| Home Sweet Home?
Posted: 7/11/2006 3:35:48 PM | What is that true setting and environment you would love to live in (aside from honourable things for others, I mean you) if you were given the funds, but only under these conditions.
No self-promotion, lets have fun with this. Personally I have struggled with this most my life and seem to be swaying from city to country life. Would like to hear what woman would view as their ultimate setting. As a man, it would be interesting to see what woman would say.
This should include: the type of home, where and what is around. | |
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Posted: 7/11/2006 3:46:38 PM | A small house, with a small garden. In a neighbourhood on the outer rim of a small enough city that I can still walk or bike to the downtown. Near enough to the ocean to drive there in a few minutes. Hey! I'm already there!
Edit: A sunny deck, please, too. | |
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Posted: 7/11/2006 4:42:38 PM | good question:
I have not been to enough countries to know which i would want to live in so I have to be generic.
I would like a 2 storey log house with a basement. the house would be in a well treed area the driveway 1/4 mile long. pulling up to the house you would be greated by a friendly Lab and to your left would be a 3 car garage with an apartment on top sided with log. the area would be nicely treed with poplar and spruce with a bit of pine a gentle sloping pathway would lead to a dock on a pictureesk BC lake in front of you would be a grand porch. Through the front entrance way you would walk into a large open room
to your left a step down to the great room
to your right a bench seat and a place to hang your coat.
once you have taken your coat and shoes off you would have a choice to walk into the kitchen area or step down into the great room. the great room is a beutiful living area with slate flooring and a stone ( not brick ) fire place with a stone chimney the floor to cieling windows provide an amazing view of the lake. if you had continued walking straight there would be a railing protecting you from falling down the 2 steps to the great room. on your left on your right a bathroom
past the bathroom you would be greated by a gormet kitchen with granit counter tops a stainless steel pot hangings gas cook top double fridge and an island with an eating bar and sink - so one could look out onto the lake while cooking or doing hte dishes
when standing in the kitchen facing the lake
the door to go outside to your left there would be a sun room ro your right with a full dining area. the cielings in teh kitchen are only 10 feet apose to the 25 foot cielings in the living room
there would be stairs going up to a loft near the center of the great room
the loft would be open
with a jacuzie tub yadda yadda yadda
the list gets longer I dont know if I have described this well enough but basicly nice log house with one room in a loft on a lake and about 10 acres of land for m y horse to roam on - about 15 minutes from a center so my husband doesnt go crazy ! | |
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Posted: 7/11/2006 4:50:01 PM | I'd have a 5 bedroom house, big kitchen and a finished basement. It would be in the city, but not sack in the middle. I'd love a deck, can I order the sun to come with my house? | |
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Posted: 7/11/2006 4:54:00 PM | I love these questions!!!
I would live in a ranch style bungalow at the outskirts of a small town by a lake. In northern Ontario of course...  Great hiking trails, lots of colourful foliage in the autumn and a screened in gazebo so I can read while enjoying a gentle breeze.
I'm infatuated with small town life... where you walk down the street and no one looks at you oddly when you smile and say hello... | |
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Posted: 7/11/2006 4:55:26 PM | You need to live in my area. :)
We don't even lock (or even close) the doors for the most part.
I've come home from work, and had two of the neighbours sitting in my living room, sipping tea. They got up and made me some. Then we spent the evening chatting.
It's not a neighbourhood... it's a community of friends. :) | |
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Posted: 7/11/2006 4:59:41 PM | Adam - wow sounds like where I grew up - i need my space i dont think I could handle my neighbores in my living room
plus i am a slob | |
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Posted: 7/11/2006 4:59:44 PM | | Small acreage just outside of my city (close enough to commute...far enough to be non-city), lots of evergreen trees, a veranda. | |
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Posted: 7/11/2006 6:21:30 PM | Well with the way this summer has been ... anything with a screened in porch so I can enjoy the evening breezes sans mosquitos. Being close enough to see/hear waves lapping on shore would be an added bonus.
