What's your dream house?
 

If you could buy a property, within reason, what's your dream house/property?

No bazillion dollar property since this is CP. Something that's within your grasp and maybe a little bit of a stretch.

Big house?
Land?
Crops?
Animals?
Big shop?

Maybe a small house with little care.

What say you?

A free one. One i can squat in and claim.

There's this one in Memphis that I believe just opened up....

Modest home...10 to 15 acres......fairly close to KC.

Some in Florida! Squatters rights...

Danes hacienda

Old missile silo.

I would like a little more land to go with what I have, but as far as the house itself, I'm living in my dream home.

10 acres w/ a 3 acre pond on part of it. I'll have a nice big outbuilding on it with a loft workshop. A 3-car attached garage with at least one extra long bay for a full-sized king cab pickup. The house; probably about 5 bedrooms; 4 actually used as rooms, one as a study. A nice, open finished walk-out basement with a good unfinished section for storage (and john deer doors into the yard). Big kitchen that is fairly open into the living room. All told, probably about 3500 sq. feet.

5 years; I'll start hunting for the land in 2, designing the house in 3, building in 4 and be there in 5. The workshop/outbuilding will go on it first so I can move the camaro out there and start using part of the land for gardening, etc...

All in due time...

I'm curious. Why the loft workshop?

I actively work to separate the bolded from my home life.

Right now it's not feasible to build my own. But here would be some characteristics:
Shitloads of open space with high ceilings.
Insulation in all of the interior walls.
Pissloads of circuits and outlets everywhere.
Efficient plumbing with no ****ing copper pipes!:cuss:
No carpet.
Lots of light fixtures. I hate those ****ing 1 bulb boob lights.
No doors narrower than 36"
Shallow, wide staircases.
Huge amounts of insulation in every exterior wall.
Lots of storage in cabinets and shelving.
Ceiling fan in each room.
Huge garage. 3 car minimum. With wide doors. For every stall there should be an extra stall space for extra storage.

Exterior.
Efficient water usage landscaping while being low maintinence.
Fence.
3' sidewalk around the house. (Watershed)
Stucco.
Kickass windows.

2 houses

1 in colorado
1 in V.I.

Buehler......the storage KING!!!!

A simple stone and glass A frame in the middle of 100 acres surrounded by flaming AIDS trees.

This would be nice

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...55406748_n.jpg

In reality, about 40 acres with a mix of timber and pasture. A large shop. A small house with a basement.

This ****er hates clutter.

Bob Dole bought 16 acres about 35 miles from Texarkana last October. First step is to place a prebuilt 14x28 "portable building" and finish it out as a cabin. Next steps are to build something similar to this.

working on it right now.

Finished the floor plan today.

bobdole.
This is pretty much what I did a year or so ago. I'll probably regret it but I'll throw up some pics of what I did, but it's obviously not the most bad ass thing ever built, but we enjoy it.

Pretty effin awesome.

Between last post and this, got a call about a 5th wheel 22' Arrow trailer for sale for $5k or less... Might have to alter the "cabin" plan. :)

Here's mine

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rIeB3iy2V4...dreamhouse.jpg

put a contract on this house last week.
http://photos3.zillow.com/p_f/IS-18d7tgocunsd9.jpg
http://photos1.zillow.com/p_f/IS-pph71ws6cokd.jpg

I would love acreage with a lot of trees/woods. The house that I have would be nails w/ that addendum.

This one wouldn't be too awful to have: http://youtu.be/9738CIiY41k

Six car garage with a small kitchen and a bathroom.

I'd love a gigantic mansion. Some people say if they were rich they wouldn't want that big of a house because it wouldn't serve much of a purpose and would be harder to clean etc. I'd want just enough land to feel somewhat isolated.

Really though, I've always wanted my own indoor basketball court.

Oh **** yeah. It wouldn't even have to be part of the house. It could be an outbuilding. I had a goal in my grandad's shed when I was a kid and I put ****load of hours in out there. I'd love to have one better than a dirty concrete floor and a basket.

