If you had a large room in your house that could be for any purpose you wanted, what would that purpose be?
I’d have an antique furniture stripping / refinishing room.
Or…maybe a library with floor to ceiling shelves and easy chairs and couches and plants scattered about. No TV.
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I would have a library too, with lots of comfy chairs, natural lighting and funky lamps for when I’m reading when I should be sleeping, a window seat and shelves like you described. Or maybe a room where I could do artwork, with lots of paints, canvases, lots of craft glue for assemblages, and a little darkroom off in the corner for photography….if only I had the space! It would be so much fun!
A play room just for the kids!
My own mini theatre where I could hold amateur performances!
Whatever else you use it for, a large room like that is begging for a good sound system. Get the biggest, baddest speakers you can afford & put a hefty sub-woofer in the corner.
I once had such a room in an old house & made a library much as you describe in the question.
TV/film/video studio. I’d have one side of the room be have a cyc wall.
Hardwood floors.
Mirrored Walls.
Ballet bar.
Sound system.
When not exercising or dancing then I’d rollerskate.
@aprilsimnel Interesting wall. Wikip. on cyclorama:
“An infinity cyc (found particularly in television and in film stills studios) is a cyc which curves smoothly at the bottom to meet the studio floor, so that with careful lighting and the corner-less joint, the illusion that the studio floor stretches on to infinity can be achieved.”
“Cycloramas or ‘cycs’ also refer to photography curving backdrops which are white to create no background, or green-screen to create a masking backdrop… Cycloramas are often used to create the illusion of a sky onstage.”
I’d love to set up a music studio to create havok in.
@Neizvestnaya Rollerskating? LOL! I guess “big” is relevant, isn’t it! Mebee someone would like to be able to race motorcyles in their room? :) Whatever! It’s your room and your imagination!
OK, I’d put all glass walls and ceilings and install a beautiful pool with a waterfall, plants all around so you feel like you’re in the jungle. The bottom of the pool would be glass too, and under it I’d have an aquarium with exotic fishes! Can you imagine how cool THAT would be if it was snowing?!
Um…K. And…what “accessories” would you have in this dungeon, @HungryGuy? Would it be made of cold, wet, slimy, dripping limestone deep in the bowels of your duplex?
O wow, @AmWiser! You can bring that to the 10K mansion when you get there! And I’ll quit my job so I can get there ASAP too!!
@Dutchess_III : I believe @HungryGuy is referring to a BDSM dungeon, meaning play space for BDSM activities.
I would love a room for wrapping presents/craft room. I would love to have the luxury of space to hold my rolls and rolls of wrapping paper, gift bags, tags, ribbons and other wrapping implements. The room would also be for my crafts, and my daughter’s crafts. It would have drawers along the walls and the rolls of paper would hang like they do in stores – horizontally, so you could see them all at once. Also in this room would be my off-season seasonal decorations, like Halloween stuff, Easter baskets, party stuff for 4th of July. I always had this idea, then I saw a show where Candy Spelling, Tori’s Spelling’s mom and the widower of Aaron Spelling, had in her vast mansion a room exactly like what i’m talking about. Hers was only for wrapping, not for crafts or holiday storage, but mine would have to be multi-functional (I’m not greedy).
:) And the inspiration for this question just posted… @jca! :)
I would love a place for all of my craft stuff and the table space to do the work. I hate working on our dining room table because it’s really nice and I fear damaging it. And yes, the wrapping paper could go there too.
OK, I’d have my sewing machine set up in one corner of my glassed-in jungle water-fall area. That’s one thing that really stops me from sewing more…having to drag the damn thing out and set it up.
Plants, plants plants and growlights on 3 walls, and my sewing machine on the other.
studio, nice practice loft for a band
My partner and I would fight over it. If it has plenty of light I would want it for an art & craft studio. He’ll want to use it as a wargaming room.
I’d have a “Mom Room”. It would have a TV, a comfortable chair, all my knitting equipment and a kid proof door.
I actually have one. When we added a second floor to our house eight years ago, my contractor ordered the wrong attic trusses. So what should have been a crawl space ended up being a 12’x24’ room (with a window).
We partially finished it, but ran out of money.
When I do get around to finishing it, it’s supposed to be an art studio/library.
@downtide – Maybe not. A brightly lit room makes for a poor wargaming room. Best for you to use it as the studio, and let your partner have some other room. Do you have a basement or attic? Perhaps finish a room off in either for his wargaming room :-)
@downtide Alright, alright you two! You each get your own room! Now go to them and stop fighting!
Hey @knitfroggy! Where have you been???
@HungryGuy alas we live in a tiny house with neither basement nor attic and no spare rooms at all. I’m banking on winning the lottery.
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