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Unique(ish) house designs!
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So I've always had this fantasy about owning a house with a garage that was underground, underneath the main floor. The "genius" imo was that the roof of the garage (subfloor of the house) would be open, so if anything needed to be worked on, it would be easy to get to. The garage would stretch from one end of the house to the other and be open at both ends. The problem is that this requires a hill to ideally work.
What are some other random ideas people have had for their "ideal" house?
Another idea I had includes a library with a ladder on wheels!
What are some other random ideas people have had for their "ideal" house?
Another idea I had includes a library with a ladder on wheels!
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this will be a must when I design my house.
You should check out http://www.homedesignfind.com/ there's a lot of cool stuff there.
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Me? I've always wanted an indoor pool with a waterfall.
and the library ladder with wheels.
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Natural light coming in from all directions -- the top floor would be a studio, with floor-to-ceiling windows.
Hell Yeah Tam, I would do the same thing only in a Spanish style.
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All you need is a modest slope down the middle of the driveway and the runoff/gravity will take care of the rest. The driveway would need like a 5% grade overall, with about 5% sloping to the middle (or edges, from the middle) of the driveway. Heating is taken care of with small wires buried in the concrete, this has already been developed! A good idea!
I love enclosed outdoor spaces. I would love to have my house incorporate something like this, especially with rooms with windows overlooking some great view.
Probably the damage to the pavement from the freeze and heat that would happen.
I want radiant heated bathroom floors.
screw cold floors.
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do some research first, design it. pass it by a civil engineer (much easier than asking him to desing your vision). revise as necissary and then get started.
construction is not that hard and can be enjoyable.
Or this
or a windmill
like Jonathan Creek
edit: Fuck, that sounds great, actually. A big windmill shaped house, but without the "fan" and the mill, with three floors and a basement, a balcony circling the second floor, and a garden on the roof. Spiral staircase going up the middle, big windows all around. Man, where can I get some choice real estate.
Heated bathroom floors, and one of those kohler showers with like, the ipod thingy in it and multiple sprayers and gods I'm making myself jealoud of my imagination right now.
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what would be like, right
to own Neuschwanstein Castle
That is fantastic Quid.
You win.
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Then the author actually did it.
- Bay window
- Large staircase
- Wet room style bathroom
- Big, family kitchen with a huge amount of counter space. An island with the stove or sink on it would be good too.
That's it, really.
I'll be fine, just give me a minute, a man's got a limit, I can't get a life if my heart's not in it.
Also the seats in windows thing is why I want a bay window. The idea of sitting in a window is very cozy and appealing.
It's just a car lift with a green roof atop it.
And you should heat/cool the whole house with radiant floors rather than just the bathroom. It provides a more natural temperature gradient and is more efficient than air to air HVAC. Combine it with a geothermal heat sink from a field in your back yard and you can have a constant 67 degree house for basically the cost of running a small electric pump. Also, solar water heating is generally rather nice.
I would not tell anyone about it.
It seems a rather noble structure. Not a nasty, dirty, wet placed, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor dry, bare, and sandy with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat. It just exudes comfort.
I never read the books, so I can't tell if you're mocking the notion or quoting Tolkien. I'm pretty sure digging out a hill and building a normal house in it is something that actually can and has been done, though.
It has! Bill Lishman built an underground home that's all domed. Coincidentally, he's also the guy who had a flock of geese for pets, and inspired "Fly Away Home"
weird guy
Quoting Tolkien. And it has in varying ways at varying times. You could kind of argue that Taliesin meets some of the intentions behind a hobbit hole.
Not to mention that surrounding the home with earth provides an excellent source of insulation. That should make the extreme highs and lows of the seasons very pleasant indeed.
There is the slight problem of natural light, but I suppose that could be solved by building the whole damn thing out of clear plastic and glass (of different colors) with flat wooden panels embedded in the middle of the walls and cut in fantastical forms and the corners of the walls would have designs carved into them to provide the rustic feel (also, posters mounted back to back in the same area of the wood cuts. I'm thinking a preponderance of Salvador Dali, Japanese prints, and gold inlay maps [hell, why not put globes everywhere?]). Rooms in which there was an expectation of privacy would have paper walls of the Japanese tradition.
An idea of the gold map (I actually own this poster):
An idea of what would be carved into the walls:
An idea into the fantastical forms:
It's on a 47-acre estate. I don't think you will have problems.
that sounds nice