Post a picture of your dream house.

[StellaBlue]

(or something very similar)

Here's mine:



or this:





Or, if I won the lottery, this:



or

[SoCalDem]

1. This one only costs $139,500

Single Family Home



Subdivision:Other
County:Anderson
Built in 1905
Garnett, KS 66032
MLS ID#: 1298866

$139,500
Beds4 Baths2
2995 sq. feet


Property Features:

Property Description
Very unique historic home with a possible 5th bedroom. 5-year old central heat and air downstairs. Central heat and window air upstairs. 2 fireplaces are sealed. Gas stoves have been installed in the old fireplaces. Pocket doors. Beautiful staircase. Oversized garage is an old carriage house.

* Appliances: Disposal, Dishwasher
* Construction: Wood Siding
* Cooling: Window Air Conditioning
* Exterior Features: Porch, Storm Windows
* Flooring: Hardwood Floors
* Fuel: Electric
* Heating: Central Heating
* Interior: Basement, Ceiling Fan(s), Family Room, Full Basement, Breakfast Room, Living/Dining Room Combination, Bathroom Washer/Dryer Location
* Lot Description: City Lot
* Parking/Garage: Detached Garage
* Roof: Composition Shingle Roof
* Room Level: Main floor laundry
* Style: 2 Stories
* Water/Sewer: Public water supply

[GoddessOfGuinness]

24. That's great...but do you have to live in Kan's ass?

:evilgrin:

[Indy_Dem_Defender]

2. Here you go

[mwooldri]

69. Yes, but we already own it. This is Congress's equiv. of "the projects".

Move 'im 'ere!

[SteppingRazor]

3. KA-CHING!

[Mutley]

4. Oh, alright.

:D

[NNadir]

6. You can't have it. It's mine.

I'm not selling.

Get away from my door. Step away carefully. Don't let me see you looking away. I've got a bead on you. I'm armed. You know I am. If I act, no one will ever find a trace of you.

[Mutley]

8. But, but, but!

The realtor said it was available. :cry:

[NNadir]

11. Don't you ask about that realtor. Nobody knows about that.

You really are asking for it now.

[Mutley]

14. I have no idea what yer talkin' 'bout.

I just talked to her on my cell phone yesterday. :o

[NNadir]

15. You sure talk a lot, don't you?

You think that's a good idea, all that talking? I wouldn't be doing all that talking if I were you.

All right, stop right there. I'm gonna have to get the dogs now.

[Mutley]

16. Hey, I'm the Dog Whisperer.

I am not afraid!

[NNadir]

18. Now a man with dogs can't be all bad.

Least if them dogs hunt.

I'm gonna let you go this time, but don't you come back here, and don't you let me hear nothing about no realtor never again.

[Mutley]

22. Okay, thank you sir.

I'll never come back.








I'll be back with my team of attack dogs. Bwahahahaha, that house will soon be mine. :D

[kiraboo]

34. Who's the man with the dogs? He looks like somebody I know. n/t

[mwooldri]

72. But I saw it on the Government & Foreclosed Housing List!

It must be for sale!

[LSK]

5. a home in the FL Keys

A pool and canal/ocean access are a must.

[u4ic]

7. I love the last one, StellaBlue!

I think living in a mill would be cool:


Same with a lighthouse:



An old church:


This place would be nice, too:




My all time DREAM HOME - Versailles:

[xmas74]

95. We have an old church in town that's been abandoned for

years. It's one of the old country-style ones w/ a decent yard.

I'd love to buy it and renovate it, if I had the money.

[miss_american_pie]

9. Okay

[Oeditpus Rex]

26. Yeah!

Loves me some Frank Lloyd Wright. :thumbsup:

[miss_american_pie]

27. You have excellent taste

:D

[NV Whino]

37. You can't live there!

That's mine.

[miss_american_pie]

38. I claimed it first

but I'll share. :P

[NV Whino]

40. Okay.

But I bet you're too tall for it.

