Your perfect dream home?

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900 sq ft 2 bedroom 1 bath on a forested acre I own (not yet).

No, but I know a lot about them, especially the nicer ones. This is what I want to do for my career, so I'm trying to learn as much as I can. But I wouldn't say I'm obsessed at all.

A massive one. I constantly fantasize about my dream home.

Tim

Ugh, I can't stand the thought of using so much space. I'll either go for a small house in the middle of nowhere or an apartment in a city.

The hell with geology! I need to be an architect!

Tim

Go for it! They make more than geologists anyway.

A small apartment with one bedroom. Somewhere in Europe.

I am an architect and so shall design it myself.

1.approx. 900 sq ft
2. 2X6 stud walls with composite siding
3. 6/12 roof
4. single floor
5. northern Arizona (nr FLG)
6. much insulation, windows double ot triple pane
7. great room, kitchen, master bedroom with attached master bath with Jacquzzi tub and separate shower, small guest bedroom, half bath, kitchen inclusldes Wolf range
8. Most floor on TJIs but floor along south wall insulated concrete to act as thermal mass
9. mainwall a tad east of south, much glazing to expose concrete floor to insolation, roof overhang calculated to allow winter but not summer sun
10. mudroom at main entry
11. air circulation: hot roof to thermal mass indey cistern under floor to release heat to house at night
12. air to air heat exchanger
13. parallel 12VAC photovoltaic/wind system
14. many LED lights
15. wood stove with cold air induction
16. filtered positive ventilation
17. steel roof: pInted raised seam
18. water harvesting with potable filtration
19. gray water catch recycle
20. hypo allergenic
21. enclosed garage with wood/metal shop
22. ham radio station
23. simple decor

I live exactly where I want to live -- in a house, in a city.

Im moving to move to New York when I get out of school, get a house in Queens or Brooklyn.

Grey Brick Castle-Manor
Huge Walls
Inner Keep, which is a luxurious mansion, has two lifts- 1 electric, 1 manual, to avoid too much going back and forth. Lifts have accompanying maintenance stairs in case they break down.
Square perimeter
Keep has a cosy, homely feel, with mostly low roofed rooms, though the library, great hall, and great dining hall are exceptions.
Central heating and external CCTV
Integrated high tech includes satellite and cable connections, telephone, television, and internet/network hubs on every floor, and pre timed announcements that I program, which are either text on something above the lift on every floor, or speaker announcements.
Computer network, with very powerful servers and terminals.
Gaming room to play console/computer games, and cinema for watching films/tv.
Helipad, and garage for transportation of my choice.
5 acre grounds, with a small lake, golf course, and high external walls. Don't want any uninvited guests.
Castle walls have empty rooms, and one of the towers is used as an observatory. Castle walls have external lifts. The top of another tower is used as a place of solitude, peace, and reflection.

I like the flat Lilja has when she's in Sweden, except I'd want more furniture, and I wouldn't want someone to lock me in there.

It switches. There are times I would like nothing more than an apartment in NYC - not a shabby one, thanks - on a high floor in a close to empty building. Then there are times that I want a huge ranch that's close to a city, but still isolated enough that I can keep horses.

If money was never an object and fantasy was reality....I'd want something like Bruce Wayne's mansion (Batman)...batcave and all the gadgets...with a nice big electrified fence around it or maybe have it plunked on an island somewhere...now that's an aspie dreamhouse.

I'd settle for an old house in the sticks somewhere...one with a big wrap-around porch a porch swing and a willow tree out back.

Hey, this looks so cool! Reminds me of the temples of ancient Egypt

A large house in the middle of nothing, with all kind of secret rooms, traps and passages