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Somehow you've gotten your dream home. The cabin in the mountains, penthouse downtown, castle nestled deep in the woods, nuclear bunker in the hills, or whatever. Whats the bit you'd add that might raise a brow from others? The fireman's pole? The slide? The moat? The hidden room behind a bookshelf where you keep your stuffed animals?

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[–] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hidden passageways in all the rooms. Every room will be connected via an intricate maze of crawlspaces, slides, ladders, and all manner of hidden passages. Sure i could use the stairs like a normal person to get to the living room, or i could pull a book off the shelf to reveal a trap door in the floor that leads to a slide downstairs.

[–] theKalash@feddit.ch 3 points 1 year ago

So basically Tunt Manor.

[–] Xariphon@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Mine is utterly mundane: I want one of those little tower nook things like on Victorian houses. I think it's just called a turret?

[–] MisterChief@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You are correct, a turret. You and my wife have the same dream. She wants to put a bunch of pillows on the nook and read.

[–] Xariphon@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Heck yes book turret buddies.

[–] ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

My mom had one of these turrets. I don’t mean to kill the dream but it’s really hot in there in the summer (Virginia)

[–] dmention7@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's funny because every other McMansion Hell post makes fun of houses with turrets, but I'm with you... I'd love a 3rd floor turret with windows on all sides for a chillaxing space.

[–] stevehobbes@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I think it’s one of those things where it has to match the rest of the home.

If you have a fairly standard modern home and just slap a turret on it, it looks ridiculous.

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[–] reallyzen@unilem.org 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

A Bath Room. No, not a bathroom. A room just for a wide bath, with a fireplace, a window overlooking greenery. A sound system of course. There'll be a small bookshelf for a choice of relaxed reading, and possibly a fridge at arms length with a choice of relaxing drinks.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm down for that, just as long as Moaning Myrtle isn't there.

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Oh, Potter… blushes

[–] SnowMeowXP@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I want a hidden control room, where I control the internet, piped in music, cameras, security and other automations of the house.

In this way, when there is a complaint of something not working, I just disappear to that room and tinker to my heart's content. Problems mysteriously gets fixed (by me).

This should be a nice and comfortable room, with plenty of space, a bathroom and a skylight.

[–] lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago

A bathroom with a urinal.

[–] BoogersJefferson@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A huge garden/green house in the center with fruit trees and berry vines, etc. and in the center of that, a sort of pool/pond. The whole place has a path circling through it with various benches and seats and musical instruments on display/for use. Piano, harp, hurdy gurdy, etc.

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[–] Stern@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I want a nap room. Not to be confused with a bedroom, as the bedroom is for sleeping and a nap room... well should be self-evident. Nice climate control, piped in white noise type sound I can change easily (From regular white noise to rainy background to sounds of the woods to lo-fi chillhop), and multiple things to nap in, a hammock, lazyboy, and couch at minimum.

[–] TheDoctorDonna@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I'd ad a bean bag chair for good measure.

[–] wjrii@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pneumatic tube system. Brass steampunk shit like in old banks and skyscrapers would be fine, as would clear plastic ones like drive through pharmacies.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

This, but human-sized so I can get around fluidly

[–] theKalash@feddit.ch 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] KingGordon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A conservatory. In a separate building. With huge trees inside.

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[–] porkins@lemmy.basedcount.com 10 points 1 year ago

An underground gymnasium. Not a dinky one. Moreso what you have in a high school. A whole bunker facility would be nice as well.

[–] solrize@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

One long stairway only going up, one even longer coming down, and one more leading nowhere just for show.

[–] TheDoctorDonna@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

A built in, small walk-in refrigerator with TARDIS doors. I want it to be bigger on the inside.

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

A music room, with space for my decks and records, top notch sound system, perfect soundproofing on the walls, a lighting system, a small dancefloor, a bar. Also, it would be hidden behind a bookshelf, as described in OP.

