# What would you have in your fantasy mansion? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 20, 2021, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-have-in-your-fantasy-mansion/940400 "2021-04-20T19:55:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2021, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-have-in-your-fantasy-mansion/940400/21 "2021-04-20T23:54:45Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > I’m a pragmatic person - I’d want a big laundry room with multiple washers and dryers. Would you still be doing your own laundry if you had that kind of money? One luxury I’d like to have that is too much trouble right now is freshly laundered sheets every night. Having someone wash, dry and then replace my sheets on my bed an hour before I decide to go to bed would be a nice luxury. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2021, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-have-in-your-fantasy-mansion/940400/22 "2021-04-20T23:57:03Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > An observatory > Bidet/commode combination toilets in every bathroom > A larger cheese cave > An indoor/outdoor pool I like it but = a _larger_ cheese cave? Do you already have a smallish one? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2021, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-have-in-your-fantasy-mansion/940400/23 "2021-04-20T23:58:50Z")
Current home is built on a sand dune. That limits our present cheese cave size. ---
**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 21, 2021, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-have-in-your-fantasy-mansion/940400/24 "2021-04-21T00:04:06Z")
A bowling alley. The world’s biggest TV. A 144,000 gallon aquarium. A fully stocked sushi bar and chef. Star Trek automatic doors. A 6 slice toaster. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-have-in-your-fantasy-mansion/940400/25 "2021-04-21T00:11:02Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > 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. Ooh, also I’d have a shooting range, both indoor and outdoor with a wide range of weapons, I’d make Hickok45’s collection and range seem quaint. A room full of guns and a room full of drugs, I’ve obviously thought this through. And of course I’d never use the two rooms at the same time just in case people wonder. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-have-in-your-fantasy-mansion/940400/26 "2021-04-21T00:15:22Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > A 144,000 gallon aquarium. > A fully stocked sushi bar and chef. Do these go together? 😛 At the Monterey Bay Aquarium they have a trout stream. Now that would be great. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-have-in-your-fantasy-mansion/940400/27 "2021-04-21T00:16:53Z")
The convertible patio exists–it’s called a **Loggia**. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-have-in-your-fantasy-mansion/940400/28 "2021-04-21T00:17:56Z")
A fully stocked Harem. More stuff, later, if I get around to it. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-have-in-your-fantasy-mansion/940400/29 "2021-04-21T00:19:23Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > > [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > > > An observatory > > Bidet/commode combination toilets in every bathroom > > A larger cheese cave > > An indoor/outdoor pool > > I like it but = a _larger_ cheese cave? Do you already have a smallish one? I’ve been to the Mercotan Mansion. You’d be amazed at what he already has. In addition to the Tolkien Library I’m convinced there’s a passageway to Naria in there. And, Qadgop, is there a reason you can’t have bidets in your current place? ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-have-in-your-fantasy-mansion/940400/30 "2021-04-21T00:24:06Z")
A maid and a cook (who also shops the groceries). Otherwise I like it where I am. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-have-in-your-fantasy-mansion/940400/31 "2021-04-21T00:26:36Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > is there a reason you can’t have bidets in your current place? We’ve got 7 bathrooms. I’d need 6 more combination bidet setups. We could get some really nice things with that bidet money. And since our main bathroom is the one in use by us 95% of the time, we’re putting that money elsewhere. Like expanding the cheese cave ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-have-in-your-fantasy-mansion/940400/32 "2021-04-21T00:39:39Z")
I’d want my mansion on forested land in a dark sky area, far from the nearest major source of light pollution. On a huge plot of land, for privacy. What’s the biggest plot of forested land you can buy these days, that is accessible by road and not simple fire trails you’d need a 4WD vehicle for? A quick google for that kind of thing turned up big ranches that don’t have many trees on them. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-have-in-your-fantasy-mansion/940400/33 "2021-04-21T01:24:55Z")
