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Humans live in all sorts of dwellings. What's yours like?

I'll start with my own. I bought an older 3-bedroom cape cod home in a city neighborhood about 7-8 years ago. The lot is a typical long skinny city suburban lot about 1/4 acre in size. The house is sort of close to the street with a big front porch that faces the north. In the small front yard, there are three huge pine trees that give the front yard lots of shade, but it's hard to grow grass there, so the front yard is mostly bare spots, moss, and maybe a few weeds every so often. There are however several Azalea bushes that look really nice in the spring. The back yard is very deep, and the rearmost part of it is a large concrete driveway to park my cars and stuff on. The backyard has two shorter maple trees in it and it's filled with lush green grass despite the fact I never fertilize it or do anything other than cut it. The neighborhood around it is pretty nice looking and the other folks around are pretty cool too. Mostly young people without kids, or with young kids, and some elderly people too. There are several homes under renovation right now. My only gripe about the neighborhood is that I'm surrounded by several dogs that like to bark all the time.

The inside of the house is only about 1000 square feet or so. There are hardwood floors throughout the house and lots of varnished woodwork. I renovated the kitchen and sort of gave it a fifties retro look with blue painted walls and lots of chrome fixtures and appliances. It goes from messy to really clean depending on if I feel like cleaning it up. Since I enjoy cooking, I can mess it up quickly. I tore the wall down in between the dining room and the kitchen. The living room walls are painted gray with white trim. It's sort of cluttered, but not too messy. One wall is dominated by a huge rack of stereo gear and a projection screen. The other walls have "This End Up" sofas. The first bedroom is my office, where I have a big huge desk against the front wall, and another equipment cabinet with all sorts of AV equipment like VCR's, DVD players, switchers, processors, etc. There's also a Hammond organ in there. The floor is cluttered with some cables and half-disassembled equipment. The second bedroom, the largest is where I sleep. It's sort of dominated by a big queen sized bed. The only other article of furniture in there is a dresser. I try and keep the floor clean in here so if I get up in the middle of the night, I don't trip over anything. The last bedroom is just a storage room, and it's filled with various things like old appliances, furniture, CD's DVD's and boxes of random junk. There's a full stairway to the attic in the hallway. The attic is unfinished, and filled with more junk like old radios, boxes of cables and wire and other repair parts for electronics and appliances, and mostly junk that I really need to clean out. The bathroom is small, and has a tile pattern that sort of resembles that of New York city subway stations. The floor is cheap vinyl sheeting that is falling apart. The bathroom too can go from really clean to pretty messy depending on if I'm in the mood to keep it clean.

The house can be sort of chilly during the wintertime since it does not have a lot of insulation, and it's heated only with a heat pump. There's lots of wiring in the house since the previous owner was an electrical engineer, and me being an electronics tech, had to also install lots of communications wiring too. All the rooms are lit with indirect lighting using compact fluorescen bulbs. I choose the lowest wattage ones avaliable because I just want enough lighting to see what I'm doing and no more. Most light is natural lighting that comes in the windows. It's sort of a place of retreat for me since I try and keep the sensory bombardment to a minimal in my home. My home is filled with my my hobbies and tools to perfom my hobbies and interests with....That's it for my tour!

My mom and I had our house built last year and we moved into it in July. It is very Georgian style with a tiny bit of Cape Cod (because of the dormers). It is 5,600 sq ft. It has a three-car sideload garage and a brick front with vinyl on the sides and back. Trust me, you don't see full-brick homes too often in Indiana! It also has a glass front door, something else that is rarely seen. And I don't mean a door right outside the front door- I mean the actual front door itself!

When you step inside the house, you are in the entrance foyer. There is a partially winding staircase, a very traditional chandelier, and you are near the study (it's enclosed with glass French doors) and the dining room (which also has a chandelier like in the entrance foyer). The study and the dining room both sport matching Aico Firenza furniture, which is very appealing.

Walk down to the back of the foyer and you'll see the living room, which is enclosed with French doors like the study. A little before that is a tiny hallway with a shoe closet and a powder room. Right across from that hallway is the entrance to the unfinished daylight basement (which pretty much only has air hockey, basketball, exercise equiptment, and boxes right now).

Go past the living room and you'll be near the great room, which is basically a family room, but larger. There's a large fireplace in the back-center of it, as well as three very tall windows surrounding it and three little windows on top of those. Here's a great place to look back into our nature preserve (this is also viewable from the living room, the kitchen, B-2, and the master bedroom).

Keep going down the hallway some more and you'll enter the kitchen. We have a gourmet kitchen, meaning a larger fridge, two ovens, Corian countertops, and plenty of cabinet space. There is also a built-in secretary desk and the sink is actually a part of the countertops. We have an electric stove and an extremely fast microwave in there as well. The entrance to the screened-in porch/sunroom is in there as well.

If you go to the back of the kitchen and hang a right, you'll go into another hallway which includes an extended laundry room, a very large pantry, and the entrance to the completely finished garage.

For upstairs, you have two choices to go up. One is in the entrance foyer and the other is from the kitchen, depending on which part of the house you're closer to. The first things you'll see once you arrive to the top is B-3, B-2, and my bathroom. Then you take a very long bridge to the other side of the upstairs. As you're passing through, you can look down both the entrance foyer and the great room foyer on both sides of you. Once you get to the other side, there's B-1, the master bedroom, and my linen closet. The master bedroom is most recognizable due to it's double doors while B-1's entrance is more hidden.

The master bedroom is also large (just like the rest of the house lol). In there, there are double doors to enter the master bathroom. Inside there, there is an extremely huge bathtub, an extended shower, another linen closet, a seperate toilet room, and the entrance to the master closet. Oh, and need I mention that all the bathroom countertops, the bathtub, and the walls and floor to the shower are all completely marble?

Also, for the hallways there's a billion recessed lights leading you down the paths. The kithcen, the living room, the study, and the master bathroom also include them as well.

As an added bonus, here's the floor plan to my house in case you were at all confused:

Messy!

A Distaster waiting to happen

My house isn't that interesting really. My room is an extension above the garage so I have two rooms, but they're both a mess and I'd rather have one very small room now.

meh, a two bedroom house. its a corner house though so its yard is pretty big. its out in the forest i love it.
i can hear elk bugaling in the moring sometimes

4 rooms, 3 doors, 6 windows, 5 walls and cluttered.

whiteskunk where do you live?

Oregon. . .sadly

Seems to be a lot of Oregon members on here, I notice...maybe you should all have a meetup or something, lol.

That's why we're here. There's nothing to do in Oregon (boring to the extreme). So we come here to brighten our lives.

My present home is a 3 1/2 room apartment (1 bedroom) in a very old building (unless you're in UK, where old means ancient). The walls are thin and so are the floors and I'm aware that my neighbours can hear my every breath. However! three weeks from now, I will move to a 3 1/2 modern building, soundproof, all the perks etc. except no swimming pool who needs it. Rent is cheaper than here!

The walls , floor and ceiling are padded. Outside my door I see with a small window and I can see a long hall with other doors with small windows. Wait the guys in white suites are returning must hide under my bed again.

One-bedroom apartment in a four-story walkup.

mine: 1/4 acre block, 1950's red brick approx 2000 sqft. Only 1 bathroom

Looks something like this


Lightning88, was interested in your floorplans. It looks much like the floor plan of houses here, except "cape cod" styles are rare. Popular new house exterior styles are more like this

Also popular in new homes are "outdoor rooms" which have a roof but open on one side and are separated from other rooms by concertina doors so that the indoor living areas open out into a paved outdoor area.

I think most places in the USA winters are too cold for that.

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