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If I could have my cake and eat it when it comes to homes, I would love a log cabin somewhere in the Canadian Shield. It would look something like this inside:
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in a setting something like this:
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What would yours be like?
It's got no telly.
IHN - MemberIt's got no telly.
Yeah, can you imagine? Furniture wildly pointing in all directions, I can't handle that level of chaos.
Dare I say it, perhaps you CAN have too much wood in your home?
Looks like the 70s have vomitted in a warehouse.
I'd like a certain 16th century farmhouse with views over the coniston fells. It might even happen.
For me, something like this
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It's got the classic look of the usual Alpine Chalets, but it's been modernised - it's also got a Telly 😉
It would be a lotto win for me though, and I'd probably on stay there during the School Hols, I don't care for skiiing and hate the cold.
I'd like an Apartment in Barcalona and something more 'normal' back home in Cardiff - I've managed to travel alot, but all things considered I really like where I live.
Dream house 2
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Dream house 1
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I always liked The Fall Guy's cabin type place in California with hot chicks cigars and an outdoors hot tub.
I like the location, SaxonRider, but I'm afraid I don't like the house. I'd take one in Seeded with a similar setting but cool Scandinavian design and perhaps more insulation.
I'd also have an Edwardian house in the Welsh hills, and a modern flat in London. Or maybe an older one somewhere like Marylebone.
But maybe for Wales instead of the Edwardian house I'd buy some forest and design my own dwelling based on earth covered connected pods arranged around a central quad that was itself covered with a canopy and had a big fire in the middle. Quad would have furniture and comfortable stuff and dry, but still outside.
If I cant have The Fall Guys cabin, could I have clint eastwoods house from play misty for me?
P-Jay. Hah! I know that one, I can see it from my hovel 🙂
Dream house by a Canadian lake? Midgie heaven, surely?
I'm guessing you have no children then 🙂
Dream house by a Canadian lake? Absolutely. If you can't handle the mosquitoes, then you have to paddle out farther from shore. Or bathe in DEET. Either way, the suffering is worth the experience.
@leffeboy: What do you mean?
But maybe for Wales instead of the Edwardian house I'd buy some forest and design my own dwelling based on earth covered connected pods arranged around a central quad that was itself covered with a canopy and had a big fire in the middle. Quad would have furniture and comfortable stuff and dry, but still outside.
I spoke through plans like this with an architect a number of years back, for a beautiful spot near Mitchelldean in the eponymous forest. Alas, the idea was mooted out of hand by the council.
Absolutely. If you can't handle the mosquitoes, then you have to paddle out farther from shore.
It's the blackflies you really want to watch out for. Hateful things, can utterly ruin your clothes with the blood stains. Deer flies are vile too, but fewer of them.
Something like this..
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With an interior something like this..
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Somewhere like this..
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Sadly for me I don't have anything like it , I'm a little bit depressed by that fact if I'm honest. 😥
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Nice, Drac.
I always liked that house from the end of minority report, but I'm not sure what that says about me as a person
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Frank Lloyd Wright. Good one.
No-one better.
Something compact and bijou overlooking the Mawddach Estuary, hopefully before the end of next year.
No-one better.
Except Corbusier.
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Nah.
Christ is that a 1960s public library? That's horrid.
This'll do me
http://search.knightfrank.co.uk/edn150030
Edit..... if I win the euromillions tonight
http://search.savills.com/list#/r/detail/gbedruedr150044
Christ is that a 1960s public library? That's horrid.
Which is testament to a building designed and built 40 years earlier. And there's no accounting for taste either.
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A snip at £17.5m.
456 hectares, pheasant and partridge shooting, chalk stream trout fishing, and a good income from the land and estate houses. Tidy.
That's the sort of thing the Beckhams would buy, isn't it?
And there's no accounting for taste either.
Evidently not it's awful.
No house with children is ever that clean and uncluttered. It's Heisenberg's second principle@leffeboy: What do you mean?
