My Dream Place Would Look Like This.

[Honey]

If someone came up to you today and said, "Here is a blank check for you to build your dream place." what would your place look like? Mine would be a cabin sitting on about twenty acres of pasture land in the middle of a hundred arces of woods. I am thinking two story cabin with front and back porches. The porches would be screened in so I could take a nap on them and not worry about bugs. The back porch would overlook a very big pond that was full of fish. Inside the kitchen I would have a big island where everyone could sit and talk. There would be a giant fireplace, a real one, that made the whole place smell like cracker barrell when they have their fireplace going. And a very big pantry. It would have lots of windows in the kitchen and the den and no curtians so everyone could see all the deer and wild animals walking around on the land outside. It would have lots of closets and the decor would be old fashioned, with quilts and such to make you feel it was a real honest to goodness cabin in the woods. I would have a jeep, and four wheelers, canoes, boat and a golf cart. Golf carts are more quiet to ride around the land on. There would be a big outside fireplace made of stone so everyone could sit around outdoors and enjoy cocoa and coffee. A small area for a garden and an outdoor kitchen for canning. A nice storage shed for all the equipment needed to keep such a place up. It would have a few small cabins located within the hundred acres for friends and family and little trails to ride to and from. Mostly to make the place complete it would have my hubby sitting beside me on the porch in the porch swing drinking his coffee and watching the deer.

That's mine, what is your?

[TheKing]

a strip club

[Sister Golden Hair]

I live in my dream home, and it is very simular to your dream, Honey. The scale is a little different from your dream.

My home and property is what I dreamed of when I was a young girl. I love my home.

[Honey]

Oh King dream bigger. I know you got a dream place. We all do.

[threekidspa]

We both like mountains and beaches, and can't make up our minds, so I think the setting for ours is on the pacific coast, somewhere north of Monterey. Enough land so I don't smell the neighbor when he passes gas or have to listen to their dogs, but close enough to be friendly with them. Wrap around porches, small we keep up, single story though, so we don't have to leave when its too hard to climb stairs. ;) View of the ocean from one side, mountains from the other....

[EricStratton]

A little hut on an island in the Carribean....with an unlimited supply of beer and no threats of Hurricanes....and a deaf-mute, double jointed squaw to help keep the hut clean....

[jkspatty]

That sounds perfect honey:clap:

[pooker]

I beautiful hose on five miles from a beach located in an all but lonely deep bewildered forest. While there is a forest, there is a certain five acre diameter, along with many riding trails cleared just for me and noone around. My house would be three stories, one down and by down I mean underground. The surface floor, and upstairs.

The upstairs would be built as a loft style but would go all around, and would have a pier that you could see down stairs from. My house would incorporate the use of voice activated climate control.

My kitchen would have mahogony tops, along with a sunroof , the floor would be an abrassive old school tile that had just the feel to make you want to stay in there one second longer.

The rooms would each have there own different theme, depending on the time if I had kids one room my have a racecar bed, the other might have workout room fixated with glass walls. My room of course would have a built in plasma t.v. , along with walk in closest in every room.

The bottom floor would be where we entertain guests, first walking in you might think it strange, but after a glance around you realize the unique taste that no longer made you feel like you were in a strangers house but rather yet a unique club that was befitting towards you. There would be a bar, made of class to make it easier for the occupied guest to choose there likings.

A chair, that had a beanbag feel to it, that seemed to nestle your every conformity. Finally there would be multiple projection screens, while the entire time you are wondering what they are for you understand there true meaning when polls for activites start to commence. And you are allowed some of your favorite games to be played on those projector strings, including kareoke, and wii bowling.

[58ford]

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w293/58ford/carlsbad-caverns-new-mexico.jpg

[Honey]

Ford is that in Tenn? I went on a tour of the Lost Sea in Tenn. The guide turned out the lights and it is very very dark in there.

[amanda]

I've got my dream house. :) I share it with Butterball and kids - so it doesn't matter what it looks like or where it is - as long as they are there.

[Baloo]

This would be my summer home...
http://www.thelogconnection.com/stock-plans/Bavarian_Dream/Bavarian_Dream.jpg



This would be my winter home...

http://www.charterworld.com/images/yachts/Mosaique_anchor.jpg

[Butterball]

I've had lots of 'dream homes' in my mind for many decades.........
but I think I'm in mine (with my wonderful, better half). The thing
about 'dream homes' is they are just that......... DREAMS

I would love to have the money to build one or more of those
houses I've conjured up but that would bring on a whole new set
of problems in my life ( lots of money = problems ). The correct
'dream home' for me is one that fits my lifestyle (big enough to have some space, small enough to keep up)........ the dream is "Paid for". I'm
based in reality and don't want many things - some time off to enjoy my wife and family..... a little fishing.......enough money to pay the bills and have some left over to secure my retirement (which I don't see coming till I'm seventy-five) and enjoy myself some (with the honey) before a rocking chair is my only option. :smt023

[countrygirl]

If someone came up to you today and said, "Here is a blank check for you to build your dream place." what would your place look like? Mine would be a cabin sitting on about twenty acres of pasture land in the middle of a hundred arces of woods. I am thinking two story cabin with front and back porches. The porches would be screened in so I could take a nap on them and not worry about bugs. The back porch would overlook a very big pond that was full of fish. Inside the kitchen I would have a big island where everyone could sit and talk. There would be a giant fireplace, a real one, that made the whole place smell like cracker barrell when they have their fireplace going. And a very big pantry. It would have lots of windows in the kitchen and the den and no curtians so everyone could see all the deer and wild animals walking around on the land outside. It would have lots of closets and the decor would be old fashioned, with quilts and such to make you feel it was a real honest to goodness cabin in the woods. I would have a jeep, and four wheelers, canoes, boat and a golf cart. Golf carts are more quiet to ride around the land on. There would be a big outside fireplace made of stone so everyone could sit around outdoors and enjoy cocoa and coffee. A small area for a garden and an outdoor kitchen for canning. A nice storage shed for all the equipment needed to keep such a place up. It would have a few small cabins located within the hundred acres for friends and family and little trails to ride to and from. Mostly to make the place complete it would have my hubby sitting beside me on the porch in the porch swing drinking his coffee and watching the deer.

