If you had to design your dream house what would it be?

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guestroom for my friend
panicroom for me

Lots of land surrounding it including a large, well stocked art shed. Near a hospital.
Childproofed.
large and fun kid bedrooms, two of them.
A library.
A pool in a fully soundproofed room, where nothing can be heard except what you do.
I think it would be cool for my own room to have mirrors for walls and for the ceiling, a black and comfy carpet, lights from the floor that can be changed from green to blue and when turned off is completely dark, void of light. a room to the side that is for asher with everything he could ever want, also soundproofed.
Three bathrooms, all of which I can stand using without a meltdown.
A sensory room, equipped with a large ball pit, a sand pit, a trampoline and a load of other stuff along with PT and OT equipment. soundproofed, with good natural lighting that can be adjusted.
A large kitchen.
A bird room with a glass wall between it and the dinning room.
A robot that keeps everything clean.
A fun kids area between the bedrooms that I can also go into, with a foam pit, craft station, fighting props, ect.
A gym, that comes with it's own world class martial arts instructor.
A well locked room just for me filled with weapons and an instructor for all of them.

My dream house would be an estate. Most likely in New England or the South.

My dream house would have
Sensory Room.
Indoor swimming pool.
Outdoor swimming pool.
Study room with all my obsessions.
Musical room.
Fortress.
A large kitchen.

What would be in it?

It would be somewhat small- I would live either alone or with one other person. Probably in a forest area, maybe somewhere in the Pacific Northwest like Washington or Oregon. I would want snow in the winter. Large windows would be everywhere- this would help the space look open. I hate feeling claustrophobic.
The most important room would be my work office/personal lab, which would have lots of nice equipment. My desk would be in front of a large window. I would have a comfortable office spinny chair which would be at exactly the right height below the table. On the back wall, I would have a long lab bench. I would definitely have some really nice microscopes which I could use to look at things I find outside. I would also have a bookshelf. The bookshelf would be hidden in a wall, and I would use a handle to roll the wall out and access the books.
There would also be a music room/recording studio. The walls of this room would be heavily padded/soundproof so if I was living with someone else, they would not be bothered. I would have a large desk along one wall. On this desk, there would be a Mac, a long midi keyboard, and studio monitors. On the other side of the room would be a space to play violin, piano, etc.
The walls in my house would be mostly white and clean-looking. I would want as little wall space as possible, since I want to see outside and would like windows everywhere. There would be giant skylights in some rooms- it would be nice to have one in my bedroom so that I could see stars, rain, clouds, etc while lying in my bed and being lazy. My bed would have a soft white comforter and squishy pillows. On the walls of my bedroom would be hand-drawn diagrams, doodles, and other artworks. I might draw directly on the wall, or I might tape things to the wall- I haven't decided yet. On one side of the bedroom, I would have a huge tank for my pink axolotls. The tank would take up most of the bedroom space, so I would not have much else in this room besides a closet, lamp, etc.
Outside of the house would be a small stable and field area. I would keep two horses there. I would like to have a small riding arena too, if that somehow could work out. I would mostly do dressage, but would also have some jumps for fun. Ideally, there would be trails around the area since I like to go on trail rides. As for the two horses, one would be a rescued ottb I could work on retraining, and the other would be either a fancy dressage warmblood or a basic quarter horse/paint type I would use for trail rides/hacks/leisure riding.

All the usual things -- bancos with cushions to sit on, nichos to display art, tile floors, kivas for heat (or supplemental heat), and an horno outside for cooking during good weather.

Wintertime:



A kiva:



A banco - note the way it is part the building, not separate furniture:



A nicho (the recess into the wall):



And an horno (the h is silent):

^^^very cozy looking would you have a music room or a place to listen to music in there?

I'd probably wire in speakers in nearly every room.

In many adobe houses, as one's family grew, one would simply add another room to one side of a house and put in a door. Often there would be windows that were suddenly between two rooms in the house. Sometimes the windows between the rooms open, but sometimes they build recessed cabinets into the window. If I was. building a house from scratch, I'd probably include at least one or two.

Here's one such window left open between two rooms (or maybe built that way to simulate the style) along with a kiva and a banco:

I like the airy roominess in there and the false windows would add to that.

The house that my wife and I built. It is comprised of 5 hexagons married together like a honey cone. In the central hexagon is a large skylight which brings natural light into the house. The house is heated all winter with a very efficient wood stove. It is built on a plot of land covered with over 5000 trees with a creek down below. It is well insulated, way above the standards at the time. The house is somewhat self sufficient because I get all my water from a drilled well next to the house. It has its own septic system and the heat during the winter comes firewood (trees that have died and I cut allowing new trees to rise up in their place). It is a very quiet peaceful place. Deers will come within 10 feet of the house. The house is insulated in the interior so that even inside the house, noise does not travel. We have a lot of wildlife such as squirrels, raccoons, possums, chipmunks, beavers, skunks, snakes, groundhogs, foxes, many species of birds and insect, turtles and some animals that are rare.

In addition to what I've already said, I want secret passageways.!

I wanna tower in the middle, that doubles as a heat chimney. I want to be able to climb the tower, and stand on a covered platform atop it, with a view all around.

If there are any manned lighthouses still in existence, you could apply for a job as the caretaker.



Seriously, the guy from the Top Gear tv show on BBC (Jeremy Clarkson) owns (or used to own) a lighthouse on the Isle of Man. I don't think that he owned the lighthouse itself as it was still in use, but the buildings at the bottom.



There was a controversy over that property. People would walk around the peninsula it is on (look at the map of the Isle of Man -- it is toward the tip of a peninsula call Langness to the east south east of Castletown). Because of the historical significance of the lighthouse and because of Clarkson's popularity and notoriety, the people walking would often look over the short wall at the lighthouse. He got ticked off at them and fenced off the peninsula to keep people out. It went to court and he eventually lost -- the walkers had every right to be there. He could have built the wall higher, but he didn't want to do that because it would block his view of the Irish sea.

I used to dream of that as a teen, but they were all automated in my area

The foghorn would drive me crazy.