That futon SUCKS I ****ing own the same one.

Yeah an outbuilding would work just as well. I had a decent house for a couple years before my parents divorced and dissolved the family business, and we had a big ass driveway thingy in the back of the house with a nice goal. I painted a 3 point line and free throw line. It looked pretty shitty but whatever lol. The thing is...I ****in hate the wind when I'm playing basketball. Indoors is so much better.

Slope is worse than wind IMO. Almost all driveways are super sloped, which is necessary for watershed but terrible for ball.

I would love to have 50 to 100 acres with a nice pond. Would like a large house, but what I really want is an old barn that I could make into an office/party barn. Would prefer a hip style barn.

All that said, the wife and I were able to build a couple of years ago. We have nice ranch in town on a acre lot. Most of that is fenced for the dogs. Three car garage, five total bedrooms, 3.5 baths, about 3500 finished. Its more than I ever really thought I'd have. All credit goes to the wife who is AWESOME with our money. I married up.

Honestly, I love my own house. It has...

high ceilings. Ceilings lower than 8 feet make me want to duck.
good location. I can walk to anything.
good size and layout. I have enough room for almost anything I'd want to do.
old. I like the style of older homes.

If I could improve it I'd like a first-floor bathroom and a larger kitchen. I wouldn't mind having some sort of big "project room", too, but I don't really need it.

If I didn't live in the city I wouldn't mind having a house with some land. Maybe 10 or 20 acres. That's only if it doesn't require upkeep, though.

I've got my land with a view, timber and good location. I built a pond that I've heard strangers talking about in area stores and I'm getting ready to build the house I'll likely reside until my departure from this earth.

I've been thinking about building a pond for a decade or more. I've built a lot of what I wanted with it, and have a small pond over it that I'll use as a bait fish incubator that will flood the main pond with big rains. Also have a "centerpiece" of the pond that I have very high hopes for and big ideas that I hope to complete this spring.

I'm pretty damn excited about it.

That sounds freaking awesome! I would love to get some land with a pond on it.

It would be nice to be rich enough that you could afford to be homeless....

Really, would a zombie apocalypse be much different than it already is?

20+ acres stream or a large pond on it. Plenty of wood to fell for a woodstove, some cleared pastures for some basic crops. A 5 BR, 4-1/2 BA house with a view.

-4 car garage
-large freestanding building for a boat and a nice shop
-finished basement with a man cave of chiefs memorabilia, a pool table, keggerator, and bar
-open floor plan with stainless steel appliances in the kitchen.

Oh and an F-250 diesel, a 1963 corvette, a couple ATV's, and a boat :D

That sounds like an awful lot of shit for 20 acres. You'd be working it pretty hard.

I like the size of my house currently (2100 sq.ft.), and I wouldn't want anything much bigger. I would really, really like to have a freestanding outbuilding, as others have mentioned as a shop/studio/storage area.

Since our house is a 1950s ranch, it just doesn't have enough storage space.

As far as dream house, though, I'd really like to have multiple houses in multiple locations (mountains, tropical, downtown in a major city), all small with a minimum of upkeep.

As far as properties go, though, this one is one of my ideal layouts if I were dreaming. 4 different structures. The barn has a bowling alley, bar, recording studio, and stage in it. The modern outbuildings in the top right are for RV and vehicle storage as well as workshops. The actual house is an remodeled farmhouse. Pool and guesthouse up top. It's just a beautiful piece of property. Ponds and such are scattered around, but I didn't show those in the screenshot.

http://www.recoilweb.com/wp-content/...ew-958x638.jpg

It's zombie-proof bitches!

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u...ps06e310b0.jpg

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u...ps307dbcd2.jpg

http://www.chatsworth.org/images/img...771d4_orig.jpg


But on a smaller scale obviously.

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Large modern log cabin on about 50 acres in Wyoming, Montana etc.

Four single wide mobile homes attached. Forming a square with a courtyard kennel for pitbulls, man.