/diy/ - Do It Yourself

[Anonymous No.438441]

What do you want in your dream house?

>Solar Panels
>a limitless hot water system
>Ethernet cables through the whole place
>Basement accessible through hidden door
>spa
>Turfed Roof

[Anonymous No.438447]

porno fountain.

[Anonymous No.438451]

A good wife.

[Anonymous No.438453]

>>438451
That and a garden and we have the same.
Although if all goes right Ill have both next year.

[Anonymous No.438458]

A big open room for doing my projects in. Concrete flooring and walls to prevent fires. Good ventilation. Well lit. A big loading bay type door.

I just realized I described a typical garage. I have such modest dreams.

[Anonymous No.438459]

>>438458
Wouldn't want to spend a Maine winter in a building like that.

[Anonymous No.438481]

>Some solar power.
>Geotherm heating.
>Whole house ethernet.
>Attached garage I can actually put my car in and not become a goddamn storage area because fuck rain.
>Hobby shed out back
>Dead end or at least not very busy street.
>Two children max.

[Anonymous No.438482]

>>438441
ethernet cable wont last you very long, cat cabling keeps changing, go with fiber.

[Anonymous No.438487]

>>438482

I think the added expense of having a fiber capable switch in every room kills that.

[fllaw No.438489]

>detached building containing Adam Savage's shop
>dont give a fuck about solar
>dont give a fuck about cables
>theater room would be nice
>professional kitchen with real fucking ovens and gas burners
>otherwise basically regency era estate home/federalist revival/plantation all acceptable
>as close as possible to major city without actually living in the city

[Anonymous No.438492]

>>438441
a cot and a place for fires, my dream home is a cave

[Anonymous No.438499]

>>438482
Cat5e still works just fine, Cat6eSTP and you're not going to need to "upgrade" for a few decades.

[Anonymous No.438500]

>>438492
bump

[Anonymous No.438502]

>>438441
Can you even legally have a turf roof in the US? I've also heard that they cause the roof to rot out very quickly.

[Anonymous No.438503]

>Cozy house
>Open area, kind of isolated and away from too much light pollution
>Solar panels
>Separate building next to house the size of a large room for recreational purposes

[Anonymous No.438510]

>>438499
But we already use cat7 at work.

[Anonymous No.438515]

>>438510
6/10
You made me actually look it up

[Anonymous No.438516]

>Concrete walls strong enough to not collapse like cardboard from a tornadoe.
>double thick walls around the bedrooms to dampen sounds
>Metal frame
Every single wooden support beam in the room above me squeeks. And the guy loves to walk around.

[Anonymous No.438519]

>>438516
Probably a crabcock player.

[Anonymous No.438532]

>>438515
You're dumb as shit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_7_cable#Class_F_cable

[Anonymous No.438547]

>>438441
>Solar Panels
OK
>a limitless hot water system
Hope you're independently wealthy
>Ethernet cables through the whole place
OK
>Basement accessible through hidden door
RAPE ROOM
>spa
OK
>Turfed Roof
why.jpg

[Anonymous No.438554]

>>438447

[Anonymous No.438560]

> machine shop and lab
> solar panel
> geothermal
> away from civilization
> bar
> garden
> private runway
> secret undergroud rooms
> bar must be desighned like an old irish tavern

[Anonymous No.438564]

>>438560
> machine shop and lab
Check
> solar panel
No sun in the winters, not worth getting.
> geothermal
Check
> away from civilization
Check
> bar
Guess I'll have to get on that.
> garden
Check
> private runway
Does helipad count?
> secret underground rooms
Check
> bar must be designed like an old irish tavern
Too much wood work involved, all I got to work with is granite.

[Anonymous No.438577]

> Does helipad count?
If you think getting a single engine plane certificate rating is expensive, a helicopter rating is much more expencive and tedious. Beside on can get a good used single engine plane for the prive of a moderately expensive used car. Around 30,000 USD. And all aircraft owners must perform yearly tuneups and inspections. Getting a helicopter is more of a liability than anything else.

