A private road with no neighbors sharing it.

No neighbors within five miles

Million dollar view

Commercial type kitchen

Open floor plan

Three bedrooms

Wood stove

On demand water heater

Lots of windows

Big deck at least partially covered

Large room or separate outbuilding for a studio with running water, lots of electrical outlets, heat and A/C

Wood floors throughout

Two bathrooms

Half bath in garage (toilet and sink)

Large walk-in closets

Small, manageable lot with mature trees

Pleasant neighborhood

Smaller home with few, but largish rooms

Kitchen without upper cabinets. but plenty of storage

Areas able to be dedicated to our hobbies

1st floor laundry

Has to have a garage!

shower instead of tub would be a plus

2 bathrooms would be a plus

2 bedrooms

back door to the yard/garden

gas stove hookup, or installed stove

no dishwasher

no dryer

no garbage disposal (the 2 NO's are to keep me from taking those out.

lots of windows

central heat and air

close to bike trail

even closer to grocery store (walking distance would be BEST)

at least one nice big tree in the yard, front or back, am not that picky

and lets add a tornado shelter

My house has a bunch of those, but not a tornado shelter, and I have a tub, but much, much prefer shower.

Moni

5 bedrooms with baths, need for when my kids come.

Closets!

Hmmm, we have 2 two car garages and only 1 car fits in them.

A pole barn.

Room to have an air cleaner on the furnace.

A sewing/computer room.

a big outdoor living space, including kitchen and zero depth, inground pool. :)

My house is going to look like a cabin or a lodge.

wood floors

designed in such a way that hides the dirt

I need a view of a lake or mountains or something special.

I need a place to see the sun rise and set.

I want a sun room.

I want a fruit orchard and a veggie garden.

I want a big bath, but no Jacuzzi tub because those just grow mold. We need a shower too.

I want a nice laundry/mud room area with a sink and storage.

We need a dog bath in the laundry room or garage.

I want designed pet friendly places for the dog crate/kitty litter.

I say craft room, but I hang out in the kitchen counter no matter what room I have.

I want a turret for dh.

I want a huge statue of Bigfoot for the back yard kind of hidden among the trees where you can barely see him.

I want a library.

I want a tornado shelter.

`Doorways that are handicapped accessible.

1 large MBR and 2 not quite as large guest rooms

1 office area

NO stairs. (unless we have a basement)

Lots of windows

Brick veneer

Tornado shelter /safe room (again no stairs)

1500 sq ft. out building (aka shop)

Lots of storage

Closet that my Christmas tree can just roll into at the end of the season w/out being un-decorated .

Butlers pantry with lots of storage.

Mud room

coat closet

Lift thingies that will put stuff in the attic.

There are more things, but I'll have to think on it for a spell.

I love my hous, but the kitchen is too small. My husband says I just have too much stuff. Ha! I could say the same thing of his never ending tool inventory. We live on an acreage, wouldn’t have it any other way. Especially since my daughter and her family moved in next door!

First, i would move to better climate!! hate the humidity here!!

walk-in shower with lots of jets

no tubs

4 BR with en-suites

walk-in closets that are room-size so i can see everything that i have, b/c sometimes i forget b/c i can't see it!! lighting in said closets.

green house for all my succulents and plants!

kitchen with lots of counter space, storage and windows

a dutch door in kitchen, just love those

butler's pantry, again lots of storage

mud room

lots of windows

study/den/ office where i can escape and read

awesome views!! ocean preferably

folding window walls to have outdoor living

big water feature with koi fish

lots of outdoor space with flagstone and brick

outdoor kitchen

fantastic garden areas with variety of plants and trees, each garden area "tells a story", filled with native plants/trees

lots of bird houses

I have a lot of the desired items above but mine is HUGE walk-in closet the size of a small room!!!!!

pudgeder, you reminded me of one of my other wants - no stairs. Our current home has stairs and I am so done with them!

House somewhere in Oklahoma, Nebraska, or Kansas

8-12 acre lot (for horses, dogs and maybe a few cows)

Close to neighbors, so there is a lot across from me with neighbors so it’s not completely empty.

3 bedrooms

3 bathrooms

Huge kitchen

Preferably two sinks in the master bathroom.

Medium sized office.