But truly .. home would be wherever my heart resides  | |
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Posted: 7/11/2006 6:25:58 PM | | I left my door unlocked once by mistake, tv went missing. | |
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Posted: 7/11/2006 6:27:00 PM | | 5 bedrooms. At least 2 full bathrooms. In the country but not too far out of a smaller town. About 10 minutes drive is good. 25 acres of just trees and a big garage to fill with toys that I can drive through said trees with. Maybe a barn with a couple horses. | |
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Posted: 7/11/2006 7:36:40 PM | | A beach house by the ocean. Floor to ceiling windows where I can see the waves and hear them crashing on the shore. Forget a garden.....I hate weeding and have a purple thumb. Although I would like a cherry tree and a peach tree. A girl can dream. | |
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| Home Sweet Home?
Posted: 7/11/2006 7:53:33 PM | Home is where ever the people i love are...ooooorrrr in a big ass mansion on the beach front in the bahamas lmao | |
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Posted: 7/11/2006 8:20:23 PM | | 100 acres fenced in the center of New York City. My own country inside the city with the world at my fingertips. A nice comfortable house with room for guest. Swimming Pool and hot tub. Lots of trees and flowers, maybe a manmade lake with ducks on it, oh and a lovely japanese garden with the bridge over a stream full of lily pads. Be able to hide in the country like atmosphere, but can take a short drive out to the Theater, Broadway, Bloomingdales and all the other city delights. | |
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Posted: 7/11/2006 8:21:10 PM | If were dreaming make belive. I would go all out if money wasn't a issue. Note it will never come true and I am o.k. with that.
I would design my own home, with a few hidden rooms with escape ways, so if a intruder ever came in to my home the kids could get out.
I would put in a inground inside pool, and work out room. A underground passage that goes out to where the cars are. (I don't like it when where the cars are is hooked to the house. Give people ideals of how to brake in.) I would have built in big beds and dressers so the rooms are always clean, and the kids can't hide things understuff. A heck of a long list with tall fenceing around the out side, with a good lighting system, and cameras. A nice basketball court, and tennis court would be nice. Maybe horses shoe place, and other games. A barbue area, with picknick tables, and the works.
Its great to dream isn't it. People really can't afford what people have in their dreams. The list would be crazy. So why ask.
 Good thing we learn to deal with real life. | |
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Posted: 7/11/2006 8:40:09 PM | I would have to say my dream home would be a modified A-frame log house with a steel roof and wrap around porch/deck. A great-room with a vaulted ceiling and a fireplace. Master bedroom, bathroom and laundry on the main floor and an eat-in kitchen, and a three season jacuzzi room.
Plop it down on 40 acres of clean country earth, and add to it a stock pond, polebarn for the horses and a multi-functional, workshop for me to play in. Later I'll add a cute little one roomed hunter's lodge on the other side of the property for romantic sneak-aways.
Ahhhhh, heaven...... | |
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Posted: 7/11/2006 8:47:29 PM | Lets add its own way to heat and cool complete where I don't have to rely a out side sourse of enegry. I would want to use the sun, and the wind. and system so it could be changed over with a throw of a switch. Heck let even add a gas system in case the wind and sun wasn't doing its job that day, so it don't run out what it has saved up.
Lets add a large inside green house that sits off from the house, so I could put out a garden with out worring about snakes, and bugs, and things like that. Has to be the top of the line system. LOL sorry you asked yet. LOL
I just got mailed a e-mail for graf home design schools after posting here. Funny thing is its on the e-mail account that we have listed threw the computer. Not the one I use for here. | |
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Posted: 7/11/2006 8:54:02 PM | | Huge house in Malibu, waterfront with private beach... All white and nice and comfy. | |
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Posted: 7/11/2006 9:25:12 PM | | To all of the Aboves, may I add a large room with skylight roof?? I mean a glass roof well designed for me to watch stars at night??? Is it possible??? | |
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Posted: 7/11/2006 9:30:20 PM | That reminds me lets do the metal bars framing, with poured thick concrete around it so it can stand what ever nature throws at it. Don't want to have to rebuild it later. Best put it where it wont flood. Let have them things on the windows that can be closed so in bad weather no glass gets broke. (In case of fire it has to have a sprinkler system. smoke alarms, the works. Safety, safty, safty.)
