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One day I intend to build my own house.

Wiggy wants a games room at the back with a projector screen and beanbags. I want a pole studio and walk in wardrobe with an electric rail like she has in Clueless.

We both want a ball pit and a slide next to the stairs.

If you could build your own house, what would be a must-have?
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:34, 149 replies, latest was 16 years ago)
a goddamn proper recording studio
every time
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:36, Reply)
I already know what my house will be like
Reclaimed industrial space in London Bridge/Lambeth/Peckham.
must be tall becuase I'm going to build the living quarters on stilts above the workshop/gym.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:37, Reply)
sounds cool
make me a CAD drawing of every room so I can visualise.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:39, Reply)
No

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:58, Reply)
I second the ball pit and slide
My house would have to have secret corridors to link some rooms, and a pool with one side being glass, so you can see into the pool from a basement rec room.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:38, Reply)
At the last festival I went to there was a shed-sized box that people were paying a quid to go in
and they were just disappearing. Later on in the festival I discovered that there was a tunnel that ran through the woods to the other side of the festival. If anyone went in that tunnel on drugs it would have scared the bejesus out of them!
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:48, Reply)
That sounds trippy!

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:50, Reply)
A minstrels gallery.
Along with a spiral staircase, and a basement.

Edit: I forgot the big "Fuck off" sign at the front door.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:38, Reply)
I want a spiral staircase
I've always wanted one, I don't really know why.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:42, Reply)
They're a pain to carry anything large up
*remembers helping a friend to carry a wardrobe up a spiral staircase*
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:43, Reply)
There would be a hoist for that sort of thing.

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:45, Reply)
oh if there's a hoist I will definitely be having a piano on the first floor just so I can take a photo of it being hoisted up

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:47, Reply)
Just like the PG Tips ad.

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:07, Reply)
I suspect more like this:

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:13, Reply)
yeah that's what I was thinking of

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:14, Reply)
yeah that's true
I'd use the Wingardium Leviosa removal company.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:47, Reply)
depends
if it's in the country, then some ridiculously ostentatious towers, and possibly a moat (either kind) to keep the locals out

if in the city then I'd like to have a massive library
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:39, Reply)
Ooh I'd like to have a library, or just a general Quiet Time Room
with all my hobby stuff in it. I want a library that needs a ladder.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:42, Reply)
exactly
when I make my money (if ever) I'll pay someone else to interior design it for me. I'd just want a nice mix of old fashioned library/study and modern kitchens etc
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:45, Reply)
if only you knew someone who was doing a degree in interior design and would probably be finished by the time you're rich

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:46, Reply)
would that happen to be your subject by chance?

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:49, Reply)
oh look at that, it is!
:D
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:14, Reply)
proper wine cellar (ideally full of good wine)
and a kick-ass climbing wall
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:39, Reply)
and battlements (with weapons)
so i can chase away the jehova's witnesses and virgin media sales people
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:48, Reply)
I'm getting a new phone.
That's more interesting.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:39, Reply)
No it isn't.

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:42, Reply)
Stop sucking up to her she wont sleep with you.

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:42, Reply)
I want her to be awake.

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:44, Reply)
you're right, I'm so boring that I should just link news stories so I don't have to risk trying to engage people from my own imagination

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:45, Reply)
I'm interested in the real world,
you just spend your entire day dreaming of your imaginary house and imaginary lists of things you'll never do.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:46, Reply)
Is this just because you live in a cardboard box next to the canal?

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:48, Reply)
he can't afford waterside property.

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:49, Reply)
Haha
It will have to be by the tracks of the west coast main line then.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:51, Reply)
you're kind of a dick.

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:49, Reply)
So it's fine for you to insult my posting style but not the other way around?
typical
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:50, Reply)
ZING

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:59, Reply)
They spend a good proportion of the day mocking the fact I'm currently homeless
or calling me a rapist but get very upset if I say anything back.
I should start writing down their 'traits' for my innevitable flounce.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:01, Reply)
Where are you staying?
Parent's basement?
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:03, Reply)
Parents at the moment, I've got a viewing of a place tomorrow hopefully be moved by the end of the month.

