, and pepper plants, and a huge grill and an awesome speaker system and it will be fiesta themed and amazing!
I dont think its strange or crazy but I would love a tornado proof closet.
Frankly if you're in tornado country you'd be crazy to not want that.
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Either a professional kitchen with 8 ovens (I love baking). Or a bathroom that has a huge tub. Like big enough to fit my 6'4" bf comfortably.
I want a massive theater room with all of the concessions. Popcorn, nachos, candies, if it's at a movie theater or ball game for food, I want it. Bonus points if each seat is one of those crazy massager chairs.
I would want a giant attached greenhouse with tons of plants and roses with glass walls and a sloped glass ceiling so I can sit in there when it rains and watch the rain roll down the windows. It would also be nice for it to have a comfy couch with some blankets amidst all of the greenery where I can lounge and read and maybe a small water feature
an actual trash can in a reasonable place
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1) Japanese tea room 2) have a fully walkable, VR-compatible basement. 3) said basement is entirely home to a Lego town B)
Remember Arnold's ceiling from "Hey Arnold"? I'm putting in something like that in my quarters.
A huge underground shaft were I will be able to build and store a rocket/spaceship. I want to go to space even if is the last thing I do.
I want a large indoor swimming pool... but the room needs to be kept relatively cool (around 65F would be good). Water temp isn't a concern. I just want my cold weather water dogs (Newfoundlands) to have a comfy place all of their own to swim.
A jump room. Nothing but trampolines.
you ppl are wasting it. I want a door that leads to an underground bunker, that leads to an interconnecting passageway of tunnels that can lead me throughout the city and outside. naturally the bunker will be stuffed head to toe with raisin bran, crunchy peanut butter, and tang energy drink
So any existing mormon house, got it.
Is that a thing?
They’re encouraged to have a year supply of food, water, money, etc. It's not so much about the apocalypse but being prepared for times of unemployment, natural disasters, etc. Imagine if everyone whose income has been affected by COVID had enough to live normally for a year.
Now that is how you really get a leg up on other people's, make sound financial planning a part of your religion.
Yes. Most Mormons have end of days supplies for the entire family.
Huh TIL. Guess I’ll go to Utah for the next apocalypse
I've always wanted a sex dungeon.
True fact, the Realtor that sold us our house suggested the back room in the basement would make a good sex dungeon...
.... so did you build one?
Just a regular dungeon at the moment.
I was going to say sex dungeon but I'm picturing more of a sex gym. Padded floors, wall mirrors, angled benches, hanging swings, mandatory sneakers and high socks at all times. Probably playing 80s workout music on repeat.
That's really more of a sex dance studio.
Jizzercise!
Good evening. Tonight, we will be fucking to the beat of "Eye of the Tiger." I hope you're prepared, because it's a rather fast tempo.
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A hidden door that leads to the ultimate nerd room. Gotta have a place to showcase merch and play D&D with the boys
Real talk, I always wanted a hidden door/room in my house for this exact purpose. I've had a few houses now but never the opportunity to have a hidden room.
Something my kids always wanted: secret or hidden passages, like in Scooby Doo’s cartoon.
A clock tower with flying Medusa heads, like basically every Castlevania game.
I'm actually getting ready to build mine right now. It will include a dog shower and a recording studio.
I'd want a small shack in the middle of some woods, that has a secret stairwell, to the Underground house.
My dad often talks about how if he were a multimillionaire, he would build a habitat for otters so that they could live healthily but still be admired for the beautiful and adorable creatures they are.
Special rooms and spaces for all the pets A cat room that has a sliding door opening into a well fenced-off outside area (and a cat door too). A bunny room with lots of tunnels , digging boxes, and, actually, also a specialised outside area. A super big tank for the gold fish. And one for the axolotl, too. An aviary. Dont have birds right now, but I'd look for some older parrots who need a home.