# What was your dream home as a child? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 14, 2017, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-dream-home-as-a-child/784419 "2017-04-14T00:06:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2017, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-dream-home-as-a-child/784419/41 "2017-04-17T19:11:37Z")
My Aunt and Uncle’s house in the Catskill mountains, they had it built in the 1950’s. There was an open dining / living room with a brick fireplace open on two sides and a big picture window from ceiling to floor with a view of Mount Overlook. Lots of light and air. Step outside the door and you could run around in the woods. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2017, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-dream-home-as-a-child/784419/42 "2017-04-17T20:03:56Z")
My family was lower middle class, but I went to school with rich and poor alike, including kids from the Hickel family in Alaska. The lived in what was to my eyes a mansion, with all sorts of cool stuff inside and a basketball court outside. I was always ga-ga when I went over there to shoot hoops. ---
**Author:** ![Whiskey\_Dickens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9fc348/32.png) [@Whiskey\_Dickens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whiskey_Dickens)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2017, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-dream-home-as-a-child/784419/43 "2017-04-17T21:14:24Z")
I did a dream home project for some class in Elementary school. All I remember about it was almost every room had a rather specific purpose (“This is my G.I. Joe room!”), playground slides connected most of the house, and there were multiple elevators. ---
**Author:** ![kbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@kbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kbear)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-dream-home-as-a-child/784419/44 "2017-04-18T23:02:28Z")
I always wanted either the Brady Bunch house or the original Parent Trap house. After the last 12 years living in skinny 4/5 story terraced houses in London, I would kill for lateral space! ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-dream-home-as-a-child/784419/45 "2017-04-20T19:18:48Z")
> [@UltraVires](#): > > The Clue house. That’s the one I wanted. Then I grew up and decided that I didn’t need a conservatory, and lately the library can be contained on my phone. I’m not cleaning all of those fucking rooms. 🙂 Your Dream House should come with Dream Domestics. 😉 Yeah, I wanted either the house from the movie _Clue_, or Collinwood from _Dark Shadows._ ---
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-dream-home-as-a-child/784419/46 "2017-04-20T19:47:23Z")
> [@Whiskey\_Dickens](#): > > I did a dream home project for some class in Elementary school. All I remember about it was almost every room had a rather specific purpose (“This is my G.I. Joe room!”), playground slides connected most of the house, and there were multiple elevators. Yes! I am in awe at how sophisticated Dopers’ tastes were as children!! The big thing I remember was that in fifth grade, my classmate wrote a short story where one of the characters used a slide that connected to her bedroom window to leave her house, and I thought that was the coolest idea ever and wanted to have one for myself. I suppose I also wanted a secret passageway. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-dream-home-as-a-child/784419/47 "2017-04-20T19:52:06Z")
Oh…movie houses. I wanted the house from both the movie [The Ghost and Mrs. Muir](http://hookedonhouses.net/2011/09/12/gull-cottage-in-the-movie-the-ghost-and-mrs-muir/) and the [TV show](http://hookedonhouses.net/2011/08/29/gull-cottage-from-the-ghost-mrs-muir-tv-show-for-sale/). The [house in Mrs. Miniver](http://hookedonhouses.net/2011/06/27/mrs-minivers-house-in-world-war-ii-england/) was also sweet. StG ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-dream-home-as-a-child/784419/48 "2017-04-20T19:56:48Z")
I had a page from a magazine of where I wanted to live when I grew up. It was a small room and the bed was a loft accessed by a ladder, and under the loft was the living space. I remember the whole room was red. And then I DID live in my dream home: When I grew up my tastes changed and I wanted a one-bedroom apartment, downtown, with a bathtub and a bay window. Long story short, I ended up moving downtown into a house (built in 1867 and converted to apartments) that I wanted to live in since I was 13. I started in #11 but then #10 came available - which was a one-bedroom with a bathtub and a bay window. I lived there for 9 years until it was time to move into my husband’s home. I still miss that place. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-dream-home-as-a-child/784419/49 "2017-04-20T20:41:52Z")
I didn’t have a dream home as a child, but a couple years ago I had a literal dream about a house which is probably the largest house I’d feel comfortable in. The middle was a conservatory/gallery with open walkways between the two other, more houselike parts. So basically a house nearly the size and dimensions as a standard 2 story box house but with a naturally-lit gallery inserted into in the middle. Both stories of both “house” halves have parts that are open to the gallery, and each side has enough room for a couple bedrooms and a bath. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-dream-home-as-a-child/784419/50 "2017-04-20T21:09:30Z")