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:05, Reply)
So last night you were playing WoW
in your parent's house?
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:07, Reply)
Yes, I got an epic world drop though
so it's not pathetic.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:09, Reply)
gz

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:10, Reply)
It's not that,
you call me a tart and such all the time which I don't take offence to, I don't mind forum banter. You just slag off everything but you don't often provide much of substance yourself and in this case you're being hypocritical by calling my post uninteresting. Srs bsns this internets.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:17, Reply)

kind of
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:53, Reply)
Does she ring you when she needs backup or something?

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:58, Reply)
yeah it's like the bat signal
only it's a silhouette of a pole dancer.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:18, Reply)
Kitty
Are you an attractive online girl?
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:00, Reply)
of course
have you not seen my rhino pictures? I give people the horn.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:18, Reply)
I haven't seen them

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:23, Reply)
That's probably for the best

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:25, Reply)
You're a bit of a dull shitcunt though
/ac
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:53, Reply)
HAHA
lolling at this
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:59, Reply)
i also want a spiral staircase

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:39, Reply)
Waterslide that you can add shower gel to with an industrial dryer at the bottom to save on boring showers
Games room full of pinball machines - no xbox allowed
Squash court
Screening room
Indiana jones cupboard outside to scare the postman
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:44, Reply)
Squash scares me
It's like tennis for mental people.

What's an Indiana Jones cupboard? That reminds me, I should add 'nuclear-bomb proof fridge'.

Someone put bubble bath in the fountain near the bar I dance in when it was really windy, it was raining foam upwards.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:46, Reply)
Its more fun than tennis, tennis is for wimps.
Everyone needs an indiana jones cupboard. Its a person size cupboard just outside your home that's riddled with huge spiders, earwigs and other insects that go mental when the door opens. Our postman used to leave packages in it if he couldn't be arsed to ring the doorbell. New posties were heard to stifle a scream when they put their hand in there.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:50, Reply)
ewww!
Shudder.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:51, Reply)
It's a cupboard that looks like Indiana Jones, silly.

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:50, Reply)
I would love that!

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:51, Reply)
Oh I love pinball machines
I want one, but they cost a fortune on eBay.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:49, Reply)
John Entwistle's 'Pinball Wizard' machine went for about 3.5k a few years back.

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:50, Reply)
My friend has one in his kitchen. It only gets switched on at parties because its so loud

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:50, Reply)
I went for a long weekend in Wales with loads of mates
And we stayed in an ace barn conversion. They had a Hook pinball machine that I played on a lot, even though it was fairly knackered (the right flipper was pissweak, and if you hit the ball into a top hole it'd often get stuck and you'd have to reset the game).
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:53, Reply)
I wanted one when I was a kid
so my dad made me one out of stuff he had lying around, it was brilliant.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:51, Reply)
I would rebuild my (now sadly demolished) family seat.
Must haves include tapestries, tasty weapons and TURRETS.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:46, Reply)

turrets stena stair lift
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:49, Reply)
I didn't know that ferry company also did stair lifts.

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:51, Reply)
damnit
you wiley old fox
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:52, Reply)
And MASSIVE DRUGS

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:51, Reply)
I will be racking out lines in the Great Hall using a claymore.

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:53, Reply)
Monty's House
Right here
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:54, Reply)
haha I wish.

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:14, Reply)

drum room
dojo
projector room
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:47, Reply)
Who are you going to wrestle with?

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:49, Reply)
wrestle?
I'm gonna fight visitors

to get to the fun rooms you must defeat me
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:51, Reply)
I'll fight you, but I'm not wearing the full sumo kit.

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:02, Reply)
naked fighting only

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:06, Reply)
I reckon you'd run first.

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:08, Reply)
towards you open armed

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:10, Reply)
GHOST BUSTERS!

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:52, Reply)
A room big enough to accommodate a full size snooker table
with a professional match quality snooker table.

One can dream.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:49, Reply)
The house I grew up in was put up for sale a few months ago
and in the dining room they've put a full size snooker table, I was like "why the hell didn't my parents think of that?"
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:50, Reply)
Maybe they weren't pikeys?

