In Your Next House.......

What would be on the Yes/No lists for your next house or major remodeling job?

I live @ home but If I could manage my own house,etc .. I often have said to myself I would do this

1) Keep the same nice wood windows and siding the house had on it since the 80s.. (Not this ugly plastic crap people are putting on now)

2) Keep GOOD applicances...NOT THIS STAINLESS STEAL CRAP which is ugly and doesnt work as well.....

3) Keep everything different colours (Dark,etc) Not all white which looks bland and gross......

4) Try to keep my house as good looking as I could from BEFORE THE TIME that in my opinion the world died.. (The 80s)

5) Keep good bathroom stuff (Traditonal looks,feel,fixures,etc)

 

I Bought This House And 5 AcresJust Over 2 Years Ago And I'm Certain There

Won't Be A Next House BecauseI Love It So Much.

If I Ever Do Change Things It Will Be To Put In A Pool.....As A Matter Of Fact I Was Having A Chat

To A Pool Guy Only Two Days Ago.....



Cheers Glen.

 

Plans for the house i'm buying..i already live in it as a renter so i've had lots of time to plan

Paint the shutters and front door
paint all rooms in the house and also kitchen and bathroom cabinets
Add crown molding
redo tile in bathrooms and kitchen or maybe do wood laminate in the kitchen
Put a brick floor in the den - its the room with a fireplace, i think it will look cozy..but probably wont be fussed to do it for several more years
Refinish hardwood floors
install ceiling fans. Immediately
replace kitchen counters with butcher block counters
replace appliances eventually, i dont really mind the appliances though
And i've got lots of plans for landscaping the yard but i wont get into that

You should just find a house that has been perfectly preserved since the 80s, dude. Like a little time capsule just for you

 

Sauna room would be nice.

 

Everything I ever wanted in a house was in the one I bought.
It was modern and revamped and still has size and room to do more renovations, but, I guess I'd like a room big enough for a snooker table.

 

Ah Yes The Sauna......Totally Slipped My Mind.....



Cheers Glen.

 

I wouldn't mind a river or creek running through a property either. Laced with native animals, thriving in a natural habitat.

Big huge areas properly fenced off with naturally powered gates that could section off areas for animals.

Oh and moat, that's a definitely a must.

 

Unfortunately I don't have the space here, but it would be nice to have my own darkroom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj8JrQ9w5jY

 

no pets.

 

people make a home...not the furnishings

its the difference between a house and a home


and fyi stainless steel has zero to do with performance...they sell the same appliances finished in white or whatever.....tose are just stainless steel panels they cover the appliance with...they the same thing inside


be prepared to pay through the nose for wood windows because they just aren't good for the heating bill...not to mention they are easy to break into

 

Toaster

 

so it would be your next house with a toaster?

 

stainless they use is crap too

the good stainless is not magnetic


i dont care if its a frigging yurt with a dirt floor...next place i live will be far from neighbours ...the longer the driveway the better....preferably whole property would be borders by creeks or rivers ..im not interested in fancynancy...i just want peace and quiet

 

any place you live is you're home.

first the enclosed, roofed and insulated, heated cooled et al space, would be relatively small in relation to its natural surroundings.

i don't need a lot of space for day to day living. i don't need entertaining space at all.
but i do need a couple of spaces for my hobbies,
and a decent kitchen would be heaven.

one sink with running water would be sufficient, and a pipe wrench to clean out the trap periodically.

a bed a desk a chair, and lots and lots of shelves. every part of every wall that wasn't a window or didn't have a disk or bed shoved up against it would be shelves.
these take the place of closets and dressers.

other then the bathroom and cooking area, and if its going to be a full bath, it needs a real tub i can soak in, not just a damd shower,
and the main bed-office room, the other two rooms, one would be the model railroad, and the other would be a workshop space.