[Anonymous No.438578]

>>438577
I ment a new car

[Anonymous No.438584]

>>438577
Not really for me, I don't have the time to get a pilot license for various helicopters. But I do have a few friends that fly, one is trying to talk me into getting one (KC518) that he could rent out when it's not needed.

[Anonymous No.438604]

>Out in the mountains/forests of the BC-Alberta border.
>An hour or two out of the nearest small town.
>Wood fireplace, small wind turbine, minimal solar.
>Chicken coop, goat shed. Compost pile for the kitchen refuse.
>Garden, vegetables, herbs and my own tobbacco.
>Tool shed/Garage, smoking shack for drying meat. Deep freezer.
>Little orchard out back.
>Tube TV set up with DVD player and VCR. Collection and pirated films stacked nearby. Generator, otherwise minimal power usage.

[Anonymous No.438610]

>>438577
depends on the size of the heli, an ultralight wouldn't need a license (mind you I'm not saying don't get training, for fucks sake get training) and the mandatory flight time that entails

I used to have one up until about 6 years ago, 5 gallon primary tank and 250 lb empty weight limit but depending on the design you'll get another 250+ lbs of passenger+cargo and anywhere from 50-100 mile range (or more, depends on your engine)

I used it to fly in and out of a lot I had backing up to some BLM land, no easement rights so no roads, everything had to be hiked or flown in, so long as it wasn't stormy out it worked great, but don't ever ever fly an ultralight in any wind over 15mph, you'll get blown to kansas and back

the local logging company contracted me to do grid drops with one of their surveyors and ended up buying the lot and rig from me right before the economy fell through, they still use it afaik, I'm too old for that shit anyway, they're fun but the adrenaline rush takes its toll on you


next time? I'll buy a couple of mules to do my packing with, but a heli is doable

[Anonymous No.438624]

>>438441

>Solar Panels
>Ethernet cables through the whole place

This. It's a long term goal.

[Anonymous No.438636]

>>438482
I don't know much about these things, but surely the cables will run in pipes or tubes or whatever, thus easy to replace?

[Anonymous No.438637]

>>438604
Fuck man are you me? I want exactly what you do, except in rural UK, and I'm gonna have a manual well/river for water, and Rayburn for heat, but apart from that you're basically me.

[Anonymous No.438641]

>>438637
Look up "The Homesteading Handbook" and "The Back to Basics Handbook" by Abigail Gehring. They're two of the greatest resources I've ever found for clear, concise information on buying and working land, livestock, gardening and self-sufficiency living. Also, "Tiny Homes" by Lloyd Khan is a nice read if you're into microhouses.

[Anonymous No.438663]

I want a rape dungeon.

[Anonymous No.438962]

>>438441
money.

[Anonymous No.438964]

>>438459
with perimeter finned tube units it's not too bad, maybe some infloor heating to feel extra comfy

[SugarHeaven No.438995]

simplesolarhomesteading.com

[Anonymous No.439007]

>>438489
>as close as possible to major city without actually living in the city

They call that Suburbs

>>438516

Metal frame???

You ever plan on putting anything on the walls?

Sound proof and metal frame? Nigga you got some big dreams.

[Anonymous No.439012]

>>438584
>>438564

Pics or you're an Aspie dipshit.

[Anonymous No.439019]

Solar panels hidden by parapet walls.
Geothermal in slab heating
Polished concrete
Double or possibly triple glazing with argon
Open area shower for ensuite
Large double sided walk in wardrobe with mirrors
Cinema room with curtains along the walls
Lots of large windows to give the feeling of being outdoors
One or two wood stove heater
Nice kitchen
Low maintenance garden with some features
Reasonably large property near city
Able to build up a workshop and gym near the house
Lots of trees

[Anonymous No.439028]

>>439019

I fucking hate large windows... Everyone has the first instinct to be looking in your house...

That bothers the shit outta me.

[Anonymous No.439031]

Aww yeah! Dream house thread!
Plans for when the 'poor tax' pays off.