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:52, Reply)
I didn't think snooker was particularly pikey
It doesn't really go with the decor though:
www.athertons-uk.com/property/1643277
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:55, Reply)
Ok, for "snooker" read "billiards"
not so pikey now huh?
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:55, Reply)
In the dining room?
Yes, very pikey indeed.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:20, Reply)
The previous owners of my house knocked down the wall between my dining room and the living room
I could probably get a full size table in there, but there wouldn't be room for proper cueing action.

I also wouldn't have a useable living room or dining room.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:53, Reply)
I hate it when they have a pool table in a pub and it's so crammed in that you can't take proper shots from certain angles

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:56, Reply)
I once saw a pub pool table that was hexagon in shape and you could turn it around to play the shot
this was so it could fit in the corner. Very odd.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:59, Reply)
I want a Victorian style study
all dark wood, leather and bookcases full of hardbacks. Preferably with a bay window and definitely with a globe drinks cabinet.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:51, Reply)
good idea Monty

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:53, Reply)
Bugger off.
Globe drinks cabinet? Insufferably common.

Might as well put a red brick wishing well in the front garden and be done with it.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:55, Reply)
aww that sounds nice!

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:56, Reply)
Insufferably common?
I take extreme exception to that, sir. If it were good enough for the Reform Club, it will be good enough for me.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:58, Reply)
if it WAS good enough, Kroners old boy.

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:28, Reply)
I've put a lot of thought into this
my mrs is a chartered structural engineer and my bro and his wife are architects, which is a good combination of people to enable the building of a house.

It's going to be square, partly sunk into a hillside, with a courtyard in the middle of the square.

Must haves are:
Roof garden
Recording studio
Library
swimming pool
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:52, Reply)
Sounds awesome
that's the kind of thing I want, I looked in depth at the Huf Haus company. They don't deliver worldwide though and I'm hoping to end up in warmer climes.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:54, Reply)
they are cool
the mrs' godparents seriously considered one, but got turned down for planning (just outside Henley) because they fell out with one of the council people. the fools.

we've put a load of thought into construction methods and stuff as well. the mrs has to specify various floor systems and shit like that, so we will have a good range of stuff to call on when we eventually build it.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:55, Reply)
I love kooky houses, like the ones on dorknob.com or whatever it's called
the house boat article they did was breathtaking.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:57, Reply)
not seen that
sounds interesting

in other news: we've booked our wedding
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:59, Reply)
here it is:
dornob.com/design/architecture/houseboats/

Yay! Where is it? Do you have a link to the venue so I can nosey?
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:21, Reply)

Some of those look cool, but a lot look like they should come with hot and cold running croissants for the smug gits buying them.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:23, Reply)
I think most of them are concept houses
so they're probably not even sodding lived in.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:26, Reply)

Then my new concept is croissants on tap. With a hand-pump jam dispenser. it will be a SnackBathRoom.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:28, Reply)
I might hire a personal croissanter to make me a fresh plate of smugness every day

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:29, Reply)

I want a ham and cheese croissant sandwich now. But I just ate. Damn.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:33, Reply)
yer tis
www.olaves.co.uk/
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:29, Reply)
nice place.
So have you told her about us or are you just going to wait until the day and do a "what she doesn't know is that we've switched the bride! Let's watch".
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:31, Reply)
haven't decided yet
we've got a year and a bit to work out the details
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:32, Reply)
sweet, keep me posted

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:33, Reply)
will do

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:34, Reply)
I like the 'partly sunk into a hillside' bit
I want that, or a converted missle silo, or a castle.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:56, Reply)

Hobbit house. 'nuff said :D
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:02, Reply)
There are a lot of normal houses near me that are hard up against a hill side.
If I owned one, on day one I would start excavating a labyrinth.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:07, Reply)

Would day two be the creation of a human-cow hybrid to stalk around in it?
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:09, Reply)
I need somewhere to keep my son.

