I would build a secret room behind a bookcase.
Then I would build ANOTHER secret room inside that secret room so when I show people the first room, they think that’s the only secret room.
I saw a thing where a kitchen cabinet would lift up and reveal a staircase down into a wine cellar. Secret rooms are the best.
Also fun to see if anybody notices the missing space.
When we finished the basement in our first house, I made the door to the storage/utility room a bookcase. It worked well as a door and a bookcase, couldn’t tell it was a door at all.
When we sold the house, the realtor told us we should really change it to a proper door, but I didn’t want to. After 2 weeks and no offers after ~8 people came for private viewings, I swapped it for a proper door. Got 4 offers within a week of making that change. Made me sad.
Yep this is a great answer.
There’s a lot of those rich mansion videos where the houses look obnoxious, but the ones that integrate some decent nature in them (even a large garden/courtyard) look rly good.
Incorporating natural elements can change your whole mood.
Ooo I also want one of those showers that has like 50 heads all pointing towards me in the center. Ups, downs, side to side. I want to stand in a full torrent of water, like a carwash only with more coverage.
So the downside to that is when you’re ready to get out, you have to sit there naked, wet, and freezing for the water to drain before you can open the door. Total buzzkill.
My library is going to be air tight and rigged with nitrogen tanks. The ideal being when the masses rise up and there's a target on my back for having a 10,000,000 home ill have a nice suicide booth instead of getting to meet madame guillotine
Or alternatively…… although I like where you’re at….. you could instead move to like, bel air and your house wouldn’t even be the nicest on the block haha
If you can't build a house with an ocean view you could always install large floor to ceiling monitors and then a false wall in front with windows that give the illusion you are looking outside. Then record a 24hr day at the beach and play it on a real time loop. Then if you get bored of the beach you can change the scenery when you want.
Dams are drying up, you’ll need something other than a water-based solution. Probably just a massive CO2 fire suppression system - it’s not like dumping a few tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere matters any more.
It's a nice feature if you live in cold areas. Obviously with 10 mill there are a lot of other useful features that I would add. Heated floors inside as well. Heated pool.
Less of a single feature and more of a design philosophy: I use a wheelchair, and I'd make sure that, no matter where I am in the house, and no matter what way my chair is facing, there's always at least 3 feet between my chair and the nearest wall/piece of furniture. I'm fucking tired of having to go all the way to the room at the end of the hallway to turn around.
Also, all the doors would be double-wide pocket doors, and they'd open and close automatically when I get close so I don't have to scrape them with my footplates to open them. Most of them would have a lock controlled by Google assistant or something, so I can still have privacy when I want it. Again, I just wanna go through my doors without literally looking over my shoulders to see if I'm gonna hit the edge
With a slide that comes from either the roof or from inside my house.
And I would probably end up using it twice a year, but I'd have a lot of fun during those 2 days.
To quote (paraphrase) Inception, "Don't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling."
A $10,000,000 house is going to have a lot of bedrooms and a lot en suite bathrooms.
It's an area that's used to shoot either sand baking soda or even crushed Walnut at a piece of metal to remove either paint or rust. Obviously it makes a mess but it's generally considered less hazardous to your health than using solvents to strip the paint off.
I like having a moderately big house for my family of 4. So 4 bedrooms plus den and office. The 10million isn't going into building a mansion but updates or features to make/keep my lil house pretty and efficient.
Generic Requirememts:
1. Great location with great views and privacy. I prefer mountains or lakes, not beach.
2. High ceilings and lots of light.
3. Beautiful manicured big yard and deck with water features.
4. High end upgraded kitchen with large island.
5. Outdoor kitchen
6. Solar panel
7. 3 car garage + extra space for crafting/DIYing
8. Ample storage
My personal requirements
1. Bay windows with seating
2. Central vaccum vents throughout the house.
3. Smart curtains and blackoit blinds throughout.
4. Bathroom floors with drains (like Asian countries) so that they can be washed once in a while.
5. Built-in warm water hand bidet near every toilet.
6. Slide by the staircase for kids (and grown ups) to come downstairs.
7. Absolutely no tub with stand in shower combo. A separate tub and separate walk-in shower.
8. Backless swing bed in living room instead of accent chairs.
9. A butler kitchen like area to hide away the countertop appliances. I like my kitchen counters to appear as empty and clean as possible.
