Describe the perfect house for your aspie self!

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17 Jun 2012, 8:39 am

A small log cabin in the countryside aslong as I have a large/medium sized office.
Why so small? I dont want a huge house as the cleaning responsibility would be huge along with maintenance and heating.


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17 Jun 2012, 8:52 am

A small cottage or villa by the sea in the Isle of Wight, with the bus-driver who I really love and want to hold in my arms.


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17 Jun 2012, 12:07 pm

no annoying neighbours
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17 Jun 2012, 12:09 pm

Wolfheart wrote:
A Zen house with a Sky garden.

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Wow. I would pick this too. I love the minimalism.



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17 Jun 2012, 12:48 pm

I like lots of indoors space but I'm not outdoorsy at all so I'd like a spacious home (not a mcmansion or anything, just something with some space). 2 bedrooms and an office would be perfect. I'd use one bedroom as my actual bedroom. The walls would be painted some soothing colour like a moderately dark blue or purple. It would have lots of natural lights and an attached master suite. Just a small shower, sink, and toilet would be great. The 2nd bedroom would be a guest room. A nice place to chill if anyone wanted to visit where they could be alone. The office would be for my projects. I would keep notebooks with my recipes scribbled in them, my laptop, a desk, lots of pens, and also any important documents (like stuff if I had my own business or whatever). I'd want another bedroom if I got married and had a child, but I'm assuming that isn't in the cards for me.

The kitchen would be nice and spacious as that is my favorite place. I would need room for my dishes and my small appliances (my breadmaker, my ice cream machine, a crockpot, etc - I love appliances). An island in the middle. Not sure what material for the counters, but something that could hold up to abuse. Would need a pantry. Hardwood floors in the kitchen would be lovely. I'd also have an herb garden growing somewhere.

I'd like the kitchen to have lots of natural light too and have french doors that open to the outside (more on that later). Next to the kitchen would be the great room/family room. There would be a tv and a couch, maybe a ceiling fan. This room would attach to a sunroom where I could feel like I'm outdoors without flies bothering me.

I can't drive, so a garage isn't a big deal. If I was married, I'm sure my husband would want one though. It would also need to be in walking distance of public transportation. I live in the suburbs now and I like it. I'd like to live just outside of the city, Geographically I'm not sure, I'm open to anywhere in the midwest, northeast, or northwest.

Now the outdoor space wouldnt be huge, but there would be room for me to have a small garden for tomatoes, zucchini, radishes, and other vegetables. It would also be nice to have a couple fruit trees. A fenced yard so my pets could play without me worrying.

Oh, bathrooms. Besides my master suite, there would be 1 bathroom upstairs and a half-bath (toilet + sink) downstairs. I wouldn't need a basement, but it would be nice to have one if I had a kid.



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17 Jun 2012, 5:21 pm

Mine would have to include a massive library/computer room. A crafts room. A full size laundry room for sorting, washing, folding, ironing, and even blocking my knits and handwashing and drip drying my delicates. A walk-in closet. A full-size gourmet kitchen (more for Aspie SO than for me), and a large yard, in a place where water isn't so scarce. A nice big outdoor eating and visiting area. An enclosed porch for the cats to enjoy nature and still be safe and "indoor-only."

A housekeeper (and gardener) to keep all that clean and maintained, people who understand me being Aspie so they don't intrude too much on my privacy. (If I could afford a house like that I could hopefully also afford to pay these special people very well.) ;)

I dislike most housework, although I'm sort of into laundry I guess. :roll:



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17 Jun 2012, 6:10 pm

I'm living in it! I like to have an excessive number of rooms (6, not including bathrooms and living/dining areas) and have each closed off to the rest of the house (so none of those open walk-in living rooms/dining rooms for me). My bedroom is quite large, due to the years of frustration I endured as a child regarding the size of my room (about the size of a jail cell), but my study is still small, simply because I like to do work in a small room, which is why I liked my dormatory so much (that and the fact that it was one of the few single rooms - yay, no sharing a room!).



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17 Jun 2012, 6:57 pm

This is pretty much what it would look like:

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17 Jun 2012, 7:03 pm

Wayne wrote:
A "camper van", i.e. a Class B Motorhome.

Drives like a regular van, with living space in the back. I can travel and never check into a hotel. I can be out and about for the day and not have to drive anywhere to get back to "home base".

This is very similar to what I wanted when I was a teen. Mine was blue, and I dreamed of traveling with my Irish Wolfhound, camping in woodsy places.



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17 Jun 2012, 7:11 pm

SpiritBlooms wrote:
Wayne wrote:
A "camper van", i.e. a Class B Motorhome.

Drives like a regular van, with living space in the back. I can travel and never check into a hotel. I can be out and about for the day and not have to drive anywhere to get back to "home base".

This is very similar to what I wanted when I was a teen. Mine was blue, and I dreamed of traveling with my Irish Wolfhound, camping in woodsy places.


When I was a teen, I wanted a log cabin out in the middle of the last place anyone would think to look for someone -- stocked with everything I would need to be content for the rest of eternity. I love veggie gardening, and cooking (haven't time, strength, nor energy anymore), but figured I'd barter for meat, ideally with a local poultry farm.



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17 Jun 2012, 7:13 pm

I'd have a very small one bedroom house with a basement full of chalk and blackboards. That way, I wouldn't have to worry as much about cleaning and I could spend days and nights just writing maths equations :D



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17 Jun 2012, 7:20 pm

A very modern detached, nestled half-submerged in a corner of a deep V-shape valley similar to my current area in the Pennines. A garden full of crops beside trees to make it a haven for birds, in a perfect area for running. A small beck flowing nearby. Off a main road over a bridge crossing said beck. Wall-wide windows all around for close contact with the outside. Labyrinthine browsers full of records round the back of the house. Floor-to-ceiling bookshelves in the expansive main room and some ridiculous audiophile speaker system: room otherwise quite minimalist. Floor plants, body-length mirrors. An orchestra of musical instruments (piano, accordion, theremin, guitar, organ, drums, double bass etc), stored in a room adjacent to a combined digital/analogue recording studio. Sizable kitchen full of all your gourmet utensils; granite surface and all the mod cons. Wardrobe/cupboard panelling. Very posh computer and system. Small cellar for drinks. Can't much describe the bathroom because on that front I'm pretty much satisfied if it's clean enough. Many shelves and storage areas, with a place for absolutely everything down to USB drives and blue-tac. A fireplace. A bed below a skylight. <2.5m ceilings and all apparatus suited towards being 5'6. A tucked-away garage containing a Volkswagen bus that won't break down. Adjustable light brightness (and colour!). An electricity system that's as green as possible and doesn't carry a built-in obsolescence that prevents it from being updated. Maximisation of natural light. A large outdoor terrace if the weather relents. All doors are replaced by rotating bookshelves, with many confusing, needless hidden compartments here and there. Old sheet music to beautiful songs decked along remaining wall space. A solid dining table near the computer system. A weird but undefinable numinous feeling to the entire place. My bedroom (small with double bed) and a spare. Decent people nearby.

It's good to dream! If I do well with myself I'll maybe be able to get a satisfactory amount of that.