/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>underground floor with a big workshop and a bunker
>indoors thermal pool
>would build my own security system with cameras, door locks, lights, windows and everything else connected to a central server
>small hidrophonic farm because I enjoy taking care of plants
>solar panels, a large water tank, food storage and a generator with a small fuel stock
>in the backyard I would build another pool, a pool house, a kennel, a small playground for the kids and a bunch of trees
>would also have a small lake with a handful of turtles in it because I fucking love turtles

>>1290056
i want to live in a castle

>>1290056
>underground floor with a big workshop
You know what sucks? Rucking all your materials and finished projects up and down stairs. Also, noise. For me, it would be a detached shop at ground level.

>because I love fucking turtles
I bet you do.

>>1290036
My dream is to live like a hermit in a stone tower somewhere in the hills or mountains. Every floor would be connected through a staircase and would have AC and large arched windows. The tower will be surrounded by trees (mainly fruit) and a simple iron fence to limit automobile entry.
The basement would have a kitchen, pantry, washing machine, and general supplies. Would also double as bunker. Bonus: hidden escape tunnel.
Ground floor would be living room/relaxation room, just a comfy space to read and watch movies and rest.
Second floor would contain bedroom and bathroom. Mostly standard stuff.
Third floor would be where I spend most of my time: a recording studio with lots of instruments and recording gear, big windows for view, couch and sofa.
Roof would be used for lookout and large flashlights in case I want to light the grounds at night.
Depends on required space I might also place a storage/work shed outside.

Here's a quick sketch I made in Sweet Home 3D, I'm currently studying Chief Architect in order to make a better one.

>>1290082
Install a cargo lift.

>>1290036
I'd build a shop the size of a factory and live in that, since a home is a place to shower, shit, sleep and cook.

It would be a large hardened aircraft shelter. That design is perfect for what I want and hurricane proof. I'd copy the double shelters at Al Dhafra AB, UAE, which have living quarters between the hangar bays and some very, very nice Caterpillar diesel generators.

Honestly, just a nice modern cabin somewhere out in the dense forest.

A decent chunk of property would be nice, maybe something that backs up to national land.

Art room for the wife. Separate workshop perhaps?

>>1290036

already have plans in my head for a house which i dont have money for YET.

half underground, footprint about 7 x 15 (meters)
top floor is going to be living room and kitchen and equal to the back yard, supported by the short sides and spanning the full length unsupported.
front side frame-less glass, backside one full sliding door with a small frame.
lower floor will be for all other rooms

this way all you would see is just a small profile sticking out from the back yard.

i have already got the plans at home and am saving up till we can break ground.

>>1290036
a medium-large room with a fireplace built fairly far into the side of a hill, for sleeping/living, with outbuildings for a workshop, storage, food production maybe, etc.

>>1290036
industrial, built to last hundreds of years, possibly even modular.

able to be worked on, the best wiring, sheet steel frame for the building with plaster panels for the walls, thumb screws holding them down (or socket head cap screws or something handy)

able to mount things to the wall/ceiling without worrying about the house falling apart. Would be great for old people too, able to mount handles to aid in mobility everywhere.

Maybe plumbing should be done like the wiring, through flexible hose?

>industrial, durable, useful
>able to be worked on, maintained, improved

>>1290036
>about 10 acres, half wooded
>seed the perimeter with thorn bushes and poisonous shit
>fruit/nut trees, berry bushes, and other foragable shit around the interior
>secret underground bomb shelter
>secret underground escape tunnels
>extra maze-like tunnels to confuse intruders
>futuristic style dome home
>reinforced concrete outer walls
>4 car garage/workshop
>3 beds, 2 baths
>game room
>home theater
>hidden rooms and secret passages all through the house

>>1290036
I'm a fan of the traditional japanese/chinese (tang dynasty) housing structure.

A good chunk of land (few acres) that's walled and gated. Inside in the middle is the house and surrounding are sectioned off areas like backyard/front yard/garden/even small pond on the sides. The housing has to be built in sectioned way, not a single structure but split off into different wings.

Overall, I like the idea of a gated/walled house with an inner garden/park. It doesn't have to be super fancy/expensive, even a cheap house + garden would do, the main ingredient being walls+gate to delineate the property.

>>1290174
traditional anything is always about pragmatism. that worked in shit tier japan eras(any time before 1980s.) now try to think of something that works today, in your climate. are you a japanese rice farmer living in a hellish monsoon swamp? no? japanese style is fucking retarded then. find something that works today.

>>1290204
???

Are you buttfrustrated or something? The whole gated home concept exist in modern cities. It exists in suburbs. It exists in rural area too. This is America I'm talking about, not some no-real estate euro nigger tier shit. 100+ acres can be had for less than 100K in some rural areas.

>>1290036
If I ever came into money I'd have ~500 acres minimum

I'd build a large home kind of in the style of retirement home-ish. individual apartment units for me and my family and some friends, and my husband's mother and brother as well.

Each unit would have bedrooms, living room, kitchen, typical house/condo amenities.

The central main area would have a large entertainment area, movie theater, large dining room and commercial kitchen with walk in cooler and freezer and a big dry storage area. Under the whole building would be underground parking/storage/work and hobby spaces.

A large LARGE workshop would be on the property for metal fabricobbling and tree carcass butchering.

I'd have a barn for some equipment and a couple horses. and I'd also have a working farm/ranch going on as much as the land would support self sufficiently without any inputs.

I have always wanted to build and live in the lions pride inn from WoW ever since i saw it in nilla.

would have to play around with the layout to include a bathroom though. 1 on the main level and 2 in the upper level.

>>1290082
>You know what sucks? Rucking all your materials and finished projects up and down stairs. Also, noise. For me, it would be a detached shop at ground level.
I didn't think about that. I was only think of the underground comfyness. But still, I'm more of a computers/electronics kind of guy, I don't think I would be rucking a lot of shit or making a lot of noise anyways.

>>1290082
>What are acoustic tiles
>Implying crane isn't already the primary method for moving large stock/lots of small stock

-A house on top of a hill
-Underground workshop
-a gazebo at my backyard with a bed
-a bunker at the front yard
-ww1 style trench at my backyard (extra)

There's something really alluring about living in a geodesic dome. It's your own little bubble, at the same time it's a perfect shape that also appears in nature on an atomic level. Shame about the watermark, I absolutely cannot find other decent res photos of the place.

>>1290590
This, this this. I have lived in a similar yurt and it was so, so nice. Strongly recommended. The ceiling height improves life quality dramatically.

>>1290204
You failed to provide any reason why that style wouldn't work today. Ancient rice farmers breathed oxygen, so is doing that retarded too?

Retractable, upside-down pyramid with helicopter pad on the roof.
When up, the hole below is a swimming pool. When a storm hits, the pool is drained into an underground reservoir, and the entire house is retracted into the empty space, leaving nothing above ground except for the helicopter.
I'll never see it made, but it remains a Powerball/Megamillions dream...

>>1290036
Live-aboard yacht.

/diy/ approved, of course.

>>1290590
I think rounded shapes just feel more natural and cozy. I'd love to have a place like this somewhere.

>>1290590
Fuckoff wayne...

Literally pic related but built entirely of reinforced concrete with an outer layer of nice looking granite. Couple dozen acres in a mountain area and I would be set. Do the fantasy home general come with a qt gf too?