Bikebouy, my grandparents old place is just to the left of that view and the former father in law of my old boss to the right, nice place Tregothnan.
The next inlet upstream is nice and quiet, with a bit of cheeky riding in the woods.
It would have to be a fire lookout for me. Hidden Lake fire lookout in Washington state
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The view isn't too shabby on a clear day/night
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I need water, with the sun setting over it. Sea or lake doesn't really matter. And space- couple of garages, room for machines and cars in bits and all that, room to do stuff and hoard stuff. Old stables or barn would be ideal. And trees, big old trees. But other'n that I'm pretty easy. If I could take Ardvorlich Cottage and its grounds from near lochearnhead, and drop it by the shore of Windermere, just north of Bowness, I reckon that'd do.
Mine would be a cosy little stone house like the one I live in (maybe slightly bigger), but by the sea.
One with no too many neighbours.
A couple of garages/workshops.
Mainly the dream part would be for it to be paid off so i can get on with living life.....no desire to live in a massive house somewhere special.
Not sure I could live here all the time - no popping out to the shops if its too cloudy as the helicopter can't fly.
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Lovely place if you get the chance to visit - [url= http://battleabbey.ca/ ]link[/url]
Id want a small remote castle somewhere in scotland. sadly that fails my wife's requirement of being able to walk to the nearest Co op which shackles me to leaving in suburbia
Definitely something next to the sea with amazing views and walks direct from the house. Also privacy issues mportant too. Finally location, location, location, so Cornwall for me!
When I retire, it'll be a nice alpine apartment for the winter and a decent camper for the summer.
Stone house - check.
Virtually no neighbours - check.
2 x barns - check.
Stone old cottage/garage/workshop with bread oven - check.
Pottage - check.
Woodland - check.
Lakes nearby - check.
Climbing nearby - check.
Trails nearby - check.
Just waiting for the kids to be out of secondary school and I'll be there fulltime.
All for less than 20% of a 3 bed semi down here.
[I]One with no too many neighbours.
A couple of garages/workshops.
Mainly the dream part would be for it to be paid off so i can get on with living life.....no desire to live in a massive house somewhere special. [/I]
This is what we have.
Steading (originally a threshing mill and cattle courts) in a small Scottish Borders hamlet of 1/2 dozen properties but only a 1/2 mile walk (up a single track road) to the local village/town with a decent coop.
We've outbuildings and enough space/garden plus no neighbours on our side of the road so the dogs can roam into the surrounding fields/woods.
And I can ride straight out onto trails plus can actually off-road all the way to any of the Tweed Valley trails (Glentress, Innerleithen, Golfie, Thornielee and Yair) 😀
We've spent the last 4 years renovating it, and there's probably enough work to keep me going for the next 4 years.
There's one little cottage in Crummackdale I've coveted for a long time - southwest facing, BW goes past the front door, little garage workshop and walled garden.
Well out of my price range though...
I'd want to redecorate, but this is pretty close;
https://www.realtor.ca/Residential/Single-Family/16984167/230-Mountainview-Drive-Nelson-British-Columbia-V1L0A7
Could probably live with this too;
My OH's family farmhouse in the Goierri, Basque Country. Sadly neglected, none of the siblings or cousins willing to take it on. The land is rented out to sheep farmers but the building is in disrepair. Just need to think of a plan.
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On the side of the Sierra de Aralar
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This in town
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And this in the country
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I know somebody who lives in a house like that (the kitchen/utility/boot/boiler room/outhouse is twice the size of my flat) and they end up in a room just by the kitchen with a huge telly in it. The rest of the house is just somewhere you have to heat and only gets used at Christmas when the extended family comes to stay. It's too big unless you fill it with servants and a huge family.
The only house I covet belongs to some clients of mine in Friday Street near Dorking.
They started building it in 1966 but only finished it about 5 years ago. It still has the 60's Scandinavian decor focused on a massive woodburner that originally provided all the heating and hot water. Solar and ground source have now been added.
