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:
Big round living room.
Library.
Indoor swimming pool.

Outside:
Compact.
Blue.
Capable of travelling anywhere in time and space .

Inside:
Huge kitchen with Aga
Bedroom with sea view
Big sitting room with an open fire and hundreds of books

Outside:
Orchard
Stables/outbuildings
Rose garden

Inside
Dressing room/walk in wardrobe
Ensuite
Huge kitchen/dining room

Outside
Separate garden room for chilling out in
Big shed for bikes etc
Patio area with seating, fire pit, canopy etc.

Inside:
A library/study, with floor to ceiling bookcases, window seat, chesterfield chairs and huge desk
A big airy kitchen with huge table and space for a comfy sofa
5 bedrooms (no kids sharing, plus a dedicated guest room - the luxury!)

Outside
Outbuildings for easy entertaining (inspired by a mate of mine)
Lots of trees & greenery
Quiet (no traffic, dirt bikes, distant sirens at night)

Inside:

A photography studio for me
A music studio for partner
A huge shower and bath

Outside:

The "big" house in a cute little village
Good comfy garden furniture
A conservatory for the partner to have to himself

A slide from the top floor down.
Similar to the slide in the Faraway Tree series by Enid Blyton.

I am a big kid at heart!!

I actually want a brand new flat that I saw on Sunday! And cant afford.

Inside
Ensuite and dressing room
Open plan kitchen, dining and living room
Study

Outside
Covered balconies/terraces
Garden office
Courtyard garden

I only have one of each:
Inside
Open fire

Outside
No neighbours

Inside:

A huge but cosy library
A big playroom/den for the kids
A fuck-ton of storage

Outside:

A bbq/heated seating area
The sound of the ocean
Outhouses for hobby rooms

Hmmm. I feel Pinterest calling...

Inside:
Walk in wardrobe/dressing room/snug area that's all mine!
Water feature in the floor
Incredible staircase

Outside:
Long winding driveway
Large garden separated into themed "pockets" of space with many many water features
Swimming lake. Yes, lake.

Inside
Conservatory with birds as in Quentin Blake's counting book Cockatoos
Window seats with view of sweeping driveway and deer park
Secret room which only I could find, with lots of non-child-friendly velvet furnishings, for reading/ hiding

Outside
Peacocks
Ha-ha
Cave with hermit

We have ours and for the most part, I love it. We planned and built it but doing it again, I would ....

Inside:
Less glass, better insulation and a warmer house! I hate feeling cold in my own home.
Our good room would be bigger
Bigger laundry/ cloaks area

Outside:
Fewer beds with a gardener
Gravel instead of tarmac driveway

Love threads like this!

Built in ensuit /make up room and large walk in wardrobe

Huge kitted out kitchen with great facilities and every gadget

Jacuzzi/swimming pool

Outside:
Patio with a cover over it with a bbq area, comfy seats, fire, music.

A lovely neat pretty garden with lots of flowers and pots and ornaments

A Range Rover

We did our house about a year back and now have nearly everything we want. highlights are:

insulation/good windows/central air and heat.

book room/library with a fire and a window seat (and shelves over the window)
2 other working fireplaces
lovely lovely kitchen with walk in pantry
nice deck and patio for sitting/eating outside.
guest room with bathroom of its own
dark wooden floors everywhere

What I would have loved to have but couldn't

2 car garage
bigger garden (sometimes I fantasise about winning the lottery and buying the house right behind us and knocking it down and expanding the garden and building a 4 car garage - guy who owns it is really nice and we exchange pleasantries over the fence so I feel a bit guilty about that)
Nice driverway - could fix this eventually though.

Things I didn't expect to get so much pleasure from were the underfloor heating in the bathrooms (dh's idea) and lovely blinds we invested in throughout the house.

Oh I like this one 😁

Off road parking
Be away from busy roads
Be all on one level
Detached and no neighbours nearby (private garden)
Craft/sewing room (large) next to my bedroom next to my hidden bathroom (where my teenage daughter can't steal my toiletries!)
An annex for my mother and another for my daughter - hell let's just get one for DH too 😂
A study for my DH right next to the front door where he can store all his paperwork, bikes, hat collection (make that an expanding room)!
A cat room where they can have lots of shelves and cat trees and a huge catio
Big kitchen dinner with sofas
Paddocks, stabling and an arena
Near the coast (flat walking distance)
A big private garden with outside eating areas and beautiful planting

Oh and a cleaner, gardener, cook to help (plus I wouldn't have to work)

Off to browse Rightmove........

Id want an upstairs apartment in a stately home type place.

Inside
Gorgeous en suite with jacuzzi bath
Very cosy upstairs drawing room with a balcony
The biggest bed in existence

Outside
A huge terrace with a very long view
Lovely formal gardens for me to walk through but not maintain
Ditto loads of woodland

Ohhh and a small river with some ponds

A completely private garden housing a veg patch, herb garden, chicken run, wild flower patch and a huge and intricate tree house.

A large patio type area for my awesome bbq grill, a pizza oven and meat smoker, sun loungers and other garden furniture.

A field and stable to house rescue donkeys, ponies and horses.

Apart from the nice kitchen/bathrooms/guest bedrooms with ensuite:
One large room converted to a mini jungle gym with an area dedicate to trampoline. (Like those trampoline places)
Indoor heated swimming pool and a Jacuzzi
Indoor library with loads of lamps dotted around, warm,dark wall colours, cushions and throws, floor cushions and rugs. It would be decked out like a cosy den so if I got stuck into a good book then I could literally snuggle down anywhere in the room and go to sleep when i cant keep my eyes open anymore, me all cosy and warm and happy.

Inside

• Utility room, with loads of space for boot drying etc too
• Self cleaning real fire (?!)
• Beautiful wide dark oak floorboard with silk rugs

Outside

• Next to some beech & birch woods
• Covered car port
• Patio area made of small brick blockwork
• (Maybe my imaginary collie dog could live out there in a cosy kennel to be available for walks and sitting next to me for a cuppa without needing to come inside to my allergic family?)

Inside:
-A library
-A secret passage
-A massive slide

Outside:
-Treehouse
-Firepit
-Orchard with apple and pear trees

sighs happily

Fireplaces with log fires
Indoor swimming pool
Housekeeper

Amazing views
Cherry blossom tree
Totally safe pond (magic?)

Tom Hardy.

Inside

Breakfast bar/bench thing in the kitchen
Open plan kitchen/dining area
Separate living area
Down stairs loo
4 bedrooms
Master bedroom with on suite because I'm not sharing my bathroom with future teenager children
Very bright and well insolated
Pretty curtains
No shite floral patterns on the floor/curtains/walls
Big ass bath
All sinks must have under sink cabinet what is the point of stand alones
No carpet anywhere in bathrooms
All taps must be mixer taps non mixer taps can go die in a hole

Garden
Big
Chickens
At least 1 dog
At least 1 cat
2-3 pygmy goats
2 Indian runner ducks
Outdoor seating area
Lots of fruit trees and vegetable patch
Basically a farm

Koi carp in a huge ornamental pond that goes both inside and outside.

A water slide from the tower at the top of the house.

Inside
Enormous windows with amazing views.
Spa
Sports hall

Outside
20+ acres
Our own woodland
Lots of rescue animals