>>1290378
Just shit in the fireplace and let the NPC's deal with it.

>>1290803
This is also a good source for renewable energy

>>1290497
rucking ain't so bad. I've gotten real good at maneuvering 150lb 4x8s on my shoulder.

>>1290773
Yes, but she leaves you after a year or two.

>>1290808
Why? Doesn't she like the cold, nice views and cosy sex by the fire?

>>1290808
>Yes, but she leaves you after a year or two.
And takes half your stuff.

>>1290826
>And takes half your stuff.
Yeah, she took the bigger house I didn't like, I kept the big cabin in the woods.

>~4 acres, lightly wooded on 3/4 of the property
>smallish house with a minimalist design
>primarily one large open living area with a single bedroom
>polished concrete floors
>white walls
>high ceilings
>lots of windows
>tall attached garage around the back with room for 3 cars plus a 2 post lift
>separate building
>half of which serves as a small craft brewery with an 8 foot stainless tank and manual bottling facilities
>other half serves as garden shed for my large aquaponic greenhouses
>nest out back for flying pigs

>>1290087
what would you do if you broke both your legs and couldn't use stairs?

>>1290129
>>1290858

A little of one, a little of the other, bought it last year, building out the wood shop now. It's over the attached (but built later) garage. I have to carry crap up the external stairs, but it means I can sink stuff like dust collection through the floor rather than running it up and overhead.

>>1290881
I don't plan on breaking my legs. Some anon suggested I'd install a lift for when I'm old, so that's an option, but I'm not worried about that.

>>1290036
This looks like the repetitive tunnels from Halo.

Whatever I built it would include an oven/tile stove.

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2008/12/tile-stoves.html

>>1290036
Doing it soon. Buying the wife a house and digging a hole where god willing they will find me with equipment idling dead of old age or a stroke.

>>1290168
Plumbing.

Pex anon. The answer is always pex

>>1290170
Dome.

>triggered

>>1290378
Top fugging kek anon. Outstanding.

Gonna have a bunch

>>1290497
If i come up with an idea i wanna be able to shuffle my fat ass into the shop with slippers on and sketch it out/ make a list of materies.

>>1290590
U want

Sum boos?

>>1290675
Yes. Only the cool farmers breach ammonia and bleach mixed gas. It mixes oxygen with light weight helium that way.

>obvious troll but since i know who u mutherfuckers are do not do this...

>>1290691
Shit anon. With a little drive and ambition it could be pretty doable. Study personal finance and investing.

Git gud

>>1290738
>unironically renting shipping containers to autists

>>1290773
May as well. If not u could just be a tinyhouse fag. Houses imo are for women and entertaining. I need a shoo and an insulated place to sleep

>>1290807
Shit wears on u fast tho. I used to buck 20' 10" pvc pipe and hay bailes all of thr time. Shit would fuck my back up for 2 weeks trying that. Enjoy your 20s... maybe your 30s

>>1290855
>plus alimony

>>1290858
With the way bitech is advancing it's possible.
>when pigs fly.

>mfw it is a null expression

>>1290881
Could do like me when i was fucked for over a year. Toss crutches on foot or throw cane upstairs. Sit on stairs and start awkward painful journey.

I will NEVER live in a house with stairs again. Affraid of elevators also. Massive 1 story. Idgaf if i have to put fat people movers like the airports have through the place.

>>1290738
I realize we are being memed, but it actually would be dope as fuck to get a small cargo ship, and fill the deck with trees and plants and shit

>>1291229
No, she had money from family.

>>1291228
I'm 50 and a fat fuck. I still do it, don't bother me none.

My dream is relatively simple and feasible. Decent sized plot of land in the North East (Maine, Vermont or New Hampshire) with a simple, traditional home. No bigger than 2000sqft, ideally 1400-1800, steep pitched roof, two stories, cedar shake siding, tall narrow windows. Basically no McMansion bullshittery.

Solar panels, (either grid or off grid, don't matter much to me) well water, wood burning stove with maybe geothermal or a heat pump as a secondary heating system. Pretty much want to minimize my dependence on utilities, which would save a ton of money in the long run, which makes retirement easier to attain.

I'd also have a detached garage which would be my main workshop. That and a dedicated library room in the home would be the only two special areas I'd need.

I'd probably go pretty wild on trim in there too. Maybe some coffered ceilings and shit.

this. though I would also want tunnels to hidden exits and a garage. I would develop that space in front of the house too. Get a nice place to sit, and a Japanese open air hot spring bath off to the side and hidden behind bamboo.

>>1290036
Obligatory loli rape den.

>>1291243
this ship makes no sense. The scale is all fucked up, especially those lifeboats

wow all these houses suck dick

>>1291593
>>>/lgbt/

>>1290378
This is actually a fantastic idea. It would also be pretty simple and easy to build. If you ever build you dream house hmu and I'll pour the foundation and do the framework for it just for the fuck of it

>>1290036
80 acres of thick woods, 3 bed, 2 bath, garage, workshop directly in the middle of the plot
solar powered, off the grid, garden and fish farm...
and off the books built with no permits a hidden bunker

>>1291618
Hey there! It looks like you are planning to commit a murder or establish a rape dungeon, would you like some help with that?

>>1291618
You'd love to live near me. One of the neighboring counties will absolutely not give a shit if you do. You can build anything without a permit it's awesome

>>1290174
>>1290204
The weeb part of me has always wanted to build something like one of those Japanese compounds too. They're actually not all that impractical except for the paper doors that make up much of the exterior walls, and I've always figured you could replace them with insulated sliding glass doors made to look like shoji screens.

>>1291588
Looks like a small shallow water container ship for running to ports the big ships can not get to.

The life boats are pretty much spot on to my eye.

>>1290773
1000 hours in Minecraft

2 and a half floor, 2 bed room, fortress. Detatched workshop. Shooting range off the patio. Traditional 2 story guest house for people who insist on visiting that I don't want to shoot.
In the $5-10 million range.

>>1291243
Good post.

>>1292515
I actually dont care about the insides of the house as its more of an aesthetics about the grand scheme of the housing. Gated + small garden + open space inside the gated/walled house. This would absolutely work in rural areas. Not sure it could work in cities as the areas are expensive as fuck and has lots of buildings codes to adhere to.

>>1291371
Meh. I broke a lot of bones and fucked up my back being stupid. Cant do ahot now anyway. Got a metal olate in my foot and arthritis at 25. 25 to 60 in one fucking day...

>>1291593
>all theae houses suck dicks.

Posts some half boat looking piece of shit with picir sticks holding it uo and 0 fucking acerage. Even the back yard looks walled off and concreted

0/10 shitpost.

Try harder

>>1291614
2nd this

>>1291618
>fish farm.

Yo, hit up youtube for how to raise mealworms.

Fuckloads of taters, aooles, carrots and u got infinate fish food for dirt cheap. Not sure how you would do the feeding automatically. I guess you could maybe just feed them the beatles. Maybe have it rigged on a scale so once it hits a certain wait it just shoves 3 pounds down a chute?

>>1291630
Mfw we dont even have zoning here.

Feels good man.

>>1293090
Shit now and metal plate fuck my fat thumbs

For me, It's the missile silo airport.


I unironically would do anything to have this, Including selling my soul and gay sex.

