ideal /diy/ house

[Anonymous No.769764]

What would your ideal home have?
What are some things that piss you off about houses

Here's what I would have in my ideal home:
multiple huge basins in the kitchen. I hate shallow sinks and those tiny half sinks
no exposed grout
no exposed metal that corrodes, like iron and copper
no carpet, just floorboards or tiles
a garbage disposal unit
drains inside the shower rooms, bath rooms and toilet rooms
hoses all over the house. almost everything should be waterproof or kept in a watertight container. I should be able to hose down my house to clean it
no flimsy metal Venetian blinds. How do these even exist?
bidets, perhaps attached to the toilet. people who only dry wipe are disgusting
all cables and pipes and other various inner workings neatly arranged and exposed if practical.
locks for toilet rooms, bath rooms, shower rooms and bed rooms. It is absurd not to have these. They should even have "occupied" and "unoccupied" indicators on them
lots of transparent containers, stackable and of the same model for any given size. Having lots of non-matching disorganised containers is awful
no knick-knacks, no embellishments
simple geometric shapes with non-rounded edges
a grey scale colour scheme
minimal
exposed inner workings

a properly arranged house
the garage should open into the house. The garage should open right next to the pantry. I hate carrying groceries from the garage to the kitchen. The garage should also open into the main outdoor entertainment area so that it can also be used as an outdoor entertainment area. The kitchen, especially its sink and bin, should be aside. The house I was raised in was poorly planned, it had the geometric and practical centre right next to the kitchen sink. It also had shitty these room-sized cut away outdoor sections, which were isolated from the other outdoor sections so ended up being completely unused.

Is this autism? Possibly

[Anonymous No.769766]

>>769764
plastic cups, plates, bowls, etc. I should be able to drop a cup onto the ground without having it shatter into shards across my entire kitchen
selective air conditioning. sometimes I want a certain room to be slightly cooler and another to be a lot cooler

[Anonymous No.769772]

>>769764
you seem to have given this some thought, just a couple problems:
>exposed inner workings
>hose down my house to clean it
don't you see how that's a bad idea? it might also be hard to reconcile exposed inner workings with minimalism but it can work.

[Anonymous No.769773]

>>769772
exposed inner workings might just have to be a clear transparent case instead of an opaque case, or wires with an extra layer of insulation or through conduits

[Anonymous No.769790]

Japanese style bathroom.

Toilets are in their own tiny closets. Washlet toilet and the tank has a hand washing sink on it. Using the water that fills the tank to wash your hands.

Bathroom sink, huge mirror, and laundry facilities are all in one room. Then the shower/soaking tub are entered through this room. The shower/tub room is all covered in tiles. Shower heads on hoses so you can sit or stand. Once you scrubbed off with the shower. You can immediately enter the hot soaking tub. Which has windows with electric tinting. Able to be completely opaque at the push of a button.

[Anonymous No.769839]

>>769764
Lots of windows for natural light. Tubular skylights for interior rooms. Blackout blinds for the bedrooms.
Ethernet wired throughout. WiFi can get bogged down because all your devices share the same bandwidth, but ethernet switches give each device a dedicated link with full bandwidth.
Toilet in a separate room from the rest of the bathroom.

>>769766
Put a cork floor in the kitchen. It reduces the chance something breaks when dropped, and is easier on your feet.

[Anonymous No.769942]

>>769839
But a cork floor is shit for every other reason. Absorption of rotting food particles, dirt, grime, oils. Shit fire resistance, too.

Cork is a nice replaceable material. It makes nice coasters. I'd rather have heavy-duty kitchenware than a shit floor.

[Anonymous No.769969]

Every single room is based on a different architecture of a region.

>Stylish arab bedroom
>Ancient japanese-esque living room
>Dinning room inspired on Versailles
>Kitchen inspired by Irish pubs
etc.

[Anonymous No.769998]

All rooms should have soundproofing.

[Anonymous No.770037]

I've noticed that /diy/ really likes living in places that basically amount to office buildings and factories.

[Anonymous No.770051]

>>769764
Oh cool an empty warehouse in France.

[Anonymous No.770056]

This tree house that's a literal tree is a really cool concept. It's got a strong Tolkien feel to it. I wonder how hard it would be to make a house shaped like a tree, make a fake wood/bark finish, and use vine plants like wisteria or English ivy to give the branches some dense foliage?

[Anonymous No.770061]

>>770056
If you wanted to go super Tolkien you could build hobbit home with the tree home on top the hobbit home.

