One room in your dream house

In My Humble Opinion
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My four year old was washing her hands after using the potty tonight, and she did this thing she does that drives me nuts: she turns the water on and pushes the plug down, and then just holds her hands under the water for like 10 minutes (the plug isn’t very good, so the sink fills but very slowly and it doesn’t overflow). When I notice the water running and call up to tell her that she’s done washing her hands, she says, “But I have to get soap!” Then she quickly gets soap and rinses. Drives me up a wall. And yes, when I know she’s going potty I usually stand over her shoulder and make her wash her hands right. But she’s old enough to go potty without my help and so she does.

So, anyway, I was thinking how much I would like to have one of those faucets that you push the handle down and it runs for like 5 seconds and then stops. Then you have to push it down again. Like in public restrooms. And come to think of it, I would like to have a sink without a plug. (I wonder if it can be removed?) And one of those toilet paper dispensers that only dispenses a few squares at a time. (The three and four year olds know better, but I have a four month old who will be at that playing with toilet paper stage sooner than I care to think about.)

And maybe a bubble bath dispenser in the bathtub. But with a lock on it. Or maybe just mounted far above their heads. And is there any kind of soap dispenser that only lets you get a very little bit and then takes a while before you can get more? For the handsoap.

I’d also like to have the toilet cover and the rug glued down or somehow attached semi-permenantly so that the kids can’t pull them up and play with them.

Then I wandered into their room (their bathroom is attached to their room). They each have a toddler bed. I’d like to have their sheets/blankets/pillows attached to the mattress someway where I could get them off to wash, but they couldn’t pull them off. I could pin it, but I wouldn’t be comfortable with that. And I need the mattress attached to the bed. Yes, the kids pull them off!

They’ve got a bookshelf which I’m pretty happy with, but I would like for them to have a tape deck maybe mounted in a wooden box to the bookshelf so that they couldn’t move it around.

Their dresser needs repainting, too. And it needs something to keep the drawers from coming out.

I’d like to have a toybox permanently mounted to the wall so that it couldn’t be dumped out. And a hamper that couldn’t be dumped out, too. But maybe with a bag inside so that I could pull the clothes out easily?

They have a walk-in closet but I’d like more shelves.

The best part I think would be a light with a dimmer switch. I’d turn the lights very low for bedtime stories, and the lowest setting would be a night light.

I’m realizing that most of the things I want could probably be done when we have a house, but it wouldn’t be worth the time and money for an apartment we’ll probably be leaving in December.

So describe one room in your ideal house?

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OK- I’m going to let my imagination go a little wild here. I have a few different ideas.

Bedroom: Think like a queen’s room in a castle. Big canopy bed, beautiful wall hangings, oriental carpets, dark chestnut furniture, big armchairs, and lots of scented candles. The color scheme would be crimson.

Room to relax in: This room would be covered, wall-to-wall, in ankle-deep pillow piles, which would be fun to jump into. The decorations would be like something from those stories of ancient India and the harems and whatnot, with that kind of arches and designs. The curtains and other hangings would be sheer, light material in matching colors.

Bathroom: Very large tub that I could fully stretch out in, complete with something to rest a book or magazine on and a special shelf for bubble bath and bath salts. Also a large shower. And a lot of sink space and my own makeup table, complete with magnifying mirror and a lot of room.

Excerise Room: Ever a fan of gymnastics, the excercise room would be really really big, and have a trampoline, vault, uneven bars, balance beam, and ample space for floor routines.

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(Cessandra, I’d be interested in hearing about a room in your house just for you and the SO, as well as the ones for your kids.)

As for me, my dream room in my dream house is a huge room that has a swimming pool, jacuzzi, steam room, waterfall that we can get into and play in, and a stream that we can swim in from inside to outside where it becomes my large outside pool. The outside pool is very natural looking, with trees overhanging it, lovely white sand and grassy banks, and comfortable rocks to lounge on, not just a big chlorinated rectangle. The inside water items would also be very natural, with lots of plants and trees, birds and butterflies. We would also have a central audio-video room, with large screens and speakers in every room of the house including the water room, where we can lounge in the hot pools or the cooler pools and listen to music or watch movies. Yes, I love water. Can you tell? :smiley:

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The computer room/office would just look like the main computer station in the Batcave. Only with cedar paneling.

The dining room would have a full-size print of Guernica hanging on one wall, facing the broad side of the table.

A rec room would have a small, but choice, collection of antique arcade games.

And the hallways would have a few suits of armor, for good measure.
Ranchoth

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I love y’all’s ideas. I know, mine basically center around fewer messes and less work for me! :slight_smile:

featherlou, my ideal bedroom is one without a crib in it. :wink:

Y’all are so creative. I’d love to hear more!

