If you could have a house built according to your style, what would it look like? Would it be a huge, Adam's Family-esque mansion, or a quaint little cottage? For me, I'd like to have one of those neat dome houses or a house with multiple gables with ceilings that are angled and high since I'd like to give the house a grand feeling because I wouldn't want the house to be frighteningly large but decently sized. (A huge mansion would be a pain in the arse to clean.) In addition, I really like stair cases that are bent at at angles so I'd have one of those. As for the color, I really don't know. So, what are your mental blue prints?

I have and always lived in a city, therefore my plans are for an apartment. I have never lived in a house, and I never dared to. My apartment would be of a fair and decent size for a single person. I would have the apartment jeweled with bright gemstones (My future carrer is to become a geologist). That is all I would have. I don't think I would have enough room for everything!

I always fantasized about building a house into the side of a mountain, with glass walls overlooking the valley below. Frank Loyd Wright style, but a tad more comfortable. The works of the home ie. laundry, furnace rooms etc, would be in back, and all other rooms would look out on the marvelous view.

For me, I would built a Victorian styled home with lofty ceiling.
And I would want it in NY, because of all the festivals there, and because New York has always appealed to me for some reason.



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Mine would be a huge Victorian styled mansion, with several rooms decorated in the same fashion. Other rooms, however, would have bright, hippyfied colors in them with authentic 60's, 70's antiques in them. Then some would look like jazz music sounds, very mellow and warm.
Bathrooms would be decorated Indian style, or have an aquatic theme, hopefully fishtanks everywhere and nice tile floors. A room full of vintage guitars wouldn't hurt, either. A sweeping staircase, hot tub sized bathtubs and I would be all set!

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Well, my dream house would be a Victorian Mansion, like the Addams', designed by no one other than Gaudi. Of course a nice loft would also suffice

I'd love to take my current 1920's apartment building back to it's original form. It's a lovely Bauhaus-ish building, but some clueless twat has carpeted over the hardwood floors, painted the wrought iron fixtures white, covered up half the transoms with garish paintings, and generally made the place look like a wannabe housing project. I swear some people have no sense of beauty or historical value. I wouldn't pay the rent, but where else am I going to get floor to ceiling windows, twelve-inch thick walls, and that creepy "I live in a haunted factory" feel?

An old Victorian mansion, with a wrought-iron fence. I don't know how I would want the ouside painted, but I want a burgundy and forest green color scheme inside--curtains, rugs, and the like.

It would have also a blue and silver celestial theme in at least one room because I love moons and stars. And another room would probably be the Peanuts room--I'm that obsessed. Throughout, there would be a lot of witchy things with pentagrams and moons all over, especially table covers. On the walls would be various photos and historical pictures.
I saw some site where they had ankh-shaped knobs for drawers--those would be sweet to have.

I would love a small cottage, dark brown, with really steep, pointy roofs. My garden would be completely overgrown, even covering part of the porch. In the end, it would most likely qualify as one of those properties that small children dare each other to set foot on. :p

I've always dreamed of living in a crumbling, ancient castle, with huge overgrown gardens all around it. My imagination really goes to town on the garden - I'd have little hidden pathways weaving through it, almost like a spread-out maze, with archways created by trees and hedges. There'd be all sorts of wildlife there, and surprises around every corner - like a rock garden filled with tiny waterfalls, hidden in the middle of a wood, or a Victorian-style hothouse full of butterflies, at the end of a twisty little path that seemed to be going nowhere. I love big, overgrown gardens. They just feel magical, as if there could be faeries or giant spiders hidden in the trees!
The castle would be full of tapestries and throws to make it cosier, and I'd have fires roaring in all the huge stone fireplaces. My bedroom would be at the top of a tall turret, like a faerytale princess's! There'd be floaty chiffon curtains and silk cushions everywhere, and my kitty would have a little four-poster bed

I'm gonna have to ditto Purple Night. That sounds wonderful!
More realistically I'd probably like to live in an edwardian house with ivy growing all over it. The interior would probably be very cosy with a victorian edge...
Or maybe I'd get a nice flat in town and have a 1920's theme, or maybe an oriental theme... I can't choose! :b
Great topic, by the way!

It may be cliché, but I think the Addams Family's house is perfect. A big, old, durable Victorian mansion that I can improve (destroy?) with my impeccable tastes in decor. (:

I've always wanted to live in a private house ( my whole life I've been living in town-houses, which are private in the sense that there's one family in the house, but it's connected to other house ) somewhere far away from the city - possibly in/near the forest. It would probably be midium sized - not too big, but not too small, a kind of mini-version Victorian mansion.
Here's a pic I found on the web of a house that I'd like to live in - http://www.louholtzhalloffame.com/thompson.gif

Oh, yeah, and it has to be in northern California

A 'hobbit hole' with polished wood floors & walls, multiple fireplaces,a vast vegetable garden and a well stocked wine cellar.
I like warm,cozy,cottage-y dwellings.Tolkien had me at 8 years old with his description.

As much as I enjoy Victorian Mansions or Castles aesthetically,some part of me always wonders about all the upkeep and heating bills.
"Time to dredge the moat,AGAIN?" :p

Exactly what Silibo envisions, so do my husband and I. In fact, we have plans to build an EarthBag home once we've procured land in a suitable climate.

Yes, old Victorians are nice, but they are a *bitch* to heat in winter.