Dream Home

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KingAHolic

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What does yours look like?

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Grandpa

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I live in it. It's nothing special (except to much of the world), but it fits us and I like it. Big enough to fit the family, small enough to not be cavernous. Good flow for company. There are changes we've made, and probably will make as time goes on - but it's fine as is.
 

Walter Oobleck

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There's so many...though I'm comfortable where I'm at. I've worked on so many different homes and cabins...one I especially like is on the big lake, on the north shore, a kind of cove and that makes it as much as anything, location location location. This old lady lived there, summers...lives there...she's only about 92 but she drives up from downstate. Green metal roof on a number of buildings...heh! I put them there...the metal. some of the buildings are log...have a varnish and a patina on them. There's the smell of woodsmoke in the summer cabin and these old windows...still in place...are pretty cool. They have this antique hardware to make them open? Looks like something you're stick in a fireplace. So much of what makes a dream home a dream is what is inside...and has absolutely nothing to do...or very little to do...with the outside appearance. A window nook you can get comfortable in. A big table that seats a bunch. Comfortable chairs. Remote. Beer. Ice...
 

Grandpa

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The dream home. Should I be a dash of cold water on hopes and dreams?

That's actually my purpose in life.

I used to think of a dream home as an isolated cabin in the mountains. But then you have to shovel in the winter just to get anywhere. Once you get the car out of the drive, no guarantee that the roads are passable. If you do make it to the local grocery, it's three times pricier than in the city. Meanwhile, do you have reliable electricity, water, waste disposal, heat, phone, Internet?

Living on a lake, pond, or river. Lovely. Until the flood happens. Every lake, every river, floods. It's not a question of if. It's a question of when.

Living in isolation. It's wonderful. Then you cut yourself slicing your homemade bread. Or your dog has a seizure. Whatever. Or maybe this year's forest fire is on the other side of the ridge. Uh-oh.

You have a lovely fireplace in your place in the woods to keep you warm. Then you find yourself chopping down the trees that you love for firewood. Or even better, out here in the Rockies, the lovely lodgepole pine all around is dying from beetle kill, and you're in a fire hazard zone.

It's so trite but true: Home is where the heart is. In our middle-class abode, we have a place where the family likes to come, where friends can stay over, where we can have a few dozen people circulate nicely, and where, when everyone else is gone, we're comfortable for just the two of us. I don't know that it's heaven on earth, but it's pretty darn nice.
 

FlakeNoir

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The dream home. Should I be a dash of cold water on hopes and dreams?

That's actually my purpose in life.

I used to think of a dream home as an isolated cabin in the mountains. But then you have to shovel in the winter just to get anywhere. Once you get the car out of the drive, no guarantee that the roads are passable. If you do make it to the local grocery, it's three times pricier than in the city. Meanwhile, do you have reliable electricity, water, waste disposal, heat, phone, Internet?

Living on a lake, pond, or river. Lovely. Until the flood happens. Every lake, every river, floods. It's not a question of if. It's a question of when.

Living in isolation. It's wonderful. Then you cut yourself slicing your homemade bread. Or your dog has a seizure. Whatever. Or maybe this year's forest fire is on the other side of the ridge. Uh-oh.

You have a lovely fireplace in your place in the woods to keep you warm. Then you find yourself chopping down the trees that you love for firewood. Or even better, out here in the Rockies, the lovely lodgepole pine all around is dying from beetle kill, and you're in a fire hazard zone.

It's so trite but true: Home is where the heart is. In our middle-class abode, we have a place where the family likes to come, where friends can stay over, where we can have a few dozen people circulate nicely, and where, when everyone else is gone, we're comfortable for just the two of us. I don't know that it's heaven on earth, but it's pretty darn nice.
A home in the woods... in NZ. :biggrin2: (You can cut about half of your worries there...)
 

skimom2

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I live in it. It's nothing special (except to much of the world), but it fits us and I like it. Big enough to fit the family, small enough to not be cavernous. Good flow for company. There are changes we've made, and probably will make as time goes on - but it's fine as is.
It's funny that you said that, Grandpa--my first thought was my own home, too :) I thought we were fantasizing, though--lol. I like our little house: big enough for all of us, but not so big that we're rattling around.
 

KingAHolic

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It's funny that you said that, Grandpa--my first thought was my own home, too :) I thought we were fantasizing, though--lol. I like our little house: big enough for all of us, but not so big that we're rattling around.

You both are very lucky! We are NOT in our dream home (though, we are in a dream location!) --- maybe we can make it our dream home eventually.....