>>1293131
fuck, forgot pic

>>1293132
How bitchin would it be to come home and just park your plane in your driveway lmao

"MAYDAY MAYDAY WE NEED TO LAND"
"Divert or I'll shoot you for good measure on the ground"

>>1290062
I too want to live in a castle.

>>1290378
One of my many whims has been to build a classical tavern/inn complete with rooms for travelers and horse stables. Complete with a giant pot of everything soup that just gets more stuff added it to and home brewed alcohol.

I didn't get past the brainstorming part because I couldn't figure out a sensible/profitable location. We don't exactly have highway crossroads that would draw in the kind of people that would be interested in such a thing.

>>1293090
>Got a metal olate in my foot and arthritis at 25
I was born with rheumatoid arthritis. Scarring, erosion and spurs in my lumbar vertebrae. I'm always in pain. Rucking doesn't make it worse. I doubt I'd even notice most injuries over the background noise.

>>1293180
Oh shit nigga is that a redraw of the fucking Inn from The Guild 2? I fucking love that game.

>>1290062
>>1293179
i have a pretty simple cathedral design that i think is feasible. if i can find a lot with the right dimensions i'm going to do it.

>>1293221
Post please, I have been studying stonemasonry for exactly this purpose

Dunno really, anything along the philosophy of Usonia is good for me.

>>1293180
>>1293205

My dream home would be
likely far up north
half, or mostly dug into the ground/into the side of a hill/under dense trees so it wasn't viewable from air surveillance.
Home would likely be a set of separate rooms carved into the hill this way, so I don't really need heating anywhere but where my bed/comfy zone would be.
Speaking of heating... smokeless fireplace inside with the whole underground air thing going on.
Absolutely zero paved paths or vehicles.
Preferably near a water source and/or a giant barrel with natural filtration.
Natural cellar dug deeper into the earth to keep supplies chilled...
food taken from strategically placed fruit trees and plants (potatos, lots of) native to the environment and surrounding areas. Can't be too dense as to be suspected of a program picking up human life via satellite footage...
Maybe a small chicken coop

everything has to be hidden/unknowable from the outside world

parter or not not important to have

>>1293131
>>1293132
Are you planning to launch missiles, or just to live in that kind of structure?

>>1293180
I'm sure there are a lot of LARPers that would love this kind of thing.

>>1293321
I can't think of anything that would work outside of Pennsic, which is temporary and already has its own versions of taverns.

I suppose it might work as a remote ski-lodge if it were in a place that would be into quirky shit like that.

>>1293318

>launching missiles

Ultimate ww3 prepping

>>1293323
Now's probably the best time to do it. "Nerd culture" is at it's peak, there are more LARPers than ever and they are actually grown ups now. Just build it in your closest metropolitan center, possibly near a collage or university, and the hordes will come.

>>1293333
them quads can't lie. I guess I'll look into it. If you guys notice it on the news somewhere remember that /diy/ meme magic made it happen.

>>1293132
I used to fantasize about something like this when I was a kid, and we have a ton of abandoned silos here since I'm near SAC, but as it turns out all of those abandoned silos are actually rusty, moldy, piece of shit flooded holes in the ground that the owners want millions of dollars for.

>>1293334
If it ended up near me, I'd come with my money for sure.

>>1293333

He'll Iam not even a larper but I like the idea.
Might even consider it if it had the right vibe.

>>1293341
>>1293343
interesting all the support for a passing idea, but yeah I guess I'll look into it. god knows I can manage the funds if I were keen enough. I don't think I can get the right vibe without hearkening back to its initial purposes as a remote travelers lodge. If its in a proper town or city its not different from a Pub.

I'll research out of the way ski/hiking areas that are busy enough to be profitable.

>>1290036
A brick house in the woods with a secret underground bunker nearby.

>>1293347
>If its in a proper town or city its not different from a Pub.
I'm not in a proper city or town. I'd have to drive 40 minutes to get to one of those. And I'd rather go to your place. NH here.

>he doesn't want to inhabit an enormous gothic masterpiece

>>1293738
i'm not paying to heat or cool all that poorly insulated open space.

>>1290036

>>1293825
>>1293856
>>1293860
minecraft in vr was a mistake my computer duder

>>1293870

I am so weirded out right now. But I have a semi. Is this what e-fame is like?

>>1293895
Nah I'm the one viewer of your VR series. You're a good comedian and I miss the comics you made you fuck. What's with the love of underwater shit anyway? Water scares more more than space since it fucking weighs something.

>>1293961

My obsession with space ran out by age 12 or so after I finished researching every manned mission to date. There just wasn't any more.

So I got into ocean stuff. It's cool in a lot of the same ways. The vehicles, the exoskeletons/suits, the torpedos, the habitats.

But there's been a lot more stuff done in the ocean than space because of the cost difference, and because it's possible to turn a profit returning precious metals from the ocean floor but not from space.

It's less disappointing than space, as a fantasy to geek out over because of that. Also the fact that anybody can go and do scuba diving to explore the ocean. Most people can't go to space.

There is also the horror aspect, but that just makes it more compelling. Have you played Narcosis?

>>1293964
DESU I haven't played any sort of underwater most anything. How goes teaching hampsters objectivism?

>>1290036
one of these staircases

>>1293967

Good, good. I tried adding fish at the tail end of Summer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMEkmdUHI_c

It didn't go well. I am a lot better at keeping hamsters alive than fish. I have all the parts for megahab but not the time to assemble them.

>>1293812
Just have a coat or use infrared aimed at the public.

>>1293857
add-a-brazzer-logo.script

all I want is a motherfucking tower

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHt57JVDE48

>>1293180
My guy, if you do this, do it in a place with lots of Aspen trees around the area and I'll totally settle down nearby and be a regular

>>1293180
I was thinking about this exact thing a few days ago. Like you said though, finding a good location is hard and I'm also not sure if there's even a big enough market to make it profitable compared to a regular bar/restaurant/hotel. I'd love to do this though.

I'm planning on selling off some of my investments in a few years and I'd like to start a business of some kind with the money. The only problem is that I'm not great with people and I know that'll be an issue.

>>1290087
>Wanting a mage tower
>Not having a floor that's a library

>>1294677
that anon. Send me an email and we can exchange info and check in occasionally with each other to see if our investments and timelines match up at some point. maybe we could do a partnership and I can deal with some of things you aren't comfortable with since I am good with people and have connections.

If nothing else it would be something fun to discuss for just for the sake of it.

9b45y8+c7kqzpo5loa1c@sharklasers.com

>>1294638
>>1290087
geez this thread is really making me feel less of a speshul snowflake. I fell out of love with this idea a while back, but I did manage to find a USA based company that said they would be happy to help me build it out of stone; castlemagic.com but they usually require a pretty hefty deposit to start the process. Depending on various factors you are looking at 300K to upwards of a million probably.

>>1293198
Same
>doctor asks aren't you in pain?
>not any more than normal

>>1293857
There is so much I could say about this. But all of it is just way too easy.

>>1294709
You can't see it in the photo but the living room is lined with bookshelves. However I'm too much of a utilitarian, most of my books are on my kindle. I don't want to larp too much.

>>1294950
the castles look disgustingly kitchy and fake, with all the non-locally sourced, perfect cut stone blocks.