>Middle of fuck nowhere
>Split level in the side of a hill.
>Bullet proof glass/walls.
>Panic room (paranoid lulz)
>Wetrooms
>Shooting range off covered patio
>Water well w/filter system
>Secondary solar and back up generator

[Anonymous No.439041]

>wooden floors
>Arches, lots of fucking arches
>secret doors and basements and tunnels and shit
>Cosy, warm rooms to do work and living in
>garden with carrots, potato, tomato, celery, all that good shit
>chickens and ducks
>a pond
>wooden walls, insudlated as well ofcourse
>rugged leather and wooden décor
>a nice rugged, but still very useable and helpful kitchen
>a big shed for stuff
>in the countryside

[Anonymous No.439065]

>>438441
I want a large wall around my house topped with edible hedges (blackberry etc) and fruit trees. Big enough to walk on to collect my fruit.

1 acre fresh-water pond and a 1 acre salt-water pond.

And I want my house to be two-stories with a staircase and a slide.

[Anonymous No.439068]

>>438441
>What do you want in your dream house?
A bathtub big enough for all 6'4" of me to completely stretch out and be submerged, and a real fireplace. Everything else is negotiable.

[Anonymous No.439085]

>>439028
Lol I'm not too phased by that. However you don't need large windows in the facade. Neighbours could look at you but imo it's worth the trade off. Feeling connected to what's happening outside is great (rain, hail, snow, sunshine, breeze). Also I placed this house on a bit of a property so no one can see anyway

[Anonymous No.439089]

>>439068
Oh I could love that. I'm the same height and there's always something sticking out.

[Anonymous No.439088]

>>439068
in regards to 'real' fire place. You probably would wanna look into it. Stoves are the best way to go. The open fire places can actually make the house colder on the whole.

[Anonymous No.439099]

>>438532
From your own link:
>As of November 2010, all manufacturers of active equipment have chosen to support the 8P8C for their 10 Gigabit Ethernet products on copper and not the GG45 or TERA in order to function on Cat 6a. Class F is not currently recognized by the TIA/EIA.

So, you are calling someone else dumb as shit when you are installing the failed alternative to the widely accepted Cat6a standard?

More importantly to this thread, why the fuck do you want wired ethernet throughout the house anyway? wireless > wired for most applications - far more flexible. I have a rack of servers in my house where my fiber line comes in, the rest of the house is covered by dual-band 802.11n - more than enough for most current day-to-day practical use on a non-server machine, and the up to 1gb 802.11ac protocol is starting to show up in consumer products, and the 5gb 802.11ab standard is set to be available in a year or so.

Wires throughout the house are one more thing to maintain, one more thing to go obsolete, they dictate how you position things (or require ugly runs of cable through the room), they suck for natively wireless devices (laptops, tablets, phones, etc.), and they cost way more than the wireless alternatives (once you figure the added construction costs, time, materials, etc). Only tradeoff for networking is speed, and it is not a big difference, especially when dealing with the internet.

The only whole house wiring I would install in a new home is power. And I would gladly make that wireless if there were a safe and efficient way to do so.

[fllaw No.439624]

>>439007
>they call that suburbs
...and they call you an asshole.

Firstly, wikipedia: "A suburb is a residential area, either existing as part of a city or urban area, or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city."

Secondly: I can think of at least a dozen places inand aruond the city where I live that are neither "in the city" nor "suburban." There are more than 2 residential classifications.

Thirdly: Go to law school, take land use, land planning, real estate law, property law, go fuck yourself, then come back to /diy/ and actually contribute to this thread instead of telling everyone else who has posted that their HYPOTHETICAL IMAGINARY DREAM HOME is wrong.

[Anonymous No.439855]

TWO dishwashers; clean & dirty. then they switch.


I'm going to convince your mom to let me slowly lick her thighs, then tickle her butt.

[Anonymous No.439863]

>>439012
Google bunkerfag, should be a few cached pics around.

[Anonymous No.440077]

>>438502
if it's done right, a Turf roof lasts for a hell of a long time

[Anonymous No.440080]

>>440077
tell me more about turf roofs.

