Building Your Dream House: How large would it be?

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DrPizza

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I'd rather have multiple smaller homes all over the country in areas I like to visit, than have one humongous house that I would rarely enter most of the rooms of.
Kitchen, pantry, living room, dining room, maybe a small breakfast room/sun room, home theater, bathroom, workshop, garage, office, bedroom. What the hell would I do with 20 more rooms?

To me, it's the lot that's more important. No one for 100 yards minimum in any direction.
 

skyking

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The place I live needs to be a personal space, comfortable. 16~20K is not either of those IMO.
I would prefer multiple buildings for that reason. The 60 x 60 hangar would have wood floors in it, so it could double as a huge dance hall. The runway is a straightaway for the track, etc.
The pool house would have two separate guest suites. The 10~12 car garage, same thing. Living space above for guests.
It would have a small attached garage for the current drives.
 

skyking

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I'd rather have multiple smaller homes all over the country in areas I like to visit, than have one humongous house that I would rarely enter most of the rooms of.
Kitchen, pantry, living room, dining room, maybe a small breakfast room/sun room, home theater, bathroom, workshop, garage, office, bedroom. What the hell would I do with 20 more rooms?

To me, it's the lot that's more important. No one for 100 yards minimum in any direction.
That's what I'm talking about! :)
 

Wordplay

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I would build a house that looks like it's only ~2k sq ft but build the bulk of the house underground. Have a full IMAX theater if possible, a couple of bowling lanes, my own underground garden, and a club room.
 

Kanalua

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and keep the rest of the money.
 

TridenT

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I would build a house that looks like it's only ~2k sq ft but build the bulk of the house underground. Have a full IMAX theater if possible, a couple of bowling lanes, my own underground garden, and a club room.

Because you just love living in basement like areas?
 

IndyColtsFan

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Well heck, if we're talking $100 million, I'd buy/build houses all over the world. A couple here in the states and a few in Europe too.
 

TridenT

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Wait, if we're not talking about having to spend the money and have nothing left over for ourselves then I would not even buy a fucking house...

I'd spend that $100 mil just vacationing and whatever I want around the world.
 

DrPizza

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Well heck, if we're talking $100 million, I'd buy/build houses all over the world. A couple here in the states and a few in Europe too.

Ahh, I see how you are. Pick other places that you have to FLY to. Tell us your real reason for houses all over the world - you just want to be felt up by the TSA employees. :p :awe: :biggrin:
 
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TridenT

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Ahh, I see how you are. Pick other places that you have to FLY to. Tell us your real reason for houses all over the country - you just want to be felt up by the TSA employees. :p :awe: :biggrin:

Maybe he'll get a private jet so he can get a different kind of TSA. :awe:
 

IndyColtsFan

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Ahh, I see how you are. Pick other places that you have to FLY to. Tell us your real reason for houses all over the country - you just want to be felt up by the TSA employees. :p :awe: :biggrin:

Hey, some of us like that "personal touch," if you know what I mean. :awe:
 

Terzo

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Wait, if we're not talking about having to spend the money and have nothing left over for ourselves then I would not even buy a fucking house...

I'd spend that $100 mil just vacationing and whatever I want around the world.

Fail. If you're going to do something like that, buy houses/apartments to rent. Split them up between areas with high demand; places like New York, LA, Philly, DC, etc. Hire a full time manager for each locale, and allow them to live rent free at the location as the perk. This person will take care of all local issues and repairs. Choose one location as your central office, where you'll have a general manager that everyone else reports to. Ideally this will be as hands off as possible, and simply a source of income for you. I'm no property manager, but I'd think that (given no mortgages) renting out 50+ (assuming 1-2 million purchase prices) abodes will bring respectable profits.

Then you travel.
 

Bateluer

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I live in a 1500sq ft house now. With a 100 million dollar budget, I'd probably go to around ~2500sq ft. Seeing as it'd just be myself living in it, should be plenty large enough. I'd want to send some of that 100m into the land the house is on, as well as decorating and furnishing the interior, solid utility units, etc.

Not very appealing to me to drop all the money into a home so large that you need to hire house keepers to maintain it, and meanwhile the property taxes on that kind of square footage would drain your coffers fast.
 

shortylickens

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I live in a 1500sq ft house now. With a 100 million dollar budget, I'd probably go to around ~2500sq ft. Seeing as it'd just be myself living in it, should be plenty large enough. I'd want to send some of that 100m into the land the house is on, as well as decorating and furnishing the interior, solid utility units, etc.

Not very appealing to me to drop all the money into a home so large that you need to hire house keepers to maintain it, and meanwhile the property taxes on that kind of square footage would drain your coffers fast.