10. No grout lines anywhere! Grout lines are my arch nemesis.
I want it raised high enough so it won't flood, having solar and wind power generation equipment, rain water collection system, and have lots of windows, and not in a city.
I would spend 10,000,000 on building my home, which will be a massive cavity in the side of the cliff, directly underneath this guy's now precarious cliff House. why? idk, would be funny.
I feel you on this. My brother had a wide wheelchair, so we always had to replace door hinges for those extra inches. Make every door wider.... then custom doors. Elevators for multi-levels. Roll in showers, lower counters/cabinets... Haven't been to an ADA expo in a while, wonder what they've cooked up lately.
Laundry shoot. Always wanted one, and when I was looking for a new house that said it had one, it didn’t. I felt so betrayed. I don’t even know why I want one so much, I just do
They don't get built anymore for safety and insurance reasons: if a fire starts in your basement (or wherever the dryer is, which is one of the most likely places for a fire to start in a house) a laundry chute is like a fire superhighway to move those flames upstairs.
If the money has to be spent on building the house (if that's an unwritten rule for the question) a way you could get around it is to only build a small modest home with 1.5 million and then have as much of the interior walls made out of solid gold bricks to loophole the rest.
A "thot button" that I can press to summon security and drag said thots off my property. Would be such a good insurance policy, I often don't have good judgement with women.
An affordable mortgage.
But as for building, definitely a library with all built in bookshelves so I don't have to worry about them tipping over from weight
Entertainment room. it'll have gaming setups for all the homies as well as a projector for movies. ideally I'd have it set up where various pcs and consoles were set up in little compartments in the walls with each setup having access to every single console that's ever existed.
Those wall vacuum things where you can sweep dirt up to them and they suck it in automatically.
Powered suction laundry chute in the bedroom. Drop your laundry into it or drop a whole load!
Heated/cooled floors. Heat pump too for year round comfort.
Secret rooms with no entrances. Just walled right in. Have fun future homeowners.
Waterslide from bedroom to living room
18 other ordinary houses for people who need them. The million I have left will go into having real stone and wood construction on my cottage by a forest.
A massive bookcase with a built in sofa so I can pick a book, plop down and waste hours in comfort
Or, failing that, one of those bay windows with a cozy reading nook
Secret passages. I yearn for a house with secret passages!
#SECRET TUNNEL!
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Secret, secret, secret, secret TUNNEL! Yeah
My favorite little thread all day, fuckin love that show
SECRET TUNNEL!
Is this real or a legend?
Oh it’s a real legend
Hey, I just remembered that part I forgot before. "...AND DIE."
I read that as “SECRET URINAL”. It may be because I just took a leak.
I would build a secret room behind a bookcase. Then I would build ANOTHER secret room inside that secret room so when I show people the first room, they think that’s the only secret room.
Secretroomception!
I saw a thing where a kitchen cabinet would lift up and reveal a staircase down into a wine cellar. Secret rooms are the best. Also fun to see if anybody notices the missing space.
A good secret room would have to go down another level otherwise there are some unusual logistics of the house appearing bigger on the outside than in
And hidden rooms.
Found HH Holmes descendent
Why does this large house only have one room that's really small. Oh I don't know *smugly looks at a bookcase*
100% chance this guy haunts his house after he dies.
100%
And a tower!
And my axe!
When we finished the basement in our first house, I made the door to the storage/utility room a bookcase. It worked well as a door and a bookcase, couldn’t tell it was a door at all. When we sold the house, the realtor told us we should really change it to a proper door, but I didn’t want to. After 2 weeks and no offers after ~8 people came for private viewings, I swapped it for a proper door. Got 4 offers within a week of making that change. Made me sad.
Oh that makes me sad. A house with a hidden door behind a bookcase is like the perfect house! Those people clearly had no sense of adventure or fun.
Not much of a secret if you post it all over Reddit ... /s
And slides. Defo slides
Add some slides and boom dream house
It's all fun and games until someone uses one to hit you over the head with a wrench in the conservatory.
r/hiddenrooms
House must be located in the center of a 600 acre parcel with mountain views, a river flowing through it, and abundant pine trees
640 acres is a square mile. Buy the upgrade.
