What is your house like?

The 5 of us share a single family, 1200 sq ft, 3 bedroom, 1 bath on .25 acres. Fairly-quiet street (not much traffic).

2 story detached, on a cul-de-sac. Large lot for the neighborhood, suburban setting, about 3250 sf. White brick exterior, the brick came if 4 different lengths and has an adobe look to it, 12/12 pitch on the roof, hi-profile shingles, large front porch with bench and clg fan. I tried to give it an early Texas look from the outside, 9’ ceilings throughout, lots of crown mould and fluted trim on the doors and windows, 4 br (including a M-I-L suite), 3ba, 2dr, 2lr (one vaulted), laundry, play/tv room, library, 2 car garage (full of crap), cabana, pool. A house that is way too big for my wife and I at this time. The kids have grown up and moved into places of their own and we just rattle around. In fact, we all but closed down the upstairs for the summer and lived downstairs. Another month, when the weather turns for good, I get to move back upstairs and back into my waterbed! (I really miss that bed).
About the time we tried to sell it, the bottom fell out of the market. We are still waiting for it to come back up to a level where I can sell it at what I need to get for it.

Tiny, rickety 1970s mobile home that is poorly insulated (understatement) on about ¼ of an acre of mosquito and spider farm.

Haaaaaaate this place.

Large white columns, about 40 acres. Secret Service agents everywhere. I’m not allowed to drive – they make me ride in limousines. I do have my own airplane, however.

The problem with this house is that there are dozens of rooms that are fully of all sorts of historical crap, and I can’t go in there. It’s a shame.

3 bedroom, single-story ranch with 2 baths. Boring, but decent.

Living in an apartment now. There is garage on the ground floor. When you walk in you go up a flight of stairs and the entire living area is up there. I love being on the second floor, but bringing groceries up the stairs is a bitch. It’s a two bedroom, but the smaller bedroom is full of boxes while we wait to move into a house. It’s a very nice size and has a small screened in terrace.

Nice

3 bedroom, white frame (covered with siding at some point) ½ story, over a hundred years old, but remodeled many times. In fact, the HUD housing people thought it was built in the 50’s or they never would have financed it for me!

I like the upstairs the best. You can see where the roof starts to slope down along the edges. Also, you go up stairs and on the first landing you can turn right and go 3 steps up into the bathroom, or go around the old wooden bannister (which I refinished) and 3 more steps up to two bedrooms. One is really large.

There is an alcove in the kitchen where I’m pretty sure the cooking fire lived. There is an old chimney that runs up through there anyway.

@elbanditoroso Where do you live? The White House??

Right now living in a 2-bedroom apartment with loft. Nothing special, although it does have a nice little garden. The building’s Spanish style, the apartment’s pretty much all white inside: white carpet, white walls, it’s very bright, which I do like.

The house I grew up in was quite interesting: 6 bedroom, 6.5 bathrooms, large pool, poolhouse, ~7000 sq. ft, craftsman style, gray with white trim. I still have a room there of course and I’ll be back in a couple weeks =)

Three bedroom, three bath condo. Up and down. Full basement, two car garage attached. Fenced patio. The cool thing is that the ceilings are ten feet. Makes it seem really big.

@Dutchess_III – shhhhh . ....the secret service would have a fit if they knew I was on Flutter

They already know!!

My husband and I (and cat and dog) live in a 2-story, 2000 sq ft, 3 bedroom/2.5 bath house that was built last year. Downstairs is a living room with a fireplace, an attached dining area, a kitchen, and a half bath. There’s a back door leading to a small screened-in porch. We have a foyer with a closet that leads to the front door, the garage door, and the stairs. Upstairs we have our laundry room, three bedrooms, a linen closet, and a spare bathroom. There’s also an attic over a large empty space at the top of the stairs.

We live in a subdivision in the cul de sac with houses on both sides. We own a small lot, so our front and back yards are pretty tiny. There’s a frontage road behind us where we walk our dog.

I live in a small two bedroom upper flat or apartment that is within walking distance of the city centre and within walking distance of the country. It is quite small but a perfect size for me as I mostly live on my own.

3 bedroom apartment above a collision shop right on the river. Beautiful views, very spacious apartment. I love the neighborhood. Cute little town. Love the place but the rent is high, we don’t control our heat, and the parking situation can be shitty. Take the good with the bad.

Four Bedroom, two bath ranch style built in 1971, so beginning to show its age. I have a swimming pool and a picket fence. My house looks a lot like many other houses in the neighborhood, and there are street after street of them.

