What would you have in your fantasy mansion?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Let’s say you wake up tomorrow a multi-billionaire. Even after you’ve ended world hunger, wiped out medical debt, and bought the world a Coke, you’ve got plenty left over to build yourself whatever kind of homes you like and hire the staff to look after it.

What do you include? Basketball courts? Libraries? Peacocks? Secret passageways? Hanging gardens? Movie memorabilia? Laboratories? Ball pits?

I would want a climatron like the local botanical garden has- a big glass dome greenhouse kept hot and humid inside year-round and full of tropical plants. Even in the dead of winter, it’s a lush, green jungle.
Also, cows. Not as dinner or dairy producers- just because I like cows. :cow:

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I’m a pragmatic person - I’d want a big laundry room with multiple washers and dryers.

And lots of dehumidifiers and air purifiers and climate-control management, and water-testing-monitoring. It would be more like a lab than a mansion.

It would also have all sorts of big 5x10 feet posters on the walls, of things like German insects, airliner jets, city skylines, outer space, astronomy, science stuff.

And a flag room with flags from all 200 nations in the world, along with giant world maps and miniature building models.

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Libraries. Secret passageways, both yes.

My wife wants llamas. Why not?

I want a super shower, a bidet and a waterless urinal.

Along with Velocity I want total climate control, with solar and batteries to run it.

A special room for the cats.

Lots of swords, halberds, etc .

A perfect English garden in back. Mostly clover lawn.

In front a xeriscape.

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One of those old-school urinals that takes up half the wall and includes the area of the floor in front of your feet.

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  • A dining room chandelier modeled after the eponymous station from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, inspired by this Reddit post

  • Multiple badminton courts and table tennis tables

  • An Olympic-sized swimming pool

  • A standard 400 meter running track

  • A private movie theater

  • Top of the line kitchen with private chefs

  • A life-size replica of the Enterprise-D

  • A Steinway grand piano

  • A medieval torture dungeon (ok, somewhat kidding on this one)

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Yeah, you know what? A room that looks a bit like a dungeon, with stone walls, torch sconces, etc, with a heavy wood table , just for playing D&D etc.

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  • A large room containing a home theater with a massive screen.

  • Another large room containing a flight simulator – a real one, like one of the $20 million 737 MAX simulators.

  • A “convertible patio”, like a convertible car: swimming pool with patio and gardens that’s totally open-air but, in the winter, gets covered by a retractable roof and turns into an indoor pool + sunroom & greenhouse.

See, unlike some of you greedy types, I only want three things! :wink:

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Hey! I only asked for one thing. And I wouldn’t even need that if my fantasy mansion was way out in the middle of nowhere. I could just stand on the porch.

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You may find this NorCal winery’s room intriguing then:

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As a single person, much over 1000 square feet would feel too empty. I’d have an inner courtyard between two half-houses that were slightly less than 1000 square feet each. I’d have an elevated concrete walkway between the halves overlooking the courtyard which would have a concrete water feature and koi pond, and another stairway from one of the halves descending across a waterfall to the courtyard

There would also be three patios, one off one of the bedrooms exposed to the outside, but also one of them on each half overlooking the courtyard. One of them would double as a weight/exercise room due to its better circulation.

I’d still only have 1 1/2 baths since I don’t get many visitors. I’d have 1 1/2 kitchens, though, having a fridge and wet bar on the half that didn’t have a full kitchen.

My one total frivolity as a single person would be a TV room since I don’t currently watch TV. The only time I get the urge to watch TV is right after a bath when I’m too wet to huddle over electronics and games, so the TV room would be right next to the master bath.

I’d also have a wine cellar. As far as secret passages go, if I built this in a place that didn’t need to dig to basement level due to frost heave, I’d still have a utility crawlway that you’d access via a secret moving wine rack in the wine cellar.

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When my in-laws built one house, they had a bookshelf/hidden door that I thought was cool, so I want a couple of those leading to secret passages. I want a big shower, and a hot tub room, and a proper pottery studio, and a well-landscaped garden. And a train with a track that snakes around the property. And a great kitchen. And a staff to do all the chores!

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It would not be ostentatiously huge but there would be some luxuries including: heated floors, fabulous gourmet kitchen with a wood burning pizza oven, hardwood floors throughout, state of the art home gym, multiple car garage with heated driveway, comprehensive modern backup power grid, of course the house would be water front property of a large lake or bay with a dock for my sailboat (Maine perhaps). Oh, and large mean dogs to keep any of you from coming around uninvited.

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Mine’s located on wooded land near a river, so it has an elevated deck off the bedroom from where I can gaze over the trees and water first thing in the morning, coffee in one hand and a joint in the other.

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Well, the computer room would have a double row of grounded three-prong outlets, one every four inches all along the baseboard. The other rooms would be fine with just one every 15 feet or so.

Ceiling fans in every room.

Enough candlepower in each room that if I opt to turn them all on and all the way up, it’s like a laboratory.