I would settle for a modest tower attached to a modest cabin, 3 stories high, just enough to get a nice view above the surroundings.

If money was no object, It'd be a decent sized concrete home - but tastefully designed, stained / painted / decorated, not some corbusier commie monstrosity. It would be built to look like a ski lodge. Well insulated.

Using concrete because it's non-flammable and soundproof due to its sheer mass.

Between every room and every floor would be passageway to gain access to plumbing, wiring, and hvac. It would have a deep basement for storage and extra quietude if necessary.

There'd be a huge workshop outbuilding with tall ceilings, for storage and projects. There'd be a catwalk to access the high parts of projects, and to access a loft restroom / break room. There'd be a gantry because gantries are great.

The house would be built in the middle of a square mile section of land, densely forested except for a hobby farm. Mixed hilly and flat, with mountain views and a pond or lake fed by a river. Shooting range. I'd use the river as a heat sink for summer, and either seasonal heat storage or wood for the winter.

Done.

>>1295321
and if I had more money

>>1295323

>>1295324

>>1295321
>>1295321
i got some suggestions.

>move the door to the bath over to the right one door width.
>delete the laundry room.
>move the right side bath wall over to where the laundry room doors were.
>place the toilet against that wall in its own water closet.
>move the sink to where the toilet was. delete the window.
>where the tub/shower combo was. you place vertically stacked laundry machines and wall shelves.
>move the utility room wall over half the width of that sink.
>pocket door into that now larger utility room.
>utility room is now all just one giant tiled shower room with a floor drain. hand held shower head that has a holder up high for standing, and lower for sitting. off to the side you place a very deep self heating soaking tub.
>toilet's water closet is accessed now from the hall through a single bi fold door. use a washlet toilet that has a hand wash sink built into the top of the tank.
>delete the kitchen back door. add counter and cabient space. make the kitchen window wider.
>pocket door the living room closet.
>living room should be raised floor from the kitchen, hall, and front door foyer.
>railing on the right side of the living room. to separate the space of it and the foyer of the front door, closet, and garage door.
>bedroom should also be raised floor.
>garage floor should be lower than all other floors. some shelving in the garage along the wall it shares with the kitchen. to place your wet and dirty clothes and shoes. also think about a utility sink in the garage.

>>1290056
I don't have an 'ultimate home' fantasy, but I have a great turtle photo. Enormous snapper.

>>1293198
:( fuck that sucks.

I always thought arthritis was shit that week old people got. After surgery doc was like yup, u gonna have arthritus. Was bumbed bit i figured i woukd get it at 70 like dementia.

Kek.

Mfw make a few appointments and tell him it sucks larger ass than Obama.

...that would be arthritis anon.

>>1293200
How they keep these from hauling dick down river when it rains bad?

>>1293333
Quads dont lie

>>1293334
Yaaaas

>>1293812
May well just fire up acs and heaters outside and fire em up. Would make the same difference. Is neat tho

>>1293969
What the fuck.???

Did you make an underwater habitat for hamsters?

>>1294677
Nope, just hire or partber with someone who is while you work on it until it is a solid strength

I need you anons to get rich and successful with me so oir autistic dreams aren't just memes.

>>1295414
I'm leaning towards an out of the way state park in either upstate New York or New Hampshire to capture that old-world wilderness feeling. If its a popular tourist destination it should still get a lot of thoroughfare and can be strategically positioned between distant towns a place for outdoorsy types to sleep, eat, and drink.

Pretty sure New England is full of hipsters and nerds too so that can't hurt.

>>1290129
3 paned bulletproof glass on that giant window, prrease.

>>1294950
Their walls are shit, there's way too much concrete/mortar between stones. Also they don't understand how machicolation work, but that's usual. They've been used as decoration for centuries, but nowadays it's a visual mess.

>>1295323
>more indoor surface for cars than humans

>>1290497
It's an imaginary dream house. Put in a dumbwaiter.

>>1295478
>more indoor surface for cars than humans
Exactly.

>>1295580
>>1295478
>>1295323
I would shrink that Garage down a 2 car. keep one car and space for a motorcycle in the garage.

then you have a detached steel building. which houses the other two cars and has a bay with a lift.

My ideal home is a hammock tent on a plot several trillion lightyears around.

Though I suppose I would settle for a ringworld to my self.

Well before I get into what my dream house would look like, I first must discribe its location. My dream house will be located somewhere mostly flat, but with rolling hills, with a cliff, and deep water access preferably in Europe to be near places I want to be near but am not (also need to be near fast internet +10Gb/s).

Inside the house, a home cinima/screening room (with a minimum of 9.2 Atmos sound), at minimum 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bath minimum, a recording studio large enough for a small band/ 5 people and equipment, a soundstage for video recording, a small arcade with 3 or 4 cabinets, a couple pinball tables, air hockey table, foosball table, and a billards table (would also house game systems and a interactive ttrpg table), a server room to house game servers as well as my home lab and site. A small library with a tea bar in it. I'd also enjoy having a decient size pool.

Kitchen wise in addition to 4 burner gas stove, standard oven, separate refrigerator, and freezer, I'd have a waist high cooking hearth with an earthen oven

Garage wise space for at least 5 cars including a lift. A second garage/machine shop for all my wood, plastic, metal, and other frabrications. Outside the shop, a smithy with a smeltery. An additional 1 car garage as a garden shed.

The entire house would be foot thick poured concrete walls on the exterior and load bearing, the house would then be covered with a couple inches of gravel, a couple inches of sand, and then sod excepting the doors and windows. The back of the house would be facing the nearest civalation and the front the sea. Civalation would be at most 20-30 minutes away at the speed limit, preferably 10-15.

In addition, the entire house would be filled with secret passages, empty spaces between walls, etc.

A big ol' Victorian mansion.

>Bowling alley and hunting room in the basement, full of guns and animal skins
>Library/study, billiard room, smoking room with walk-in humidor
>Period correct decor and furnishings
>Hidden passages and stairways behind the walls

And out back a massive garage and shop to stock with old cars and shit.

>>1295583
I've had a detached garage. I don't want that.

I'd want a small japanese style apartment with a kitchen, bathroom and a large library nearby. Pic related, its a room I rented in Japan.

>>1290170
>futuristic style dome home
Mah nigga

Just like my childhood.

>>1295456
Sweet. I will never fucking step foot in ny or california ever again. But id love to visit one anywhere else.

After i buld my house im popping up cucksheads all over. Seasonal or weekend rentals and a place for me to crash when traveling.

>>1295580
My shit will lool like paul walkers garage.

Double stacked cars all around.

>>1295856
You know such a property is not very expensive to outright buy if you aren't too picky on age and location. Especially if its only a small used apartment in an older building.

Even old detached houses can be pretty affordable.

>>1290036
I want to build something that will last for generations. Sometime I could pass down.

That being said, I should probably try and get a wife at some point or I wont be passing down shit.

>>1291225
lol are you one if those reddit vanguard drones

>>1290036
I'd ditch the open-plan nonsense and have several small rooms, with zoned heating and as good insulation as I can afford.
I'd have a woodstove, electric heat pump, and oil burner as a backup. The same fuel oil can run a backup generator as well.
As many solar panels as I could manage, with batteries, and maybe a solar preheater for the heat pump too if it's efficient enough in the winter.