I got snowed in there one evening and they couldn't get out of London. It was very spooky!
Location is everything though. I'm currently looking for somewhere in the mountains to build a small gaff with a view, with no neighbours but a short ride to civilisation...
The one on the upper right of this photo..
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hammyuk - MemberStone house - check.
Virtually no neighbours - check.
2 x barns - check.
Stone old cottage/garage/workshop with bread oven - check.
Pottage - check.
Woodland - check.
Lakes nearby - check.
Climbing nearby - check.
Trails nearby - check.
We've got that, just a bit lacking in trails so will have to make our own and no climbing that I'm aware of. The MacGillycuddy's Reeks are about 10-15 minutes away but I think they're more hiking.
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Our's is the one bang in the middle of the photo in the trees.
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I like Edinburgh. I have my own flat in the town centre that's fully paid up so costs me nothing more than utilities to live here. It's nice enough, not gonna get in any design awards websites but I like it.
In a sense, that was my dream - to have somewhere free to live and it worked out.
Fantasy land though... I'd like one of the big houses up the back of Edinburgh near Blackford Hill. Big old mansion houses with gardens and garages etc. Not a lot of space or direct outdoor access at my flat. Or something with a tower or a copper dome. There are some of them in Churchill between Marchmont and Morningside.
This copper roofed one: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Church+Hill,+Edinburgh+EH10+4BQ/ @55.9325749,-3.2052646,3a,75y,98.86h,90.09t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sM68Lpp1NGqT13KWlDQDuUg!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DM68Lpp1NGqT13KWlDQDuUg%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D137.884%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x4887c70c91875b6d:0xc4c5a5a349ce8bc3!8m2!3d55.9323239!4d-3.2068285
or spin 180 degrees round and this one with the tower. Has a wee chair up there to read in, amazing.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/ @55.9327107,-3.2052384,3a,75y,245.53h,100.07t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sN7mTnmFLjsSLvUbhIje1aA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
I'd also quite like something down in Peebles, some kind of eco house thing maybe. Something like that is actually achievable for me though, can't see me ever getting one of the mansions unless I meet a rich lass!
For two hundred years much of the Canadian Shield (and about a third of what is now Canada) was called 'Rupert's Land' and was in effect the personal fiefdom of one corporation- The Hudson's Bay Company. Yes, these guys:
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kilo - only "issue" is its in France so not full time just yet.
Will be.
When the "tax foncierge" is €300 a year with only water and electric to pay (assuming I use the mains anyway and not the well) makes england look a complete ripoff. Which it is in reality.
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1930's New England-style, set in 17 acres, with its own beach and boat-house:
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It would have to mean a pretty large lottery win to afford it, and that would require the current owner to want to sell it; IIRC, she paid over the odds to acquire it when it came up for sale, at £2.5 million.
The South-west coast path runs right behind the house, although there's a fence all around it, and a very steep path leading down to the beach. It's not that long a walk to East Prawle and The Pig's Nose pub, but it could be interesting after a few beers on a dark and wet winter night...
I have always wanted to live in Fitzrovia. A little mews house would do.
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> http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-40181295.htmlNow we're talking!
I've been drunk in that house.
@CountZero - I've been drunk on that beach.
There's a theme here. 😳
Tony Starks house in Iron Man if MNO
Failing that somewhere on Dartmoor with rocks and water.
Interesting mix of tastes here. I was amused by Drac writing off the 1920s Villa Savoy as horrid. Only arguably the most significant, beautifully conceived and influential house of the 20th century.
The one on the right of the port overlooking the port and the bay.
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Failing that, the one I'm typing from.
Edit. Stuff that, the one I'm tying from has a heated open-air pool a few metres up the road and the trails are better.
The one on the right of the port overlooking the port and the bay.
Aaaaah, that one! I think the one next door is a little less ostentatious.
We stayed in this place in Aus, loved the layout and decided it would be a perfect 'retirement bungalow' for us 🙂
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3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms at the back so just need to find the right location in the UK where you could build something similar