show us your dream house

**Dancing Lotus** · 11-10-2008, 06:09 PM

Speaking of dream houses , show us yours.

I think you can tell a lot about a person by the home they would choose if they could buy any house they wanted. And I do mean any house, no mansion or shack is off limits.

If I could buy any home I wanted today. And it be the home I stayed in for the rest of my life it would be something like this. Minus any dead animals on the walls.

**Dancing Lotus** · 11-10-2008, 07:00 PM

The swamp scares me! But I know the charm you speak of. I would like to go off the grid

**Nana2two** · 11-10-2008, 07:18 PM

I love the primitive style, so my dream home would be a big farm house in the country.

**AmyBoz** · 11-10-2008, 07:48 PM

Ann, I had posted this in the other thread, but I'll post again here.

I love the house that I posted the link to. It's got charm, beauty, and space.

However, I have also always harbored the dream of living in a small cottage, like the ones you would find in the English countryside. No stuff, no clutter, not too much space...a house that would be...just right.

**nuisance26** · 11-10-2008, 08:13 PM

~The 14th century manor house that used to belong to Jane Seymour is the most amazing place I've ever seen.~

**AmyBoz** · 11-10-2008, 08:18 PM

asimplegirl...when I look at these "houses" I imagine my family inside them and that, to me, makes them "homes"

**AmyBoz** · 11-10-2008, 08:33 PM

Absolutely...as a mother, where my children are, I will make a home. As a wife, where my husband is, I will make a home. Put us all together...can't ask for anything more.

**Dancing Lotus** · 11-10-2008, 08:39 PM

actually an abandoned doctors office makes a home with character. I know people who live in an old school house, Way cool! And I saw an old train station turned into a home. Sorry I know that is not what you meant but I like homes that were made from places that were never meant to be homes.

**Dancing Lotus** · 11-10-2008, 08:40 PM

[QUOTE=nuisance26;1041211]~The 14th century manor house that used to belong to Jane Seymou
r is the most amazing place I've ever seen.~

Wow - dream big girl!

**AmyBoz** · 11-10-2008, 09:05 PM

Originally Posted by AnnK

actually an abandoned doctors office makes a home with character. I know people who live in an old school house, Way cool! And I saw an old train station turned into a home. Sorry I know that is not what you meant but I like homes that were made from places that were never meant to be homes.

There's a tv show and the name escapes me right now, but it's all about these types of homes. One episode was about people who built their home inside a silo, another was a restaurant that people bought and turned into a home, etc. In NYC, there is a pizza restaurant that used to be a church and it is SO cool.

**monkeywrangler71** · 11-10-2008, 10:26 PM

I don't know if it was the same show, but I saw one where a guy had an old train station for a house but he had so much train memorabilia that he couldn't live in it. He lived in a train out back of his house.

My dream home is big, but it's just in my head so there aren't any pictures.

**khjmom** · 11-10-2008, 10:57 PM

I don't have a picture of my dream home other than in my head...but I would love an old farmhouse, two story with a wrap around porch. I can see the porch swing at one end of the porch, ferns hanging all around and all sorts of flowers in the yard. There would be simple lace curtains. It would be a simple home. I would want it in the middle of a few acres surrounded by quiet.

**prftstrngr** · 11-10-2008, 11:03 PM

This will be my dream house....when we finish renovating it!! It once had a porch on front....and we will be putting that back on!!

**AmyBoz** · 11-10-2008, 11:29 PM

I've been in teeny, tiny houses that have seemed cold and hard and have wanted to get out of there as fast as possible.

I have also been in homes that were enormous, but every room had evidence that a family lived there and loved there and the laughter that filled the air made it a home. As I said, for me, home is about the people inside.

I used to babysit for a family who lived in a million+ home. They were from Wisconsin, originally, and the couple moved here after college when he got a job on Wall Street. They had three children and stayed in this area. The father was VERY successful and retired early. They volunteer in their church, their children are the kindest children that I've ever met outside of my own family, they donate to charity, they sponsor children from other countries, and are just some of the all-around, best people that I have ever known. They have an enormous house, but they aren't caught up in any "lifestyle." I don't think we can assume that we know the lifestyle people live because of the type/size of house they live in.

That being said, I can certainly understand your physical discomfort in a large home.

**janelane** · 11-11-2008, 04:05 AM

asimplegirl, I have read and re-read this thread several times and absolutely no one said anything about your choice of dream home being anything negative, so I'm wondering why you seem to feel the need to continually bag on others likes. This, I think, was meant to be a light, enjoyable thread. Why the negativity about why *you* would be uncomfortable with the choices of *others*? I understanding stating what you like, that's positivity. Why say, a few times, why you'd dislike the dreams of others? Why call them "cold" and infer they aren't as good as what you'd pick?

Big house or little house, as long as my DH is there and lovin' me, that's my dream house. Be it a tent or a thousand room mansion.

Getting dreamy, though, we just visited Plymouth, Mass, and oh I fell in love with the old seaside mansions up there. So much history! Of course I'd settle for the plantation-ish up the the road from us (weird neighborhood, we're just in a post war ranch.) It is on a cliff overlooking a ravine with a stream that leads to the river. It still has it's old summer kitchen and slave quarters. It's totally gorgeous. It'd take the lottery to put us in it, but oh, to dream!