Cost aside, what's a home you'd like to live in - taking your climate into situation - but nothing else?
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Forget about the neighbours for a minute – and totally disregard the Jones’, so to speak. You want to live in an igloo in Alaska? You’ve always liked the teepee or beduoin tent – roughing it?
How about a papier mache/clay and mud environmentally friendly type house, or a solar-driven glass house?
What exotic or unique dwelling have you visited/lived in and would never live in again – or wish you could?
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I don’t need exotic or unique.
A Craftsman bungalow on a beach.Smaller home,larger lot with room for a garden and a huge workshop/studio is what I’d like.
If I wanted to go big on a house I would choose this
A house like this one in Sleeping With the Enemy It would be lovely waking up to and hearing the water view below, seeing the sun rise without obstruction…aahhh!
Fallingwater has always been a home I’d like to live in. (One of the items on my Bucket List is to visit it in each of Pennsylvania’s four seasons. Two down, two to go.) An underground house like The Shire from The Hobbit also holds appeal.
I’ve always wanted either a log cabin in Alaska or an RV traveling across the states!
I have always dreamt of living in a lighthouse.
We’re in the process of making our little place almost completely self-sufficient. I’m building my own solar panels and wind-power generator, we bought a huge water-storage tank, have a freezer and storage-room full of food, and are going to buy a generator for emergency power when needed. When I’m done, it will be the sort of home in which you can feel comfortable, as well as be just about as independent as possible. : )
An awesome treehouse on a gorgeous beach in central America.
I would like to live in a cabin (fireplace) up in the mountains, and somewhere that is very isolated from everything. Granted, I would still want internet access, cable TV, etc., but I’m a bit of a loner.
I want a house with a large great room a couple of bedrooms with a bathroom for each one, and a small guest house either attached or not on the property. Oh, and a pool. Florida works just fine for me, I like the warm humid climate. I would like it to be as green as possible with instant hot instead of hot water heaters, solar energy, and capture the rain water for watering the lawn.
I would like to live in an underground home fashioned to resemble the lair of Dr. No from the original James Bond film.
Apart from the cost of construction, underground homes would be quite practical from an energy cost perspective, especially if state of the art fiber optic light tunnel/LED hybrid lighting systems are used.
A decent sized cottage by the lake. A large kitchen is a must for me. I’d like a large garden leading out onto the lake. The home itself doesn’t have to be huge, but privacy and space would be essential.
I could live in that one.
I would love one of these Earthships
So cool, bright and lovely and off the power grid. I’ve always been drawn to the adobe look.
I’d like to live in a log cabin in the mountains. Away from everyone else.
How about a smaller version of the Seattle Space Needle, but not in Seattle…
@lucillelucillelucille My parents live in a Craftsman bungalow that they decorated with all these antiques from the 20s and 30s. They have all this nifty stuff like Roseville pottery and stained-glass lamps. It’s really neat, like stepping back in time.
Right now, I’d most want to live in an apartment or rowhouse like the ones in Richmond’s Fan neighborhood. The neighborhood was build in Victorian times, so there are all these crumbly and uneven brick sidewalks with moss growing out of them. Most of the living spaces are long and narrow, dark in the middle with windows at either end, and they have these old scuffed hardwood floors and walls with like ten layers of paint on them. The bathrooms have old black-and-white tiles and radiators. There are balconies and fire escapes everywhere, and wide, southern-style front porches, and people will climb out the windows onto the roof of the porches and hang out there, too. Out in the neighborhood, the old bricks have fading paint on them and there are plants popping up through the sidewalks.
The whole place has a very down at the heels, lived-in feel to it. It’s not that the architecture is so awesome, but the way people use the space. And the great thing is, it’s really cheap to live there and the neighborhood is full of all these creative people, everyone’s just taking it easy. One day maybe I’ll upgrade to a free-standing house, but I’ll want it to be small, just enough room for me. And I’ll definitely look for a place that has a similar run-down feel to it.
I’ve always fantasized about living in a little thatched cottage, ‘cause cozy rocks.
Once I visited a small village in western France where most of the houses were carved into a limestone hillside. OK, a little damp and dark, but perfect temperature year round, no exterior upkeep, and expandable with a pick axe.
Sometimes I crave the simplicity of a traditional Japanese house, but who am I kidding? My cats would shred the tatamis and rice paper screens in two hours.
Cost aside? A self-replicating self-sufficient luxury starship that’s maintains itself automatically and robotically, and obtains its fuel from zero point energy. Looking at your avatar, you should understand perfectly :-)
I do indeed. I’d engage, and make it so – if I could.
I’m content to live in the house where I was born.
Earth bermed hobbit hole. Warm in the winter, cool in the summer, and I could graze goats or grow plants on the roof.
I want to live in the desert, preferably in Arizona. The house must have a large courtyard and ancient artifacts from around the world everywhere inside the house. Lots of land needs to be surrounding the home along with some animals.
Bascically this
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I love the houses on Santorini, Greece. It’s the only place I’ve been like this. Because it’s a volcanic island 4–5 story houses are built up and down the mountain side. Every room has the ocean view and, if you are very rich you have land to build a patio on some story. The bathroom in one fancy restaurant, where my son had his wedding dinner, was 2 stories down!. Santorini has some homes that have won architectural awards, we were told.
@ratboy is that really the house you were born in?
@ratboy Is your name really Laura Ingalls?
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