Safe area

Good neighbors

Paid off.

I’m with cooper! A paid off house is definitely a dream house! LOL

I’d love a single floor or at least a first floor master

A larger dining area

A fire place

A larger lot with more wooded areas

A cooks kitchen

More storage on our main level

A fully finished walk out basement

More windows!

ETA: Screened in outdoor space. We only have a deck and the bugs drive me crazy!

We just paid ours off and loving the feeling!

"Land. Lots of land....under starry skies above. Don't fence me in...."

Yes, land for my horses. I want a long driveway and no neighbors really near. A pond. Preferably along the driveway. A koi pond in the back yard.

Lots of grass and cross fenced for my horses. Loafing sheds in the pastures. A nice barn with stalls for when I have to stall a horse. No woods, but scattered large trees like live oaks.

As for the house...nothing fancy. Kitchen with lots of storage and a real stove....gas with burners. No glass top. Walk in pantry. Mud room with shower. Tile or wood floors. About 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.....jetted tub and large shower in one, shower in the other.

Laundry room. Garage with covered walk or breezeway to house. Porch, front and back.

Not terribly far from a decent sized town for grocery shopping.

I am living in it! I designed and had this house built 5 years ago on a beautiful lake lot in a small town of 3,000 of the best people I could ever hope to find.. There is nothing I would change...it is nothing “fancy”, but I am very happy to be living here....completely handicapped accessible so hope to be here for as long as God sees fit for me to live.

A big giant mudroom with a an elevated dog wash.

Phoggie, I saw pictures of your new home. I was a lurker long before becoming a member...Very Nice!!!!

My wants are simple.

MBR and bath on first floor (for my daughter)

3 big bedrooms upstairs With baths

Very large kitchen, eat in, farm style.

I like diningrooms but if the kitchen is huge I don't need one.

Large screened back porch with plenty of room for family to gather on summer evenings with a old fashioned screen door leading into kitchen.

Big family room with wood burning fireplace.

Out in the country with neighbors about a mile away.

Lots of trees and a creek .

Walk in pantry.

I can finish the garage, add heat, and plumbing, put in tile flooring, large farm sink a front load washer and a vintage top loader along with 2 dryers. Cupboards, lots of them along with open shelves to house my vintage laundry related.....junk.....LOL. Van can stay outside under a carport hidden off to the side of my magnificent old farm house.

I love our house now, I know I will wish for an elevator one day! The only thing I would add is an ocean and mountain view! Lol I still want my woods too.

Number one on my list?

CHARACTER!!!! :) Too many houses now are cookie cutter. I like mid century style houses, 80's townhomes (iron railings and such) and Victorian styles. I have to say I also like multilevel houses.

- a nice size yard with a big catio for my cats :) and room for my dog and my mom's dogs to play and big enough to have space between neighbors.

- a garden or greenhouse

- a pool

- craft room

- a nice size kitchen with easy to clean surfaces. I guess I should say laid out right? A small kitchen that's laid out right can look huge.

- storage but not too much. I've decluttered a lot and do not want spaces I'll fill with junk.

- laundry room

- pet friendly areas inside. cat shelves and towers :D

- I don't need a huge closet. Just one that has enough room so I don't need a dresser in the room. I like minimal furniture in the master.

- a garage big enough for gardening tools and 2 cars

- a couple of built in cabinet/shelf units for games, puzzles and knickknacks

If a house looks and feels right to me I'm willing to overlook tiny things that may bother me. It doesn't need to be fancy. I don't plan on being on MTV Cribs anytime soon and wouldn't want to be haha :)

In the UK

~800sf

2 bedrooms

semi-detached or detached

decent neighbourhood with good transportation links

town with a rail station with direct links to London

off-street parking, and preferably a garage

gas-fired central heating

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Storage isn't a huge deal since we're minimalists

We don't need much space for just the two of us, and again - we don't have much STUFF (and will have even less when we move back to England)

A solarium so I can drink my coffee in the am and look outside.

We got most of our 'wants' in 2000 when we tore down a tired ranch in the location we wanted, 30 miles north of Chicago. It's on a tree lined, 'country' road with one to five acre lots (several historic 'summer homes'). We are 5 minutes from RR and grocery shopping; have large choice of medical care. We have 1+ acres with a big conservancy behind us and a bridged 'creek' to the east. Quiet. Mature trees and shrubs. Southern exposure. Wonderful schools, library, beach, all city services.

