Updated if you won the lottery jackpot what sort of house would you like?

[pinkksugarmouse]

I admit I love threads like this so thought I would start one. Its a long post and I don't expect any replies I am just prattling because I have had to take strong painkillers. I saw an old YouTube video of a man going to the camelot office to collect 8.5 million. Nothing was said about what he was going to buy.
If I won a lot, millions I would design a house for myself and husband and daughter. I have Rheumatoid arthritis and the one treatment that works without side effects is hydrotherapy but I haven't been able to get any long term since childhood so I would have a pool.
It would feature a lounge with a surround sound TV, kitchen/dining area. Utility room with sink. Study, small gym just a treadmill and bike, a main bathroom with bath for DH & DD, walk in shower for me double with seating.
Two big bedrooms with ensuite toilet and sink. A third bedroom and lots of storage.
The grounds would have a gazebo, koi carp for DD, greenhouse for DH, water feature resembling a Brook with small wooded area and natural seating that looked like a fallen tree.
Bird boxes and tables, bower, bee friendly flowerbeds and a little picnic table would complete it nicely.
Not that I have thought about it much. 🤣🤣🤣
I don't care about loads of holidays abroad(although I want to see the tulip fields in Amsterdam). I don't care about expensive clothes and jewelery or cars (DH & I don't drive). My only other splash out would be proper medical treatment and a cleaner.

Detached small holding with long drive through its own land (which totally surrounds the house - at least one field owned by the house in every direction!). Stone or brick stables and barn, small riding arena. Lovely countryside surrounding with great views and quiet very roads. Swimming pool in a building with bifold windows all down one side, so in hot weather it’s like an outdoor pool.

House with four bedrooms, large country kitchen with aga, big living room, library/reading room, dining room. Big utility room with downstairs loo.

Not too big a house for me, as it's just me and teen DCs.

I'd like bedrooms all en-suite, so no more negotiating bathroom time. An extra bedroom or two for visitors.

Nice kitchen with plenty of workspace, and waist high double ovens. A study/workshop where DD and I could keep and work on our various crafts. A double garage, with a soundproofed room above where I could set up my drum kit.

A nice garden, with lots of colour and a herb patch, plus decent greenhouse for veggies. A patio for dinners and guests, with colourful furniture.

I've have the house wired up nicely for a decent broadband service, maybe like a network. And the interior would be quite boho, with my bedroom being restful shades of turquoise.

Detached house
Gated garden that backs onto fields
5-6 bedrooms, 2 en-suites
Huge utility room
Skylights everywhere
Playground in the garden with trampoline built into the ground (why are freestanding trampolines so ugly???)

I would go for a double fronted Edwardian house in it's own grounds. So it would be pretty from the front and at the back I'd have a big extension with a modern kitchen. I'd have a basement swimming pool done like a spa, probably 6 bedrooms all with ensuite. Kitchen would also be a family room, then a big separate living room with loads of big sofas. Number one thing I'd want is a window seat with storage underneath and that's where I'd keep all my books.

www.knightfrank.co.uk/properties/residential/for-sale/abbotts-barton-winchester-hampshire-so23/WIN180010

If money was no object i would buy, or build a small luxury apartment complex, with a pool, gym, nice garden and plenty of parking on a couple of acres. They would be large and very modern and as environmentally friendly as possible. I would give each of my 5 dc one of the apartments, live in one and keep one or two for guests/friends/family. I would have a cinema and big games room with a bar and pizza oven in the shared basement for family get togethers.

Oh and it would have its own small private beach too.

There's a holiday let we've stayed in a few times by the sea in Pembrokeshire. The coast path runs behind it, so there's an uninterrupted sea view.

It's 1930's or so with dormer windows upstairs. A sun room runs the width of the front.

I'd make the owners of that an offer they can't refuse. And add an outdoor shower.