Lets add a door in side of the main doors, so someone coming in has to work to get in, by that time the system has caught them on tape, and locked them in the room, and called the cops on them. Nice let add a way to talk to who ever on speaker, and nag him to death until the cop gets there. Are talk about why he did what he did, and how does it feel to be held acountable until the cops get there. | |
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| Home Sweat Home?
Posted: 7/11/2006 9:52:05 PM | I would love, love LOVE to live in my own New York City style LOFT!!! One of those converted warehouses, or really old factories! Super high ceilings, exposed beams, exposed brick, hard wood flooring! One big giant room that is big enough to ride your bike in. I'd love to have it furnished with a combination of mid-century modern, Danish, and ultra-modern furnishings and art, with lots of storage so there'd be no clutter.
I'd love to live in an artsy museum district. A cultural area.
Any donors???? | |
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Posted: 7/11/2006 9:56:59 PM | | This was a good question! Not the usual "why do ALL women do this or that" complaint, Good Job!! | |
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Posted: 7/11/2006 10:15:57 PM | Lets add a wood style on the inside with big seenrey walls. Hard wood floors. Fire place with a high bottom for you to sit on, and talk. Want it made out of rock, with the top outer part of fine crafted carved wood. With a big mirro on top where when the power goes out. I can light candles and the light flows off the mirros, to one to another threw out the home. That way the home is well lit with not so much use.
I just got another e-mail from ace is the place. O.k. it has to have something to do with this place. | |
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Posted: 7/12/2006 9:35:09 AM | kaosgrl: I very much enjoyed your post and envisioned it, I loved the idea of high ceilings in the living room space and the kitchen you described with the granite counter tops. The house over all sounds a lot like a chalet style log home, awesome! Well treed area is a must to me as well. Maples trees would be great for collecting good ole Canadian syrup.
BossyLady: 5 bedrooms? Wow that's huge! Unfortunately we can't temp mother nature for all sun, she has a strange way to turn it around on us for life lessons ..lol.
psssst: It was nice to see you post and take this for what it is.
I'm infatuated with small town life... where you walk down the street and no one looks at you oddly when you smile and say hello...
I am a fan of Louis Armstrong and this reminded me of his song "What a Wonderful World". It always seems to put me in a positive mind set.
Adam: yes, the day we can all "not" have to lock our doors would be a wonderful world.
sammy salt: nice place you described but if it was a setting of your dreams, why all the security? That would not be a setting I dream of. Your little side-notes at the end of your postings referring to email you have received, I don't see the connection from here ...perhaps coincidence, slight paranoia? This was only meant as a fun topic, a "home sweet home" perspective for me, nothing more nothing less.
Interesting ...two teachers posted ...luv it!
I would like to comment on all the post but don't want to overdo it..lol.
Lots of interesting post and I am getting some great ideas from them. I will one day make this a reality and nothing will stop me and I wish you all the same. Thank you all ! | |
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Posted: 7/12/2006 9:47:40 AM | OK, this is TOO trippy! My fella is emailing me links to homes listed online cause he wants to find us a new den of sin, lol, and then I come across this thread!
I've always liked the cabin/cottage type home. Nothing elaborate or too showy and large. Just cozy and warm...I don't like the kind of place that says, "look, but don't touch". I like overstuffed, soft furniture with lots of pillows and chenille throws, dim lighting, and pretty, earth tone, jeweled colors.
I'm big on fireplaces, whirlpools, lakes and I'm kookoo for a big, wrap around porch with rocking chairs and flowers EVERYWHERE! I want it very private and secluded, with woods surrounding it, and I want blues and jazz piped in from everywhere, lol...I think every kitchen should have soft jazz music playing at all times. It would shoot me to the stars to have a big veggie garden cause I've always wanted to live off the land, and otherwise, I want flowers growing wild all around me.
I can just see us drifting away in a lil canoe, sipping wine and doing naughty things. | |
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