I don’t think this was mentioned yet, although I think someone actually did it years and years ago: an upside-down room.
Chairs, tables, carpet, etc. on the ceiling. Ceiling, lighting etc. on the floor. Pictures hanging upside down. Then, when someone passes out at a party (which doesn’t really happen anymore at my parties) then I’d drag them into the inverted room to sleep it off. Of course, watching them wake up and freak out would be the fun part.
Indoor/Outdoor black bottomed swimming pool. Kind of like the Vampires’ setup in the movie Blade.
A nice large backyard with a wooden fence and adequate potential to create an awesome landscaped flower garden and deck/patio
Included in said backyard, sufficient room to create a large dog kennel with concrete floors and seperate space for 3-4 hunting hounds and retrievers
A large integrated stereo system with in-wall subwoofers and speakers dispersed all over the house and an integrated remote control system so the unit can be controlled from any room in the house
A multi-LNB DSS (satellite TV) system with a similar remote control system
A large game room either in a seperate structure out back or in the basement or in the attic. This room should include a full wet bar, a den with a large-screen TV for watching sports, a pool table, and 3-4 felt covered oak poker tables, replete with clay poker chips of my own design.
In the middle of the house, say, in the living room, a small landscaped light court
A large kitchen with stone countertops, a sufficient large butcher’s block, sufficient range space and 2-3 ovens for cooking large meals, all stainless steel applicances
I want to revise my answer. Two hours after posting the above, I received a call from the police department that my house had been broken into. I want some kind of contraption that will shoot the next son-of-a-bitch that busts open the front door to steal a lousy VCR.
If I were to have a custom made home, I would want the whole house to be pet friendly. I would have a room for my birds, with tons of things for them to climb on and play with. My cats would have catwalks all along the high walls, and little hidey-holes. (I have actually seen, on TV, a house that was designed this way). My rats would have a habitrail style cage running through the house. I would also get a huge back yard and build a doghouse that is a replica of my own home, complete with running water and electricity.
For myself, I would love a large, sunken bathtub, a gourmet kitchen, and peepholes that are actually at my eye level.
As one who has lived in Army Housing for almost all of her life, I’d say any house that doesn’t come with a “stairwell” and “duty roster” would be more than acceptable.
And it would be nice to live a little nearer to the ground. 4th floor walk-ups suck!
My house would be built along the lines of a Spanish/Moorish house, around a central courtyard with a fountain and a pool. The bedrooms would be on the second floor, with entrances out to a balcony, which would have circular stairs leading to the courtyard. it would be U-shaped, with the open end closed off by a wrought-iron gate. The bathrooms and closets would be large and weel-lit, with each bathroom having a linen-closet (I hate finding out I don’t have a towel when I’m getting out of the shower, so I have to make a nekkid run to the linen closet) and a heated towel-bar so my towel would be toasty when I got out of the tub. The closets would have windows and built-in dressers. The downstairs rooms would also open onto the courtyard, with a nice set-up for eating outside if you wished.
one day i started one, and my friend (we were bored to death in class…discrete math…erg) and i went crazy…we had:
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a pole from the master bedroom into the kitchen for those late-night snacks
a hidden staircase between teh outside wall of the study and the fireplace that went upstairs into a hidden room (i draw those in every mansion-type house i design)
not only was the master bath huge, there was a room connected, the same size, that was entirely a jacuzzi (i believe that’s where we put the pole to the kitchen…the jacuzzi was crescent shaped and teh pole was in the dip…i vaguely remember something about being able to jump right out)
a helicopter landing pad on the roof of the garage
oh, and the garage roof slanted upwards electronically so that a plane could be flown out from under (my friend’s a glider pilot…he insisted we add that)
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i think i still have the drawing…i keep them all.
I’m just wondering if whoever broke into GolfWidow’s house may have read her post in this thread, and decided it was an attractive target…
Seems kinda fishy that someone would post something about having a nice house, and that house getting broken into within the next hour or so…
(or am I just delusional?)
Anyways, I’m sorry to hear about your misfortune, GolfWidow
I had not thought of this before. If the other 6,133 members of this board could please provide me with an alibi for last Thursday, April 27, 2000, at approximately 10:00 a.m., I will forward this information on to the police department and we can get this matter cleared up in no time. Thanks.