Two ranges in the kitchen, one gas one electric. Two ovens. Two refrigerators. Lots of counter space. A pantry with chest freezers and dry storage, including overhead racks on pulleys. Lots of cabinet space.

Cozy comfortable furniture, with the couches and chairs having seats tall enough that my butt isn’t lower than my knees.

One computer in the computer room will be an audiovisual workstation and can playback to projection or conventional flat television, to room audio speakers with controls for which rooms get audio and how much of it, also with recording from microphones in the piano & performance stage room, video cameras, etc.

Yeah, a nice vintage Steinway and a Yamaha CP-80 and a good midsized Chickering in various rooms with the concert grand in a room with eggcarton paneling large enough to rehearse a 100 voice choir with orchestra.

Garage has a walk-under Bear pit bay, a lift, air compressor and a tall box of Snap On tools, front end alignment, hoist, winches, tire mounting setup, etc.

Nice beds. The kind of firm mattresses that when you sit on them, they don’t budge. Soft but like sitting on well padded marble. Hand carved headboards.

Sewing room with a library of spools of thread, skeins of yarn, needles, pattern library, fabric library, lots of good quality scissors.

Reading room with library shelves up to the 20 foot ceiling and hydraulic lifts to get to the top shelves. More comfy sofas, divans, chairs, tables to read at.

Bathroom laundry chutes go straight to the laundry room. Automated return hangers let folded laundry be hauled to their destination rooms at the press of a button. 10000 rpm extractor to spin all the soapy vestiges from the water after wash cycle. Sunlight skylight air dry lines with optionally open windows.

Attic exhaust fan capable of turning over the entire air supply of the house in a matter of minutes.

Central air. Haven’t decided on type of heat yet, still exploring my options.

Blackout bedrooms below the surface with pitch black and additional beds, multiple egress routes for safety.

Huge fireplaces in several rooms. Wood splitter, massive radial arm saw, the usual sledges and wedges attached to a wood supply room with a barn-sized door for the folks delivering the wood to get in.

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Yes, yes, yess…this.

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A large library, two stories with several auxiliary offices, reading nooks and fire places.

Movie theater with 15 seats

Distillery, creamery, meat processing, smoking, dry aging, brewery, winery rooms with a large pantry.

8 car garage with at least two full lifts and space for all the tools.

Wood shop, metal shop and forge.

Large kitchen with 3 ovens, 2 stoves, pizza oven, two dishwashers, two sinks, prep area, coffee bar.

His and hers master bathrooms. A 7’ long soaking tub in the his master suit.

Three guest suites, two regular bedrooms in addition to the master bedroom.

Generally, when I draw this up in CAD the house ends up in the 7-10 thousand sqft range. I want the house located on some natural water either a lake or a river and then I’d prefer at least 40 acres of orchard, 10 acres of vineyards, 250 acres of pasture/farmland, and 150 acre woodlot. I’d probably just take a full section (640 acres)

Eta: oh ya, my wife would want the grand piano (Steinway) and a music room in general, a arts and crafts room, multiple large saltwater aquariums with fish room.

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The library, secret passages, and laboratories are a given, of course (with the laboratories all pronounced with five syllables). And I’d also toss in a top-end makerspace: Multiple 3D printers that work in various materials (including metal-powder SLM), laser cutters, multi-axis CNC mills (with diamond-tipped metal-cutting bits), a foundry capable of casting at least steel, the works.

Oh, and I’d also have enough windmills and solar panels (or maybe geothermal, location permitting) on-site to power the whole building, and provisions for Internet via multiple technologies, including satellite.

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Love it! :star_struck: :heart_eyes_cat:

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Interesting question.

I’d like to have a drug room. A safe room where I have a ton of recreational drugs (controlled, Rx, otc, research chemicals, etc) as well as drugs to counter the side effects if the recreational drug is too intense (trazodone if the LSD or mushrooms are too intense, rimonabant if I smoke too much weed, etc).

It would be a very safe room with music, a soft bed, soft chairs, and a very comfortable ambiance.

Other than that, I’d have an amazing kitchen with a chef(s) who are trained in a wide range of culinary practices. Maybe I want sushi one day and I want mexican the next, then ethiopian food, etc.

I think I’d have a room devoted to evolution. Just models of what human life started as, and all the life forms we went through as we evolved from fish, reptiles, small mammals, etc. I’d probably combine this with a library. I know I can get ebooks, but there is something about a physical book that can’t be replicated.

A movie theater size screen room would be nice, but I don’t need 100 seats. A few high quality recliners, a few couches and an adjustable bed would be enough.

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A float tank/isolation pod
A huge shower with about 12 various showerheads
An observatory
Bidet/commode combination toilets in every bathroom
A larger cheese cave
An indoor/outdoor pool
An orgy room complete with sex furniture. Yay liberator line! Sorry, no whips/chains etc, guests who wanted that would have to bring their own.