small itb-type home. 3 bedrooms, updated kitchen and open floor plan. gray or white painted brick, black shutters. small yard, stone fire pit and plenty of patio space in the back.

1/27/2011 10:39:39 AM

bmel and I have similar tastes

1/27/2011 12:12:20 PM

ideally

1/27/2011 12:14:32 PM

most of the places in downtown charleston fit the bill for me. I'd love a wrap-around porch on all levels, an open layout, BIG kitchen, nice master suite (including a sitting area, soaking tub, waterfall shower). These are just things I want though. I don't really know what I would consider the "ideal" home.

1/27/2011 12:19:33 PM

I will need a WC in the master bathroom. I want to be able to shit while she brushes her teeth and vice versa, without getting a little too comfortable for either of our tastes.

1/27/2011 12:23:02 PM

^ i have this

it is awesome

1/27/2011 12:25:53 PM

I love my location and the style of my house (downtown charleston and old charleston-style with the side porches)...and although it's perfect for me now, I'd just like a bigger one in the future.

I'm pushing it, but in addition to the perfect number of bedrooms and baths (3 bed/2 bath with one kid...4 bed/3 bath with 2 kids), decent sized kitchen, living, and dining room....I would like a small office, a theater room (6-10 recliners with a giant big screen/projection screen) and a game room (pool table, darts, two tvs for either different games being played or one with a game on and the other hooked up to a gaming system, and nc state memorbilia everywhere). Also need to be a decent bar/wet bar somewhere. Could be in the living/dining room or possibly the game room.

I feel like that's a lot to ask and I'll have to get on it to be able to afford something like that in downtown Charleston any time soon. But it is doable. I feel like I'll end up with something in between what I have now (will have to get something else if I have more than one kid) and what my "ideal" home is.

1/27/2011 12:26:59 PM

I also want a smaller version of those game rooms you see on Cribs with a pool table, several flat screens, and a bunch of 90's arcade machines like NBA JAM, Mortal Kombat and Revolution X. Have one wall be State stuff, one Panthers, one Mets, and one other cool stuff like huge posters of Tiger at the Masters or Tyson biting Evander.

1/27/2011 12:30:02 PM

Pool
hot tub
large deck
outdoor kitchen
granite countertops in indoor kitchen
Garden tubs in all bathrooms
2.5+ bathrooms
2+ car garage
Fenced in back yard
lots of dirt!

1/27/2011 12:30:58 PM

a house at the edge of a mountain.....a waterfall view from the bedroom!

1/27/2011 12:37:35 PM

Don't need much...nice 2 br townhome with decent/upgraded kitchen (ideally with 2 ovens). Stand in shower with sep tub in master bath. Hardwoods on 1st floor. Garage. Would like to be in the brier creek area.

1/27/2011 12:38:07 PM

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I miss having this.

If I had the money I would buy one of those foreclosed craftsmen houses downtown and renovate to my tastes. But alas I have no monies right now.

1/28/2011 11:12:17 AM

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just popped in to say that i've been here. yeyuhh.

1/28/2011 11:14:24 AM

I dunno if this is ideal, but it's pretty damn awesome.

1/29/2011 12:57:55 AM

where is that? New Zealand?

1/29/2011 1:42:50 AM

http://www.greenmodernkits.com/r1.htm

1/29/2011 8:36:58 AM

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photoshop

1/29/2011 10:25:29 AM

a cottage or small castle right on the coast of south ireland, preferrably in kerry

mountain and ocean views

something like this

1/29/2011 12:38:24 PM

i love ireland. the landscape is so beautiful everywhere and their houses are super cool too.

1/29/2011 12:52:48 PM

1/29/2011 6:00:41 PM

im going to have to second grimx

1/29/2011 6:01:22 PM

I've been trying to figure out all day how I'm going to make my family homeplace into my ideal home...


It's going to take a LOT of work...


And money

1/29/2011 6:59:55 PM

dont care where it is or what it looks like as long as she's (^) there with me

1/29/2011 7:11:53 PM

1/29/2011 7:19:38 PM

so that my incredibly attractive/much younger wife doesnt have to cook or clean up

1/29/2011 7:27:13 PM

Since that one is owned by the state of NC and also has a large office building in its backyard...something along those lines. Definitely an old/historic home, prefer victorian (ideally second empire) but I'm open to other styles. Original interior detail (I LOVE pocket doors) but with a modern kitchen--concrete or stone counters, gas stove, island, nice cabinets. Plus an updated bath in the master suite with jetted tub/stand shower/dual sinks/separate WC. Wraparound porch, large rear deck. Detached 3-car garage would be ideal, but I could trade that and lot size for it being walking distance to a downtown or a shopping/dining district.

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1/29/2011 9:00:58 PM

my dream home is a huge shop with an apartment up top. well-insulated with wood heat. shop would need at least 3 bays and a lift. it'd have a large dedicated gun/archery/reloading bench, a dedicated fishing and tackle craft bench. a nice, large shelter for tractor and implements, boats, etc. would need to be in the sticks with no neighbors for at least a half mile. needs to have at least a hundred acres of woods/farmland for hunting. pond or river access would be nice.

1/29/2011 10:24:11 PM

^^ that is gorgeous. there are a lot of pretty old victorian homes around where my grandparents live in upstate new york, but you could not fucking pay me to live in upstate new york.

1/29/2011 10:27:06 PM

^That's the Heck-Andrews house, built in 1870. It's actually in downtown Raleigh at the corner of Blount and North streets...one of the best Second Empire structures in the city. Take a ride by it sometime--it's even more beautiful in person, and there are a lot of other gorgeous historic homes on that stretch of Blount, plus a few streets away in Oakwood. Not open to the public though (I don't know if they've ever finished the restoration of the interior.)

1/30/2011 1:05:37 AM

2-3 stories.
Looks new
A yard I don't have to take care of (someone else does it)
A finished garage
near a golf course/country club
also near a good sports bar
close enough to civilization

so basically baxter in tega cay + a golf course.

1/30/2011 1:12:42 AM

512 North Tryon Street
Charlotte, NC 28202
http://bit.ly/gjxMOg

I always liked this place, it's right above a little diner right in the middle of downtown.

Something like this would be cool too:
http://bit.ly/ezLt3l

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1/30/2011 3:27:20 AM

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This was my dream home growing up. I was really happy when they decided to renovate it



My ideal home is one I designed in high school. I'd probably make a few changes to it now, but the design is pretty much complete.

1/30/2011 6:01:52 AM

Mine too; ever since I first saw it on a school trip to Raleigh in 1989. Even in bad shape it was beautiful, but it's absolutely stunning now.

1/30/2011 11:55:29 AM

There was that house on sale a few years back of a modern house built into the entrance of a cave with 2-3k sq ft for the living space and 15k+ sq ft of cave behind it.

1/30/2011 3:47:09 PM