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After saving for a while, I recently bought my first home. I get to fix it up which is great because I have a lot of ideas for it. So what is your dream home? What would it look like? How many bed/baths? what type of flooring?

A big, stone, sprawling, english mansion, about the style and looks of the ones in Pride and Prejudice and the Regency period.

2 floors, Victorian manor styled, with an observatory and full Armageddon/apocalypse proof basement with water purifiers, power generators, underground cavern, etc etc. :)

4 walls, a door, and maybe some windows...

I'm not very high maintenance.

a 2 level underground bunker,like arcana's,but with weapon lockers in every room.I'm very paranoid XD

A one room cabin in the middle of no where:)

I'm a big fan of modernism and minimalism in architecture. Imagine a lake in a forest (think Scandinavia or Canada or something). White tiles on the floor, white walls and ceilings but mostly huge windows giving a 240° view, open on the side towards the lake. There's a terrace there, with one comfortable chair and a tiny white table next to it, no railing.

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One that I can afford that's decent and I won't kill myself at work for.

one of those logged vacation homes you find in forests, away from civilization so there is less people around to annoy you. doesn't need to be a mansion, 1500sq ft would be plenty i think.

Something with 100 Acres, hopefully with a small lake on it.

5,000 square feet 2 story is good for me.

A home that includes an appropriate number of rooms and is set up to be as absolutely efficient as possible, especially when it comes to weather defense.

beach/bay front.

Something very open - nice sized yard, combined kitchen/dining/living room with lots of windows/sliding doors that can be opened completely or partially up into the front yard (looking to the water)

Simple brick design with wooden trimmings (maybe kwila). Bedrooms all upstairs, with verandah. Perhaps with a spa on verandah.

oh... plenty of powerpoints aswell..

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I change my answer to this.

all pool, all fun.

http://www.dan-wood.co.uk/en/vision/serie/traditionell/trad-133.htm is nice

but some kind of top floor, oepn plan penthouse with a great view would be awesome too :) something like this (http://www.west-sands.com/images/penthouse-large.jpg)... with a hot tub

edit: has to be somewhere modern (at least inside), and no DIY. i've lived in a finished house for maybe a year, two tops, of my life. i'd like to move into a place and not need to do any work beyond simple aesthetic stuff i'd like to do. that said, the likelihood of me, a first time buyer, getting a place i can do work in (ie not a rented place) is slim for the next decade at least :(

I'm torn between a nice cottage somewhere (got my eyes on one right now, lovely surroundings but we still have to see it inside) that is or can be exptended and refurbished, and an old church that can be converted into a home (got our eyes on one of those as well. It's comapratively cheap, but it'll be lots of work. We'll have to wait and see on that one).

one of thoose big warter towers like on Catweasle or a proper working windmill

Secret nuclear bunker. Why? Firstly, I am so not a people person. Secondly, I'm paranoid and a bit obsessed with conspiracy theories, so I'm the sort of person who on occasion honestly believes the entire world is going to be destroyed. I'm only semi-joking with this post, actually. My God, I suck at life :(

my dream home would be a twisty cave maze of tiney rooms, or a freeform, that most likely would neither of which meet code where i live.

a micro-house, might work, the main thing is it would be out in the woods, off grid but online broadband, wind/solar/composting and methane collecting crapper, the works. the other main thing is on a chunk of land where i could build little trains just big enough to ride on. live steam size, also called hernia gauge becuse they look small enough to lift but are actually mostly much too heavy to.

of course there'd be a refrigerator of some kind, and a cnc milling machine, and more computing hardware horsepower then i can ever in real life hope to call mine.

i really don't need much space, just lots and lots of lovely isolation and quiet.

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One that I own. Without a mortgage.

underground bunker,that is connected to a fusion reactor,has lot of books,a pc,Playstation 3,an Xbox 360,a radio telescope and an optic telescope

A one room cabin in the middle of no where:)

That would be amazing.

Of course, it would require a decent internet connection :p

A glass (REALLY thick glass) house, with a few inches apart between the twin walls, and a small hole in the top to allow water to come in. That way I will be able to avoid teh ebil X-Rays!

Underground house with a simple unassuming shanty on the ground level. I want a pond on the property, and a good high fence.