So can I build a house where all the plumbing, electric and framing is visible?

Or is that going to be against building codes or some shit?

>>1296077
Lots of buildings (schools, hospitals, restaurants, businesses, data centers etc) have visible plumbing and wiring that meets code.
Code doesn't necessarily mean it has to be buried and hidden, but it does mean it has to be protected from human fuckups.
Example (don't quote me on this) you can't just run loomex between studs in such a way that it's exposed to damage from someone or something falling against it. But if you used electrical metal conduit and pulled wire, that might be okay. Or use BX.

Or build everything to code, then when the inspector signs off on everything, do it the way you want.

Code books will say what is permissible.

>>1295583
>I would shrink that Garage down a 2 car.
Anon pls, you need room for your
>daily
>weekend car
>motorcycles + mower

>>1296108
That is what the detached garage is for.

I'd like to build a small bunker on an island in the middle of my pond.

Mine will have trees and shrub cover to conceal the entrance and my canoe.

Is there any problems with building on bedrock? I don't like the idea of putting a house on sand, soil and other crap, so I'd like to find a piece of land that has a giant slab of granite I can build on or something. Would that work?

Only problem I see right now is it might need to be large piece of land if I need a well. If the entire lot is rock I'd have to go thru rock to get a well and that seems like it may be a pain.

>>1295323
So you want any guest visiting to have to enter your bedroom to use the bathroom?

Might want to squeeze a 1/2 bath into the plan..use mud room..still can be named the same ;)

>>1290082
Walk out basement

>>1295323
>tiny ass mericuh style made-of-cardboard and plywood and 4x4s yeeehaaahww shit house
>garage you can literally squeeze 7 cars in

nigga wat

Castle or star fort in a hilly area with a winding racetrack like drive around it. The landscape will be forests for the most part with some fields and clearings. And it must have a cute little babbling brook with a cascade or two.

>>1296368
A lot of people use their garage as a work space instead of just storage. My garage is about 20' x 60' and I could still put more space to use. Drawing shows a workbench and presumably toolboxes, so I think it's a safe assumption here.

How big of a castle do you think I could build with 150k worth of mortar and blocks/stones?

>>1295974
Meh, you can always pick a fanily member or friend as an heir

>>1296077
Just move where codes dont exist. Or say fuckit and do it anyway. Nobody needs to know. Just dont do it till the walls are up

>>1296279
Fucking genious anon. I will do this. 100% not kidding. Next year man. Next year i begin my lifetime of digging

>>1296304
Nope. I work at a quarry and at the other one i worked at i hauled dick on it in a 90 ton haul truck with fucking sides welded on it. Roughly a quarter million pounds bouncing on it. There is no better foundation on earth imo. Throw a level pad on it and go nuts. Or sink a bunch of poles into it.

>>1296380
Rock here is about $13 a ton.

Figure that, a few grand for a shitty beater dump truck, and morter and it should help?

Could figure actual materials and weight then guess about how much 1 square foot would cost.

Would be a shit rough guess tho.

A dude near here lives in oil tanks. He took 3 giant ones and rocked around them. Looks like a fucking castle. Not seen it in 20 years but he was ralking about using 1 or 2 for a shoo and garage.

I forgot all about that. Ima go find it again and share pics

>>1296389
>lives in oil tanks
You mean the big ones? The ones that look like grain bins?

>>1290808
>>1290820
>>1290826
>>1290855
>>1291229
>>1291369
I'm surprised post-divorce murders aren't more common.

>>1296381
What an unsatisfying thought.

>>1296385
You could always build another escape hatch on the mainland.

>>1290325
>>1290675
>>1292515
because it was the best technology available to them at the time. japanese traditional architecture and design was all about how japan is a terrible monsoon swamp. that's why tori gates are orange. the stumps were blacked and the tops coated with mercury. that shit was literal magic. if you touched it, you got poisoned. its blessed by a priest and the only wood you havnt seen in a state of decay, rotting into the ground in your whole life. japanese joinery is about replacing all the rotting timbers constantly.

those housing designs were about housing your estates workforce, their families, your family, your extended family and their extended family. europe did this as well until the industrial revolution. this is exactly why the irish are now poor niggers. but nobody lives like that anymore. do you really want to live with your grandparents and their friends and your employees children?

i would build nothing, i would lay there and die

Have any of you guys made aircrete, or made things with it?

>>1296380
Its a tricky question to answer, because there are a lot of variables particularly whether you can source your own field stone and do your own labor.

Pick up a book called "Stone Builders Primer" by Charles Long. The basic principles apply would apply to a small castle, and it cuts out a lot of the bullshit and industry lies/inefficiency about stone masonry framing.

For 150K, in the best of scenario with cheap stone and a lot of your own labor you are looking at a fortified stone bunker and not so much a castle but I am sure you could find ways of making it look nice.

If you aren't planning on laying the stone yourself or having to buy all the stone you cannot build much more than a shed for 150K.

Earth contact, concrete, brick, and wood. Warm feeling in the back with a cooler modern approach out front. Big shop for my trucks and working on them either attached and underground or free standing up on the hill behind the house. Maybe the house goes deeper into the earth for more of a bunker type thing going on. And honestly? None of that is too outlandish to ask for. That could definitely be built.

>>1296997
my parents build with it (germany) when I was 10 30cm cellar walls with styrofoam on the outside.
The room feeling is great, easy to use. Great material in my personal opinion. Much better than pure concrete, that is sweaty and shit.

>>1290062
>>1293179
>>1293221
>>1293225
My fellow castle bros.
I'm too poor to ever live this dream sadly.

>>1293857
https://youtu.be/fV0z34BYNyA

Basically pic related, but big enough to fit this >>1290056

>way out in the middle of a forest on a hill somewhere wet
>dig out a giant moat around a few acres, piling up the excavated dirt on the inside of the moat
>plant a tangled wall of thorny trees on this mound
>in the middle, a completely over-engineered reinforced concrete tiny house with an outdoor stone patio and brick oven
>solar power with wood gas generator backup and well water with rainwater backup
>immediately surrounding the house is a flower gardern with birdhouses/butterfly ponds/etc.
>past the flower garden are vegetable beds sectioned off by hedges of more flowers
>the rest of the acreage is a maze of forest garden including every fruit/nut tree, edible shrub, and herb/spice plant I can grow there
>I drive my electric go-kart through the dirt paths of the forest to my workshop/garage and food storage/brewery near my house
>top-teir water management ditches prevent flooding while providing amphibian and insect habitat with drainage to the moat
>the only entrance inside the compound is an obligatory drawbridge
>all of my friends and family are invited to live there as long as they can work

>Optional: qt3.14 waifu and seven homeschooled children

>>1297910
Anon who was homeschooled reporting in.

Pls don't homeschool your fantasy kids

>>1297916
They're all going to be turbo-autists anyway so what's the difference?

>>1297917
Not only will they be turbo autists, but they will still be a virgin when they hit 21 years old.

You don't want that for your kids, do you?

>>1296845
Taht's why they had clans and head families. hat tradition is still maintained by the yakusa.
It is a strict hierarchy.

>>1297910
>butterfly ponds
This is going to be a mosquito pond anon.

>>1297927
Anon, many of us are older than 21....

>>1297977
Only until the dragonbros find it.