[Anonymous No.770101]

>>769764
I don't have a particular aesthetic other than the very general label of 'modernist' so I could go with either one of these:
1) Something 'Miesian' like the Westcliff House https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owSj1bgHUp4
2) Something with a Japanese minimalist aesthetic like something from Tadao Ando, Kengo Kuma or Shigeru Ban
3) Maybe something like an Eichler type house; gotta love those inner courtyards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4Vnz08DBRk
4) Or if I can really go full on fantasy mode then something luxurious like one of these :
http://vimeo.com/47615434
http://vimeo.com/48121729
http://vimeo.com/75957794 (thread might like this one the most)
http://vimeo.com/97250189
http://vimeo.com/75960210
http://vimeo.com/97215038
(That last one's dedicated to you two: >>770037 >>769969 I'm sure you'd at least get a chuckle out of it.)

[Anonymous No.770102]

>>770056
By the way, something like it could actually be built, you'd just have to be willing to pay what it would cost, and find someone crazy enough to go for it.
>>770061
>treehous on top of hobbit house
I wonder if there were duplexes in middle earth

[Anonymous No.770111]

>>769764
Made out of mud or stone
Huge communal bedroom
Huge bathroom with communal bath
Lots of natural light
Indoor plants
No toilet, poop shoot on the bathroom wall, poop into a bowl full of saw dust and throw it out to be composted
Lots of storage space for all vegies grown
Fireplace
Secret rooms
Tunnels under house

[Anonymous No.770118]

>>770101
kek

[Anonymous No.770119]

>>770101
3) Are they selling a car or a house? Real estate tries to sell lifestyle. I can guarantee you the owners don't own that Porsche or the designer furniture - it's staged. Look closely and you see cheap door knobs, cheap faucets, and an ugly in-wall air conditioner!

[Anonymous No.770127]

>>770118
Anything in particular you're keking about?
>>770119
The video has 'SOLD!' on it's title, so yeah, I'm aware it's for real estate, but I still very much like how the Eichler houses look, and the thread is about fantasy homes, so I don't think whether the house is staged or true to life is as important as how I'd like it to look. And from what I know some people value the Eichler houses and try to furnish them appropriately which means designer furniture or dated fixtures.

As for the Porsche, I'd rather have a jaguar or Aston Martin anyway. The AC is hard to defend other than maybe they were being period appropriate... maybe?

[Anonymous No.770197]

>>770111
Are you a hamster?

[Anonymous No.770300]

>>770111
DUDE WHAT IF WE ARE WEED?

[Anonymous No.770603]

Single story House built slightly like U. Opening Facing south, floor to ceiling windows. Huge, closed off kitchen, with butcher block island, big trashcans, multiple sinks with those cool bendy faucets. Bathroom with level shower and greenhouse garden with tropical plants. Tile and Hardwood flooring. Room corners rounded. Master bedroom on 1st floor (forget what thats called. Garden roof with solar panels. Great view, somewhere in the countryside.
Ya'll can't get on my level

[Anonymous No.770620]

>>769764
>multiple huge basins in the kitchen. I hate shallow sinks and those tiny half sinks
Multiple? It is a waste of money and space, you just need one or two depending on the size of the kitchen.

>no exposed grout
Which is what? Bare concrete? Stainless steel? Everything gets dirty, everything needs cleaning.

>no exposed metal that corrodes, like iron and copper
Good luck bending stainless steel pipes mate.

>no carpet, just floorboards or tiles
Fair enough.

>a garbage disposal unit
Too lazy to put food into the bin? Let's shove it down the drain! One more thing to break and repair, but less food into the bin, hard choice.

>drains inside the shower rooms, bath rooms and toilet rooms
Big wet rooms, why, it's extra cost and looks shit.

>hoses all over the house. almost everything should be waterproof or kept in a watertight container. I should be able to hose down my house to clean it
What the fuck, say bye to anything electrical and electronic. Your house will look like the insides of a sunk ship, constantly wet and no mean to dry, filled with rot and death.

>no flimsy metal Venetian blinds. How do these even exist?
Yes there are a lot of non-flimsy metal blinds.

>bidets, perhaps attached to the toilet. people who only dry wipe are disgusting
Your toilet will look like it's from a fucking disabled home.

>all cables and pipes and other various inner workings neatly arranged and exposed if practical.
M&E coordination is not a hard thing. Exposed or vulnerable, covered or protected, your choice.