A beautiful ‘witches cottage’ in the middle of my own ancient woodland with a bubbling stream. Lovely herb and veg patch and some animals. Inside would be cosy and full of old, sturdy furniture. Think cosy rather than creepy, the kind of place in stories at the end when all is good and the world is right. Set in a beautiful wild location where you could walk for miles accompanied by an obedient dog.

Obviously a few miles in the other direction would be all your shops and necessities lol.

I wouldn’t like the interior to be TOO modern, I find sometimes Uber-modern interiors can be a bit sterile and you lose some of the comfort. But I would want top of the range oven/white goods etc.

I’m not really too fussy () but something open and spacious with lots of light and storage. Enough bedrooms to have friends and family stay but not so massive and daunting it feels like a trek to go between the kitchen and the lounge.

I’d like plenty of comfy seating so I can entertain and get everyone round.

A decent sized garden too. Maybe a swimming pool

My home but fully redecorated (wood work is so expensive!) and with an oak framed conservatory.

The house I linked to is walking distance from Central Winchester.
If you want more rural, have a look at Bellamont in Dorset
(both are new but look old)

I would just refurbish my house. I love the house and location.

I’d buy our ideal home with a very large picture window that overlooks the sea with large dark craggy cliffs to one side so that we could watch sea birds. ( Memories of Pembrokeshire.)
A medium sized garden to the rear which was flat ( no steps as we currently have , so that I could use a wheelbarrow.)
A vegetable and fruit growing area, a greenhouse, lots of climbing flowers and shrubs would make it perfect.
We’d love a decent sized bathroom. Our current one literally has no room to swing a moggie, despite being a good sized detached.
Oh, I’d love a walk in pantry too, which our previous tiny house had,... we crammed more into our tiny kitchen /pantry than we can in our current good sized kitchen.
A timbered Morris Minor.

I love to travel so I'd have several houses in Spain, Italy, Barbados and Morocco. Also lofts in London, Paris and New York. I'd donate them to be used as holiday homes for low income families the majority of the year when I'm not using them. Our family home would be a large country estate just outside of Glasgow (all our family and friends nearby) I'd have lots of rescue pets including horses, alpacas, ducks,pigs, dogs and cats that I would spend time training to be therapy pets and would open it as a community centre for ASN children and adult. It would be a dream come true that will also help people!

A double fronted farmhouse....rural, edge of village. 4 good double bedrooms, and maybe an annexe or converted outbuilding. Big kitchen with an aga and normal oven too....which overlooks about 1/2 to 1 acre of rolling gardens with deep borders. A large patio and outdoor kitchen for socialising. Hot tub, under a pergola.

Land with the farm to keep a horse or two.

Beachside. Modern. Easy to keep clean. Central staircase. Beautiful bathrooms with waterfall showers. Lots of comfy soft furnishings in muted colours.

It would have a single lane swimming pool in the basement so I can go and do laps each morning in peace and quiet

This is my dream house apart from the weird corner bath in one of the bedrooms but the light and the views are amazing. A bargain at 1 mil.
www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-87452447.html

BadTimes
Those views are ASTOUNDING
but I'd burn meals all the time looking out the window rather than watching the hob

This is what I need according to lockdown

Swimming pool
Soundproof gaming room
Lots of toilets
Detached
Lots of land
Security cameras (so i can track the little darlings)
Cat flaps in all doors so I can close my doors
Bedrooms (loads for me to hide in because they find me)
Large kitchen with accessible cupboards for the kids to help themselves, (and the cats)
Very high walls
Parking

It's been a long long long lockdown with one fucking toilet

Listening it is only 5 miles from where I live now. So would be handy for school etc, sadly my views are in no way comparable. I love how you would fell as though you were outside even when you were indoors with all the windows. I need to live there!

I would have a craft room with lots of space, Storage, wide tables and a couple of comfy chairs for knitting. And big windows with a sea view. Sigh ...

Thinking about it, Billy Bragg's house on the cliff above Hive Beach in Burton Bradstock is rather wonderful

I would like a verandah at the front of my house.