[miss_american_pie]

59. Almost

I can stand up in there, but I feel a bit claustraphobic. I really just want to sit on the steps and dangle my feet in the creek. You can have the rest of the house.

[NV Whino]

62. May I visit the steps once in a while?

I'll let you visit the Diego Rivera.

[miss_american_pie]

66. Of course

:thumbsup:

[livetohike]

10. A log home kind of like this

I have wanted to live in one for a long, long time. Hope to make it come true soon :-).

[huskerlaw]

12. This view:

or maybe this


or this

[Tikki]

13. I would adore having an Eichler home...

...built, primarily in the 1950's and 1960's...these homes now sell for between $800,000.oo and to over $1.5 Million..
Most homes are over 2,000 sq ft. with their characteristic high ceiling elevation. You will still find some of them in certain California communities.



Tikki

[ohiosmith]

17. If only!

[u4ic]

19. I can't even afford that!

x(

[ohiosmith]

20. I'm saving up. For now the owner lets me stay in the bed of the pickup

unless he needs it for his manure hauling business.

[u4ic]

21. My only hope is

if someone is freecycling one...:rofl:

[Indy_Dem_Defender]

53. just curious

how much would that cost in Southern Cal?
$300,000

[liontamer]

23. I've posted it before, but here it is:

[GOPisEvil]

25. delete

Stupid picture. x(

[Squatch]

28. I've always wanted my own grotto

[liontamer]

31. but can you imagine the heating bill?

[Rhiannon12866]

46. I had a poster of this one on my wall when I was away at school.

I love this one, too. Beautiful, with spectacular scenery, but awfully large, LOL!:D

[Union Label]

51. I've been there

And you cant believe how big that place is!

[lizziegrace]

29. I'll take any of the ones you don't

Any of them would be perfect for me, as long as they're old and need caretakers rather than owners.

:)

[greatauntoftriplets]

30. This little Frank Lloyd Wright shack.

[Rhiannon12866]

48. I always particularly liked this one of his, Falling Water, but

yours is also pretty nice and much more practical, LOL!:D

[greatauntoftriplets]

56. Except mine doesn't have a waterfall....

But the upside is that it is only 1 1/2 miles from where I do live. :)

[Rhiannon12866]

57. No, yours doesn't, but there have to be certain disadvantages

at having a waterfall running through your house! Yikes!:D

Like winter, for instance!:wow:



Yours looks to be much more practical and you're very fortunate to be able to visit it, anytime you want...:-)

Rhiannon:hi:

[greatauntoftriplets]

64. You have a point about having a frozen waterfall under the house

<sighing>

And you're right, I can visit mine anytime I want. Maybe I should try to get acquainted with the owner. ;)

That house is on a great street in Oak Park, IL. Wright's house and studio are on one corner, then there are numerous houses he designed on the street. Maybe if I win big in the Lotto.

:hi:

[Rhiannon12866]

82. You are very fortunate! Yikes! Oak Park is the home of Frank Lloyd Wright!

There are at least 25 designs of his in this city, so you certainly have your choices.:-)

And I'd definitely cultivate the owner, LOL! If you can't live there, you can be an invited guest...:D

I really love your choice, and would like to just see it inside, though Falling Water is still my favorite, even though it might be sometimes inconvenient to live there...:-)

Rhiannon:hi:

[sendero]

77. I love..

.... this design, even if it weren't near falling water :)

[Rhiannon12866]

98. I agree. I love modern architecture.

And I think falling water, while it really is lovely, has to be a disadvantage, if you're the caretaker.:D

[Crabby Appleton]

32. something like this

[Crabby Appleton]

33. or this

[Jade Fox]

79. Nice.....

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[kiraboo]

35. This is my dream house. Unfortunately it's for sale, and I am

the current owner:
http://www.town-countryrealtors.com/mls/viewListing.php?mls=r%7D%7Cr%7Dt&table=resdent&string=next%3D1%26virtualTour%3D%26table%3Dresdent%26mls%3D%26city%3DBangor%26within%3D0%26beds%3D0%26baths%3D0%26minPrice%3D500000%26maxPrice%3D550000&mlsFind=1

It doesn't look like much from the outside but the inside is wonderful! Alas, it's too expensive to heat and the taxes go up by a thousand or two every year.

