Ok, so a few months ago I got my first house. It's a good size, and it's got a decent sized yard. For the past few months I've been forced into fembot servitude as my effete-half has made me paint stuff stupid rainbow colors, patch holes, move furniture around, and other non-awesome chores.
Now, however, I've finally got time to begin my plan of turning this ho-hum piece of real-estate into the most incredibley gaudy, garish, and generally spectacular mansion a 14-year-old could imagine. I may have grown older, but my emotional level still makes me giggle at the word clitoris, and spending a weekend building a snow fort is my idea of time well spent.
I really need to have some kids soon so I can have an excuse to buy an adult-sized snowsuit...
Anyway, I need ideas! The house has 2 main floors, a full attic, and a pretty grimey basement that I have to hunch over in. So far, I'm thinking:
Attic will be my lab. I want to put in a fume hood, have lots of room for glassware and chemicals, and fire/corrosion-proof most of the area I'm working in. I don't want my stinkbomb concoctions eating through the floor, after all! The other half of this area will be for my electronics junk -- I figure I can use the fume hood for soldering, too.
Second floor: In the main living area of the house, my wife has confined me to one room on the second floor, and I only got that concession because I wasn't planning on doing anything batshit crazy with it. I want to turn it into a Greek-themed library (I have stacks of books everywhere). Ideally I want to have some sort of optical-illusion type effects incorporating murals on the walls to make it look as though you've stepped into the middle of some ruins, say at Ephesus. e.g., the ceiling will be blue with white clouds, walls will show various sorts of landscape views, etc. Not sure how I'm going to accomplish that, though, since even my stick figures are about as aesthetically pleasing as michael j. fox's autograph.
Basement: Ok, here's the BIG project. I have to hunch over to walk through the basement (it doesn't help that I'm 6'5"), and it's also too small for all the stuff I've got, so I'm thinking of actually ripping out the floor and digging the cellar a couple feet deeper. While I'm at it, I was thinking of actually extending the basement out under the back yard to give me more room (about 40x40 ft, maybe). I'd get lots of extra space, and I wouldn't lose any lawn. Plus, the area could use some fill/leveling, so I wouldn't even have to pay for the excavated dirt to be hauled away.
Misc: The house has two chimneys. One of them isn't even used anymore (it's an old house, and I think the unused chimney was originally just for the kitchen oven). I've been thinking it'd be pretty cool to tear it out (which needs to happen anyway, as its in bad shape, and paying for an unused chimney to be repaired would be useless) and instead of just patching the holes it leaves, I'd install a fireman's pole. So I can hop on in the attic and drop straight down to the cellar. Epic win!
Now, however, I've finally got time to begin my plan of turning this ho-hum piece of real-estate into the most incredibley gaudy, garish, and generally spectacular mansion a 14-year-old could imagine. I may have grown older, but my emotional level still makes me giggle at the word clitoris, and spending a weekend building a snow fort is my idea of time well spent.
I really need to have some kids soon so I can have an excuse to buy an adult-sized snowsuit...
Anyway, I need ideas! The house has 2 main floors, a full attic, and a pretty grimey basement that I have to hunch over in. So far, I'm thinking:
Attic will be my lab. I want to put in a fume hood, have lots of room for glassware and chemicals, and fire/corrosion-proof most of the area I'm working in. I don't want my stinkbomb concoctions eating through the floor, after all! The other half of this area will be for my electronics junk -- I figure I can use the fume hood for soldering, too.
Second floor: In the main living area of the house, my wife has confined me to one room on the second floor, and I only got that concession because I wasn't planning on doing anything batshit crazy with it. I want to turn it into a Greek-themed library (I have stacks of books everywhere). Ideally I want to have some sort of optical-illusion type effects incorporating murals on the walls to make it look as though you've stepped into the middle of some ruins, say at Ephesus. e.g., the ceiling will be blue with white clouds, walls will show various sorts of landscape views, etc. Not sure how I'm going to accomplish that, though, since even my stick figures are about as aesthetically pleasing as michael j. fox's autograph.
Basement: Ok, here's the BIG project. I have to hunch over to walk through the basement (it doesn't help that I'm 6'5"), and it's also too small for all the stuff I've got, so I'm thinking of actually ripping out the floor and digging the cellar a couple feet deeper. While I'm at it, I was thinking of actually extending the basement out under the back yard to give me more room (about 40x40 ft, maybe). I'd get lots of extra space, and I wouldn't lose any lawn. Plus, the area could use some fill/leveling, so I wouldn't even have to pay for the excavated dirt to be hauled away.
Misc: The house has two chimneys. One of them isn't even used anymore (it's an old house, and I think the unused chimney was originally just for the kitchen oven). I've been thinking it'd be pretty cool to tear it out (which needs to happen anyway, as its in bad shape, and paying for an unused chimney to be repaired would be useless) and instead of just patching the holes it leaves, I'd install a fireman's pole. So I can hop on in the attic and drop straight down to the cellar. Epic win!
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