Wood floors throughout. Tiled back hall and 3.1 baths. Small (2900 sq ft) house with big rooms. No thresholds; 36" doors; 9-foot ceilings with some higher. Single-floor living, but with formal stairs from a large foyer to a full-height attic. (Attic can double the square footage by the addition of dormers, and it makes the exterior 'fit' into the neighborhood while not being included in our tax assessment.)

Oversized two-car garage. We hire lawn and garden work and snow plowing. Bluestone chip drive.

Three archtop windows at the front (N). Fifteen french doors and tall casements. Wide mouldings and door and window casings; no window treatments outside of BRs.

Master with two walk-in closets; MBA with two pedestal sinks, linen closet, glassed-in shower and a Bain Ultra air jet tub w/hand spray (fills in three minutes). "Library" -- where we watch TV. Living room w/fireplace -- where we read. Dining room that 'looks pretty' from the adjoining LR -- and a guest room that gets about the same amount of use as the DR. Brussels block terrace south of LR and DR.

Large kitchen with a "Breakfast Room" (SE) -- where we eat all our meals. There's a two-story screened porch off the BR with enormous shade tree. Back hall between Kitchen and Garage has laundry at one end with a window and a powder room and giant closet at the other end, with glass-top door to Brussels block patio and back/side yard.

Electric cooktop with tall drawers beneath -- plumbed for gas. Fisher-Paykel dish drawers. GE Monogram sideXside w/ice & water in the door. Big/little 36" porcelain sink and 12" bar/prep sink in island. Buffet, desk. 'Money Green' granite.

Unfinished basement is where the furnaces and water heaters live. Aprilaire air cleaners. Flow-through humidifiers that dry between cycles (no mold).

Some of my favorite things are the circulating pump that delivers hot water to every tap in the house in two seconds; the central vac system; underfloor heat; air returns for summer and for winter.

I do not want two-story houses; houses you have to climb into; wood decks; finished basements. I don't want showers with acres of tile and glass to clean; multiple jets that require tons of water; drafty ones with no doors. One fireplace is enough dirt and draft for me. I don't want any carpeting or an army of knick-knacks to dust. I don't want a pantry or a freezer or a 'butler's pantry'. I do not want a swimming pool or a water feature. (Don't want a boat, either! haha)

I'm going to think about what we did wrong or didn't think of, or didn't know about when we built. There are always things like that!

Paid for, updated and renovated house built in the 1850s. Porte cochere, butlers’s pantry, mud room, claw foot tub, wood/tile floors, plantation shutters, wrap around porch, fire places, laundry room with sink, window and room for an extra fridge, fenced yard.

Well, I put just about everything into our dream home that we already built, so the next design I have in mind is a lake house, southern facing wall of glass overlooking a swimming lake with no motor vehicles...modern and minimalist design so it's easy to clean and maintain, inspired by the glass house.

I love my house, but wish it had the following:

9' ceilings on the first floor (have them on the 2nd due to remodeling)

a much larger dining room - would like one about 15'x17'

a butler's pantry

room for a farmhouse table in the kitchen so I could sit and do cooking chores

an elevator - I'd settle for a dumb waiter

a bigger 1st floor bedding with ensuite, instead of bath in hall

a much larger entrance hall

a staircase that is not straight up the stairs

a basement with a taller ceiling so it could be finished (no more dust coming through the 1948 sub flooring boards)

my sunporch big enough to have a small glass top table for dining (a deux)

a wider brick sidewalk in front

moving water in my fish pond - would love to hear the sound

built-in cupboards in 2nd floor bedrooms

a huge linen closet on the 2nd floor

a walk-in pantry

a nice-sized broom/vacuum closet on both floors, with a sink for floor mopping

In other words, I'd like a house with about 1500 more square feet than it has - at a minimum!

Here are my current dream home requirements. I'm sure that my needs will change, but right now this is what I'd love.

Large wooded lot with a scenic view, perhaps overlooking a green belt, lake or mountain vista

Neighbors are great but I'd like to not hear their backyard conversations because they are too close.