That's mine, what is your?
I like your idea, but I would add that you need enough money to hire a few gardeners, a carpenter for upkeep, and a couple of housekeepers to help clean. You would also need a tractor or two and you should plan to work hard when bugs get in that big old pine that you love and have to have it cut or when a wind comes through and you have to clean up the mess...Sigh. I basically have that, without all the help, but sometimes I wonder if I might not be better off living in a house with a VERY SMALL YARD, expecially since I'm getting older.

[virgo]

I would just like a nice home for myself and my son, big enough for us to not feel cramped and nice big yard for him to play in.....I am tired of apartment life. Maybe one day it will happen. I stopped dreaming a long time ago, though. Have to be realistic.

[amanda]

I would just like a nice home for myself and my son, big enough for us to not feel cramped and nice big yard for him to play in.....I am tired of apartment life. Maybe one day it will happen. I stopped dreaming a long time ago, though. Have to be realistic.

Never say never my dear.....you just may be surprised one day. I know I was. :-D

[Honey]

Hopefully by the time it starts to fall apart I'll be in the nursing home and will have passed this dream place down to the kids. I lived on a 120 acre farm so I know about the hard work. I sould get some goats though to help keep the place mowed. Ha Ha Ha. But remember this is my dream place only found in my dreams so therefore the grass never needs cutting and there is no such thing as dust. Ha Ha Ha

[virgo]

Never say never my dear.....you just may be surprised one day. I know I was. :-D

Thanks. I will keep hoping :)

[Baloo]

Thanks. I will keep hoping :)


One day girl.... One day.... I will keep hoping with you! ;)

[Conveyor Belt]

I'd just buy the Universe and live wherever I wanted to... I mean, if it's a blank check and all, why limit yourself to 100 acres?

[threekidspa]

I'd just buy the Universe and live wherever I wanted to... I mean, if it's a blank check and all, why limit yourself to 100 acres?
But then you'd have to mow all that grass! :smt118

[dollfus46]

a strip club
You own it or work there?;)

[dollfus46]

This would be my summer home...
http://www.thelogconnection.com/stock-plans/Bavarian_Dream/Bavarian_Dream.jpg



This would be my winter home...

http://www.charterworld.com/images/yachts/Mosaique_anchor.jpg
I like the way you think, Baloo.

[dollfus46]

Actually, I love to have Baloo's summer home up on hwy 25 or 11, sitting on 5 acres of woodland with a trout stream running through the property. Hard to visualize unless you've been up here. Hawk and Elle have an idea from their trip a few weeks ago. I'd have five or six Golden Retrievers running around too.

[Sister Golden Hair]

I have to add, that dream or not, happiness is where the heart is. I live in my dream home now, a little cottage in the middle of the woods, but remember well when I was newly married and lived in a 12 X 65 mobile home and thought I could never be happier.

[mac]

I just want to live outside of the Petal city limits.

[Honey]

Oh mac I liked Petal. I guess because my kids had little friends there and I had the best bunch of friends myself. I kinda hated to leave. Now don't get me wrong I like OG too because I got family here. I think I am so ready to leave OG though and find a little farm.

[mac]

It's okay, but our neighbors have annoying habits. And we've been trying to get the garbage folks to pick up some old carpet out by the road for two weeks now. Every time I call City Hall, I'm told that it's going to be taken care of the next morning. It's been out there for two weeks and at this point it's littering the whole neighborhood because the fabric is coming apart.

We've had multiple problems with the people in City Hall not doing their jobs. It usually ends up costing us money. You may recall some of the posts I made when we were dealing with the great sewer debaucle of 2005-2007.

As high as our taxes are, someone should be able to haul off some carpet in less than two weeks.

They suck. I want to live in the country-- as far away from the b.s. as possible.

[Conveyor Belt]

Make sure you buy plenty of land surrounding yourself. I find in the country, people can do things on their property... how can I say it... a little more loudly. Something's always exploding or going off, etc. The most I ever hear here is the occasional emergency vehicle and a loud truck or two.

[Guru]

I've always dreamed of living in the middle of property so that I can't see anyone else and at the most can only hear people if they drive down the road. After I put out a few more trees along one fence line I am there. Always looking to buy more.
The only thing better would be to live in the middle of 1000 acres in Utah with an 8' electrified fence with a covy of hungry Rottweilers running loose and having my food air dropped in when needed, a fast computer connection and satellite tv.

[fuzzis]

I need some deciduous trees and some moving water. I want to be close enough to everything that if I'm so inclined, I can get out and get to it, but far enough out that I don't have to worry about someone else's issues interfering with my privacy. The house would have to be situated so that it could perfectly catch sunrises and sunsets. Watching sunsets is very important.

As for the house itself...big wide front and back porches. A airy, sunny room to write in. A big kitchen with lots of counter space because I like to cook and I like to have people over, but my last kitchen didn't allow for that, nor does this one. A bedroom that doesn't have a television, and a bathroom that has a separate tub and a shower. A fireplace tucked in there somewhere...lots of comfy furniture to settle into and relax in.

[Baloo]

That sounds perfect fuzzis!