What are some features you would want in a custom built home?
 

Name all the small or big features you'd want in a custom built home.

How big are we talking here? Indoor sauna or indoor basketball court?

nice ones

probably a sun room, poweder room, walk in pantry, spiral staircase, waterfall in the front foyer, 4 car garage. 2 dishwashers in the kitchen. intercom system. we had all that at our last house.

I'd like to recreate the harem room from Conan The Barbarian

SMART SHOWER, need i say more??

oh, they dont exist?? hit me up for some new ideas.

I would like to have some sort of water flow through the house, like a 2 lane swimming pool or a stream from a big water feature, would make the house seem more open.

I want a rotating house

too sunny out while your tryin to sleep?? rotate it away from the sun :)

color changing walls, windows you can only see out, self cleaning floors.

surround sound pre wired

Sauna, gameroom (billiards etc), outdoors pool, fireplace, a roof-balcony with a jacuzzi good connection to the web.
That's about it.

indoor pool, billiards, bar :thumbsup

I would definately want a bar....

Huge fish tank built in to the wall with eels and sharks !

Very important: Structured Wiring.
You want to make sure EACH AND EVERY ROOM has at least gigabit certified ethernet jacks. Always do 2 per room for future expansion. You could also do fiber, but that is really planning ahead. :-)

What you want is a central wiring closet, with all the ethernet coming into it
so you can centrally manage it all with a switch and etc.

ALSO, specify that you want to be able to handle at least 6 phone lines
from the phone company, so the house needs 6 pairs of telco wire run looped to each room..... (I would make sure they do the phones in a star configuration and not a loop through the entire house though as the star configuration provides central management as well as easier and more flexable wiring possibilities)

:-)

Thats all, of course, if you want your house to be ready for the current and the future. AND it should not cost more than like an extra 1000 bucks.

basketball court :)

We recently finished building and I actually decided against doing this, because all my computer activity is centered around the office. My daughter is too young to be using the net (in fact she's unborn for a few more months :1orglaugh) but I had already decided that putting in ethernet wiring was going to make it too easy for our kid(s) to get unsupervised net access.

Of course in 13 years time she'll probably be hooking up with the latest wireless craze and daddy will have no idea.

You could always proxy or firewall her net services. :-)

Simple things that you just don't find much of in homes.
Plenty of cabinet space in the kitchens, and bathrooms.
Plenty of closet space not just in the bed rooms, but hallways when it comes to linen closets etc.

I would also make a large kitchen that has a center island with plenty of space to move around..and COUNTER TOPS..very important. ..I would also include maybe an area close by whether it's a breakfast nook, or counter with stools that people could sit at while things are cooking...the reason...think about all those family reunions, holidays etc the kitchen becomes a huge focal point during those times.
Lots of cooking and chatting going on.

Large bathrooms is another must.

Fireplaces, one in the living room and one in the master bedroom. Sunken tub with jets in master bath. Billiards room with wet bar. Floor-to-ceiling windows in the upstairs loft. Full basement, finished. After all, I must have my dungeon.

billiards room with custom wetbar to mimic a sports bar setting, theatre room, wine cellar, gym with lockers & gym style showers, marble everywhere, atleast a 4 car garage with wooden doors, the list goes on...

Poker table/game room... sick marble looking kitchen with a huge island. Storage everywhere... I want nothing to be out in the open, makes teh place look larger and cleaner. Projection TV in the game room. A movie theatre taht seats 12 or so in lazy boys, it's all going to happen to I had a designer friend from college make some drafts for me for a free password for life lol

Houses that are too large aren't good on upkeep so I wanted a 4500 square foot home. Nothing too large but if the place is open it won't look smaller than an 8000 sqaure foot home.
Also I want japanese rice paper sliding doors so that when no one's home I can open it all up and make the place look 100% open and large, when I want privacy I can slide the doors shut and alls well... sunken in bed so that it's at floor level

Jacuzzi inside with a sliding glass enclosure so if it's cold outside I can open it all up and feel the air.

the list would be way to long

A built in "House Nigga."

I sold my last one a month or two ago. :(

This is a great thread

a desk in the kitchen.
walk in pantry. huge kitchen.
very large great room for entertaining. a bar room. a custom media room.
huge bathroom....huge!

game room, theater room, two staircases to go upstairs, nice open basement for the bar/game room. I would like wiring down throughout the house for network etc. jacuzzi tub and big ass walk in closet for master bedroom. Deck off the master bedroom with big doors. 3-4 car garage. big fenced in back yard with 6-8 foot wooden fence. Big deck on the back with hottub. Dark colored cupboards and lots of em for the kitchen. Umm I could pry think of more :)

Underground bomb shelter / food storage room
Underground firing range( haha, pipe dream )
Underground home theater
360 degree view glass enclosed dome shaped bedroom
Hot tub on roof outside of above bedroom
M2 Browning pillbox facing driveway
10 foot concrete walls surrounding compound
Marc De super special custom deluxe car storage facility
Clone vat facility
A couple chairs
Big screen TV

Passive Solar incorporated into all aspects and lots of acreage with trees around the place.

She'll probably be nabbing free wireless access off our neighbours, or using it via her portable cell/PDA. I can't control that. :winkwink:

Then again hopefully she'll be one of those girls who hates computers so she never uses the big bad internet. :winkwink:

A moat!


Keep the bitch's boyfriends out!

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hahahaha

Some really good ideas here

A game room and theater room for sure. A bar/lounge area would be nice too, could integrate that easily with the game room.

With a big ass pond in the back yard :thumbsup

That sounds great. I'd love to live on a secluded forest or bush block, in a house that integrates into the area and environment. My major concern would be bushfire.

An undulating landscape would also be very nice. This is the view from a lookout I found by accident last year:

http://media.sensationcontent.com/ro...O200-15min.jpg

I hope to buy land around that area within the next couple of years. :thumbsup

" the kitchen becomes a huge focal point during those times"

VERY TRUE! That was a good tip about a large kitchen space.
I thank god every time we have a family function that my kitchen is big big. :-)
Without that, I would go nuts.

A view of the ocean and a garage with an Enzo in it!

I'm a simple man, I only want a large kitchen :)

bill gates has a really cool feature installed in his house.

he types the artist he likes the most at the moment ( can be more than one artist ) in a computer and several beamers in the house then show famous paintings of this artist/s

stripper pole
indoor basketball court
golf course
8 car garage
woodshop
movie theater
surround sound throughout the house
huge chandelier in the front foyer
sky lights
recessed lighting
under cabinet lighting
stainless steal appliances
black marble floors
marble counter tops
blacony outside the bedrooms
huge wood deck
ponds, waterfalls

and plenty of girls in bikinis hanging out everday :thumbsup

someone wake me up

I would have everything wired for electronics

Don't forget:

- Music and TV installation in the bathroom
- A 4 person hottub
- Wireless Internet all around the house
- lights that go on and off by voice or sound commands
- A remote control for your front door (yes they exist)

Radiant heating (heat in the floors)
Central air
Back up generator that can run the entire house
A cooking area in the garage to cook smelly/greasy things in the summer
Finished basement
Very large water heater
Gas fireplace(s)
Huge kitchen with island, a LOT of counter space, and cabinets
Large bathroom(s) with walk in marble shower
Walk in closets

Free blowjobs and dirt proof carpet...

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High cellings and a big ass dining room! Very eligant for dinner! I'm a classy guy. :Graucho

A solar radiation shield (a big piece of aluminum foil under the shingles) to cut cooling costs in the summer
An office
A conference room
A massive UPS and backup electrical generator
Some apple trees

Indoor basketball and indoor pool.