[Duncan Grant]

36. St. Joseph, MO?

I thought that last house in the OP looked familiar. I follow the properties on oldhouses.org myself. Small world.

As for my own dream house, a two-story Victorian here in San Francisco would suit me fine. Must have a large yard, city view and off street parking in either Noe Valley or the Castro. Oh, and it would be on a corner lot because those old houses need lots of light.

And anything on the upper east side of Manhattan (preferably near the Met) wouldn't suck. :)

[smirkymonkey]

39. Here's mine.....

An English Country Cottage....


A French Chateau...


A Villa in the Italian Lake District...

[tigereye]

70. ah I love those English cottages!

swoon.

or this

[Dude_CalmDown]

41. It's in Japan

Outside:



Inside:

[opiate69]

50. Is that the home of the guy who created the Gran Turismo games?

[Dude_CalmDown]

54. No but I'm sure he's visited. It's the Honda Collection Hall. - n/t

.

[alcibiades_mystery]

42. Brownstone, Park Slope, Brooklyn

[Rhiannon12866]

43. I always liked this one, when I took architecture (art history) in college

Schroder House, Utrecht, 1924.

[kwassa]

99. I lived in a house by this same architect, Gerrit Rietveld

Similar to this one, the exterior walls were white, purple, yellow and black.

In Ohio, originally commissioned by the head of the art department at oberlin College.

[Ava]

44. a place like this on the ocean

[LaraMN]

45. Something victorian and colorful,

with lots of garden space.

[LeftyMom]

47. I don't really have a pic

It's really not about the house for me, it's really more a dream of domesticity with the two people I love most.

[opiate69]

49. This one...

[Union Label]

52. An American castle with a great view

http://imageshack.us>

Hearst Castle.http://www.hearstcastle.org/

[Heidi]

55. I'd love to live in a Hundertwasser house.

[xchrom]

58. one word:

FABULOUS!

[Heidi]

60. You, sir,

have excellent taste. But we already knew that. :hug:

[tigereye]

74. those are so cool Heidi

esp. the one on the top. So colorful. I didn't know he did home design/architecture, I've only seen his prints.

How about a Gaudi house?

[LynzM]

80. Heidi, those are so neat!

I'm going to have to go google and learn about them!

[MrScorpio]

61. The Lovell Health House

You can see this house close up in LA Confidential

[Wcross]

63. I am in the planning stages on this home.

It is a passive solar design that uses ICF (insulated concrete form) construction. It uses the sun for supplemental heating in the winter. I am also planning on using solar water heating and supplemental solar power. I plan on using geo-thermal heating and cooling. My goal is to consume as little energy as possible.

http://www.sunplans.com/html/houseDisplay.php3?house=Windy_Corner

[LanternWaste]

65. Maybe more modest than most...

This is probably more modest than most people would want if they could live anywhere, but it's always been a favorite of mine. It's the Little River Lighthouse in Maine...





My first runner-up is completely fictional, but would be a great place to go home to after work and relax...

[liontamer]

67. I like your second choice

that seems like a lovely place to have second breakfast.

[LanternWaste]

75. "I don't think I know about second breakfast, Pip"

I've got no idea why, but you just tickled the stuffing out of me! :rofl: I've been de-stuffed!

There's at least 12 innuendo's, seven bad pun's and maybe one or to good jokes in hidden in that... but it's been a long day.

[Jade Fox]

78. That second one looks like the Hobbit houses....

in Lord of the Rings. I loved those.

[LanternWaste]

81. That's exactly what it is

That's exactly what it is. The kinda place to spend a relaxing evening in front of the fireplace with a good book after coming home from the Green Dragon.

(I'm not really a geek, but I was a fan of the books and the movies, too)

[City Lights]

68. Alrighty.

[Dukkha]

71. right here

so I can really get away from it all

[mwooldri]

73. In what? This perhaps?

Mark.