>>1298012
These and some fishes, should be alright.

>>1297871

>>1297871
A house like that IRL wouldn't survive the first rising tide, let alone a storm or a rogue wave.

>>1290036
/comfy/

>>1298345
So were these all just bullshit fish stories made up by the tunnel rats? I can't believe some starving farmers carved this shit out in the middle of a warzone, and even more I can't believe a dude with a 1911 explored it without being killed.

>>1298345
You know those were in the middle of the jungle and would attract a lot of snakes, spiders and insects, right? Besides, I don't see any showers in that image.

>>1298426
Or a latrine.

>>1296845
You still haven't provided any reason why it wouldn't work. What's the reason why the Irish are poor niggers? Do you think the Irish all live in massive estates? Combined housing saves money anyway.

Why are you acting like having a wall around an estate requires moving the extended family and servants in? Are you so autistic that you can't handle the idea of a building being used in a way that isn't a strict historical re-enactment?

Besides, some people do want to live with their grandparents. There's no reason for their friends to live there, so what are you babbling about? If you don't want employees' children around, just have them commute.

ive always wanted to live in a tree house of sorts.. I bought a bit of land and will do that one day, but until then.. I built a deck off the back of my home and its like 16 feet high and in the trees, so it gives me that same feeling

>>1298688
Ideally I want a shower that feels like being outside... I took slate from the lake and cut tiles for a walk-in shower, with a pebble stone base. Id like to install a skylight, usually I keep spiderplants on the shelves.. I cut the shelves from lake rock as well.

>>1298688
I also wanted the feeling of being outside when showering.. so I plan to put a skylight in the shower. I put in this walking shower with a pebble stone base.. And cut some shale from the lake to make the shelves and the tile around the base.

>>1298707
*walk-in shower... and the pic is sideways...fug

>>1298688
>>1298707
>>1298710
Its a small 650 sq ft house, with some cool characteristics.. I can post more pics if anyone cares, or else I'm done. thanks for listening

>>1293132
I want an underground bunker like that but
with a castle instead of a house.
>>1290062

>>1290036
>>1290036
I want a lava moat and turrets chambered in .50cal controlled by the finest of A.I.

Castle will be huge and I'll have workshops for every trade with workmen for hire (the best)

Also will have a 120' foot cinema room for playing Halo (this will also be sleeping chamber) with 4d virtual surround imax (that really cool new stuff, although I'll just be playing Halo with the projector all the time)

There will be underground catacombs leading to butcher rooms for my exotic meats I hunt myself from reserves worldwide

On the roof there will be anti air turrets and artillery batteries along with a crew of trained operatives and tech support guys to ensure maximum defensive capabilities also a helicopter

Yeah so it would be pretty cool. There will also be an enormous underground green house where I grow all the cool crops like hemp and sage. With that I can barter with the natives for more power over the region

>>1290036
I would make a decent looking regular house that fits in its surroundings. And build a giant underground fallout themed bunker complex. That is my dream.

>>1290036
not sure exactly what I would do but it would have "hidden" bookshelf doors and secret rooms and passages

Me? Krab legs.

>>1290036
my ideal home is grand but expensive

like pic related in the middle of some desert in the southwest, with a big giant crystal-clear swimming pool out the back

>>1301378
>tfw you will never have your own rotating space habitat

Kill me now senpai

>>1297871
>>1298113
>build a boat-like substructure out of air-crete
>embed some 55 gallon barrels for adjustable ballast tanks
>clad the outside in fiberglass to prevent erosion
>design the top side to look like a cool rock feature
>grotto, cliff side overlook, stepped terraces, etc.
>add a bunch of topsoil, planters, trees and shit
>bungalow and a few other tiny structures on the surface
>windmills to generate electricity
>much larger "underground" living space
>indoor hydroponic vegetable garden
>underwater "observation deck" with huge windows

>tfw no monolithic dome GF

>>1301378
I think Id rather live in a ring habit rather than an Oniel cylinder.

>>1301431
Why would you use a windmill when you have moving water underneath you? Props under the water.

>>1293857
all i see is fuck material and 6 dry penises
HINT: the driest of them all is on the table

seriously wtf is that cock shaped thing on the table?

>>1301454
Interesting idea. But, ideally I'd want the water to be calm where ever I drop anchor. so water turbines seem a lot less practical over all.

People have been using the wind to power boats for thousands of years. I see no reason to change that now.

>>1301431
That sounds incredibly expensive, especially for that amount of aircrete.

>>1301554
>Concrete
>With air in it
>More expensive
Are we paying for air now?

>>1301665
Well you are going to pay for it to be mixed and delivered which will be expensive as fuck unless you plan on mixing a gorillion litres yourself?

>>1290036
I'm drafting the plans now. I have a settlement incoming and I plan on spending a good chuck of it on my home.

- two floors above ground
- four floors below ground
- each floor is 15 feet tall
- bottom two floors have a large, joined section where the ceiling is 30 feet tall
- Three lifts
- indoor aquaponic farm
- underground tunnels leading to outbuildings and distant exits
- water treatment station

I want the house to look somewhat modest until you realize the depth. I'm planning for an inhospitable future - either way too hot or another ice age.

>>1301554
isnt that kinda the point of this thread? what kind of house we would build if price was no option?

>>1296845
You're getting pretty mad over aesthetics.

>>1301679
Is there a good way for me to mix a gorillion litres of it?

Honest question.

>>1301808
>>1301679
I've seen youtubes with /diy/ aircrete mixxers that they claim can output hundreds of gallons per hour. So it's certainly doable

>>1301816
Where? Everything I see on spewtube is literally someone holding a damn mixer with their hands in a bucket. Which is certainly not going to be hundreds per hour.

>>1290036
Talking to coworkers about this the other day, why aren't gun safes standard in American homes? Safes are heavy as fuck so no one wants to move them, and rednecks would eat that shit up.

>>1301830
Eat what up? Is someone going to buy one house instead of another because it already has a safe?

And what if they have too many guns to fit in one safe? Or the guns are too long to fit in your safe? Some competition shotgun the barrel might be 3 foot long alone. Big difference between the guy with a couple pistols or whatever. And what if he's got a safe(s) from his previous house that meet his needs?

And a lot of us don't use safes at all. Why would I want to pay for that which I will not use?

>>1301833
>Not having anything valuable enough to justify putting into a safe.
Sorry you're a poorfag. My grandma has a garage even though she doesn't drive, do you think she was as upset about it as you are in this hypothetical situation?

>>1301835
If it's valuable enough I have it in a deposit box at the bank. A safe in your house, even if it's resistant to fires, is still not as safe as a bank.

>do you think she was as upset about it as you are in this hypothetical situation?
Projecting?

I'm sorry no one is allowed to disagree with you or suggest one of your ideas isn't good without a "you mad" response from you.

the lack of modernism in this thread is disturbing

like actually are you guys all just to poor to afford a real modern house or just un skilled since working on modern houses is much more challenging then diy on some run down 1970 garbage?

>>1290036
Build a little village of cabins for me and my friends and a big pole barn shop/garage for everyone to work on their projects and cars.

>>1301896
>>1301897

Honestly...I hate to admit this, because I used to really like the modern aesthetic, but, intuitively, I can't help but associate most of it with "cheaply made and overpriced". Just seen and had to do too many repairs on modern construction (even though a lot of these places have very little in common with the typical wood-and-drywall house).