>locks for toilet rooms, bath rooms, shower rooms and bed rooms. It is absurd not to have these. They should even have "occupied" and "unoccupied" indicators on them
Locks on doors are normal. Occupied indicators are for strangers. Unless you live with strangers I guess.

[Anonymous No.770623]

>lots of transparent containers, stackable and of the same model for any given size. Having lots of non-matching disorganised containers is awful
You mean taking up more spaces and more spaces and more spaces?

>no knick-knacks, no embellishments
A matter of taste. Fair enough.

>simple geometric shapes with non-rounded edges
This is almost universally accepted.

>a grey scale colour scheme
>minimal
Your life is not very exciting, is it.

>exposed inner workings
Exposed and unprotected.

>a properly arranged house
Proper is a matter of lifestyle.

>the garage should open into the house. The garage should open right next to the pantry. I hate carrying groceries from the garage to the kitchen. The garage should also open into the main outdoor entertainment area so that it can also be used as an outdoor entertainment area. The kitchen, especially its sink and bin, should be aside. The house I was raised in was poorly planned, it had the geometric and practical centre right next to the kitchen sink. It also had shitty these room-sized cut away outdoor sections, which were isolated from the other outdoor sections so ended up being completely unused.
Get a proper house.

[Anonymous No.770630]

>>770111
>Made out of mud or stone
This is a traditional building method in some parts of the world because of climate.

>Huge communal bedroom
Communal bedroom, because fuck privacy amirite?

>Huge bathroom with communal bath
But who wants to bath with you?

>Lots of natural light
You mean lots of windows?

>Indoor plants
Ok.

>No toilet, poop shoot on the bathroom wall, poop into a bowl full of saw dust and throw it out to be composted
You are a hamster are you not?

>Lots of storage space for all vegies grown
A farming hamster.

>Fireplace
A farming hamster in a cold stone house with a roaring fire because there are too many openings.

>Secret rooms
>Tunnels under house
A farming hamster in a cold, stone, over exposed house with a roaring fire, with a hobby of pretending you are diablo in an empty basement.

[Anonymous No.770632]

>>770056
>tree house
It is impossible for it to be a real living tree unless you spend decades growing a tree into shape, and design around the fact that it will constantly grow and move your structures.

Of course it is entirely different if you can make it a fake tree. Which is just a matter of decoration and covering up.

[Anonymous No.770635]

>>770101
Somebody with taste. But looking at one and living in one is entirely different thing. Do you look good enough and have a lifestyle to match the house? Otherwise it is meaningless if you are just gonna trash the place in seconds.

[Anonymous No.770646]

>>770603
>Single story House built slightly like U.
Because let's not care about the neighbour and or any views.

>Opening Facing south,
Fine.

>floor to ceiling windows.
Let's overheat the house because fuck sunlight.

>Huge, closed off kitchen, with butcher block island, big trashcans, multiple sinks with those cool bendy faucets.
You mean like a restaurant? Because fuck the kitchen you don't socialise in it right?

>Bathroom with level shower and greenhouse garden with tropical plants. Tile and Hardwood flooring. Room corners rounded.
Fine.

>Master bedroom on 1st floor (forget what thats called.
I don't remember either. A single storey house with a 1st floor or something like that.

>Garden roof with solar panels.
So which is it?

>Great view, somewhere in the countryside.
Because let's assume we have infinite money.

>Ya'll can't get on my level
Your level is pretty low, a lot of people grow out of it pretty quickly.

[Anonymous No.770850]

>>770635
My lifestyle certainly would fit on one of those, though admittedly, even I'm I'm not completely awful I'd probably be the ugliest thing in any of those houses....

[Anonymous No.770861]

936 square foot, 2 story. 3 bed 1 bath. walk-in pantry.

tight, but fairly efficient.

[Anonymous No.770866]

>>770646
>(forget what thats called.
>I don't remember either. A single storey house with a 1st floor or something like that.
A Paradox?

[Lemony No.770891]

I always wanted like a couple main things

1. Japanese style courtyard in the middle, where pretty much the house wraps around it in a square.

2. Timber framed, with large windows filling the gable/possibly from area of the house.

3. Large windows in general, but it'd be important that this means the house would be in the middle of a forested area, which isn't hard to find in Canada.

4. I'd love a photovoltaic panel area somewhere just for the sake of being green and reducing my power bill because if it's affordable, why not right?

5. Minimalist-style mid-century influenced interior for main room, with a large fireplace. Essentially, I just want a 60s style lodge for the main part of the house.

