Have you ever dreamed of the ideal home you would love to have?

@celticeagle (159694)
Boise, Idaho
December 22, 2009 7:23pm CST
I have! I would love to buy some land up in Idaho City area maybe and built a huge Victorian style mansion for me and my family to live out the rest of our days in. It would have about eight bedrooms with two of them suites on either end of the house for my daughter and I. It would have to have a wrap around porch with comfortable old rockers for people to set in and watch the animals, sunsets and sunrises. It would have an old fashioned library. The two story type with the ladder that slides around the room. A large size den on the third story where I would do my writing and probably would still work on here as well. It would have the back stairs to the kitchen where I could sneak down in the middle of the night and make me a sandwich if I wished to. And ofcourse it would have the beautiful victorian furniture. Old lamps and tapestries. Yes, it would have it all. Now what about your dream home?
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
23 Dec 09
The kind of home I love - image of my favorite type home
Okay, when do we move in? I love your library vision since I could go for that too. Funny how my tastes have changed over the years. when I was younger I had envisioned myself in a really large English Tudor estate with lots and lots of rooms...I still love the Tudor style home but my tastes have downsized a bit. I love the glorified log cabin type look, with a cathedral ceiling in the living room...sort of like this photo which I love--oh and I would insist on a really, really large kitchen area with all the "trimmings"--have a photo of my dream kitchen as well
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
23 Dec 09
My dream kitchen - image of the kind of kitchen I want
Here's that photo of the kitchen
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@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
23 Dec 09
That's beautiful, I love all the windows!
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
23 Dec 09
Wow, that is really nice. Love it.
• India
23 Dec 09
Hi, Yes always i have dream of having a large house. In which i can have my both parents along with me (I mean My parents and In-laws) It should have 10 rooms . Huge rooms for parents,one room my daughter other for son. and Master room for us Huge kitchen where i have dinning table for 12 person. I would love to have some animals too. As a pet. Yes i would have all of it .
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@celticeagle (159694)
• Boise, Idaho
25 Dec 09
It does sound huge. Room for everything and everybody!
• India
25 Dec 09
Hi, Yes I Would Love to Have Such A House. Merry Christmas!!!!
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
23 Dec 09
yes since I was a child I always wanted home with a staircase and a library just wall to wall books, but now I don't dream of a house anymore. I am too old for that now.
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@celticeagle (159694)
• Boise, Idaho
25 Dec 09
Well, I suppose that is one way of looking at it.
@celticeagle (159694)
• Boise, Idaho
25 Dec 09
Aren't we all?
@Lakota12 (42600)
• United States
23 Dec 09
Always wanted a spiral staircase. Hit the lotto wuiold buy the mountain east of LAs Vegas build one big main house then houses for the rest of the family to what they like. also have me my horses. Would have to plant big trees all around it as its barren up there right now. and then we could set in frontroom and look at the city lights! all the time.
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@Lakota12 (42600)
• United States
25 Dec 09
ohhhhhh yessssssssssssssssss
@celticeagle (159694)
• Boise, Idaho
25 Dec 09
Nice idea! A nice view.
@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
23 Dec 09
That sounds enchanting! My dream house is a simple white clapboard two story farmhouse with a wrap around porch. Something that was built years and years ago with all the charms, except new stoves and a nice thorough chimney sweep. Hmm... It'd also have a library / study room, a game room where my husband and I would entertain our guests, four other bedrooms, a nice big spacious masterbath, and a good sized kitchen with an island. a staircase right near the front door, plenty of land, and a beautiful garden... A few farm animals, chickens and horses mainly, and a lapdog... Cute children running around, an apple tree where I could pick apples and make apple pies, apple sauce and apple butter out of. A clothes line to hang the clothes...
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@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
28 Dec 09
You saying that made me think for some reason a picture of a New Orleans night. Mind You I've never been to New Orleans but I imagine several people with a banjo, and a fiddle, on the wrap around porch, some in rocking chairs and some not... some just sitting on the railings. Drinking ice cold tea, in bare feet and singing and a playing their instruments... That sounds nice.
