lots of black inside and out... simple as that...

I would have a brick house, 2 stories with a tower, gothic style arcitecture(duh!) and an underground chamber, just for fun.=:)

Mine would be the house from Rose Red. I have a huge clothing collection and it's constantly changing.

I would have a huge mansion with two floors (plus an attic and a basement) and a tower. It would have a huge porch and a huge backgarden with a stream running through it. The house would have lots of dark wood and gothic architecture. Lots of dark red everywhere and velvet furniture. Lots of black too.

Something old, anything from pre-civil war to 1920's era, that posses a timeless beauty and colorful history (haunted perhaps?). The yard would be helter-skelter, and very spooky, the grass would either be horrendously overgrown to the point that missing children and pets are constantly turning up in it, or it would remain completely dead through all seasons. A Large rusty gate in the front, and the columns of the front porch would be covered with ivy, or considering that I'm southern kudzu might be an appropriate substitute. The interior would be decorated with elegant antiques, tons of Victorian furniture, lots of books, clutter, artwork, and just simply bizarre objects. Their would also be theme rooms, an Asian inspired room, an Ancient Egyptian room, a library furnished to look like a cathedral complete with gothic revival benches, stained glass, countless pillar candles, and stone flooring, and finally never denying that little bit of cyber Goth I have in me, a futuristic room complete with black leather and chrome furniture, state of the art entertainments systems, and countless numbers of H.R. Giger prints, perhaps some Warhol too. To top it off, I'd have a lofty attic complete with furniture covered with sheets, trunks full of the junk I can't bare to part with, and an army of dust bunnies to blanket it all. The basement would be converted to alchemy lab, that more or less for the mad scientist boyfriend of mine, but I'm always eager to throw on that vinyl nurses outfit, and Malice Mizer lab coat to play assistant. Finally the back yard would consist of a herb/botanical garden with little Virgin Mary, Saint Francis, cherubs, and gargoyle statuaries here and there.
And that my friends is the complete translation of my eclectic style translates into a house...

The stuff I didn't really take in when I was 5... Anyhow, always good to learn useless information... I've been filling my head with it since I graduated High School.

Interesting thread!

I think my style would be an underground bunker with a lot of security everywhere. Maybe a hidden enterance or two. I detest windows and would love to live sheltered under a ton of dirt. Inside there would be computers, sofas, fancy TVs and concole-games and a soundsystem worth it's weight in gold. I would have rockin houseparties with my closest friends, and a batcave-style garage (with a batcar-style car ).



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The Vampire's house in Underworld would do me fine and as a nice Summer retreat Rivendell

I want, as Dane Cook put it, a mystery house. Inside there would be numerous secret doors and passages and rooms. Paintings I could look through the eyeholes of, statues that act as levers, rotating bookcases, trapdoors...the works.

As for the non-mystery aspects of the house, I will require a large studio, with areas designated for the different art I do. The entire house would be a gallery for said artwork. I also want a smoking room, a library, a sitting room, numerous bedrooms, and one room that no one but me is allowed into. Inside that room will be nothing of any interest, but I want the myth to develop that I do weird experiments or have millions of dollars or something behind that door. I also want a dungeon in the basement. It wouldn't be used for it's actual purpose, but instead for roleplaying games. Who wouldn't want to play D&D in an actual dungeon?

From the outside, it would probably look like nothing more than a regular house. Maybe in a Victorian style, like most people here seem to want. The outside doesn't concern me too much, really.


~Puppies

It would have shag carpeting every where, the wall paper would be khaki brown with little swirly patterns on it, lava lamps would dominate every open space, It would be built from inferior quality material, the book of common good taste would be thrown (wholeheartedly) out the window and asbestos would fill every once empty cavity... In other words I want to live in a late seventies style council house!!!

Or perhaps not...

[P.S. puppies' Idea rocks I'll go with that]

hmmm... that's tough. I would absolutely love something like a trasylvanian castle. I recently got into that kind of style after one of my early b~day gifts. It was vampire cabernet sauvignon wine imported straight from Transylvania. I was always amazed and drawn into the dark world of vampires and when I got that I just started looking up old castles. I would definitely love something like that with all of the material for the inside to be rich blood reds, black, and all that jazz. I guess a 'traditional' gothic setting (whatever that is)

~siiri

My place would have to be some sort of castle not too big and not too small. It would be a dark rich purple on the outside and black and purple on the inside, not sure about furniture yet, but the colours are deffinatly chosen!

My husband and I love to talk about our "dream home". From all outside appearances, it would look like a normal, quaint, bungalow style home save for the devil head door knocker on the front door. In the living room, a mural would be professionally painted on the wall of my husband in the form of Satan humping me doggie style amongst flames and dancing demons. We would have medieval period style wall sconces for lighting. The bedroom would have all black walls, black curtains and a wrought-iron canopy bed with a blood red sheer curtain. And black satin sheets, of course.

I would love somthing like Sarumans tower maybe made of ivory, then I could sit and be all menacing.

failing that edwoard scissorhands pad would do.