Your dream house. What would it have?

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Three must haves inside.
Three must haves outside.

Inside
Upstairs laundry room.
My own bathroom which nobody else even knows exists.
An indoor swimming pool (a lap pool, a hydro pool and a jacuzzi).

Outdoor
An amazing playground for the kids (a la Lowther castle).
Be on a sandy coast.
A really long tree lined driveway.

Inside
A sewing and craft room with big windows and plenty of natural light.
Four big bedrooms with lots of inbuilt shelving and cupboard space
A big comfy living room area with lots of space for people and a corner sofa

Outside
A lot of trees for privacy at the bottom of the garden
Big hedges all around for privacy
A huge grassed area with a fantastic play area

Inside:

A library
En suite
Large play room for the kids

Outside:

Large area for kids to play
Gorgeous scenery
Beautiful plants and trees.

A large downstairs cupboard for coats and shoes
An upstairs laundry room
An indoor swimming pool

Plus a cleaner, gardener, and chef.

Inside

A kitchen with an island and room for a proper table
A good sized playroom for DD
Ensuite & downstairs toilet in addition to a family bathroom

Outside
A driveway and garage with room for guests
A jungle gym type playground thing
A shady spot that I could put a reclining chair in during the summer and sit and relax.

I know it's not the biggest of aspirations but I would be truely happy with that.

Inside:
My own private living room
A pantry (got one, love it)
A cleaner

Outside
Acres of space
Beautiful views
A gardener

Inside:
Massive boot room (separate from utility room) with space for loafs of coats and shoes
Huge kitchen
Library with fireplace and big squishy chairs

Outside:
Big terrace with a huge table for entertaining
Wildflower meadow
Swimming pool

1. A view of mountains on one side, and sea on the other (Norway would work!)

2. massive inglenook fireplace (I already have this actually and it is my favourite thing about the house)

3. A secret room hidden behind a revolving bookcase in the library

4. A field with ponies, goats, pigs and a jersey cow. Ok more than one field!

5. A very long pergola with white wisteria dripping down (I’m working on this one)

6. A natural swimming pond

We were planning to build a house, so my dreams nearly came true, but we didn't get planning permission.

On paper it had inside,

1. An upstairs laundry
2. A back door beside the front door, the back door led into a mud room for returning footballers
3. Two fridge freezers in the kitchen, one near the sandwich/snack/hot drinks prep area so the the family weren't walking across my kitchen all the time and the other fridge freezer for meal ingredients.

Outside

1. A Victoria plum tree and some blackberry bushes
2. A green drive with hollow paving with clover growing in the gaps
3. A view - the house I was trying to build didn't have this but I do quite like a distance view, it relaxes my eyes.

A decent-sized utility room
Many bookshelves
Shedloads of cupboard space

A proper old-fashioned conservatory
A really big garden
Trees

Inside
Massive windows (obscenely)
A large stone stair case with with good acoustics.
An adults parlour (so in a mostly modern house one high up room with dark old woods, leather sofas, drinks cabinets and bookshelves galore)

Outside
A weeping willow
A raised terrace porch
Room for 4 cars

A cosy, snug living room with roaring fire and no toys
One extra room with no purpose other than to keep the other rooms clutter-free
A big kitchen

A parterre
Mr McGregor’s garden
A full size cabin with veranda

Inside:
Boot room
Wood stove
Windows that catch the sun

Outside
At least 10 acres, mostly wooded
A stone outbuilding
A deer, rabbit and pigeon proof veg patch

My absolute dream house would have:

Recording studio/music room in the basement.
8 bedrooms in the main house and a guest house with two dormitory rooms and two double bedrooms it’s own small kitchen diner and tv/games room.
Wood and metal workshop and electronics workshop in a separate building.
Good public transport links.
Real fireplaces.
Library.
Playroom on the kids floor and kids bathroom.
Homeschool classroom.
Art studio room with a massive window and lots of light.
Computer room with a small scale robotics lab.
Home cinema room.
Gym.
Laaaaaaarge kitchen.
Breakfast room AND dining room.
Drawing room AND sitting room.
Riad style layout with inner courtyard with orange trees, pool and outdoor dining area.
Roof garden.
Wrought iron balconies.
A few acres of food forest and a few acres of pasture land with some sheep grazing.
Underfloor heating.
A girl to do the cleaning, another girl to mind the younger children and a boy to do the gardening - with their own private quarters in an annex.

I’m not sure it’s even that realistic for the very rich to have all that in one.

Inside
Large utility room
Boot room
Log fire in sitting room

Outside
Covered bbq / entertaining area
View of fields and hills
Treehouse for ds

Inside
Craft room with lots of storage and a gallery wall
A reading nook
A laundry room

Outside
A pizza oven
A pool with a tiled mosaic on the bottom (tiny, so just for decoration or dipping your feet into. I saw one in a magazine once and loved it)
A summer house

Inside:
Library
2 bedrooms
Airing cupboard

Outside:
Trees
Veg patch
A long gravel driveway with turning space

Inside

Utility room
3 reception rooms
Good storage!
Outside

In/out driveway with parking for 5 cars
Patio that gets the evening sun
Sunken fire pit and seating area

Inside:
A huge farmhouse kitchen with a big dresser, stove and at least 2 ovens
A large conservatory or orangery with comfy sofas where I could sit and read with the rain hammering on the roof
Beautiful polished oak, chestnut and walnut paneling, bookcases and staircases

Outside:
A walled kitchen garden with espalliered fruit trees and a glasshouse for seedlings
Several acres of mixed woodland, preferably with a river somewhere nearby
Paddock space for some rescued donkeys and ponies

Inside
6-7 bedrooms
Library
Open plan kitchen, diner, family room overlooking garden

Outside
Multiple driveways
Large garden
Bespoke seating areas and hammock

Detached
Detached
Detached

I fucking hate living next door to people.

Inside:
A library
Clever storage so that the hallway isn’t ever cluttered with stuff
A purpose-built laundry room with proper ventilation

Outside:
Secure off-road parking
A sunny, south/west facing garden
A tennis court - preferably a perfectly manicured grass tennis court.

Inside-
Large kitchen (and other rooms)
Real fires
Views and quiet

Outside-
No near neighbours and long drive.
Equestrian facilities (stables, grazing and outbuildings)
At least 10 acres surrounding the house.

6 bedrooms with a master suite.
Big, warm utility with a washing machine, heated airers and shower room that’s directly accessible from the drive for muddy children and dogs.
One of those big staircases with a curved polished wood banister and a stair runner. Not a huge grand central one like in Annie or anything just a normal against-a-wall one but with the bannister I imagine in my head

About 4 acres incl a small woodland and stream
A walled kitchen garden
Great big patio with an outside kitchen area - bbq, pizza oven etc.

Great thread!

We have ours - after years of searching for it!

Inside
A boot/wet/large utility room
Enough rooms for us to have my craft room/own sitting room/DH study/office and separate sitting room/conservatory/huge kitchen diner that we can cook and entertain in
Indoor pool

Outside
It had to be very rural
Stables/outdoor school (indoor school currently in progress)/enough grazing for summer and winter fields
Large garden for entertaining and a kitchen garden

It's taken us nearly 25 years to get here but we found it and love it.

Inside
A downstairs bedoom and shower room
A large hall where there is plenty of room for people to get coats and shoes on without getting in anyones way
A craft room

Outside
A heated swimming pool in its own house but with bifold doors so it can feel like its outside
A river/stream/ beach at the end of the garden
A driveway which is enclosed so I can garden without worrying the dog has gone off for a wander as she is bored