If you were given all the means and money you needed to build your perfect dream house?

it would look like this!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41705000/jpg/_4...

OR like this!

http://www.curee.org/architecture/gallery/images/d...

Boy...You have no idea how much I've thought about that question. We bought 22 acres about 7 years ago and built a tiny "mother in laws" house with plans to build a bigger home at a later time.

We own two contracting companies, Natural Stone Fabrication and the other w/ a contractor's license does installations. We also own a nice Italian Restaurant.

Need I say what the housing crisis has done to our contracting companies...ditto with the restaurant because NO ONE is spending right now.

I would just build a one level three bedroom, three bath home with a huge backyard for the kids. Right now the kids share our bedroom and it's horrible. Our wood fence blew down during the Santa Ana's and we don't have the money to re-build it. I can't get a break from these kids to save my soul. I even had Mike cut my hair because it's too much of a hassle to get someone up hear to babysit for an hour to get my hair cut. YOU SHOULD SEE MY HAIR! OH MY LORD!

*roflmao* I don't know if that's maniacal laughter or the laughter of lost causes!

I would love a house like I saw on TV once, about 1/3 of the house was visable outside, the other 2/3's was built right into the side of the mountain. It was solar and wind powered and the design fit in so well from even a short distance you would never know there was a house there were it not for the three windmills. Water came from a underground natural stream. Of course you would have to have not only a four wheel drive car, in winter you would need some real good snowmobiles and of course access to the vehicles and garages from inside of the house. You also needed a cb radio as phone service could be questionable during storms. The property would be well fenced and posted, trespassers will be shot, survivors shot again and remains left for the wildlife.( jk but it would be tempting.)

It would be right where I am now, overlooking the river. It would have a taller foundation to withstand times of flooding. It would be wider with all windows across the back to view the river. It would have a larger screened porch and upstairs bedrooms enough so all my grandchildren could spend time here. It would have a large enough living and dining room to accomodate my BIG family for get togethers. The fantasy part would be that those large rooms would fold in to smaller proportions when not in use to cut down on cleaning and to be cozier when it is just me and my dog. I would also fill in the low lying parts of my yard and plant more grass. The way it is now the greenest stuff in my lawn is weeds!

We are working on building it now. It is not the most beautiful or largest but it is just right for us. We have Location location which is nice although to get all 3 locations it would need to be near water. We plan on putting in a small fish pond by the deck though.

It is a cabin style house on 20 acres and trees and privacy.

means money needed build perfect dream house

I would live in some obscure part of the world. Maybe Switzerland, in the deep countryside or wooded area.

I would have a beautiful, large log cabin/cottage type of home, with a well, and a private lake and a greenhouse and a farm. I'd start living off the land. Of course, I'd keep a nutritionist and herbalist and professional farmer on call for questions and/or help. :)

Solar panels for heat, no electricity, we'd live by candle light. I guess maybe I'd like a phone or laptop to keep in touch with family....

I'd have all kinds of animals, but not for food. A cow for milk, a goat for fun, and of course, horses, for my carriage because of course we'd have no car.

Ahhhh....the hippie life.....

It would look like a beautiful ranch house inside and out!

It would be in the desert southwest..on a mesa.

And I would own at least 50 miles in all directions, and I will be able to see all approaches- 1 Known way in - 1 known way out.(notice I said 'known')

It would have it's own water supply, electricity- completely out of the grid.

It would extend under ground also.

I want to see them comming.

(I wonder) Does anybody know if Area 51 is for sale yet???

It would have 4 or 5 bedrooms, a dining room, living room, library, 4 bathrooms and a sunroom. it would also be self-cleaning house.

it would have solar panels, and it would collect rain water and use that for the garden that I'd like to have. it would be nice to have one of them windmill thingys to help with the electricity and stuff.

the driveway would have heaters underneath it so I wouldn't have to shovel the dang snow every day in the winter.

I'd own a goat or two to help keep the grass trimmed, I'd have some outdoor cats to keep the mice away. I'd have some chickens to provide me with eggs and meat after they got bigger.

I would have Russell Crowe design my dream home for me. He designed and built the chapel for his wedding in Australia. It would be somewhere on the coast of Northern California where no landslides could happen. Something along the lines of Tor House built by Robinson Jeffers and his wife Una by Carmel would do just fine. Built of stones....perfect!

I wouldn't want to build one . There is a place near me called " The Square" and another where I grew up called " Shadyside" .. I would rather have the money and restore and older home . I'd take anyone of those houses !