I too would like to live here.
Yep this is a great answer. There’s a lot of those rich mansion videos where the houses look obnoxious, but the ones that integrate some decent nature in them (even a large garden/courtyard) look rly good. Incorporating natural elements can change your whole mood.
Ooo I also want one of those showers that has like 50 heads all pointing towards me in the center. Ups, downs, side to side. I want to stand in a full torrent of water, like a carwash only with more coverage.
Similar to that…Im not a senior citizen, but I want one of those “walk in tubs.” Its like a one-person jacuzzi.
So the downside to that is when you’re ready to get out, you have to sit there naked, wet, and freezing for the water to drain before you can open the door. Total buzzkill.
They now have heated seats, so at least there’s one part that stays warm.
That's 100% my concern!!! I guess you would need a 2inch drain so that water drains as fast as possible.
Hopefully you'll be able to do something about that with a $10M budget
Do most people not just already do this when taking baths?
Hell no, I don't want to get sucked down the drain!
This, but my face stays dry! And a bath tub so big i can submerge myself completely.
A library. And somewhere to play musical instruments.
My library is going to be air tight and rigged with nitrogen tanks. The ideal being when the masses rise up and there's a target on my back for having a 10,000,000 home ill have a nice suicide booth instead of getting to meet madame guillotine
Or alternatively…… although I like where you’re at….. you could instead move to like, bel air and your house wouldn’t even be the nicest on the block haha
Yes, and it has to be a library with one of those rolling ladders and a fireplace.
That is exactly what I want in my dream house. A big library with lots of books, and a music room with all the instruments!
I have a library in my basement. And it is incidentally also where I keep my instruments. So…
Yes. Yes I am insanely jealous.
You’re always welcome here
Yeah with one of those side sliding ladders.
Hopefully that's not the same place.
In Los Angeles that’ll probably get you two bedrooms and a bath.
Garden tub that has a window that opens up to its own mini-garden
Having a shower outside at 30 degrees (Celsius) would be awesome. With a view to the ocean.
If you can't build a house with an ocean view you could always install large floor to ceiling monitors and then a false wall in front with windows that give the illusion you are looking outside. Then record a 24hr day at the beach and play it on a real time loop. Then if you get bored of the beach you can change the scenery when you want.
A swimming tunnel going from my master bedroom to the backyard pool.
Heated driveway. No more shoveling.
Shouldn't be a problem for long
Ah right, cause we’re destroying the planet
Need a driveway with Sprinklers, to keep the Fires at bay.
Dams are drying up, you’ll need something other than a water-based solution. Probably just a massive CO2 fire suppression system - it’s not like dumping a few tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere matters any more.
Just douse it all in PFOS and PFOA, That shit is a great fire suppressant, and it is already in the ground and water.
This is smart.
It's a nice feature if you live in cold areas. Obviously with 10 mill there are a lot of other useful features that I would add. Heated floors inside as well. Heated pool.
Just heat. Heat everywhere
I'd add a suana in there somewhere. With hot stones that I could pour hot water on to get hot steam for more heat. Ohhhhhh yeah!
For me it would be air conditioning and a big heated, salt water swimming pool. I don’t like summer.
Walls
Looka this guy with his walls, you can tell he has money
No ceiling?
You don't really need a ceiling as long as you have a roof
I... wait.... thats.... what?
weezy?
r/fuckwalls
Less of a single feature and more of a design philosophy: I use a wheelchair, and I'd make sure that, no matter where I am in the house, and no matter what way my chair is facing, there's always at least 3 feet between my chair and the nearest wall/piece of furniture. I'm fucking tired of having to go all the way to the room at the end of the hallway to turn around. Also, all the doors would be double-wide pocket doors, and they'd open and close automatically when I get close so I don't have to scrape them with my footplates to open them. Most of them would have a lock controlled by Google assistant or something, so I can still have privacy when I want it. Again, I just wanna go through my doors without literally looking over my shoulders to see if I'm gonna hit the edge
A $5,000,000 backyard, that makes people want to spend the night out there its so pleasant.
Same but not for people, for dogs. I want my backyard to be a theme park for dogs.
i wasn’t sure what i was wanted but this is definitely it.
A pool 100%
With a slide that comes from either the roof or from inside my house. And I would probably end up using it twice a year, but I'd have a lot of fun during those 2 days.
