Your own grand design

[Kazz]

If yogu were to build and design your own home, money no object space and location no object where and what would you design?

Karen

[Mags]

Ideally I would like a a nice bungalow in Devon, in the country but not too far from a town. As for the design, I would have to think about that!

[smudgley]

I'd love to build a house in the village where I live now. In fact right here would be fine, in this very Road. But with some land, about 10 acres should do it. A nice big detached 5 or 6 bedroomed house, with a massive kitchen. A couple of stables & a nice big cat pen for the rescue cats. I'd get a few more dogs too if I had that much space.

...you've got me dreaming now............

edit to add my animals in.... (by the way I'd like no immediate neighbours)
I'd have 2 Rottweilers. 10 chickens. 2 ponies....erm think that's it actually, maybe another cat, no maybe not.A goat possibly?

[Emm]

I would also like to have about 10 acres, I would have a big American style porch at the front of the house and it would look very symmetrical on the outside.

As you go into the house there would be a large open hallway - I would have a cloakroom/wc, a sitting room , a formal room, a dining room and a large kitchen with breakfast room and also a utility room (with a dog bath included in it) This would be on the downstairs.

Upstairs I would have 3 guest bedrooms with on-suite bathroom and one fmaily bathroom and then the the master bedroom would have a walk-in closet and also a gorgeous bathroom. There would be a balcony so I can sit with my morning cup of tea and look over my 10 acres of land!

Outside I would have my own chickens and I would also grow my own veg and have a nice big greenhouse as well - ideally I would also like to have running water near by.

I think about this all the time - you never know one day....... now wheres my lottery ticket

[Sweet]

Will think about this one and get back to you x

[smudgley]

My house design can be the same as Emms please. (minus the porch & balcony) the rest sounds perfect though. Oh & got to be symetrical & you know what else it would have to be? No funny shaped rooms, all perfectly straight walls. no recesses (sp), just flat walls. I hate "iggledy piggledy" rooms. is that a word?

[Mags]

Right, I've recruited Emm to design my house!!

[Emm]

I totally agree what is with some houses and the strange shaped rooms - and walls that are not straight? my house is really bad for walls not being straight its a total nightmare

I want to add real fires in the living rooms and the dining room

[Emm]

I would love to design your house Mags LOL

I can come up with the ideas just need to find the money now

[Kazz]

Well mine would be about 3 acres, I could do a lovely garden with that and manage on my own with it no help and maybe an old tennis court that I could turn into a wildflower meadow. But I would like it to be in a town I know thats unlikely but I prefer town living to country I like to get to a shop/take away etc.
The house would be an Old England style, and as you would draw a house a child, door central widows eitherside. But with a Waltons type porch at the front, with a swinging chair. to the right as you stepped onto the porch.
In Old England style you know the white cladding

Inside you would enter a hall large enough to hang you coats dog lead drop off point etc. With down stairs cloak off. But with a large long hall like a Victorian/Edwardian terraced house - with doors leading off, with a spindle staircase which would be white.
A door to the lounge with views over the garden and French doors to the rear garden, oh and a fuel buring stove or real fire.
A kitchen being large enough to have a breakfast area and a utility maybe as well. A walk in pantry And an Aga, and a door that is in a window to step out into a garden room, which would be large enough to have a dinning area and a sitting area, and lead to the garden. A room that would be a sitting room which would be comfortable.

Stair leading to a master bedroom with an ensuite. And two other bedrooms, a family bathroom.

And an atic room with eaves type windows.

I would not have any more dogs keep to my two, although I have always wanted a donkey or two no idea why.

Karen