The second floor of my mansion would have several themed ‘rage rooms’. A rack containing items like baseball bats, sledge hammers, blow torches, and SMG’s would be mounted near the entrance of each room.
One room, for instance, would be filled with all sorts of political memorabilia. Mannequins dressed up like Trump, Jim Jordan, and Mitch McConnell would be positioned at various intervals.
Another room might contain recordings, posters, and other fan memorabilia of the most awful/vapid musical artists that fill the airwaves.
Library and reading room, obviously. Furnished in the style of a tasteful well-to-do Victorian gentleman, except the lighting will be 21st century quality of course.
State of the art recording studio, with a collection of the classic instruments (Fender, Gibson, B3 etc)… and a little black book of phone numbers of excellent session players I enjoy working with.
Chemistry/Physics laboratory with all the basic modern analytical apparatus (gas chronograph / mass spectrometer etc). I’d run a program to investigate all possible compounds from the periodic table which haven’t been synthesized yet… there’s probably a room temperature superconductor in there somewhere!
Kitchen complex staffed by cooks expert in all the great world cuisines. And a good wine cellar, of course.
That’ll do to start…
Two master bedroom suites, each with walk-in closets. The attached bathrooms will have a walk-in shower with a fold-down seat and grip bars, a walk-in tub equipped with spa nozzles. Heated towel racks.
Two guest bedrooms each, with connecting bathrooms.
A professional quality kitchen with a chef who not only prepares meals but teaches me to cook.
An entertainment room with state of the art video and audio equipment and access to all streaming platforms. A video library with all my favorite movies and TV shows to supplement anything not available online.
Two computer rooms, each equipped with up-to-date PC systems, including wide-screen monitors and high speed online access. They would also have small refrigerators and cabinets for stocking snacks so I don’t have to walk all the way to the kitchen.
And of course a library. Actually probably several, each dedicated to my various interests. The fiction library will have shelves for hardcovers, paperbacks, and magazines. The non-fiction library will have sections for biographies, history, science, philosophy (which will include religious texts), and entertainment.
This is why you’re supposed to read a thread before responding, because that was my thought as well, but I thought surely someone must have pointed it out already. And you did!
I like many of the suggestions above; one thing I haven’t seen specifically described is that my aquarium (something several people mentioned) would take up one full wall of my bedroom, so that I could drift off to sleep watching fish swim by.
All in all, Donald Trump has it right. He lives in a hotel. Grandchildren coming over? Clear out a couple of suites. Need a shave? There is a barbershop on site. Need to go to Boston? The hotel limo can take you.
Living in a hotel might wear thin. I wonder if they still leave Trump those notices on how he can help conserve water by reusing his towels rather than using them to build a little fort or prevent his long tie from getting dirty while eating McNuggets. Maybe they eventually gave up.
My wife and I lived in a hotel for 3 or 4 months after I moved to a new city for a new job. It definitely does wear thin. Going out for dinner every night may sound like fun, but that wears thin, too. Eventually you just want to be home, with all your stuff around you instead of being in storage, and with a full kitchen at your disposal.
A potentially interesting arrangement is a condo in a top-tier hotel+condo building, where the condo has access to all hotel services including high-end meal services. Not for me, though, as I am a nature lover and need to be close to the earth, not up in the sky in a concrete box.
Very good point. If I were fabulously wealthy, I would definitely live somewhere with a more hospitable climate. Still, though, there’s nothing quite like being in a a rainforest dome when there’s snow outside. Maybe it could be on one of my vacation houses.
I’d also like a deluxe catio where my cats (plus the others I would adopt once I can afford it) can enjoy the outdoors safely.
I would love an awesome art space with paints and kilns and stuff, but I would want it to be more… open to the public. Which I wouldn’t really want my home to be. Home would definitely have a really nice, comfortable, well-stocked design space, though, with lots of natural light and endless sparkling water.
I LOVE the idea of a huge full-wall aquarium and am putting it on my list.
Regards living in a hotel: Someone wrote that is what living in the White House is like.
There was a tell-all book about cruise ships and the author mentioned a proverbial “trust-fund baby” - who just never left the ship going on voyage after voyage. The person thought it great - everything she needed was on the ship, including medical personnel.
Eventually the ship had to go into drydock for some major repair and the cruise line transferred the person to a resort hotel while the repairs were done - but it was a traumatic experience for all.
Seriously rich folks, and especially folks born into serious riches, don’t do their own cooking and cleaning even when at one of their homes. So for them, the difference between living in a Ritz Carleton or at their home would be less than for you or I living at a nice Marriott versus at our home. In fact they’d probably find the Ritz less ritzy and the staff far less knowledgeable about their desires.
If they have multiple homes they actually use, they’re already used to the dislocation of stuff being in different places, which light switch does what, somewhat different clothing and toys at each house, etc., etc.
Several libraries. One for my wife’s books, one for my non-science fiction books, and several for my sf books (one for magazines, one for books) that are climate controlled and have nice wooden bookshelves, enough of them that I can store the books not doubled up. Thinks Ackermansion.
Pneumatic tubes from the library to other rooms so that I can deliver books all around the house.
A puzzle room for my jigsaw puzzles, with several large tables (big enough for 5,000 piecers) good lighting, and a large screen TV that I can watch while working.
Kitchen should have both a gas and electric range, and a gas and electric oven. And several microwaves. And a place to hang the pots and pans. And ample bookshelf space for our cookbooks.
Two toilets in the master bath, more counter space, two sinks of course (we have that now) and an immense walk in shower. We’ve stayed in several hotel rooms with this and it is awesome. The toilets should be smart toilets. We stayed in a casino hotel which had one, which raised the lid as you approached and automatically cleaned itself. Great fun.
Walk in closets, not that we have all that much stuff. Plenty of storage space. Two offices, a nice workbench for me.
No secret passages, since I’d probably get lost. Except one from the bedroom to a room for frolicking. Mirrors on the ceiling, I won’t go into more details. Admit it, you guys would have one and just didn’t want to say so.
Quite a number of posters have mentioned libraries. I didn’t, but only because as a book lover I just took it for granted as being implied – an absolute basic necessity. I would of course have a huge library, with gentle lighting, comfortable club chairs, and a large fireplace.
