Somehow you’ve gotten your dream home. The cabin in the mountains, penthouse downtown, castle nestled deep in the woods, nuclear bunker in the hills, or whatever. Whats the bit you’d add that might raise a brow from others? The fireman’s pole? The slide? The moat? The hidden room behind a bookshelf where you keep your stuffed animals?
I just want the Hey Arnold! room, but with cloudy weather for life… And reinforced glass because of third world country.
A walk-in terrarium room.
A conservatory. In a separate building. With huge trees inside.
We need to start thinking scale: Biosphere 2
I’m not sure. Perhaps an art room, a room specializing in every art tool known to mankind, for anyone who is an artist, so they don’t have to return home to make or finish a piece.
Ah so you want to kidnap artists. Smart.
A Bath Room. No, not a bathroom. A room just for a wide bath, with a fireplace, a window overlooking greenery. A sound system of course. There’ll be a small bookshelf for a choice of relaxed reading, and possibly a fridge at arms length with a choice of relaxing drinks.
I’m down for that, just as long as Moaning Myrtle isn’t there.
Oh, Potter… blushes
Pneumatic tube system. Brass steampunk shit like in old banks and skyscrapers would be fine, as would clear plastic ones like drive through pharmacies.
This, but human-sized so I can get around fluidly
I want a nap room. Not to be confused with a bedroom, as the bedroom is for sleeping and a nap room… well should be self-evident. Nice climate control, piped in white noise type sound I can change easily (From regular white noise to rainy background to sounds of the woods to lo-fi chillhop), and multiple things to nap in, a hammock, lazyboy, and couch at minimum.
That actually sounds really nice. I’d like to have that addition to my house as well.
I’d add a bean bag chair for good measure.
A huge garden/green house in the center with fruit trees and berry vines, etc. and in the center of that, a sort of pool/pond. The whole place has a path circling through it with various benches and seats and musical instruments on display/for use. Piano, harp, hurdy gurdy, etc.
My wife and I looked at a smaller version of that when hunting for our first house. No way we could have afforded it, though. And there was so much asbestos… 🥺
Your comment reminded me of this house. https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/5122-31st-Ave-S_Gulfport_FL_33707_M64527-56065
And the more recent story where a lady found an indoor pool in her house and turned it into an indoor pond area.
Hidden passageways in all the rooms. Every room will be connected via an intricate maze of crawlspaces, slides, ladders, and all manner of hidden passages. Sure i could use the stairs like a normal person to get to the living room, or i could pull a book off the shelf to reveal a trap door in the floor that leads to a slide downstairs.
So basically Tunt Manor.
A cube. A room you enter and every wall, the floor and the roof is projectors or monitors. Displaying a 360 degree video of an environment. Like a forest, on a boat, on top of a mountain. It plays ambient audio fitting to the theme. And I can just lie in the middle and meditate and enjoy.
Probably pointless now that we can do the same with a VR headset. But in that room you could share this with others while also seeing them.
A bathroom with a urinal.
Underground lab or walk in greenhouse.
I want a hidden control room, where I control the internet, piped in music, cameras, security and other automations of the house.
In this way, when there is a complaint of something not working, I just disappear to that room and tinker to my heart’s content. Problems mysteriously gets fixed (by me).
This should be a nice and comfortable room, with plenty of space, a bathroom and a skylight.
Urinal in the garage with direct back yard access. My friend has that at his dad’s house. Excellent for backyard barbecues.
A landing strip for model aircraft with lights.
Not my hobby but love the passion. Make sure to add a mini ATC tower, fill it with some birdseed on the upper deck and then let the birds and squirrels help guide you home.
Oh, that’s a great idea. I’l probably build this even if I never get the house with the landing strip.
A tunnel, as in a disused railway tunnel. Could build in it - rooms, short corridors, leading to other rooms, other corridors - on and on as long as money and cheap building materials allow. Fill it with disturbing symmetries: same objects in the same places over and over. Maybe a giant isopod in formaldehyde.
Although I love the idea, I’m pretty sure that if I visited you I’d never be seen again.
Too much of Stephen King? ;-)