6. Totally minimalist modern kitchen, white countertops and espresso coloured cabinets, with a stone floor and a skylight above the centre. I just want a super clean, non-cluttered kitchen and those colours with a forested green background would be so tranquil. Also a little breakfast nook L-shaped booth in the wall with a bench on one side of the table.

7. No basement, but a little attached walkway to a workshop-garage with curtain glass walls. If you've seen Ferris Bueller's Day Off, basically Cameron's dad's garage is exactly what I want.

8. Bedroom modern but much more cozy. Fur and warm earth tones everywhere. One wall would just be large glass windows overlooking the forest area.

And I guess more bedrooms for kids/guests, but those are really the essentials. It doesn't even really have to be that big. I'm also not sure whether I'd want it purely in the middle of a forested area, or on a body of water with a dock/boathouse.

[Anonymous No.770893]

A house made of aerogel

[Anonymous No.770912]

>>770891
Why are you me?

>>770861
Why are all of the mainspaces on the second floor?
Why do you have to go through the laundry room to get to the head on the first floor?

[Anonymous No.770951]

>>770861
>3 bed and 1 bath.
It's like you want to die slowly

[Anonymous No.770958]

>>770861
What kind of shithole do you live in if that pic qualifies as your dream house?

[Anonymous No.770976]

>>770861

- yur trolling, or nuts.. as noted, either the floorplans are wrongly described, or, you built the floors rong way round. Last place I lived in had a toilet by the front door - luckily, it wasnt the only toilet tho. It shouldnt be there, for good reasons, not to mention, for a 3-bed house? - thats way too small, and youd get kneecapped, someone throws the door open while youre on the job.

The only actual good point, the bedroom is somewhat seperate from the rest, altho, got another above/below. And the family room should be ground floor, and open onto patio, but, we had that already.

2.5 / 10 (for modesty, anyway), would not build, personally.

[Anonymous No.770992]

>>770646
lol,
lolololol
I wish I could meet you at a bar and look into your squirmy pathetic eyes! I would buy you a beer and convince you to try every girl there.

Only to watch you fail.
lol
seriously, you made my day

[Anonymous No.771039]

>>769764
I built my own home. I did not use an architect or blueprints. The house was a remodel, but I tore everything down to the original structure that predates 1900, and added a second story, without changing the original roof line. I also added on to the back of the house and dug a basement under that. So yeah, it's hard for me to just call it a basic remodel.
Anyway, even without a professionals help, I still tried to look ahead during construction and plan for everything I wanted. A couple of things I noticed.
Electrical outlets, I put them every 6 ft on every wall. My staircase is not a wall, but I wish I would have put an outlet in at the bottom of the stairs. For Christmas lights at least. I wish I would have looked in to auxiliary heat pumps a little more. I put in all new central air and a forced air furnace, now I need to change the coil out for a heat pump unit, my bad. I wish I would have made the laundry room bigger. I did not think it would have matter, but my entrance to basement is through there, I take my work boots off and on everyday in there, and my wife has a bad habit of hanging clothes up in the laundry room instead of returning them to the bedrooms. So it is always cramped and cluttered.
That's pretty much it. The smartest thing I did was put the kids bedrooms upstairs and a play room up there for them. Now they can stay upstairs, and not bother anyone on the main level.

[Anonymous No.772474]

ITT: /diy/ gets hostile.

[Anonymous No.772497]

>>770861
Shit design, at least learn to draw to scale.

>>770891
>1. Japanese style courtyard in the middle, where pretty much the house wraps around it in a square.
Depends on location this is either the best or worst idea.

>2. Timber framed, with large windows filling the gable/possibly from area of the house.
Again this is more a practicality/cost problem than a preference.

>3. Large windows in general, but it'd be important that this means the house would be in the middle of a forested area, which isn't hard to find in Canada.
Trees can be boring.

>4. I'd love a photovoltaic panel area somewhere just for the sake of being green and reducing my power bill because if it's affordable, why not right?
Using PV in the middle of a forest is simply bad.

>5. Minimalist-style mid-century influenced interior for main room, with a large fireplace. Essentially, I just want a 60s style lodge for the main part of the house.
Fireplace is hard work.

>6. Totally minimalist modern kitchen, white countertops and espresso coloured cabinets, with a stone floor and a skylight above the centre.
White and brown look really cheap really fast.

>7. No basement, but a little attached walkway to a workshop-garage with curtain glass walls.
Glass is great in a workshop because you will freeze and go deaf pretty quick.