[Anonymous No.440084]

>>440080
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fcz1bllLWJg&t=23m0s

they go on about it more later

but they are long lasting and overall awesome

[Anonymous No.440106]

>Isolated
>Not so isolated that I can't get good, land-based internet
That's pretty much it, I'd settle for a 20x20 insulated concrete box with those criteria met.

[Anonymous No.440124]

>>439099
Yeah since wireless connections are so much more reliable than a wired connection. Nice try faggot 2/10.

[Anonymous No.440486]

10 gigabit fiber.
10,000 bars of gold.
5 female robots designed to look, act, and feel human.
Fountain of youth
Remote control that controls time.

[Anonymous No.440531]

>>438441

Dream house?

>Underground design, built into a large hill
>Geothermal power
>Hot springs
>Grotto
>Separate indoor pool, hot tub and jacuzzi in same room.
>Large home theater room with the best surround sound money can buy, and glasses-free-3D when available.
>Smaller private soundproof room for gaming
>Server room with at least 10pb storage.
>Fiber optic cable connecting computers to personal servers, separate fiber optic line for internet connection
>Workshop outside with lathe and 3D printer
>Another workshop with blacksmithing supplies
>Large greenhouse so I can grow food I like year round
>Pigpen with a few pigs
>smokehouse
>Barn with a single dairy cow
>Large, castle-like fence around entire property, preventing pests from entering and privacy from being breached.
>Wife and two kids eager to help out with crops and animals, maybe even tinkering on different projects.

I think that's everything. Probably not though.

[Anonymous No.440541]

Underground /k/ommando bunker
LOST style inna woods with a range of course.
Live life in semi-isolation

pick maybe related

[Anonymous No.440595]

What's so great about living underground?

[Anonymous No.440628]

>>440595
Free funeral when it caves in on you.

[Anonymous No.440651]

>>440628
There's like 10 pounds of dirt pushing on that roof

I guess if you make your underground fort out of styrofoam that would happen

[Anonymous No.440669]

>>438441
>Ethernet cables through the whole place
Many houses built in the early 2000s included Ethernet as standard. Then wifi ruined everything.

[Anonymous No.440670]

>>440651
There's around 75-90 pounds of weight per cubic foot of soil. If it rains that can double and even triple. Lateral hydrostatic pressures can be tons of pressure and even push in solid block walls. There's no drainage and everything is made of wood in that image.

Enjoy your future grave.

[Anonymous No.440693]

>>438441
dont use cat5 like a faggot

[Anonymous No.440700]

>>440651
It is sort of blatant ignorance why there are so many regulations about underground structures now.

10lbs of dirt is like one shovel full of dirt. You can easily have half a ton of dirt in a very small space.

[Anonymous No.440701]

>>440669
>dat feel when having old coaxial cables and double coaxial outlets all over my house

Fucking technology man.

[Anonymous No.440738]

>Solar panels
>Toilets with top-of-the-line automatic flushing sensors
>Parkour gym that contains randomized obstacles each day
>Observatory attached
>Chestnut floors
>A Dalmatian and a St Bernard

[Anonymous No.440749]

>>438441
>solar panels
that's gay

[Anonymous No.440751]

"It is sort of blatant ignorance why there are so many regulations about underground structures now."

Until some noob buries his family and rescuers have to extricate them because the structure wasn't engineered properly.

Reinforced concrete, properly sealed, is a beautiful material, but be sure you do it right.

Don't forget a manual and an electric sump pump, by the way. Many smallish NATO troop shelters didn't have those at first. Bad choice considering European weather.

[Anonymous No.440799]

>>440595

Pretty stable year round temps, keeping costs of heating and cooling low. Blends in nicely with surroundings, which is wonderful if you don't like the aesthetics of a house sticking out against its immediate environment. Also provides a nice amount of protection from most natural disasters, depending on where and how you build. If on or in a hill, floods won't be of concern to you. Strong winds such as tornadoes will blow right over, and if made properly your house will move with the earth around it, providing protection from earthquakes.

Like >>440751 said though, it needs to be properly engineered. Reinforced concrete truly is a wonderful thing, and you should make sure to have proper drainage in place with pumps in case contractors cut corners.