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Ooh, ooh…A dark wood billiard room complete with fully stocked bar and a couple of Kegerators with taps. The bar would seat five at the front and have a long brass rail. Two small tv’s mounted in opposite corners of the ceiling. A red pool table and lots of leather furniture. A fireplace and a GIANT oriental rug. The wood on the walls would run halfway up from the bottom and the walls would be painted dark yellow until the dark wood trim around the ceiling. On the walls would be hanging large framed replicas of those old (French?) posters for liquers and other such stuff - with the corresponding red and yellow colors. Oh man.

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Ooh, looking at your all’s ideas, I want to spice mine up a little. The bedroom would also have a fireplace, as well as a huge hottub. (Yes, IN the bedroom- that could be fun. :wink: )

The bathroom would also have a jacuzzi (sp?)

And I LOVE the idea with the stream leading to a pool.

As I keep getting more ideas and looking at everyone else’s, by the time I’m finished I’m going to have a whole house planned! I better marry rich-lol.

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The new addition we just put on our house. If they will ever finish it! Biggest unexpected bonus is the view from all the new windows. This includes 4 new rooms and a new closet (wet bar in old closet). So to pick one, my office/den with panaramic view and spiral staircase.

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Dread Pirate Jimbo’s dream room is the audio-visual room (entertainment complex) in our dream house. Let’s start with three rows of lazyboy recliners with small tables between each, with the two front and centre ones being heated massagers for Jim and I. The TV should be a 6’ wide projection screen, the speakers would be a five-speaker surround sound system (with really loud, high quality speakers); the dvd player would store about 200 cds/dvds so we never have to get out of the chairs and change dvds; the walls would be floor-to-ceiling bookshelves for all the various types of media (books, tapes, albums, cds, dvds, every type of media you can imagine - a media library, as it were). There would be a refreshment centre with a big popcorn machine to make fresh, coconut-oil-drenched heart attack popcorn, a bar loaded with various beers, coolers, and sodas, and a microwave. Behind the theatre seating, there would be a reading table for reading/studying/playing on computers (joysticks would be run out to the four front chairs, so computer games can be played on the big screen).

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Arrrgh! Only one! sigh

I’m going to restrict myself to the library.

Firstly, I want a high ceiling - to accommodate the shelves and because I like the airiness of a high ceiling. I might be tempted to have a mural on the ceiling – possibly a map of the night sky. Though the walls would have lots of built-in shelves, drawers, and glass-paneled cases for books, objects d’art and other important things, there would be rows of freestanding shelves in the interior of the room – off to one side. In the remaining open area, there would be a fireplace in the wall, and clustered around it would be a couple of overstuffed chairs and ottomans, and possibly a love seat. These should be of a beige-colored velvet with dark green pillows (though I’d sub in claret-colored pillows at Christmas). There would be a coffee table and end tables, as well as two work tables with comfortable chairs – all Mission style. There would be Arts & Crafts-style lamps on all the tables. I would also require a special table or easel for displaying my gigantic atlas. Somewhere – possibly in a loft above, would be a work table for my sewing projects as well as space for my drafting table.

One exterior wall would be nothing but floor to ceiling multi-paned windows with leaded glass accents. I’d hang no draperies except for those paper mini-blinds – the ones that don’t have any slats but are solid paper. There would be stained glass windows with educational themes - such as the solar system – running around the top of the walls by the ceiling. The floor would be wood or brick with thick, subtle area rugs in a muted, dark sage-green. I might possibly have an accurate compass rose painted or embedded in the floor somehow (depending on the surface). There would be French doors that would open out into the garden and the path leading to the lake beyond.

And of course there’d be a secret passage leading from the library to another room in the house.

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I agree with Octavia on the library, but for me, add one of those rolling ladders to get to the books up by the ceiling.
My room is a toy room, lots of glass front cases to hold & display my action figures, & accessories. Then, I want lots of flat surfaces of different heights to set up my play areas, & I may as well throw in a train set & slot car track running all around the room. I imagine that the play areas are not in any regular arrangement, kind of a maze to get from one end of the room to the other. I’d have lots of columned platforms to set up as tall buildings, & wires strung up for those heroes that need to slide down into the scene. I’d have trees & fabric to simulate grass. These don’t exist, but I’d have stores if I wanted a mall scene & cars my 6 inch figs could ride in, I do have a van for the Punisher. I’d have boards made for climbing, so Spidey & his ilk can go vertical when need be. I’d have permanent buildings made for the Baxter building & Stark Industries too. There’d be a sound system too so I can play my superhero music whilst being Amazingly Fantastic. :wink:
I want a room with plants everywhere, a green/white streaked tile floor with a hot tub & a hanging hammock. This room has glass walls.