>8. Bedroom modern but much more cozy. Fur and warm earth tones everywhere. One wall would just be large glass
And the black plane of darkness will offset your warmth pretty quick at night.

>And I guess more bedrooms
>the middle of a forested area
>or on a body of water with a dock/boathouse.
Of course, if you can afford any of it.

[Anonymous No.772579]

>>772497
>Of course, if you can afford any of it.
it's an ideal home thread isn't it? not a home you can afford thread.

[anonymous No.772594]

>>770992

[Anonymous No.772617]

Passivhaus Concept

>4 bedroom, two storey moderate sized home
>Approx. 102m2 floor space
>Small outbuilding for workshop use

First off, the mandatory standards:
>No more than 15 kWh/m2 per year in heating/cooling
>Total primary energy consumption (e.g. electricity) must not be more than 120 kWh/m2
>The building must not leak more air than 0.6 times the house volume per hour at 50 Pa

Features:
>Timber frame SIPS panel construction or concrete cast with SIPS insulation
>Placement of windows for best natural light ingress
>Full MHVR HVAC system with air filtering and air source heat pump to provide heat to water and air when required
>All lighting to be LED
>"A" energy rating or above on all appliances where possible/feasible
>PV/Wind microgeneration with feed-in to grid

>Located in rural area, i.e. farm closeout due to lowish costs and lots of land to fuck around on/ small farm (i.e. few animals and small vegetable patches etc.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_house

[Anonymous No.772645]

Is that a sofa in the bathroom top-left?
Weird.

[Anonymous No.772647]

>>769764
>hoses all over the house. almost everything should be waterproof or kept in a watertight container. I should be able to hose down my house to clean it
classy

[Anonymous No.772660]

>>772647
Why in the hell would anyone ever need to hose down the inside of their house?

[Anonymous No.772661]

I want to remove all the wiring I could from a design. Battery power everything. From controllers on the wall transmitting "on/off" to the lights in the room. To motion activated lights everywhere else.

Replacing all the batteries would be a "chore of the month" deal. Take them up to the solar charging cells and plug them in.

Direct power for appliances would be from the ceiling and ran down the wall to where you needed it. Obviously a house with no levels to it.

Water just needs to go to the bathrooms and kitchen. Easily just place those near each other centered near the middle of the home.

>I want a multi-dome home.

[Anonymous No.772678]

>>769764
entrance to big living room.
Very small bedroom.
2 small rooms with desks and shelves for work/studying.
Open kitchen.
Proper bathroom. Taking a shower in a shitty bathroom feels shit.
A storage room.
Many indoor plants, ... and here's where my English just isn't good enough to describe what I want.

Generally I like minimalism, plants, stones, small rooms except open kitchen and large living room.

[Anonymous No.772686]

>>769764
>hoses all over the house. almost everything should be waterproof or kept in a watertight container. I should be able to hose down my house to clean it
Neckbeard lvl 394

[Anonymous No.772688]

>>769764
>locks for toilet rooms, bath rooms, shower rooms and bed rooms. It is absurd not to have these. They should even have "occupied" and "unoccupied" indicators on them
lol you sound like a real fun person

[Anonymous No.772703]

>>772660
>50 Shades of Grey .jpg

[Anonymous No.772712]

>>770620
>>a garbage disposal unit
>Too lazy to put food into the bin? Let's shove it down the drain! One more thing to break and repair, but less food into the bin, hard choice.
garbage disposal unit owner here, no breaking or repairs ever, just occasional cleaning.

[Anonymous No.772713]

>>772712
You're the only one.

[Anonymous No.772725]

>>772713
Really? That's a shame, I wouldn't want to live without one. If the service they usually require isn't that bad, I would still recommend it to most people.

[Anonymous No.772730]

>>772713
Another garbage disposal owner. Never had a problem and we shove fucking anything in there.

[Anonymous No.772737]

>>772730
Does yours ever start to really stink?

[Anonymous No.772740]

>>769764
Water tight bathroom with drain that ican simply hose down entirely instead of tedious business of careful bathroom cleaning having to avoid destroying the drywall/ceiling. This is muh dream. If ever I am in a position to have such a thing I am prepared to pay what it will cost.

[Anonymous No.772742]

>>772737
Yea, every few months. I just use a drop in cleaner thing. They're a few bucks for like a dozen.

[Anonymous No.772744]

>>772742
I've been using lemons because I can get them for free, but I'll pick up some of those cleaners next time I see them at the store and try them out. Thanks.