[Anonymous No.440831]

>Big garden
>Some privacy would be nice

>A freaking huge ass Work shop/Garage/Office/Chill zone that opened up onto said big garden.

The house itself could a trailer for all I care.

[Anonymous No.440908]

Two story with a deep basement.
Decent sized kitchen, lots of windows.
some of dat dere fiber optics
Basement is full of books and comfy armchairs and persian rugs
1st floor has the kitchen and a nice windowless computer room.
2nd floor has bedroom.

Large plot, house is nice and private.
Have some chickens and shit.
Have a large concrete floored workshop near muh house.
plenty of room.
some welding equipment
some glassworking equipment
nice big desk

[Anonymous No.440923]

So I live in the UK. I want to make something which is mysterious. We have this chalk white horse in the hillside. I am wanting to see what you guys think about my plan and the laws. I want to turn this horse into a Zebra over night.
Plan; Get black plastic bags and roll them down the horse and fasten with duct tape during the night.
Horse; Its a 175ft (50m) horse. It's at a angle of almost 45 degrees. Recently re-painted at a cost of £20,000. Hence why I don't want to vandalize it with paint.
Question; Would I get done for litter if they found out? What else could I use? Any tips on what to use when going down? (I added a picture of a guy next to it for scale. He is on a rope for safety. I wouldn't have this).
Thoughts?

[Anonymous No.440957]

>original contemporary architectural design
>in a forest, on a hillside with view of water
>attached garage with Tesla Model S electric car

[Anonymous No.440963]

>>440957
Reminds me of my neighbors home, had a large tree through 3 stories, had to be removed after 70 years. Originally belonged to the guy who designed every house on our street.

[Anonymous No.440987]

>house built into hill
thatd be awesome. rainy days would be especially great, love being in a bit open field in the rain with nothing making noise but water on grass

[Anonymous No.441646]

>House is literally underground
>Not like those 'partially inside a hill' things, completely submerged under flat ground
>10m below the surface
>Surface is covered with solar panels which charge batteries for the 24/7 required lighting and power
>Large water tank just under the surface to catch excess rainwater
>Rifle range on the property (see: Hickok45)
>Enough forested land for some decent camping, not too much that pest control (rabbits and deer) becomes a practical impossibility
>Inside of the house is cozy as fuck
>Pretty good server (no more than 10 blades or so)
>Low-maintenance perennial vegetable garden large enough that I can live solely off of it and the meat from the local feral pest animals
>Direct to-the-door fibre Internet connection
>Multiple redundant exits for safety
>Big machine shop tooled up for both wood and metalwork, including a CNC router and a 3D printer
>Thunderbird-like vertical shaft/hatch for a Malloy Hoverbike (or similar)

I think I could realistically have that for less than $5mil.

[Anonymous No.441716]

By a limitless hot water system you mean one attached to the mains? LOL, I'll do you that for 100 dollars. Just slap an instantaneous heater next to the mains and we're rolling.

[Anonymous No.441724]

>hobbit house
>garden
>fruit trees
>chickens
>catfish aquaponic system
>diy sawmill
>sand volleyball court
>large masonry heater in center of home
>fancy kitchen appliances with gas stove running off nat. gas or from diy backyard bioreactor gas or woodgas
>solar water heating setup
>outside city far enough to have well and septic, but not so far that I can't have good internet access
>woodgas powered truck
>large 3 car garage with workbench and area for diy beer brewing setup and wine making setup
>atheist yet non-man-hating (we can dream), nymphomaniac girlfriends who are into canning or artsy stuff

[Anonymous No.441763]

>>438458
>> concrete walls
>> typical garage
mfw

[Anonymous No.441772]

Oh boy

>Majority of the house is below ground level
>Some of the bed rooms are above ground level because I like natural lighting
>The house has an 'open' center; imagine a square where the rooms make up the sides and the empty middle is a patio
>The ceiling of this patio area allows natural light in as well
>The patio area is also a garden
>Huge library space, I want to pretend I'm in Beauty and the Beast

Anyone know any good house design software?

