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⌈ Secret Post #4021 ⌋

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[Jurassic World]

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[Hugh Jackman]

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(Aurelio Voltaire)

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[Jojo's Bizarre Adventure]

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[Pokemon (games)]

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[J.R.R. Tolkien and his wife Edith]

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[Movie: The Shape of Water]

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What would your dream house be like, if you had a billion dollars to spend on it? What would it have in it.

A housekeeping staff.

Honestly, big houses are hard to care for. What matters to me is bookshelves on every wall for books and movies. One room entirely devoted to cat things. Good sound system for movies/music. Lots of posters/fanart of fandoms I like on any bare wall space (and maybe on ceilings?).

And I'd want to have several guest rooms. A lot, actually, if the house is going to be big. Rooms I can use to help people who need a place to stay.

I would own a fucking CASTLE. But maybe with elements of idk what the style is called. Russian Vernacular?

This shit.
http://russiatrek.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/polyashov-house-pogorelovo-kostroma-russia-1.jpg

Or else I'd just straight up build live in a model of Windhelm or something idk!

Or! or I'd buy the swankiest New York apt ever.

oh, that is an awesome looking architectural style!

I know, right?!

I mean look at this shit.
http://www.russiainedita.com/images/immaginisiberianlisadventure/Izba%20fiabesca.JPG
I want my house to be that stupidly ott.

Or all of these fucking windows. Fucking awesome!
https://moscow4expats.wordpress.com/2014/12/06/russian-izba-3/
(The article is really dumb though.)

those look very trippy, like some witch or fairy would live there.

It'd definitely have secret passages.

I would have several and rent them out when I wasn't there. That way I could avoid weather I didn't care for, almost never have to pay for lodging when I travelled, and have a source of rental income that would make me a millionaire if not a billionaire--a billion dollars would buy a lot of real estate, and I could let friends or people who were down on their luck or travelling for medical procedures stay for free or cheap.

As far as what they'd look like and have in them--all of them would have tons of full bookshelves, some would have libraries. They'd all have gardens, whether tiny balcony gardens in New York or a couple acres in northern California, and at least one glass-walled, heated conservatory and a couple streams and ponds. At least one house would be a brightly painted Queen Anne. Lots of them would have murals on the walls and mosaics on the floors. If they were in areas that got cold, there would be rugs, but they'd be on wood floors or tile; I hate carpeting. At least one would have a fireplace I could stand up in. There'd be lots of stained glass windows, lots of skylights, lots of carved wood furniture, and lots of houseplants. And big, fully equipped kitchens. None of them would be tract houses, but none of them would be McMansions either. Although I might go for a castle and stock the moat with alligators.

A small house with a yard that magically maintains itself. There's a pool that I have free access to and a dog park near by.

A nice big garden and an art studio. A pool would be nice now that I can swim. :>

Spacious, good air-con, a nice study, a place to lay out my Lego collection, a fly-screened back veranda plus a cat run, a large spa bath in a room with windows all around that can be opened (screened though). A low-maintenance garden that I can hire a gardener to take care of.

AND CATS.

Edited 2018-01-07 01:55 (UTC)

It would be pretty modest in size because I don't like wasted space or spaces without real function. I would invest in good design, for both functionality and aesthetics, and in quality construction and energy efficiency. Basically, nothing like the houses on McMansion Hell (mcmansionhell.com). Either fixing up an older house or building a new one in a historic neighborhood that actually matches the style of the houses around it would be great.

I'd prefer rooms to be on the small side, although open plans are okay as long as they are multi-functional spaces. I'd prefer two living areas - one for watching TV that can be closed off behind a door, and one for conversation or reading that can be more open to the other "public" areas of the house.

For the kitchen, I would pay someone to design a wall oven with a door like on the old Frigidaire Flair (https://tinyurl.com/ybdplu6t) because I love the way you lift up the door and it stays there out of the way where you couldn't possibly burn yourself on it, instead of the typical oven door that opens down and out and you have to reach over this hot door to get things in and out of the oven. The oven interior would be more sophisticated and up-to-date and I would either have 2 wall ovens like that or 1 wall oven and a higher end range with a normal door (I don't think a door that goes up would work as well if the oven is below the stove).

I want a bedroom that is very small - just big enough for a queen bed with room on 3 sides - but that opens into a bigger room that would be for all those things that tend to get crammed into bedrooms but have nothing to do with sleeping: clothes storage, exercise area, office space, TV-watching... It would be like a modern "master suite" with a walk-in closet, but the closet would be the bedroom and the bedroom would be for everything else (including the closet).

I'd want a room for sewing and crafts, like I have in my 2-bedroom apartment now. Having that "play room" makes a huge difference, since I actually do stuff in there instead of just day-dreaming about being crafty, and I don't have to worry about that stuff getting in the way of the eating and living areas or cleaning up for company.

Since I can't imagine spending a billion dollars on a house, I'd spend the rest fixing up older, modest-sized houses in middle class neighborhoods in a way that was of good quality and respected their historic character, and then selling them without asking much more than the average home price in that neighborhood, because good old houses deserve to be kept in good shape but I don't want to price out the people who actually live there.

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A nice apartment with lots of windows in the middle of a big city. Hell, if I'm rich make it a two-storey apartment.

The main things would be a library for all my books, a media/gaming room for my and the bf's PC's and consoles, and a room specifically for the cats so they could have their own space in the house just for them.

A two story penthouse in a good location. Close to downtown, but right on the edge of a large park would be ideal. With an upstairs where you could look down on the living room. Lots of windows. A large kitchen with an island you could sit around. A well-outfitted exercise room in the apartment, and pool facilities available to everyone in the complex. A good-sized balcony. Excellent soundproofing so I could play my music loud whenever I wanted. And lots of colorful but classy home decor and home accessories.

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