Yup, thats how MC Hammer got killed. Built himself a 10 million dollar dream house and a couple years later he sold it at a huge loss just to help pay off some of his debts.
 

Bateluer

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I would build a house that looks like it's only ~2k sq ft but build the bulk of the house underground. Have a full IMAX theater if possible, a couple of bowling lanes, my own underground garden, and a club room.

Sounds like you should take a look at the converted nuke silo 'homes'.
 

TridenT

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Fail. If you're going to do something like that, buy houses/apartments to rent. Split them up between areas with high demand; places like New York, LA, Philly, DC, etc. Hire a full time manager for each locale, and allow them to live rent free at the location as the perk. This person will take care of all local issues and repairs. Choose one location as your central office, where you'll have a general manager that everyone else reports to. Ideally this will be as hands off as possible, and simply a source of income for you. I'm no property manager, but I'd think that (given no mortgages) renting out 50+ (assuming 1-2 million purchase prices) abodes will bring respectable profits.

Then you travel.

Lol, fail. I'd put like 50 mil in some form of magic that would gain interest, then use the 50 mil other for whatever the heck I want.

There is no way I would buy 50 homes and all that crap. Too much paperwork. Rather just live easy and free. I don't have to rely on anyone and I can just call my banker or broker or whoeverthefuck and be like, "yo, how's my munny?" "Iz alrite." "kewl bro, ttyl."

Then continue with my shiit.
 

Eli

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It probably wouldn't be that big overall. Assuming money was no issue, probably 5-6k square feet. Extensive indoor gardens.. lots of natural light. Ultra efficient windows, insulation. Solar, wind, and hydro if available. Off grid. Living roof, grey water recycling. Waste digester. Low voltage LED lighting. Extensive basement, larger than the footprint of the house, incorporating a large zombie apocalypse bunker with own water and power supply with redundant backups. Now that's what I call a home!

:thumbsup:
 

TridenT

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It probably wouldn't be that big overall. Assuming money was no issue, probably 5-6k square feet. Extensive indoor gardens.. lots of natural light. Ultra efficient windows, insulation. Solar, wind, and hydro if available. Off grid. Living roof, grey water recycling. Waste digester. Low voltage LED lighting. Extensive basement, larger than the footprint of the house, incorporating a large zombie apocalypse bunker with own water and power supply with redundant backups. Now that's what I call a home!

:thumbsup:

You're screwed if there is a drought with black skys and no wind.
 

Eli

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You're screwed if there is a drought with black skys and no wind.

Water sources would be multiple wells. Probably the most impervious to issues happening on the surface, depending on their source of course.

I want a piece of land with a water feature, preferably a decent sized creek(In real life). You can get a surprising amount of power from even a small creek.. It really adds up, since it's 24/7/365, while wind and solar especially are a fraction of that.

But yeah.. The zombie apocalypse bunker would, of course, serve other purposes. After reading through the thread, there are many things that I have forgotten. For example, I would want a garage that is probably twice the size of the house, so perhaps 10-12ksqft, with a couple of lifts, pits, etc.

I would want enough land for tens of thousands of feet in greenhouses.. With "green" heat in the form of a compost heat exchanger I've been wanting to design. Year-round harvest in the Willamette Valley... The more acreage, the better. A couple hundred would be nice. Biodiesel generators, with the oil crop grown on the land. Something useful and easy, like sunflowers perhaps. Fifty acres of sunflowers would yield you approximately 5100 gallons of sunflower seed oil... It would be good times.
 

xanis

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Okay, so I've rethought my original plan for a 3 bed, 2 bath house. I'm a man of simplicity, but that might be a little too simple with $100m burning a hole in my pocket. :p

4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms – master suite, 2 guest rooms, and a home office. I'd have a finished basement with a media room/man cave and a bathroom. I'd have two garages: An attached 3-car, and a detached multi-car of an undetermined number to store all of my toys. I'd spend a big chunk of my money on the property itself. I'm looking for some land that's close enough to town that I can get cable/fiber for internet, but far enough way that I can create a nice, fat buffer zone between me and any neighbors.
 

ElFenix

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i like urban living so my current plan, were i to win the lottery, is to build something that looks like a row of townhouses but is actually one house. so there'd be 3 or 4 garages, faux front doors, etc. in-ground infinite pool/large hot tub. probably 6000 or so sq. feet.

i'd probably have to build it so party walls and bath/kitchen facilities could be put up easily if i ever wanted to sell it. a bit too unique. though, i have a 100 million so f-it. what's a million bucks?