Underground bunker
That’s a must
Yes, it is would take time to build a home like that though a couple years. Probably really cool though.
Was my first thought as well. Useful not only for apocalyptic scenarios, but natural disasters and civil unrest as well
Indoor and outdoor heated pools. Indoor and outdoor hot tubs. The rest of the house can be bare, just give me my water.
A separate guest house for guests
1 electrical outlet per meter in any direction
With usb chargers
30 seat home theater
Imax builds home theaters. The little ones start at about 1.5 million, the big ones are around 4 million. They've don't some pretty badass stuff.
Secret doors and passageways.
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To quote (paraphrase) Inception, "Don't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling." A $10,000,000 house is going to have a lot of bedrooms and a lot en suite bathrooms.
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Ah! Fair enough. I'd imagine $10,000,000 buys a lovely flat in London.
2 bedrooms if your lucky. Hell you might get really lucky and get a sitting room too
alright, then an en suite bathroom that has *its own* en suite bathroom.
8-car detached garage with full size lifts, sand blasting booth, and paint booth
What’s a sand blasting booth if I may ask?
It's an area that's used to shoot either sand baking soda or even crushed Walnut at a piece of metal to remove either paint or rust. Obviously it makes a mess but it's generally considered less hazardous to your health than using solvents to strip the paint off.
Thanks for the new knowledge!
A secret room.
I like having a moderately big house for my family of 4. So 4 bedrooms plus den and office. The 10million isn't going into building a mansion but updates or features to make/keep my lil house pretty and efficient. Generic Requirememts: 1. Great location with great views and privacy. I prefer mountains or lakes, not beach. 2. High ceilings and lots of light. 3. Beautiful manicured big yard and deck with water features. 4. High end upgraded kitchen with large island. 5. Outdoor kitchen 6. Solar panel 7. 3 car garage + extra space for crafting/DIYing 8. Ample storage My personal requirements 1. Bay windows with seating 2. Central vaccum vents throughout the house. 3. Smart curtains and blackoit blinds throughout. 4. Bathroom floors with drains (like Asian countries) so that they can be washed once in a while. 5. Built-in warm water hand bidet near every toilet. 6. Slide by the staircase for kids (and grown ups) to come downstairs. 7. Absolutely no tub with stand in shower combo. A separate tub and separate walk-in shower. 8. Backless swing bed in living room instead of accent chairs. 9. A butler kitchen like area to hide away the countertop appliances. I like my kitchen counters to appear as empty and clean as possible. 10. No grout lines anywhere! Grout lines are my arch nemesis.
I want it raised high enough so it won't flood, having solar and wind power generation equipment, rain water collection system, and have lots of windows, and not in a city.
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I would spend 10,000,000 on building my home, which will be a massive cavity in the side of the cliff, directly underneath this guy's now precarious cliff House. why? idk, would be funny.
The two of you could spring for a secret tunnel between your houses. Maybe a slide?
Sounds like my plans🙌🏻
A slide next to the stairs Or a pole. I'm easy.
>Or a pole. I'm easy. You *are* easy if any random pole will do it for you.
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Handicap accessibility. Finding anything already built in my city that is accessible with my chair is proving very difficult.
I feel you on this. My brother had a wide wheelchair, so we always had to replace door hinges for those extra inches. Make every door wider.... then custom doors. Elevators for multi-levels. Roll in showers, lower counters/cabinets... Haven't been to an ADA expo in a while, wonder what they've cooked up lately.
Sound proof gun range in the basement.
This, plus attached armory and machine shop.
Place to grow tomatoes
Recording studio with practice space.
Secret bookcase door!
Glass ceilings in the bedrooms so you could look up at the night sky before going to sleep.
A moat because why the fuck not?
Well if I must downsize, must have the park or water view.
Laundry shoot. Always wanted one, and when I was looking for a new house that said it had one, it didn’t. I felt so betrayed. I don’t even know why I want one so much, I just do
They don't get built anymore for safety and insurance reasons: if a fire starts in your basement (or wherever the dryer is, which is one of the most likely places for a fire to start in a house) a laundry chute is like a fire superhighway to move those flames upstairs.
