Describe your dream flat, whether it be an estate, loft, penthouse, beach-house, or barn.

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Eion Gordon
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I don't really like huge houses b/c they don't feel "homey" to me.... Ideal for me would be in a nice suburb w/ a larger wooded lot, prefer w/ a lake.....stone & stucco home, 5 bedroom, 4 bath, 4 car garage, & just decked out on the inside & out......top of the line everything.

then i'd like to have a second home on the beach & one in the desert & one in the middle of nowhere (like Montana or something).

a 4000 square foot loft at the top of the cosmopolitan (the resort being built between bellagio and citycenter) sounds pretty nice to me. so does a beachfront home in socal though.

honestly, i don't know what i'd do with a huge house. sure there's space, but i'm a cozy person, i kinda like my things nestled. a townhouse or rowhome should suit me fine. i can't see how people can fill up these mcmansions with crap. they have rooms they don't even use!!

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University of Utah Class of 2004
Georgetown University Class of 2006

I'm the exact same way...even if I could afford some 20+ bedroom home, I wouldn't b/c I like feeling cozy. 4-5 bedrooms would be MORE than enough.

hmm.. a townhouse in new york city would be really cool.

but my ideal house would be in the suburbs. a 2 story house with 5 bedrooms and 5.5-6 bathrooms. the outside would be of stone and brick. a gourmet kitchen with an island that opens into the family room that has vaulted ceilings. the backyard would have a big patio with a built-in pool and a hot tub. the garage would be a 3-car.

the whole thing with big houses is you have a room for everything. there's a quarter for the chef, theatre, gym etc... in the future i'd like an adirondack style home, wooden beam vaulted ceilings, 2 story great room, stone fire place. I wanna design it myself.

assuming you rake it in so you can afford a CHEF... hah... thinking realistically and not luxuriously i can make do with 3-4 bedrooms and a nice split basement (home theater on one side/dojo on the other)

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University of Utah Class of 2004
Georgetown University Class of 2006

I want a loft. It would be amazing to live in one in Manhattan. However, there are lot's of other great cities where I would be happy to live permanently. I really love exposed brick and clean lined furniture. I'm not crazy about the furniture this one has but I love the space itself.


I really like this look. I can't wait to get a loft.

i dont see myself getting a chef. not as someone on an abercrombie salary. as far as me and my gf go i'd be fine with us cooking w/e we need. she has a chef tho and crazy ass houses. in the end I still want something modest. besides a theatre/bar/chill area a few bedrooms and w/e space and a lot of room for cars. I like working with cars in my spare time so i'll need more room for that.

speaking of dojo, my friend is putting a boxing ring in his yard. it's gonna be badass.

my dream house would be a park avenue townhouse
but i'm coming back to the south to raise my kids (probably back to the 'ville) so a nice, old classic looking house there like the one JC posted in the other thread, or like this:

OMG! I been drooling over getting a loft as well...It just looks sooo freakin' cool in all those clothes ads, and you can pretty much go wild with design and layout(I might have to get a guy designer for that...I am no good with room designs)

The disappointing part, lofts are where the city is at...And the nearest one to me is Philadelphia...And it got no FiOS(fiber-optic internet) lol....But I am pretty sure....That living near the city...Idk...I would go out more...and stuff...lol

But yeah, other than that I would not mind having a pretty reasonably sized house...BUT! In a neighborhood....or at least a development...where...idk...something like seeing a person outside is something....common....
Because some of these more expensive developments are SHIT BORING....It is like a freakin' ghost town...You don't see annnnnnyone anyyyywhere....Just so depressing and boring...It's like for $500k+ I rather have neighbors that say hi to me in the morning or something...Or just like...the whole community feel...And finally....NO RETARDED RESTRICTIONS...Like having certain color curtains....Grass being a certain length...Why yes, I know it's nice to have a nice looking development...But if you are going to get fined for not doing so...Idk...The development is already boring as crap...these restrictions are not making it any better place to live...

Basically, either a nice house in a nice...alive....neighborhood....

Or...the good ol' nicely sized loft in a pretty nice area...where for example I am able to park a...say a porshe..and not worry about it being vandalized or stolen.

But yeeeeah...lofts....wow, damn nice nowadays...

i've partied in lofts and thats all they're good for imo. theyre convinient in the city and you get a lot of people, entertain, drink, go out and there's stuff to do nearby all the time. but as far as a family goes i also think a house is better and so is a warm community especially for kids

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I grew up in an area directly outside the city--it was sort of a suburb but sort of not a suburb--I consider it to be a suburb with urban traits (sidewalks, stores within walking distance of homes, a park that was one block from my house, etc). Feet were enough to take me anywhere and for longer trips a bike would be fine. It was also very close to a more modern business district...I was about 7 minutes from the mall by car. There were a lot of bus routes around the area too.

The house I lived in wasn't big. It wasn't a shack but it had three relatively small bedrooms, one medium-sized living room, a really tiny kitchen, and a nice size yard in both the front and back. The backyard was great for badminton and Whiffle-Ball® games. We had a patio installed back there too so there was a nice bricked area that was separate from the grass area, which was also a good place to work on soccer skills. Part of the basement was relatively unfinished yet we had a "game room" put in down there that was completely done. (The same thing was done at my new house, except to the full room; I now live in my basement).

The only downfall was that the garage was a single car unit, meaning that one had to be on the street or sitting on an area next to the driveway that the people who bought the house created by taking out this big old pine tree. They also got rid of my favorite crabapple tree in the front...

I'd describe the neighborhood as a good mix of blue and white collar workers. The guy next door to me was a blue collar guy but the family a few doors down was white collar. The mix included everything from car mechanics to businessmen to nurses to retired engineers. The park, as I said, was a block from my house and had a bunch of baseball fields, a playground, a basketball court, tennis courts, a football field, and a concession stand where I used to get gum for a nickel all the time. The shops that were really close included a hardware store, a convenience store, an aquarium (for buying fish), a bank, a barber shop, an old-fashioned tavern, a DQ (my favorite), a pharmacy that is simply that (not a mega-size drug store), and after I moved they put in a pizza shop. There were also three churches up there--two Protestant and a Catholic--and the elementary school, junior high, and high school were all easily accessible. There was even a fire station right on the main drag and you could hear the siren all around the town.

If you walked a little further down the road you could get to a deli, a bunch of fast food places (chains like McD's and Wendy's), a bigger drug store, K-Mart, more banks, a grocery store, a hair salon, and offices. The police station was also down this way.

On the other end of the road was what they used to call the "gateway to the country". Now it's the "gateway to mega-sprawl suburban yuppieville". You know when you've left the area--the road goes to four lanes and suddenly you're surrounded by soccer moms in Escalades.

I'd give anything to move back there. It's urban life without the problems of cities in today's society. I'm not a fan of the suburbs past that point since things are too spread out--there's not quite a good sense of community out there plus some of the aforementioned soccer moms can be sort of snobbish, or so I've found. The taxes and properties are also less expensive, meaning I can pay off grad school quicker.