[–] Antimutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

A tunnel, as in a disused railway tunnel. Could build in it - rooms, short corridors, leading to other rooms, other corridors - on and on as long as money and cheap building materials allow. Fill it with disturbing symmetries: same objects in the same places over and over. Maybe a giant isopod in formaldehyde.

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Too much of Stephen King? ;-)

[–] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A hidden elevator that leads into a batcave-like place but its just a place for me to play video games without the kids interrupting

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I’m not sure. Perhaps an art room, a room specializing in every art tool known to mankind, for anyone who is an artist, so they don’t have to return home to make or finish a piece.

[–] ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah so you want to kidnap artists. Smart.

[–] elbowdrop@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Smash room. You know what I'm talking about. Find an old TV? Smash it! Whats this someone threw away a perfectly good pinata? Smash that sucker!! Get yourself a controller because it's time to play Smash bros!!!! He'll I'll even put Smosh on youtube, it sounds close enough!

[–] potpotato@artemis.camp 2 points 1 year ago

Find an old CRT TV? Smash Bros!

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[–] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd have a room dedicated for porn basically. Monitors playing films 24/7, posters on the walls, toys, clothes, dolls etc. all over in huge quantities. Basically if there's a "kinky version" of anything I want it there instead of the ordinary thing. Like a light switch that's a dick you flip up and down etc.

[–] untrainedtribble@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Surprised there aren’t more sex related comments here. My wife and I would love to have a large playroom - say 800sqft - just as a playroom. We’d have sex swings, St. Andrews cross, benches, fuck couches, huge beds with posts for fun activities, sex machine, all the toys could be organized on nice glass shelving.

I’d also want a huge bathroom attached with a hot tub, open showers with benches and for cleanup after play.

Just everything for a night of fun debauchery with friends in the lifestyle

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I want two basement levels (at least).

So many special things are possible in that different climate down there.

[–] fireshaper@social.belowland.com 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know, why don't we have second basements?

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My best friends had two attics, one for the garage and one for the regular home. They were in no way connected.

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I meant: two levels below each other, down and deeper down...

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[–] Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A cube. A room you enter and every wall, the floor and the roof is projectors or monitors. Displaying a 360 degree video of an environment. Like a forest, on a boat, on top of a mountain. It plays ambient audio fitting to the theme. And I can just lie in the middle and meditate and enjoy.

Probably pointless now that we can do the same with a VR headset. But in that room you could share this with others while also seeing them.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

I have bought my dream house. It's old, cranky and somewhat scary. Now I only need the money to be able to return it to its former glory.

What I would want to add to her would be a few hidden compartments, one or two small root cellars to store wine and some balconies. If I really had the money, I'd modify the roof and build a small greenhouse/sunroom, big enough to put two chair and a small bookcase, after stuffing it with plants.

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I know music producers have like a room where almost no sound can leak through. I want a room like that. If I'm ever overwhelmed I'll just go to my quiet place :)

[–] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Corpses. Legally acquired corpses buried und the house, maybe some in hidden departments throughout the house. Just to fuck with whoever owns it after me

[–] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Treads. Ever seen/read Mortal Engines? Being a traction city sounds very easy when there is no competition. I'm gonna be the new Oberbürgermeister of the Great Hunting Grounds

[–] Solemn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A secondary "dirty" kitchen for butchering and so on, designed to be hosed down for cleaning. It would also probably have a walk in freezer, and that probably counts on its own.

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[–] sagrotan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

A tower. I'm dreaming of it since I was a child and it's weirdly specific, made from wood with a stone base to the first floor, and the roof has a mechanism to unfold a 1-person balcony. It's not to be above other people, it's more like a "I'm seeing everything but I'm safe and only I can decide who's getting in my tower" -thing. Plus: I love wind and fresh air and hate the feeling of being underground or even trapped in a box. Would base jump and day, but would not set a foot into an underground mine if you give me a million dollars. Some day I'll have a tower... Actually waiting for the land prices around here to fall a bit to buy building ground, no joke. Don't know if my wife says yes to doubling the house building money for a meager tower though, lol

[–] Nikki@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

a bowling alley, so i dont have to go so far to roll a ball at some pins

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