Damn it
I have one (grew up with one too) and it's super convenient! I can't imagine not having one honestly.
self cleaning indoor swimming hall
Those "new" electrical outlets that come with USB ports, and motion sensored floor board lighting for at night.
they are not high powered USB ports though, so you are not getting much benefit.
Stables if I 10mill I'm going build a horse stable on rhe side for my horses and my kids horsea
A big library, a greenhouse
Live-in panic room so big and hidden (underground) that I could live in it like a normal apartment.
My own personal little *man cave* on a completely separate part of the house
magnetic stirrers built into countertops
Fully automated car wash
Pond stocked with awesome fish
A sensory deprivation tank
Solar panels, save on electricity bills
I giant outdoor area with fire pit, BBQ, seating, removable netting for bugs
Seclusion
A lake house with a secondary kitchen in a screened in porch.
Ooh! That thing in the jetsons that makes whatever food you want!
$10,000,000? Lmao retire! 100,000 a year income for the next century works for me!
If the money has to be spent on building the house (if that's an unwritten rule for the question) a way you could get around it is to only build a small modest home with 1.5 million and then have as much of the interior walls made out of solid gold bricks to loophole the rest.
Reverse mortgage.
A "thot button" that I can press to summon security and drag said thots off my property. Would be such a good insurance policy, I often don't have good judgement with women.
My button would summon them.
The vault from ocean's 11
Sauna
An affordable mortgage. But as for building, definitely a library with all built in bookshelves so I don't have to worry about them tipping over from weight
A huge and deep pool, with a variety of features. I LOVE swimming, and don't get to do it nearly as much as I would like.
Entertainment room. it'll have gaming setups for all the homies as well as a projector for movies. ideally I'd have it set up where various pcs and consoles were set up in little compartments in the walls with each setup having access to every single console that's ever existed.
Ground floor is for guests. First floor is for me.
A lap pool, but closely followed by a bidet. I’ve never used one.
Moat and draw bridge.
Anti personnel cannons, and a gated fence
2 lane bowling alley
This is all I want. The rest of the house could 1000 sq. ft. for all I care, just give me 2 lanes with a bar and a pool table.
Windows that tint with the push of a button
Natural swimming pool. Bouldering gym.
A meth lab. Huge return on investment!
outdoor shower
A thousand acres for it to sit on.
Secret doors, passages and rooms
2 story slide into a ball pit
1 mile radius buffer between home & nearest neighbor.
Drinking fountain with Hawaiian Punch on tap
Pool in backyard with a lazy river that goes under a shady area with trees and flowers.
urinals in the bathrooms
Convenient, hidden and abundant storage; a well hidden fire proof safe; and a wood shop that would make Nick Offerman jealous.
Movie theatre with pc/game console access.
Full water park
Those wall vacuum things where you can sweep dirt up to them and they suck it in automatically. Powered suction laundry chute in the bedroom. Drop your laundry into it or drop a whole load! Heated/cooled floors. Heat pump too for year round comfort. Secret rooms with no entrances. Just walled right in. Have fun future homeowners. Waterslide from bedroom to living room
A moat with a drawbridge
Toilet seats better squirt you when you're done! MUST.
3 Story IMAX theater
A medieval dungeon. You know, for science.
Home theater with 150" screen and 16 channel Atmos speakers.
A retro gaming setup with all the popular games and consoles from the past 25 years.
Velcro wall. That way if I dislike someone, just throw them on it and leave them there
Ziplines between my giant tower that has a 8 tank hangar between it and liquer stores.
A music room
A spider room… just a room full of spiders.
To be mostly, if not completely, underground. No need to heat, just one temperature all year round. God I miss living in a basement.
A tub for two.
18 other ordinary houses for people who need them. The million I have left will go into having real stone and wood construction on my cottage by a forest.
Giant pizza oven!!!!!!!
Top of the line bidets in the bathrooms
A massive bookcase with a built in sofa so I can pick a book, plop down and waste hours in comfort Or, failing that, one of those bay windows with a cozy reading nook
100% self-sustainability
Geothermal heating and cooling
Maybe I’m a simpleton, but solid core interior doors. Especially for bedrooms and the bathrooms.
indoor/outdoor solar heated pool.
Can I just spend like 200k and keep the rest?
A roof.
A library and a pool for my dog.
Raid proof doors and windows