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:18, Reply)

Advance planning, I approve.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:19, Reply)

amazing kitchen - 3 ovens, 8 burner hob & loads of gadgets.
Golf course.
Karting track.
Cinema.
Cider on tap in every room.
Library.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:54, Reply)
Wiggy actually looked into how much it would cost to get coke, lemonade, etc on tap
I was surprised to find it's actually not that pricey, it's about £1k to install, but the post mix and bottled C02 is pretty cheap.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:59, Reply)
I quite like the idea of different drinks on tap in each room & naming the rooms after the drink available
"I'm going to the Guinness room for a nap"
"The cat's been sick on the Chablis room carpet"
etc.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:05, Reply)
A japanese style bathroom/wetroom
with a large bath made of cypress wood. Would probably have a tatami room as well, and a library.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:56, Reply)
A wetroom is a must
I love them. What's a tatami room? I'm too lazy to google.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:59, Reply)
It's a Japanese dining room
Where you kneel down to eat at low tables.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:01, Reply)
Japanese style flooring
traditionally made from rice straw woven into mats.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:03, Reply)
Dance studio, tree house in the garden
One of those massive double staircases in the entrance hall with medieval weaponry all over the walls.
Suit of armour.
Turret with a top floor study.
Huge reclaimed fireplaces.
Four poster bed on raised dias.
Widow's walk.
And I would instruct the architect to put hidden rooms and secret passages in but not tell me where they are so I could have hours of fun looking for them.

Essentially, I want to live in a castle.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:59, Reply)
from the sounds of things
everyone on /offtopic wants a castle
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:01, Reply)
except me, who has actually thought seriously about when he builds his own house

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:03, Reply)
I have srs house thoughts
But the child in me still wants that damn slide.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:22, Reply)
That's a great list!
I'll have one of those too, or failing that, invade yours.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:02, Reply)
You don't need to invade.
You can come visit and we'll have victorian tea parties. I'll teach my guard dogs to recognise your scent.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:30, Reply)
That sounds perfect!
I shall dress in my finest attire.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:37, Reply)
My family's castle has the spiral staircases going the opposite way from normal,
because we are predominantly left-handed. REPOSTED TRUFAX.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:26, Reply)
I've thought long and hard about this
and it has to be a Thunderdome
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:10, Reply)

You'd never be able to have your mates round, because for every two men that enter, only one man leaves. It's a vicious, bloodstained awesome spiral.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:22, Reply)
yeah but you could keep inviting round one mate and one guy you hate
until all that's left is people you like.

Then: deathmatch.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:23, Reply)

You don't get it. TWO men enter! ONE man leaves! If three go in, that breaks the RULES. We need the rules! Won't somebody think of the children? Because they're fighting next...
I'vehadtoomuchcoffee.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:25, Reply)
and what if the one you like loses
and you're left with nothing but cunts?
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:26, Reply)
Do that thing like he did in Gladiator
where you give the cunt a right good stabbing before he goes in.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:27, Reply)
this is all starting to sound a little bit too homoerotic to me

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:32, Reply)
'give the cunt a right good stabbing' sounds homoerotic to you?

(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:34, Reply)

"Two men enter!"
"One man spluffs!"
"BUMDERDOME!"
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:34, Reply)
I seriously came up with this when I was a kid: A Porno Slide.
It's a big bouncy vibrating slide, a mile long, that has loads of bouncy bits and texture changes, that you shag someone while going down, when you reach the bottom, a laying-down type escalator takes you back up to the top and drops you off at the slide. It has foam running down it.

I think I was about 8 when I came up with this idea.
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:27, Reply)

Your design genius peaked early, I see. It was all downhill from there. *getscoat*
(, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 13:30, Reply)
A tower
With a dome on the top, which functions as a chill-out room and also an observatory

Secret passages and rooms, including a tunnel that runs to a summerhouse. Preferably that would be sited on an island in a lake which the house looks out over

A fully-automated robotic warehouse, hidden behind "magic cupboards". So, when I put something in the cupboard, it gets taken to it's proper place in the warehouse. When I want it again, I simply request it on a touchscreen, and it arrives in the cupboard.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 11:35, Reply)

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