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Dreamhouse

  • 26-01-2009 02:21PM
    #1
    segasega
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 785 ✭✭✭


    This is my first thread in here so go easy on me if this has been done before.

    I recently bought a house and talking with some friends jokes about bars,bowling allys etc being put in our house went around.

    Just wanted to know what mad ideas you had in your heads when buying a house or ones you might of had as a kid about things you would make/have in your house?


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  • #2
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,073 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    A bomb shelter. Seriously.

    I'd like one to get away from the rest of the world for a few days every so often.
    No tv, radio or internet. Just me, a few books and some beans.

    This would be underneath the house I build when I win the lotto.


  • #3
    Puddleduck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Puddleduck


    My house should be made of lego, that way I can extend it myself if ever I need to, no builders! However, much of my furniture and decorations will have to be square.

    That or a house made of sweets...and a good few crazy dogs out front to keep the kids away


  • #4
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    A sexy lady room, full of sexy ladies being sexy....

    ...and a sex swing.


  • #5
    segasega
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 785 ✭✭✭segasega


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    A sexy lady room, full of sexy ladies being sexy....

    ...and a sex swing.


    That would be a very very very fine house.


  • #6
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,647 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    A friend has a house with a swimming pool in the basement. The problem is that when you heat the pool the entire house gets damp with condensation and because the pool is in the basement it gets no direct heat during the summer. If he wants to swim he has to wear a wetsuit. Not exactly the look he intended when he was planning on inviting the ladies to his pool parties.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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  • #7
    galah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭galah


    proper insulation.


  • #8
    Holsten
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


    A games room/bar, which is quite possible to do.

    And I'd be happy as larry.


  • #9
    Mingey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 432 ✭✭Mingey


    Warm, solar powered, triple glazed, bright, wood features with lots of trees etc in the garden and an aga in the kitchen.


  • #10
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,073 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Mingey wrote: »
    Warm, solar powered, triple glazed, bright, wood features with lots of trees etc in the garden and an aga in the kitchen.
    Would you live there with Gary?


  • #11
    Puddleduck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Puddleduck


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    A sexy lady room, full of sexy ladies being sexy....

    ...and a sex swing.

    Imagine explaining that one to the parents when they come round to visit
    'Er its for potted plants ma'

    Actually Id love one of those houses with a huuuuuuuge library and secret passages all over the place.


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  • #12
    Mingey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 432 ✭✭Mingey


    julep wrote: »
    Would you live there with Gary?


    NooOOo. Gareh duzzent lahke Mingeh, Gareh wants to stay wiv Oprah.


  • #13
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,755 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    One of these
    http://www.huf-haus.com/gb/intro.html

    On big grounds surrounded by a big fence to keep out all the riff-raff/sales people/ religious nuts/ revenue:D


  • #14
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,755 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    ...and a sex swing.

    I read that as sex wing first. LOL a whole wing of a house devoted to sexy ladies:pac:


  • #15
    5starpool
    Subscribers Posts: 32,937 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    Instead of a room that had a bed, I'd ideally like a room that WAS a big bed essentially. One huge room sized matress with loads of pillows and quilts in there. If I could combine this idea with post #4 I don't think I could be happier really.

    Barring that, a sitting room with a double decker couch for shared houses is something I have contemplated in the past.


  • #16
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    I'd like a house like Mingey's and totally off-grid (not impossible with a little bit of money).

    Huge library, small cinema, games room, big big garden with lots of trees and a walled vegetable and fruit garden.


  • #17
    Das Kitty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,231 ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    Secret passages and hiding places were what I would have liked when I was a kid. Heck I'd still love them. I wouldn't mind a full size snooker table as well, although I can't play for toffee.


  • #18
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    there was a website that was selling abandoned american missile bases from the 50-60's. That would be pretty sweet.

    But I want a castle


  • #19
    segasega
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 785 ✭✭✭segasega


    Bambi wrote: »
    there was a website that was selling abandoned american missile bases from the 50-60's. That would be pretty sweet.

    But I want a castle

    Stephen Fry met the people who ran that company in America. Mad idea. But cool....in a odd way.


  • #20
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,073 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    segasega wrote: »
    Stephen Fry met the people who ran that company in America. Mad idea. But cool....in a odd way.
    Saw that alright.
    They said companies were buying them to use for data storage in case there's another 9/11 type crash.

    I'd definitely buy one of them if I could.


  • #21
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,775 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    This one


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  • #22
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 11,928 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'd love a bathroom that was actually an exotic garden, complete with waterfall shower and sunken jacuzzi rock pool and glass ceiling to watch the night sky from.


  • #23
    truecrippler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,243 ✭✭✭truecrippler


    5starpool wrote: »
    Instead of a room that had a bed, I'd ideally like a room that WAS a big bed essentially. One huge room sized matress with loads of pillows and quilts in there. If I could combine this idea with post #4 I don't think I could be happier really.

    Barring that, a sitting room with a double decker couch for shared houses is something I have contemplated in the past.

    Ha, that was one of my idea's also. Would be so cool. I'd never get out of it.


  • #24
    Mingey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 432 ✭✭Mingey


    Moonbaby wrote: »
    I'd love a bathroom that was actually an exotic garden, complete with waterfall shower and sunken jacuzzi rock pool and glass ceiling to watch the night sky from.


    Sounds good, but you would want to be able to open up the window when you are nice and warm in your pool, otherwise it would be all steamed up.


  • #25
    Bijoux
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,008 ✭✭✭Bijoux


    http://www.shraheenhouse.com/Images/muckross_house_small.jpg

    OR

    http://www.piazzatravel.com/images/Ireland/Ashford%20Castle.jpg
    5starpool wrote: »
    Instead of a room that had a bed, I'd ideally like a room that WAS a big bed essentially. One huge room sized matress with loads of pillows and quilts in there.

    Oh yeah, you gotta have that.


    And a room, with Christian Bale in it.

    And a room thats basically a bouncy castle with loads of funky lights.

    And an underground paintball maze.

    I could live with that. :D


  • #26
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,948 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    I just want a room to house a full size snooker table and flanked by a well-stocked bar accompanied with a personalised neon sign reading "Docbox'".


    Or maybe "The Blue Oyster."

    Large flat screen TV and wall mounts for me guitars in the room too.


  • #27
    orestes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭orestes


    A treehouse in the woods in the mountains, miles away from anyone but with plenty of space for books.

    One day I'm seriously gonna build it and go live like a hermit


  • #28
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Make the gaff multi-story with a big water slide that went from the top room round and round the house to the bottom. Like that ad where the lad hops in the water slide in the office and heads home.

    Also +1 for an underground bomb shelter.


  • #29
    00112984
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,600 ✭✭✭00112984


    Remember the cartoon Ducktales where Scrooge McDuck had this huge vaulted room with all his money in it and he'd spend all day swimming through the notes? I'd love a room with a shoe-wearing duck swimming through cash.


  • #30
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Panic/Safe room. Its a pain once in a while (4/6 months) having to restock some items but heck, kids will be safe.


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  • #31
    Davidius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,893 ✭✭✭Davidius


    Justice League Watchtower.


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