Somehow you’ve gotten your dream home. The cabin in the mountains, penthouse downtown, castle nestled deep in the woods, nuclear bunker in the hills, or whatever. Whats the bit you’d add that might raise a brow from others? The fireman’s pole? The slide? The moat? The hidden room behind a bookshelf where you keep your stuffed animals?

  • LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz
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    Hidden passageways in all the rooms. Every room will be connected via an intricate maze of crawlspaces, slides, ladders, and all manner of hidden passages. Sure i could use the stairs like a normal person to get to the living room, or i could pull a book off the shelf to reveal a trap door in the floor that leads to a slide downstairs.

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    Mine is utterly mundane: I want one of those little tower nook things like on Victorian houses. I think it’s just called a turret?

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      You are correct, a turret. You and my wife have the same dream. She wants to put a bunch of pillows on the nook and read.

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      It’s funny because every other McMansion Hell post makes fun of houses with turrets, but I’m with you… I’d love a 3rd floor turret with windows on all sides for a chillaxing space.

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        I think it’s one of those things where it has to match the rest of the home.

        If you have a fairly standard modern home and just slap a turret on it, it looks ridiculous.

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      This is my dream too, but I want a retractable roof so I can set up a telescope. Also my house would be in the middle of nowhere so I can see the stars.

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    A cheese room. With lots of cheese. Different kinds, different ages and from different places. But still only cheese. I fuckin’ love cheese!

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      I would add something similar - place to make food not kitchen.

      I like to mess with stuff like homebrewing, cheese making, I butchered some pigs and game…

      Smoker and few dedicated fridges for this stuff maybe freezer. Fermenters and other things you need for homebrewing…

      When you do it you know that you need lots of specific tools, pots and other things.

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        When we bought our house I claimed an entire room as a pantry for this, because my food preparation (if that’s the right word) needs more space than a kitchen. Do it. It’s awesome. Was the right decision. We have an enormous refrigerator with a freezer in there, a ridiculously strong wire shelf, a pot rack for all the iron skillets, space to store ferments and dry goods and all the tools that don’t live in the kitchen (sous vide stick, blender, waffle iron, etc.). It’s a room without a door that would otherwise have probably been a dining room. I don’t do butchering but it’s right next to a bathroom, if we wanted a prep sink it could be done. I don’t need one though.

        Next I want a good bar area near the kitchen, we have a good space for that and that’s where the prep sink will go. Some ferments may move over there too, the drinks ones.

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          My dad’s friend has it. On the street he lives are few same houses and all of them have few rooms downstairs you can’t make it in to a flat so it is used as garage, workshop, and one room we call party room. It is just a kitchen but separated enough to use it that way. His neighbours use it differently.

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        Like a… home workshop inspired by a commercial kitchen? With big bay doors you can roll up when it’s canning season. And a drain in the floor so you can just hose it down when you’re done getting messy. I didn’t realize this is a thing I could get on board with!

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    A Bath Room. No, not a bathroom. A room just for a wide bath, with a fireplace, a window overlooking greenery. A sound system of course. There’ll be a small bookshelf for a choice of relaxed reading, and possibly a fridge at arms length with a choice of relaxing drinks.

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    I want a hidden control room, where I control the internet, piped in music, cameras, security and other automations of the house.

    In this way, when there is a complaint of something not working, I just disappear to that room and tinker to my heart’s content. Problems mysteriously gets fixed (by me).

    This should be a nice and comfortable room, with plenty of space, a bathroom and a skylight.

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    I want a nap room. Not to be confused with a bedroom, as the bedroom is for sleeping and a nap room… well should be self-evident. Nice climate control, piped in white noise type sound I can change easily (From regular white noise to rainy background to sounds of the woods to lo-fi chillhop), and multiple things to nap in, a hammock, lazyboy, and couch at minimum.

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      Not my hobby but love the passion. Make sure to add a mini ATC tower, fill it with some birdseed on the upper deck and then let the birds and squirrels help guide you home.

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        Oh, that’s a great idea. I’l probably build this even if I never get the house with the landing strip.

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    A huge garden/green house in the center with fruit trees and berry vines, etc. and in the center of that, a sort of pool/pond. The whole place has a path circling through it with various benches and seats and musical instruments on display/for use. Piano, harp, hurdy gurdy, etc.

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    Pneumatic tube system. Brass steampunk shit like in old banks and skyscrapers would be fine, as would clear plastic ones like drive through pharmacies.

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    A secret passage. I’ve always wanted one. My parents built their home and I was genuinely disappointed that they skipped this vital element.

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      I just imagine you having guests over, closing it up and saying something like, “wow looks like its gettin’ real late, I better hit the hay.” as a prelude to kicking them out at like 1 p.m.

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    A music room, with space for my decks and records, top notch sound system, perfect soundproofing on the walls, a lighting system, a small dancefloor, a bar. Also, it would be hidden behind a bookshelf, as described in OP.