Single story Craftsman style and no carpet anywhere

Spacious kitchen in white with a large island-breakfast bar

Dining room large enough to hold a table that seats 10-12 comfortably

Lots of storage closets

3 bedrooms

3 baths (one might be a powder room)

office with a nice view

2 car garage

garden shed and work shed for all of DH's tools and stuff

screened back porch

large deck next to a beautiful pond and waterfall

I have always wanted a "night time garden"....off the bedroom. with all white flowers....shrub roses....I like big, over grown roses, and every kind of fragrant white flower I can find. Complete with a koi pond with only platinum ogon koi in it. Those koi are metallic white....silvery white that shine. I have kept koi since 1968, and will always have koi. I lost all of mine in the flood but I have started replacing them, a few at a time. Also a separate pond with only white night blooming waterlilies in it.

Another garden I would like, and I used to have a good start on it., is one that I either grew from cuttings or hybridized all the plants in it. Including a pond with fish that I raised (that I bred myself.) Once I am moved and away from the feral hogs...or at least with more protection from the damage that they do, I plan to do just that. I had daylilies, waterlilies, amaryllis, irises, and other plants that I crossed and raised from seeds. It takes awhile, and I am not getting any younger....I need to get with it.

I would like a bigger bath off the master bedroom, and I would "steal" Marilyn's idea of a "night time garden". I have often thought of having a garden with just white flowers.

A larger kitchen and an entry way into the living room.

A bathroom off the guest bedroom.

A garage. A small guest house might be nice.

Our ranch house is paid off, on an acre lot, but we have lived here since 1978 with one small remodel. It's time for some changes before I get any older.

Beautiful home....and beautiful grandbaby, Mojomom. I think that is a wonderful idea....a multigenerational home. It might not work for everyone, but I can think of many benefits for those who do it.

Ah daily kisses from that precious baby would make a hut into a dream home!

Front windows that open. The only breeze I get at the front of the house is from the small screen in the bottom part of my screen door, My big windows in the living room and kitchen don't open

Brand new and no termites.

Top on my list would be self-contained as much as possible for electricity IE solar panels or windmills. It would have to have turrets of course. It would have to have a very large room for me to put my storyboards up and to do my beading. I would love to live by the water preferably not a noisy River though. The ocean or a stream near a lake would be great. :-). I'd like lots and lots of places to walk my dogs and cats as well. To not forget my husband a large room for him as well for his Hobbies including working on his projects and his dirt bike Etc. Also of course a place nearby where he could ride his dirt bikes to his heart's content.:-). DS would require a fairly large space of his own to do his programming Etc. Nephew would want to have room enough for a very large table for all of his computer and gaming equipment. Of course there would be enough washrooms for everyone to not have to share :-) Especially not me!

• paid off!
• enough area to garden (more than I have currently, evidently :)
• close enough to work, but far enough to be outside of Nashville traffic
• on the water

I would say that's what I have, but it's not paid off (grin). Close enough I'm very happy.

mojomom -- No fair. Houses don't all come with that gorgeous grandson bonus feature. I know 'a house' can be built in nine months. I just don't know of many custom homes that are. Yours looks wonderful. I'm so happy for you!

Thanks, Chisue! The house took about six months longer than DGS. DD found out she was expecting exactly one week after we broke ground the last day of July 2016 and he was born in early April. We moved in the week before Thanksgiving 2017.

mojomom.....question for U. Are you heating the whole house with radiant heat flooring...or do you have additional heat? And....is that Crested Butte? I am so impressed!!!!!!!!!

Nicole, No need for additional heat. Ours is whole house hydraulic radiant with warmboard on upper floors (no staple up) and in the concrete in the basement and garage. 9 zones, I think. This is state of the art here in snow country, no extra heat needed. We do have a fireplace, but only for ambiance and quick warm ups.

mojomom....I'm looking @ a house, I may make an offer on, that has the whole house heated by radiant heat flooring. He says he pays $67 a month for heat in the winter & it's a LARGE house w/ a 3 story great room.

I just LOVE your home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also....did you install AC?

nicole -- While I love the underfloor heat in our north-facing rooms, I'm glad we also have forced air ducting to provide A/C in summer and to deliver humidified air in winter.