@celticeagle (159694)
• Boise, Idaho
24 Dec 09
My victorian has a wrap around porch as well. So nice for evenings together with family and friens. Apple, huh?
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• United States
23 Dec 09
I had my dream home but I lost my job and then I lost my home. No big deal, it was just a house. We travel a lot now so when we settle down we'll get a nice home. Its not a main priority now because we are doing other things. I just want to have a home that I can make some great memories in.
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@celticeagle (159694)
• Boise, Idaho
25 Dec 09
I think you have a very good attitude about this.
• United States
25 Dec 09
The way you said that, it sounds so wise and true. What makes a house a great house is the love and warm memories within it's walls.
@kareng (55328)
• United States
23 Dec 09
You and I have the same tastes! I would love to have an older home with lots or room, high ceilings and furnished with all antiques. I love your idea of the library! I would prefer a setting of in the country with lots of land surrounding the house and/or on a hill! Great vision and I'm with ya 100% on this one! Happy holidays!
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@celticeagle (159694)
• Boise, Idaho
25 Dec 09
Lots of lands would be a must. Happy Holidays!
• India
23 Dec 09
I would like to have a house on the sea shore. Some time ago I stayed in a hotel, near the beach, and everyday, when I used to get up, I could see the beautiful sea shore, and in the distance all the ships and boats going. I live in a coastal town, and about twenty years back, there were so many places available near the sea shore. It was quiet cheap at that time, and a lot of people just purchased the land and kept it. Today the prices have sky rocketed, and only the wealthy can afford the land by the sea shore.
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@celticeagle (159694)
• Boise, Idaho
25 Dec 09
That is how is have been here for as long as I can remember.
@drakesuyat (1063)
• Philippines
23 Dec 09
mine should be far from the city, where there is fresh air and peaceful. the style is tropical so you can feel the presence of mother nature even inside. pouring water should be placed both outside and inside the house for harmony. windows should have a view of sunrise and sunset.
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@celticeagle (159694)
• Boise, Idaho
25 Dec 09
This sounds very trancquil and pretty.
@monkeylong (3139)
• Guangzhou, China
23 Dec 09
As far as concerned, I think i have ever dreamed to have a very ideal home which is so admired by my neighbors. Now I will share you my ideal home. First I may have a very comfortable house which I will live with my wife . Then I think I need to have a very clever baby who I will love him best and give the best education. I can enjoy a lot of fun with my wife and baby. There a lot of happiness among us. I think this is my ideal home. Happpy mylot.
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@celticeagle (159694)
• Boise, Idaho
25 Dec 09
That sounds the very best.
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@happy2512 (1266)
• Philippines
31 Jan 10
Yes I myself has a dream home it may not be that big but I am sure it is something that my children can call a home & siblings can get to visit everytime they come around.
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@celticeagle (159694)
• Boise, Idaho
31 Jan 10
Well, I would think that if it is big enough for the kids and where you are happy then you have all you need.
@happy2512 (1266)
• Philippines
23 Dec 09
Yes I have a plan what dream house to build I like a three story house which first floor has a breakfast nook, big kitchen, playroom for guest with kids during party, receiving area and a huge table for meal time. 2nd floor will be the rooms with own toilet & bathroom, a/c, ctv, components. with a family room just incase we want to bond with each other, each room with terace. 3rd floor will be the party area. How I wish I can make this house.
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@celticeagle (159694)
• Boise, Idaho
25 Dec 09
That sounds very nice. I like the terraces.
@hoodwinks (157)
• United States
23 Dec 09
yeah who don't have a dream homes, I drive by the rich areas when I go shopping and there's a lot of great looking houses. I have been to a mansion that looked so tiny on the out side, but when you go inside its huge. has like three bed rooms downstairs and each with there own bathroom. the kitchen is huge. when you go upstairs there's three room upstairs and a living room like space, there's bathroom that has like a his and her sinks, then sort of like two showers in there own room with a door to close with a toilet in there. its was really nice. I would love to have a nice house like that, don't really need so many rooms probable wouldn't be in most of them if there was too many of them.