[StellaBlue]

90. Bwhahahahahaha!

HAHAHAHAHA!

:rofl:

[xmas74]

96. Depends on which Doctor I'm leaving with.

[Xipe Totec]

76. Fine...

Y'all are welcome to stay as long as you want.

[raptor_rider]

83. Just had mine moved in on Friday

A 2200 sq ft home, 4 bedroom, 3 bath. Den with a fireplace, family room, formal dining room and a huge kitchen. Not your typical mobile home either. Tile floors and counter tops, drywalled walls, porcelain sinks and Moen faucets. No cheesy mobile home crap. All top quality stuff in the home. Just can't wait!! Will be moving into it in a couple of weeks!!

After it is completely set up, the guys will put the siding back on. They took it off to prevent any damage during the move.


This side has the front door.


Pretty front door


Funny thing is, this was sitting in a holding lot that the foundation company has just down the road from our property. The day before it was moved, someone stole the back door off of our home. They took the door that wasn't really worth anything. My m-i-l paid almost $800 for the front door! Also that was the only thing that was taken, everything inside was left alone. We think something fishy is going on. We are waiting to see if it "Pops up" sometime soon.

[scoey1953]

84. so...um, can I have this???

[NewJeffCT]

85. Sure, why not? Can I have this then?

Where is yours, may I ask?

[scoey1953]

86. Would you believe...

Yes absolutely,
This is the Imperial Palace in Tokyo...its still nice though...



I would have it built on the Sausalito side of the San Francisco bay...

[NewJeffCT]

87. Seems kind of modest

for an Imperial Palace... but, since you were so modest in the picture thread, I guess it suits you.

[fudge stripe cookays]

88. This one...

Sadly, I can't! :cry:

The Amherst Wilder house in St. Paul-- one of those gorgeous Summit Avenue mansions was demolished years ago. Just the thought of it makes me sad and nauseous.

[greatauntoftriplets]

89. We had that happen in Chicago as well....

The above is the old Potter Palmer mansion that used to be on North Lake Shore Drive. It was demolished in 1950 to make room for a high-rise.

[fudge stripe cookays]

92. Fuckers!

I absolutely detest seeing gorgeous architecture destroyed. Especially to put up something as soulless and uninteresting as a freaking highrise.

I remember reading about the Potter Palmer. I think they discuss it in "Devil in the White City." Fascinating book.

[greatauntoftriplets]

93. I wish I had seen that house....but I was a baby when it was torn down.

Potter Palmer founded the Marshall Field department store and the Palmer House Hotel (now a Hilton) here. He and his wife, Bertha Honore, were quite the host and hostess of their era.

I should read "Devil in the White City". It has been recommended to me by someone whose recommendations are usually wonderful and just have not gotten around to acquiring it. But that was definitely the Palmer era. Heading out to the mall tomorrow, there MUST be a Barnes & Noble out there (new location, etc...) and I guess I will stop there.

[fudge stripe cookays]

97. Do it!

One of the best books I've read about Chicago history.

The best part being the juxtaposition of this beautiful incredible wonderland that Burnham and company were building, and the evil that was occurring behind the scenes that Holmes was creating. Absolutely amazing.

[Haole Girl]

91. It's in Kauai. I couldn't afford it even if I won the lottery, probably!

[xmas74]

94. Wish I could find a pic of this one.

You'd die. It's a bit similar to your bottom pic, maybe a bit smaller. It needs alot of work and there is almost no yard (in the oldest part of town). It needs work in the thousands for it to be livable (a friend estimated about $35,000 just to make it livable).

It's been on the market for years. Guess how much they want? $29,5000.

(BTW-I live in a college town and w/in an easy enough commute to KC. I'm thinking the place had to be a spot of a mass murder or something to be that cheap. No one has lived there the entire time I've lived in this town.)

[samsingh]

100. the white house is pretty nice.

[Ivan Sputnik]

101. This is my nightmare house

[Misunderestimator]

102. Here's our dream house:

This was taken just before we bought it this past winter :)