I think it's the hard lines and all the flat areas. As a guy who tinkers with and designs a myriad of things, I'm deeply familiar with the ease and cost-effectiveness of just using as much un-modified sheet, tube, and other pre-fabbed material as you can get away with. For that reason, I sort of instinctively dismiss anything "boxy" (for lack of a better word) as being made to the lowest possible cost, then dressed up to get as much money as you can for it.

It's a sight better than the rows of identical lots you find in suburbia, but still.

>>1301923
House next door is modern "funkis" style
>>Poles down to bedrock, huge concrete slab
>>Wooden shipping container stacked on top of another one
>>Glass cube addon is trendy livingroom/kitchen combo
>>Was up in 3 months, cost 3.2 mill Monets

My house is classic three story "generation" style
>>Slab straight onto bedrock, concrete blox make up 1st floor
>>Wooden 2nd and 3rd floor, standard V roof on roof seats. Huge veranda, part of livingroom extends from 2nd to 3rd floor.
>>Xbox hueg
>> Designed by architect on-site
>>Up in 8 months totaled 2.3 mill moneys

>>1291620

this made me lol hard

>>1301896
Why would anyone sleep in a glass box?
You would wake up at the crack of dawn every single day

>>1301823
you do realize the only difference between a cement mixer and an aircrete mixer is a foam squirter, right?

>>1301939
Where do you live that the soils so shallow?

>>1301896
fuck your modernism and your ugly cuckshed you gay faggot

>>1301967
I do not realize that, and I have heard that they're different. But I've heard incorrect things before.

Can we confirm that there's nothing special about aircrete mixers? Is there anything online about using a regular mixer for aircrete?

>>1293305
would you kill your arcitect contractor and layborers after the project to keep it hidden?

>>1297910
sorry grandma you cant work so fuck off outta my moat

>>1298345
lol bike generator

>>1301972
Norway. Glacier trail.

>>1290036
I thought about this before.

I wanted at least a Pyramid for the master (me) bedroom.

it should have a pedestal bed in the center there will be two large date palms at either side of the head of the bed and a large heavy woven tapestry suspended between them depicting something to be determined.

There will be a ramp going through the floor gently descending in a spiral till it enters a Grotto with a pool.

For the other buildings I thought about using Geodesic Domes.. One for the kitchen eating area and another for a living space and they will be connected with tunnels

It should have an isolated private view of the Ocean like around Big Sur,CA

>>1291593
>all these houses suck dick
>posts cultural marxism: the dwelling

>>1298843
>.50
>Not designing your own anti-air turrets
>No lasers
>No shark tank
>No batman car ramp
>No AI fighter jets that can launch out of the ramp
>Just mufuggen Halo
Do you even dream?
Aren't you ashamed?

>>1290036
>small, very unassuming building above ground
>massive underground mansion-like complex

>>1295856
this looks absurdly comfy

love rooms that are lit like this

>mfw imagining opening that curtain and laying in bed during a heavy winter's snowfall

>>1296802
fuck this would be cool. i like the idea of a house running underneath water

I really like the idea of buying up a secluded forested area and building a homestead with the local resources.

big main cabin for living and everything, and then smaller buildings to run a 1 family sustainable farm operation. Maybe with a nice stone fence running around the perimeter of the lot

>>1301461
Not sure what you're talking about.
It may be dried meat (uncut beef or pork jerky), although they're usually more sausage shaped than that.

>>1301948
Curtains and shutter. Or even these liquid crystal glasses that turn opaque with a switch.

>>1290590
But how will you heat a place that big

>>1301975
im sure the industrial machines are quite different for industrial reasons. But at the end of the day, anything that mixes can be an aircrete mixer. Hell, you could make aircrete with a kitchen blender if you really wanted to.

>>1302217
Why do I not see stuff online about people using them though? It seems like a good idea.

>>1301939
fuck off richfaggot

just kidding, gib money plz.

>>1301982

I designed my own house but it's easier than you would expect to just act like a hippy leftist who's building an energy-efficient house to save the earth, man. There's a lot of crossover between survivalism and environmentally-friendly building.

>>1302182
>Or even these liquid crystal glasses that turn opaque with a switch.
>he builds form over function so hard he has to spend even more money on technology to live comfortably in his glass meme-mansion

Put a real roof on your house over your south-facing window so only the winter sun will shine in your window later in the day.

I don’t have an idea for a complete house, just some elements I wiuld like to incorporate
>big rock or concrete bathroom with a cube or somethignto sit on the middle and a water reservoir on hand to bath with a bucket. Also with a shower and a tub when speed and warmt are more important than thinking (Problem, whow do I make it not cold af)
>Rooms with a place to work (with paper, ink, electronics, nothing too messy). And have the bed be in a section semi-separated from the rest of the room, so I would sleep with walls on all three sides besides the foot, and have it raised to window level.
>Underground root cellar and wine storage (some bunker to hide WMDs too)
>English-style greenhouse. Some place to grow mushrooms and a non-hobo looking hydro/aeroponics setup
>a workshop separated from my house, wide and with good storage for machinery and matterial
>Tons of fish, a pond with steping tones and roofed with plants

>>1301897
>>1301896
>letting the bears see you masturbate through those huge windows
Modernism needs to die

>>1298345
According to the map scale, Vietnamese soldiers are about 12 feet tall.

>>1302398
this is Man's final domination over nature

First you bury a dome leaving some of the top exposed. Then you build a greenhouse dome over that.

Double dome.

>>1302328
I'm spending the holidays in a house like that.
It's a pain in the ass to use a computer from late afternoon to sunset, I have to partially close the shutter to avoid direct sunlight on the screen or in my eyes.
I could move the computer to another room, but that would defeat the purpose of having a nice view in the main room if it's not to spend most of my time there.

>>1302453
Why a dome on a dome? Why not a dome on a cylinder?

>>1302479
tubes go underground

>>1302321
Not rich. Translates to about $ 385.000. bank owns 75%, but interest is cheap.

>>1302480
I'm not sure how that answers my question. Tube and cylinder are the same thing here

>>1302413
>build house in bear territory
>jerk off 24/7 in front of their den
>bear mom can't cover bear babies eyes because they're bears
>they can't do anything because they don't have thumbs
This is the true power of evolution.

>>1293180
I've always wanted to do something like this too. I was thinking of putting it in an urban area, though, and catering to hipsters on Friday/Saturday nights and nerds during the week, with D&D and card game nights and stuff like that.

>>1302837
>catering to hipsters and D&D nerds
I would go as far as SCA types. Putting it in a city would take the charm out of it, it would just be a kitschy theme bar rather than feel authentic and charming.

I think another important element is a saucy middle-aged tavern wench with a gin-sodden voice.

>>1291243
i had so many dreams of living like this a few years ago during a bout with depression.

i even found the perfect ship for it at the time, a 300ft RORO/LOLO for sale in Japan with a ramp in the back for loading vehicles into its garage below decks and a crane to load cargo, containers or other small pleasure craft for shore excursions.

it would have been the ultimate stealth wealth mega yacht; plenty of room for toys and living space but blended right in with all the other sitting around a harbor.

>>1290036
The apartment from the ME3 Citadel dlc would be my fantasy home.

