SUPER HOUSE!!!
Okay, Super House will be on a large rural lot, anywhere from 10 acres to 50 acres or more. It will hopefully have power, but likely will require a well and propane. Ideally it will be on a dirt road. Hopefully it'll get mail delivery. It'll be a kind of compound of geodesic dome houses connected together, possibly separated by a small A-frame structure acting as an entry area. Once you live in a dome, a regular house just doesn't cut it. One dome would probably sit on a basement. This would be the main dome, mine, and would be 45 or 50 feet in diameter. The secondary dome would be Eva's, probably 40 to 45 feet in diameter. The A-frame entry would be 2 stories high, maybe with a balcony walkway between upper floors of the domes. It would be paneled in wood, both ends would be mostly glass, and it would feel like a chalet or mountain cabin. It would have a large firepit off-center opposite the front entry doors. My house would have two or three bedrooms. Almost every room will have a fireplace, including the bedrooms. It will mostly be paneled in drywall, eggshell white. My bedroom would be a suite upstairs; the outer portion or 'living room' of the suite would be part of the loft or balcony over the dome's great room or formal living room or front room, whatever you wanna call it. The kitchen would be a large cook's kitchen that spills out into the den. I love kitchens that are also family gathering areas, especially when it's part of a big, warm, inviting den. So my kitchen would have, in addition to two wall-mounted ovens, a brick fireplace at chest height for both warmth and cooking. It'll have a spit for roasting large birds or cuts of meat. I don't think I'd have a dishwasher, as I prefer to wash them by hand. Probably have a trash masher. The sink will be against the outside wall, which will have a huge greenhouse-type picture window looking out onto the glass greenhouse/eating area. There will also be a cooking island with it's own sinks. The refrigerator might be one of those new ones that has a removable laptop built into the door. It tells you what's in the fridge, what you need, messages, recipes, etc. You can pull it off the door and take it to the store, mount it on your cart, and it tells you what to get. It can even order stuff from the store ahead of time, which you then pick up. Either that one, or I'd have a fridge with a clear glass door and fluorescent lights inside like in a restaurant. The decor would probably be a lot of blue, yellow, green and orange Mexican tile. The floor will either be wood or Mexican pavers. Jury's still out on the counters. There would be a breakfast bar between the kitchen and the den, and a small pantry also (the main pantry'll be downstairs) . When I have company, this kitchen/den would be where we all end up. The great room would extend to the top of the roof, about 25 feet. It'll have a firepit surrounded be couch seating, and a large picture window. There will also be a firepole for sliding down from the loft above the great room. One wall may have a rock face for climbing. The decor will consist of antiques, artifacts, fossils (maybe even a T-Rex skull and a dimetrodon skeleton), and my paintings and photos. There will be no TV in this room. Downstairs in the basement will be the main pantry with wine cellar, the bar, the model railroad room/museum, the movie theater, the laundromat, and the garage. The bar will be at the "lobby" of the movie theater, where the snack bar would be. This will look like a real theater; there'll be framed one-sheets from great movies such as STAR WARS, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, SUPERMAN, BILLY JACK, SILVER STREAK, BACK TO THE FUTURE, LASH LARUE'S KING OF THE BULLWHIP, ZORRO, etc. The theater would seat about 15-20 people. The screen will be about 12 X 6 feet, and there will be 6-channel Surround Sound, possibly THX. There will even be a projection room, soundproof and with double glass viewports. There will be runner lights down the aisles, curtains on the screen. It'll look just like a classic movie theater. It will also double as an editing suite. The bar will double as the snack bar, but with stools. Wines will be served, and there will be an actual soda fountain dispenser for soft drinks. There will be a long mirror behind the bar, and wine glasses will hang above it. Popcorn, even though I don't care for it, will be made in one of those theater-type kettles in a glass box, and candies and also real foods will be served. There will be a fireplace shared by the theater bar and the model railroad and museum. The pantry, nearby, will be very large for a panty. Basically a long walk-in closet with one wall mostly windows looking out onto the rec area which includes the bar and railroad museum. This pantry will have shelves, possibly a pass-thru bar, and a refrigerator and freezer. It'll have separated shelves for dry goods like pastas and dry vegetables and flour; canned soups; canned veggies; sauces; canned fruits; etc, etc. This pantry will hold enough food to last a year or more. It'll also be pleasantly decorated and inviting, not just a room to store food.
The model railroad will be mostly a large shelf layout featuring Cajon Pass in a long time warp from 1935 to 2000, minus the anti-gang fences. It will be HO scale, and will have, of course, a full backdrop and effects lighting. It'll have walkaround control, and maybe also some form of old-fashioned dispatch board, like from Union Switch & Signal. The bar area will also have a TV or two, maybe even one over the bar.
The laundromat/mudroom will consisit of two washers; one for conventional loads, and the other a Wascomat for large loads. There may also be either two driers or a large commercial drier. There will also be a large sink, counters for folding, a wire cart with a rack for transport and hanging. This room will have a door opening into the 2-car garage, which will be enclosed.
Off the garage will be a special reinforced room to hold the electrical systems associated with the power generators. The house will have both solar and wind power generation, as well as solar water heating. The battery banks will be in here. There will also be a gas or diesel generator here or nearby. The room will be specially ventilated so no buildup of explosive or poisonous gasses can occur. The room may also be shielded against EMP, if possible.
Somewhere, this house will have Super Bathroom. This bathroom will be a Gay man's dream. It'll be huge. It'll be pretty, but a little locker room-ish, too. The shower will hold 3 people, with multiple heads and douche nozzles. The shower walls will be clear glass, and will look out onto an outdoor atrium under it's own Plexiglass dome 25 feet in diameter. There will be a big Jaccuzzi, a firepit, and a jungle of plants. You'll be able to step from the bathroom OR shower right into it. Sunlight will pour in all day, yet even on cold days it'll be nice because it's enclosed. The bathroom will have a water closet for the toilet, complete with it's own vanity sink. There will also be... TA DA!!... a urinal! It's about time they put urinals in the home! And finally, there'll be a steamroom big enough for 10 people. Nude, of course. There'll even be a sling in there. This will definately be a sex bathroom!
Outside, there will be a fenced-over area for the animals to enjoy being outdoors without the risks of getting out of the yard, or predators on both the ground and in the air. The cats can go out there to shit, instead of having cat boxes everywhere in the house. It'll have trees for them, and a doghouse or two, and a table and some benches.
Eva's dome will also be 2 stories, but most of what she needs would be on the main floor, because of her Degenerative Joint Disease. It would have a full kitchen and baths, and 2-3 bedrooms. Maybe a library, if she wants.
There will be lots of trees and plants around, and the outdoors will be used as rooms also.
I actually used to have a house similar to the one described above. Here's a photo of it...
It was a geodesic dome, 45' in diameter, 3 bedrooms. It sat on 10 beautiful acres in the heart of Soledad Canyon, California. See those rocks on the left? They're about 1 mile from the house itself, which you can see among the trees at the center of the image. Those rocks, called The Three Sisters, are huge, several hundred feet high, and are part of the Sespe (or Vasquez) Formation.The property covered all of the foreground in this image, and included it's own canyon! See the little trail curving on the left? That was our main road! I don't know about you, especially if city life is your thing, but I was in Heaven. I could, and often did, walk totally nude all over the ranch, and nobody could see me unless I wanted them to. The nearest neighbor was 300 yards away. I was leasing the ranch, which I called Starbase 6, for almost 4 years before the company that owned it sold it out from under me. I still hope to go back someday with a suitcase full of cash and get it back.
Oh, well. I can dream, can't I?
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