I visited The House On The Rock as a kid and immediately thought of it as the ultimate dream house. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-dream-home-as-a-child/784419/51 "2017-04-20T21:19:41Z")
> [@Cardigan](#): > > I always thought big log cabins/cedar wood construction was cool when I was a kid. I guess I still do. > [@Sattua](#): > > A log cabin. I was a big Laura Ingalls fan, and I still go head over heels for living history places. I grew up in a log house. Not an old one, though. For at least a couple of the features, that’s still my dream house, though it’s MUCH bigger than I want. When we bought our house, we both noticed how much the deck reminded us of the house I grew up in. It’s high up and looks out over a wooded ravine. The house I grew up in is still in the family. Now it’s used year round as a vacation rental. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-dream-home-as-a-child/784419/52 "2017-04-20T21:31:04Z")
I just wanted accessories: A hand in a box to bring in the mail (or other jobs), a bedroom/bathroom combo like Matt Helm (the bed tipped up and dropped you on a conveyor belt which ran you through the shower and dressing areas [MH always had girls around, but, YUCK!]), and a Green Hornet garage, where you pulled your car in and clamps held it in place while the platform rolled the car underneath. And an elevator like the Jupiter-2. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-dream-home-as-a-child/784419/53 "2017-04-20T21:34:11Z")
Dammit, I forgot to answer the actual question! I’m dumb. I wanted to live with Willy Wonka SO BAD. I weirdly wanted edible balloons, which now makes me uncomfortable, though I never felt the chocolate river was hygienic at all. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-dream-home-as-a-child/784419/54 "2017-04-21T01:00:48Z")
I wanted to live in a 1960s bachelor pad with a tiki motif, sunken conversation pit and a huge tube amp stereo system. ---
**Author:** ![veraborges](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ac8455/32.png) [@veraborges](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veraborges)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-dream-home-as-a-child/784419/55 "2020-04-28T14:43:37Z")
I was charmed by Le Corbusier. Now I wish I had something like [this](https://www.amarantelva.com/spain/barcelona/villas/barcelona-exclusive-villa) though doesn t seem to happen!!! ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-dream-home-as-a-child/784419/56 "2020-04-28T14:51:48Z")
I wanted to live in the Addams Family house from TV. With them in it. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-dream-home-as-a-child/784419/57 "2020-04-28T18:00:23Z")
My dream home was one of those big three story homes, with tons of rooms, in on part of town that was built in the late 1800’s, early 1900’s. Gingerbread work all over, narrow back staircases for the servants, and a little room at the top front corner with windows that circled all around it/ I wanted to have my own little lair up there. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-dream-home-as-a-child/784419/58 "2020-04-28T18:48:41Z")
I recall when we were shopping for our house here 30+ years ago and the realtor asked what are you looking for in a house. I said a turret. My wife looked at me then agreed. Yes a turret. While there were such houses in the area none were for sale, at least in our price range. As for specific houses, I always wanted to live in the house where I lived from ages 0 to 6. I don’t recall too much about it but have always been nostalgic for it. It had a room above the garage, but I don’t recall ever being in it. It had a huge backyard that backed up on a small farm and Mom would send me over to get fresh corn. My bedroom was on the third floor and it had a dormer you could walk into and look out the window. Many years after we moved out and after I was in college or later the owners (at least three later) told me about a small hidden closet off the basement room next to the fireplace. I was heartbroken I’d never found it. ---
**Author:** ![Ashtura](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ashtura/32/2963_2.png) [@Ashtura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtura)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-dream-home-as-a-child/784419/59 "2020-04-28T19:11:23Z")
> [@RubenQ](#): > > Mine was like the one of friends. The White House. Or something like it. White with columns. ---
**Author:** ![veraborges](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ac8455/32.png) [@veraborges](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veraborges)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-dream-home-as-a-child/784419/60 "2020-04-28T20:17:56Z")
> [@Ashtura](#): > > The White House. Or something like it. White with columns. you might be interested in Marbella, Spain, then. There are pretty a lot of those [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-dream-home-as-a-child/784419.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-dream-home-as-a-child/784419.md?page=4)