After we moved in, the north rooms were cold. (Inexperienced HVAC contractor.) We added the underfloor tubing running off a tiny boiler. No problem, as we have no plans for living space in a basement.

Indeed, that's a lovely home mojomom. Bravo.

Allow me to suggest - I think the right word is hydronic, not hydraulic. And of course no other heating system, because your's is infloor radiant heat.

With all my kids, we are all happiest (and our relationships succeed most) when we limit the time spent in close proximity. A week is great, more days, less so. We always get along well and disagreements are rare, in large part because we give each other space and the frequent short visits become special. Next door or even in the same neighborhood (or town) wouldn't be our preference but it obviously works for you and what could be better.

Elmer, you are right, I was searching for the right word and just missed the mark! Thank you! The closeness works for us, but I understand it isn't for everyone. I think it helps make bit that DD is an only and DH and DSIL have common interests. We also each have our own lives and really, except for special occasions, the time together is off and on from 5:00 until about 7:30 each evening., so it's not like all day everyday. The rest of the time we do our own things, like today DH and I rafted and kayaked (he rafts, I kayak) the river running through town and the kids spent the most of the day on their bikes with the baby. I can babysit while the kids go out with their friends and they will dog sit when DH and I are away. Also because we have a party wall between sides, we have double doors and a closed door means private time.

Nicole, no AC. It is pretty rare here, usually put in by southerner transplants who can't imagine life without it. Although we are also southerners we've spent enough time here in the summers before we built that we knew it wasn't necessary. We are at about 7000' above sea level in the mountains. To be perfectly honest, there are probably 7-8 days in the heat of the summer that AC would be nice upstairs and but even then only in the heat of the day (at least for DH, I hated AC even in the south). Evenings are always cool. But even on the hottest days, the temps in the basement won't even get to the low 70s (without the heat on, of course). Last August while we were building, I usually brought a jacket to go down to the basement.

Nicole, you are also right. While the type of heating is fairly expensive to install, especially using warmboard, it is very efficient and cheap to operate.

I have pretty much finished building my dream home. (Which is how I discovered GW.)

What I still want:

Broadband Internet (not holding my breath).

Reliable cell service INSIDE my house. (ditto. I understand service is great on my roof!)

Bifold closet doors for two closets (GC better finish up soon)

A finished pantry (this year, although not with my GC)

A wood burning stove (will happen this year)

A greenhouse (next year)

A tractor barn (going to go with one of those pre-fab things)

Raised vegetable beds (this year)

A generator (this year)

Being on the map so I can get deliveries without hassles.

I may have to give up my dream of geothermal, as rebates for that have dried up.

A world with no ticks (probably will happen when the town gets broadband...)

What I do have and love!

A wonderful kitchen with storage space and great counter space, and useful upper cabinets (all sorely lacking back at the old home)

Beautiful property! Private, enjoyable view while prepping food.

Laundry on same level as living.

Workshop in the basement (it is now housing baby / juvenile chicks, but soon...)

ADA master bath with roll in shower, no tub. No thresholds. Wide accessible doorways.

Heated floors in the bathrooms.

Flat driveway! No more slip sliding down my driveway in winter!

Small house and the front yard is sand dunes leading to the beach. Preferably FL west coast.

paid off mortgage...

When we bought our current house, we had a list of "must haves" and "must not haves" that factored into our decision. This house met every one of the criteria. Formal living room; formal dining room; family room with fireplace; breakfast nook at the back of the house; center island in the kitchen; 3-car garage with direct entry into the house; separate laundry room that doesn't require one to walk in front of the washer & dryer when going into/out of the garage; guest room (bedroom #4) & full bathroom (bathroom #3) on ground floor; porcelain tub in secondary bath (no fiberglass tub!); dual sinks in secondary bath; separate shower and bathtub in master bath; dual sinks in master bathroom; fireplace in master bedroom; master bedroom at the back of the house; large walk-in master closet. The downstairs bathroom has a huge shower, no tub. The master bathroom has a very large, deep, marble soaking tub (in addition to the separate shower). Our house is on a large lot with a creek that runs behind the property. You can't build within 60 feet of the creek, so neighbors behind us are quite far away. Our side yards are large and angle outward, so the houses on the sides of us aren't close, either.

And, our house is totally paid off!