Three of us live in a four-bedroom, two-bath, two-floor single family on a .25 acre corner lot. About 2200 square feet.

It was a two-bedroom ranch when we bought it, but we added a second floor – which I designed.

Well, cool! What was the design @cookieman?

@Dutchess_III: Nothing amazing, but I added three bedrooms, a bathroom with jacuzzi, and a walk-up, third-floor attic studio space. It was cheaper than buying a new house.

Pretty decent 1 bedroom apartment on a third floor with a gracious view of the local grocery store parking lot. The apartment complex was built two years ago so it’s super new looking and fresh (expensive, though).

We live in a townhouse that is about 1200 square feet. Two large bedrooms. The Master bedroom has a ¾ bath (stall shower) – so we let my adult son have that so he has his own space. There’s a full bath in the hall outside our bedroom. We have a ½ bath off the living/dining room combo, and the kitchen is pretty big. There’s a half-finished basement with a washer and dryer and a pretty big attic too.

A small townhouse on an odd cul-de-sac. It looks like a typical suburban neighborhood until you see the backyard, which is where the suburbs end and the country begins. There’s a hillside field and then acres of woods past there. We have foxes, a herd of deer, bunnies, raccoons, turkey vultures, a couple friendly herons who live at the pond, and a bunch of other cool shit.

The house is divided in three, with our tenant on the bottom floor, my aunt on the ground floor, and me on the top floor. Each one is like a tiny apartment. I’ve grown a massive collection of artwork over the past few years and put it on all the walls.

100 year old cape cod with an open floor plan and all of the quirks and creaks and leaks that you might expect in a house this old. That might sound like a complaint, but I love my house.

A good sized open raised ranch, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 21 acres about 250 feet off a quiet town road. The living room is big and light, with two sliding doors and a big front window. Last night we had 4 deer grazing in the backyard. I love it.

So, who’s letting me move in?

You all sound like you have such lovely places!

@Seek_Kolinahr How well do you do in the snow? I’m borderline zone 4 to 5.

@Seek_Kolinahr You can move into @cookieman‘s walk-up, third-floor attic studio space. Just be real quiet. He won’t even know you’re there!

This was just one of the best questions ever, really. Put a whole new dimension on everyone!

@YARNLADY Boring isn’t it? I have mature plantings/ hedges around mine that make it ‘my own’ and my backyard borders a city park which is kinda cool for the dogs and kids, otherwise they’re mostly all the same.

Thanks for all the answers. Really interesting to see how others have their home.

@KNOWITALL It’s not boring anymore. It probably was when first built, but now I love walking around looking at all the different ideas the people use in their houses. You wouldn’t even think of the fact that they were all built on the same set of four plans.

@Seek_Kolinahr: Actually, in the 17 years we’ve owned the house, we’ve had three long-term house guests:

• My grandparents for a month
• Our friend for a year
• Our nephew for seven years

Not to mention my father for a week when my mother had a meltdown and threw him out after he was diagnosed with cancer.

So frankly, having you, is not that far fetched.

My wife and I live in a double story Quaker Barn with Bed, bath room, breakfast bar and lounge upstairs, dining,kitchen, lounge, playroom and office downstairs. It’s cream and blue 40 trees and artificial turf with garage workshop out the back. I know that it sounds delightful because it is. No room for guest or kids that want to come back home.

^ I love converted barns. So quaint.

@graynett Awesome.

3000 sq. feet. contemporary cedar siding with skylights and huge windows everywhere. Lots of light and space; can be a bit drafty on overcast cold days. Four bedrooms, 3 baths, a big deck and lovely views. I keep two bedrooms closed off and unheated except for guests.

21 acres of lawn, field, meadows, woodland, streams and part of a pond. Lots of deer, foxes, rabbits opossums, woodchucks, skunks, raccoons, great blue herons, geese, hawks, woodpeckers (including the pileated), song birds.

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In an alternate universe in which I have neither husband nor son, I live with @gailcalled

In my alternate universe I live in @gailcalled‘s attic. Which she would have to build-out before I move in, because right now it’s just a lot of upstairs, inside, walk abouts. But when I move in, after the renovation is finished, I get the whole upper half of her house, including the windows and view and such, and thereby saving so much on her heating and air. AND I get her Milo 30% of the time. And she gets my Milo 30% of the time. Done Deal.

^^ One of the few things my house is missing is an attic. And because it is built on the side of a hill, even the basement has one wall of mostly glass with views. Basement contains a family room with comfortable seating,TV., computer, treadmill, guestroom (with windows and lovely views), laundry room, and full bath. Bath does not have windows, however.

So far, I am not billed for air.