Interrrrrrresting thread. Lets see, about 1100 sqft or so of living space to start, might be a bit higher, I want a **really** _really_ nice shower. One of those ones made of granite with multiple shower heads from multiple angles. The kind that’s really a small room all its own. Of course I’d need the industrial water heating system to support such a thing, but just a small industrial water heating system, no need to go too crazy, right? I would have a small kitchenette and a Kitchen/Laboratory/Small Distillery (Bunsen Burner Stew anyone?) ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-have-in-your-fantasy-mansion/940400/34 "2021-04-21T01:32:14Z")
I swear, my wife has no idea how lucky she is that I outgrew my middle school fantasies of my dream house… although I’ll just say she’s never found a secret trap door hiding a secret staircase to a secret arcade with a secret elevator to a secret sub-basement (named for the Nuclear Party Submarine docked down there). Let’s just say, when I first saw Bongo’s Dream Dorm, I thought about suing Matt Groening for Intellectual Property Theft… [![](https://regmedia.co.uk/2016/10/04/bongos_dream_dorm_large.jpg) ](https://regmedia.co.uk/2016/10/04/bongos_dream_dorm_large.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-have-in-your-fantasy-mansion/940400/35 "2021-04-21T01:48:39Z")
Primarily I want secret passage ways, hidden rooms, tunnels under the house to outlying cottages. But also there’s a sub basement that will survive a nuclear blast, stocked etc. It’s not so much that I think we’ll need it, but might as well. This video sparked my imagination, I guess. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qBruAooXPNU/hqdefault.jpg "Donald Fagen - New Frontier (Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBruAooXPNU) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-have-in-your-fantasy-mansion/940400/36 "2021-04-21T01:50:00Z")
It’s not a ‘What’. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-have-in-your-fantasy-mansion/940400/37 "2021-04-21T01:58:41Z")
> [@Ynnad](#): > > One of those old-school urinals that takes up half the wall and includes the area of the floor in front of your feet. That’s what I call a bath tub. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-have-in-your-fantasy-mansion/940400/38 "2021-04-21T02:34:54Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > - Another large room containing a flight simulator – a real one, like one of the $20 million 737 MAX simulators. Simulator? I’m buying a mothfuckin’ jet, playa! Maybe the new Gulfstream G700. I might even learn how to fly it. I’d need a wine cellar. Also a scotch cellar. HDTV theatre, obviously Definitely getting one of those big Bond villain rooms full of ninjas training. I’m sure my kids will want a Lego room. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-have-in-your-fantasy-mansion/940400/39 "2021-04-21T02:49:56Z")
- A library. - An art gallery. - A home theatre decked out like a fantasy castle. - A meditation chamber decked out like the Emperor’s Throne Room in _Return of the Jedi_. - A formal garden, like a small Versailles. - A tower, with a winding staircase, and an observatory/sun room at the top. - A wild garden with secret corners and hidden surprises. - A ridiculously long dining table. - Internet and tech gadgets out the wazoo. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-have-in-your-fantasy-mansion/940400/40 "2021-04-21T03:05:56Z")
I’m not unhappy with my current premises. However, in ideal circumstances: - my abundance of books could all be in a handsome, 1800s-style library and not scattered in bookcases all over the house - an indoor heated pool would be nice - so would a full gym with aerobics studio, a Stairmaster, Jacobs ladder and climbing machine. Plus kettlebells and dumbbells to 200 pounds, plus all the Nautilus gym equipment and a running track. Basketball and badminton courts. Curling ice and hockey rink. Bowling alley. Rollerblading trails. Shooting range. - full movie and concert theatres - dancing ballroom - full-sized tavern with wine cellars - full sized restaurant with pro kitchen - full solarium - small zoo and dog shelter - multi story garage - dedicated sushi bar and chef - dedicated professional pit BBQer/smoker - several masseuses - attractive female bodyguards - rooms filled with 1) Oompa Loompas 2) Lego 3) gold coins 4) dragons 5) sibyls 6) mountain with hiking trails 7) nymphomaniacs 8) celebrities 9) cryogenics equipment 10) a sunny beach 11) bands that I like 12) a nice hotel 13) an ersatz Las Vegas 14) a pleasant forest 15) a Roman bath 16) hot springs 17) theatre costume room 18) device for taking over world under Project Arcturus 19) time machine 20) D&D style artifacts 21) small but pleasant art gallery, maybe a replica of the Musee d’Orsay AND the nice Guiggenheim in Venice 22) so why not canals? - a cheesecake cave [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-have-in-your-fantasy-mansion/940400.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-have-in-your-fantasy-mansion/940400.md?page=3)