@celticeagle (159694)
• Boise, Idaho
25 Dec 09
You really have it all figured out. Double sinks and all.
• United States
23 Dec 09
Yeah, I've dreamed about my dream home. A beutiful log cabin with 8 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms, an indoor swimming pool and jacuzzi, a huge 4 car heated garage, a heated painting booth for me to paint cars, and a smaller garage, just for our atv's and snowmobiles. I would want it miles apart from anyone or anything, so that we could do bond fires, play music and have fun with out anyone complaining of noise. Maybe someday.......
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@celticeagle (159694)
• Boise, Idaho
25 Dec 09
Sounds like a wonderful place!
@cher913 (25782)
• Canada
23 Dec 09
i would like a house that is flat with no stairs and a big enough house where my inlaws have a wing (my father in law has altzheimers) and a wing for my mom (my dad passed away this past february.)
@maximax8 (31053)
• United Kingdom
23 Dec 09
I would like to buy a thatched bungalow that is in a rural position and is by the sea. It would have a kitchen, a lounge, a study, a play room, a bathroom and four bedrooms. Outside I would have a summer house overlooking the ocean. It would be situated somewhere in the South West of England. If I had a dream house built overseas. It would be a tall tree house with a palm leaf thatched roof. It would have amazing views of tropical beaches from the top floor of it. It would have a lounge, a kitchen and several bedrooms. I would have a shower room as well. It would be located near to a palm fringed beach. It might be situated somewhere in Central America, Possibly Costa Rica.
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
23 Dec 09
My dream home would have solar, wind, and water powered. There would be a huge old fashioned water wheel on the side. The wind would be farther away and part of the garage. The solar would be on the roof if I lived where there was no snow. I'd never need the grid and I would kiss the power companies good-bye. My car would get a charge from the wind and I would kiss foreign oil good-bye. I would be high up and see everything for miles, the mountains, lakes, rivers, valleys. I would have a huge kitchen with smells of something baking or cooking coming out of it. There would be wood stoves on each end of the house with a fire brick that would make it so that I could put wood in and it would heat the brick and I wouldn't have to put more wood in for 8 hours because of the radient heat coming from the brick. I'd have a library with books on plants, survival, alternate energy, food, cooking, exercise, everything that I love, a craft room with everything organized so I could see it at a glance, a dance room with beautiful maple wooden floors, a huge living room to entertain people, secret passageways so I could appear out of no where or flee if I had to, a loft for sleeping, a huge greenhouse with even fruit trees in it and all the foods that I love growing there, my very own garden of Eden. My husband would have a workshop attached to the garage where he could make everything we need of the wood and tinsmith stuff. Plus an old time forge for blacksmithing next to that (he wants to get into that). A barn with animals for milk, eggs, wool, mohair, and angora. I think that about does it. What do you think? Could you live there?
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
23 Dec 09
Oh I forgot, all on 100 acres, need that much to do my foraging and wild food stuff plus I don't want any neighbors.
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@celticeagle (159694)
• Boise, Idaho
25 Dec 09
That all sounds very nice and well thought out.
@cupkitties (7421)
• United States
23 Dec 09
I have always wanted to have a victorian style home. The ones where I live at are very old and also very expensive though. In my dream house I will have 3 bedrooms, guest room, art room, library, theater room for movie nights, sitting room and a play room for the kids to play in when the weather is too bad outside. But I also wish to live in the city. I'm bored of the country.
@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
23 Dec 09
I love old victorian homes. I like the ones that are really old and well kept. I went to a bed and breakfast once that was so beautiful that I could have stayed there forever.
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@celticeagle (159694)
• Boise, Idaho
25 Dec 09
I have visited some websites of lovely ones but never stayed in one. Maybe someday!
@VANILLAREY (1470)
• India
23 Dec 09
Yes I do. I would like to have a one storey house with sufficient rooms for all members. A garden in front of the house would be lovely. I have not thought of the design for the house. I would let the architect show me some designs and I might select one from them.
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@celticeagle (159694)
• Boise, Idaho
25 Dec 09
Sounds like a good idea. A great idea!