the workshop space would include a 3d printer, a milling machine, and a lazer cutter,
in addition to the usual workbenches, saw horses, and assorted powered and other hand tools.

a kiln for ceramics might be nice too, but kind of optional.

the other thing i would have is a lot of transitional space surrounding the enclosed and roofed core,
i'm talking here porches, verandas, decks, places to take off your 'wellies' without tracking mud into and all over the place.

beyond that, room for some sort of a garden.
not a fancy formal one, but entirely natural shapes and colors.

and yes i would grow some of what i eat,
the flavors of things you grow your self are so much more gratifying and intense,
then any of the varieties you're likely to find at the local grocer.

spices are generally 'weeds' and easy to grow.
(some are hard to keep from taking over)
but there would also, a large part of the garden,
would be plants that grow small,
that have features that would be in scale with g-gauge outdoor trains.

dogs are sweet but too rambunctious.
foxes are interesting, they look like dogs but act almost like cats in some ways, when they choose to.

at any rate, i wouldn't buy pets, but adopt whatever strays happened to come by, if they choose to.

would i let them inside? if and for how long would depend on how they act.

if i had a whole nother lifetime ahead of me, i'd spend it building what i like,
but oddly enough, in the so called free country of america, there aren't so many places
where i would be allowed to.

i'd also, if i spent enough time working for someone else to afford a place to build all this,
there went all the time i would have spent building it.

never have found a good answer to that, nor yet in my life owned a piece of land.

oh and i wouldn't want to live in or even near a city as we know them in the part of the world where i live today.
and yet, i would want to be close enough to the nearest general store and post office to be able to walk there.
which means two to five miles or less.

and then if i was off grid, i'd need some sort of a car, preferably a small light truck or van,
another ghad awful expense, unless again, and this is where i get hard to please i guess,
i could walk, less then a half mile, to some kind of public transportation.

 

A big, friendly, inviting wraparound front porch. One that the neighbors would just invite themselves onto when they saw me chillin' there.

 

my great grandparents had a house on a hill in town with wraparound veranda..they could see just about the whole city from all sides

 

my hext home will be cold and quiet...and smell like dirt

but if family knows what i want they will cremate me and spread me in the bush...in which case i suppose it will be the same cold and quiet and smelling like dirt

 

I want, what I call, a walk-out backyard.

Where I am, there is a stairway down to the backyard.

 

if i win the lotto im building a small house on a giant plot of waterfront land and it will have a parking garage the size of an enclosed football field

and of course id have to buy an excavator to build my moat

 

all you moat people, i think it's not nearly as good as it sounds. the house i grew up in had a river running behind it, and holy shit the bugs! sure there's fun things you can do with the water, but then you have to spend the rest of the day trying not to scratch the 46 deerfly bites all over your body.

anyway...
1) Keep the same nice wood windows and siding the house had on it since the 80s.. (Not this ugly plastic crap people are putting on now)
definitely not; i like glass windows. a wood window would make me feel like i'm hiding from zombies or something.

2) Keep GOOD applicances...NOT THIS STAINLESS STEAL CRAP which is ugly and doesnt work as well.....
i'm not a fan of stainless steel appliances either. purely aesthetic; the outer casing of the appliance has nothing to do with how it works. but yeah, those stainless steel kitchens are not terribly attractive.

3) Keep everything different colours (Dark,etc) Not all white which looks bland and gross......
i'm right with you on this one. color variety definitely makes a home look much nicer.

4) Try to keep my house as good looking as I could from BEFORE THE TIME that in my opinion the world died.. (The 80s)
i don't even know what this means. just that you'll only have really old stuff in there?

5) Keep good bathroom stuff (Traditonal looks,feel,fixures,etc)
i don't really care for "traditional" bathroom looks. those old bathtubs with feet on them? that's just weird. for me, the bathroom more than any other room is about functionality more than looks. for example, my current bathroom has terrible lighting. it's really frustrating, i have to go to work to get a good look at my face.