[Anonymous No.441791]

>>441772
Google or....ahem, Trimble Sketchup as it's now known. It's great to visualize what a project could be.

[Anonymous No.441820]

>>439099
Maybe anon is afraid of microwaves?

>>tfw you won't put your head on top of your laptop to rest unless wireless is disabled.
>tfw you keep your cellphone away from your balls

[Anonymous No.441823]

>>440701
You might be able to DYI those into one cat5 ethernet by changing the wall piece...

[Anonymous No.441827]

>>440749
14 yr old oil shill pls go
we solar nau...
You don't have to be an environmentalist to like solar.

[Anonymous No.441829]

>>441772
I'm trying Chief Architect but the learning curve is steep. I very much want to design my own home, not that it would ever be built unless I come into some cash, though it's nothing extreme....

[Anonymous No.442104]

>>441827
You have to be an environmentalist to like solar on a larger scale than individual houses, though.

On the large scale, it's completely retarded compared to nuclear.

Hell, EVERYTHING's retarded compared to nuclear.

[Anonymous No.442236]

>>439028
That's why curtains were invented.
Also, careful where exactly those windows are.

[Anonymous No.442266]

>>438441
> a limitless hot water system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_water_heating

[Anonymous No.442311]

>>440669
was just about to post this

[Anonymous No.442314]

>>442104
b-but nukler asplodes!!! windmills dont!!

[Anonymous No.442319]

>>440669

will still always be slightly faster than wireless, so it's not a complete waste

[Anonymous No.442365]

this

[Anonymous No.442370]

I want to live in the future that'll never exist 'cos it's already out of date, if you know what I mean

[Anonymous No.442374]

someone that loves me ;-;

[Anonymous No.442379]

>>442314
Ever been to a windmill farm? Always a few them standing still. They have a tendency to break down a lot. Partial to hydro, they have long life time and is a mature tech. Doesn't kill the fish anymore like they did a decade ago. http://hydrovolts.com/ has some nice small units.

[Anonymous No.442408]

>>442374

[Anonymous No.442413]

This kind of house....

[Anonymous No.442422]

BDSM dungeon thats all I need thats all I ever wanted. The rest of the house can be basic as shit.

[Anonymous No.442426]

>>440670
>>440700
you guys know what you're talking about please tell me some formulas and numbers to put on some excel spreadsheet to design an underground bunker

because I was like that guy and laughed at that pic thinking "what did they make the house of legos or something"

[Anonymous No.442429]

>>441791
>Trimble
Really? Google sold it?

[Anonymous No.442430]

>>442104
I agree.

Although China is going to rock the world with the first LTTR. And offshore windmills are feasible, some guy drew up a farm for the entire east coast of US

[Anonymous No.442432]

>>442370
I don't know what you mean

[Anonymous No.442434]

>>442422
virgin detected.

[Anonymous No.442442]

>Solar Panels
>1 to 3 wind-turbines
>Watermill
>faster internet available (Google fiber for now)
>huge mess room
> at-least 5 Acres

A guy can dream can he?

[Anonymous No.442460]

A colonial style house with geothermal heating and solar panels. But the big thing for me would be land. Something around 30 to 40 acres would be perfect.

[Anonymous No.443387]

>>438441
>giant lot of land in the woods (really out there)
>stone walls surround the lot
>greenhouses in the backyard
>completely self sufficient
>solar panels
>underground tunnels everywhere
>giant stone house
>giant library full of political books and manga
>super duper high speed internets

[Anonymous No.443398]

>>438441
>solar panels
>GeoThermal heating/power if the tech is good enough for consumer use, and the area is good for it.
>House wired for Fiber Optic internet plans.
>CAT6e cabling (or better)
>Granite counter tops, dark gray-black. Marble tile floors, kitchen. Black or Stainless Steel appliances, Cherry cabinets. Dishwasher, fridge, flat top range, Microwave.
>Each room has 2+ plugs on each wall, depending on size of room. 1 plug fine for a small wall.
>fully wired office room, with space to set up a server rack (perhaps in the closet)
>AC/Central Air