I just want a comfortable house in the country, a wife and kids.

Why does a simple dream like this have to be fantasy?

>>1303099

>>1290691
I don't understanding ?

>>1295410
They just keep rebuilding them

>>1290036
Oh, boy, you asked the big question from me OP.

My ideal home would be something like:
>Log manor, off the grid (aside from Internet) on a 30 or so acre plot of land with a running glacial fed river somewhere in British Columbia (probably a dozen miles or so from Kitimat or Terrance
>Home would be 5 bedrooms,three full baths with two half baths, study and office space, and a basement leading into a spacious fallout shelter

I'd also probably plop down one or three of these https://coventryloghomes.com/ourDesigns/cabinSeries/GarageApartment/model.html for additional guest space if need be.

or when I'm hosting holiday parties.

>>1302480
>Helicopter casually parked next to car.
Where is it in the GTA V map?

>>1295410
All the houseboats I've seen are usually held in place with a bracket around an upright post, so they can raise or lower with the water level without moving. Of course, those were also on TVA lakes and rivers, so the water level cant really get that much higher than the top of the dams.

>>1290036
The Kirsch Home in case anyone was wondering

>>1295870
>tfw i blew a chance to buy a wooded, creeks 60 acre property w/ creeks and cabins that looks just like this
jdimsa

I want a modern house kind of like pic related. Needs at least a two car garage and a workshop. Put it on a slight slope and have a nice cellar that can be entered from outside.
Set it somewhere in the coutryside and have a couple of trees around it.

>>1290062
You'd think that someone in America would have built a faux medieval castle/commune by now. Americans are huge Olde Timey westiboos when it comes to LARP, Wicca, renaissance fairs etc so I can imagine it wouldn't be too hard to find the funding and volunteer manpower to build a huge functional castle with surrounding farmland in the woods somewhere.

>>1303508
Nearly every state has a half dozen castles of some sort, or more.

i already found my dream home on Zillow, unfortunately its $4 million and already has an offer pending.

i love all the complex angles and mixed materials.

>>1303659
>and already has an offer pending.
Yeah, I'm not sure why you even mentioned that.

bridges are my fetish.

interior is gorgeous too.

>>1303659
>>1303660
Looks like my office building. I'd go mad.

>>1303661
im just jelly someone else will get to live my dream.

i hope they park something nice in the driveway like an Aston Martin to match the rest of the house's sleek aesthetic.

>>1303660
>>1303663
that two level garage is neat, i always like to see houses that do something unique with garages rather than plopping them down in the middle of the driveway or putting a 5-6 car monstrosity opposite a multi-million dollar house and calling it good.

>>1296845
>>1290204
Can't tell if retarded or just extremely autistic. Well done Anon.

>>1290036

I like houses with Atriums. They are energy inefficent and a waste of space, but I like them.

If I ever build a house it will have an underground/basement bomb/tornado shelter. I see no reason to believe that severe storms will become less likely as a function of my age.

If I'm in hurricane territory, roll-up shutters for the windows. Fuck plywood.

A climate controlled shop for me and a separate garage. I don't want to have to move shit so you can park in the garage.

At least one handicap accessible entrance, because I'm not getting any younger.

Invisible fence wire buried on the perimeter of the yard and a robotic lawnmower.

Light blocking shades and blackout curtains so I can sleep in the daytime when I need to.

If climate appropriate, a rainwater collection system that diverts the gutters to a cistern for flushing toilets and non-potable water usage.

All of the hot water outlets plumbed off of a single line, and a pump at the end of the line that can recirculate cool water back to the hot water heater. (So it doesn't take 2 minutes for the water in the sink to warm up.)

Pex piping, because fuck frozen pipes freezing.

Geothermal heat pump, because fuck electric bills. (It's hot as frack in Tennessee in the summer)

Leaf proof gutters that don't require regular cleaning.

A metal roof.

A south facing front porch with a large roof overhang so that summer sun doesn't come in the front windows.

Evergreen trees north and northwest of the house to deflect winter winds, but not so close that they can fall on the house.

Semi-dwarf apple and pear trees, and grape vines.

No bradford pear trees. They stink in the spring and they split like crazy if you don't prune them every 5 minutes.

An ITcloset with power on an exterior wall of the house near the electrical service entrance with a conduit to the attic and wiring runs to the living room, bedrooms, and office.

>>1303735

High shelves and overhangs for my cats to hide on. Not many, but enough to satisfy their instinctive climbing needs.

A pantry less than 10 steps from the kitchen.

A laundry room.

A laundry chute from the upstairs bath into the laundry room.

The water heater T&P valve and water heater to have a connection to the drainage system.

If the house has a septic tank, it needs to be oversized and have an air pump to make it an aerobic instead of anaerobic.

The gutter downspouts should be metal so they don't chip if someone gets overzealous with the weed eater.

The driveway should have a way to turn around a minivan without crossing into the grass.

Super-insulated walls. e.g. not 2x4s. Brick or block exterior.

The house should be higher than the land around it, Being the low spot in the neighborhood invites woe.

A handwashing sink in the shop.

>>1295899
>I will never fucking step foot in ny or california ever again. But id love to visit one anywhere else.

Slide on down to Tennessee. In Gatlinburg and pigeon forge you find a lot of places like this.

This basically, including the giant dome and rainforest. I would "live" in the hut.

>>1298345
Bullshit. How did they get the bike down there?

>>1303508
http://www.castlemagic.com
They're crap on some details, the joints are too thick for example. It's harder and more expensive to build a good-fitting jigsaw puzzle with random rocks, and you'd pretty much need to hire a team of Compagnons du Tour de France to have it done properly.

>>1303735
I like all your ideas, especially the circulating hot water. But doesn't geothermal work better with cool air and hot lava/underground? Hot air lowers the temperature difference and there is less to extract energy from.
And metal roof are noisy af.

>>1303829
In pieces. You don't need wheels or the front half of the bike if you don't build the generator like in the drawing but just attach the chain to it.

>>1302143
>lit like this

Less of the Ebonics please, this is a white board.

>>1293131
>>1293132
The abandoned missile silo is definitely something I can go with.

partly because I love the idea of living underground, partly because I've been into designing rockets for years and it'd be neat to have an actual launch site.

mind you I also want a garage with a car lift because why not, so I'd still need above ground structures, or at least a way to get something as large as a car into the bunker.

>>1301431
I got drunk and accidentally made a rough concept. The foot print is kinda diamond shaped, 68' long, 34' wide. Not sure about how big the hull should actually be, since I cant be assed to actually calculate all the volumes of all this, and do real engineering shit. I designed this with 5 distinct areas in mind, and tried to work them in as seamlessly as possible. Those being a sandy beach, a forest-y grove, a grassy clearing, a grotto, and a cliff top overlook. Also, dont pay too much attention to the green spots. I just used that to visualize where the soil needs to be extra deep for the tree roots. it will pretty much all be covered in green shit eventually.

>>1304990
you gotta watch mixing alcohol and SketchUp dude.

>>1304994
Blender, not sketchup. But yeah... it can be dangerous to drink and design

>>1303832
>doesn't geothermal work better with cool air and hot lava/underground

That's geothermal power. Geothermal heat pumps move heat from inside the house into the ground. They are more efficient than air to air heat pumps by 50% or more.