Topic: If you could build a mansion... (Read 13493 times)

James_Smith · « **Reply #40 on:** December 12, 2003, 08:53:34 am »

Easy this. It'd be one giant air-conditioned garage...filled with machining equipment, hot-tanking equipment, a proper painting booth for doing 2-pack paint, room to park at least 7 cars...everything I need to restore some nice rusty old Mopar.

And a little cottage tacked onto the side of the garage so I have somewhere to sleep.

762 · « **Reply #41 on:** December 12, 2003, 09:58:41 am »

A big ol' smoking room, with a fireplace, 20' ceiling, an adjacent walk-in humidor, wet bar, and a 9' pool table.

Oh and big comfy leather chairs.

NJAntman · « **Reply #42 on:** December 12, 2003, 10:04:06 am »

Indoor Barbeque Pit. No more statnding in the snow while grilling steak.

Taldren_Erin · « **Reply #43 on:** December 12, 2003, 02:10:51 pm »

I'm picturing the garage from the Wayne Mansion in Batman Forever... ah, so we have an expansion on the original question. =) Given the uber-garage, which cars/bikes would you put in it?

762 · « **Reply #44 on:** December 12, 2003, 02:16:56 pm »

Well first and foremost we'd have to find a way to get a Porsche 959 into the country.

Stormbringer · « **Reply #45 on:** December 14, 2003, 11:43:51 am »

I was looking into bathroom remodels due to the fact that at 6 foot one inch tall, 225 pounds I can barely wedge myself into a normal bathtub. Looking through this book I came across things a simple country boy like me have never heard of. A plan to put a waterfall into a grotto like spa bath with the fall and mutiple shower heads. And Vessel type vanity basins.

I was also looking at kitchen cabinetry. In the remodel book I saw a circular layout with all appliances arrayed around and built into the cabinetry. It ws striking.

But I also priced tiles at the local home depot and Lowes. One marble tile, which I particularly liked (naturally) was $13.95 per tile!!!

Toasty0 · « **Reply #46 on:** December 14, 2003, 12:22:19 pm »

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I was looking into bathroom remodels due to the fact that at 6 foot one inch tall, 225 pounds I can barely wedge myself into a normal bathtub. Looking through this book I came across things a simple country boy like me have never heard of. A plan to put a waterfall into a grotto like spa bath with the fall and mutiple shower heads. And Vessel type vanity basins.

I was also looking at kitchen cabinetry. In the remodel book I saw a circular layout with all appliances arrayed around and built into the cabinetry. It ws striking.

But I also priced tiles at the local home depot and Lowes. One marble tile, which I particularly liked (naturally) was $13.95 per tile!!!

Not that I'm any taller than 5' 7" but I too thought about doing some remodeling of my house. I was blown away by the sometimes usery pricing of materials and such for home remodling projects.

Tile cost are out and out nasty. Price gouging almost comes to mind if it weren't for the fact that tile is not a stable of life...so say they.

Best,
Jerry

Stormbringer · « **Reply #47 on:** December 14, 2003, 12:40:05 pm »

Well there was one marble tile for 6 bucks per square but the sample was cracked and not in good shape it was marbled grey with large goldish yellow blotches. looked good. But I could not tell if The blotches would make a pleasing pattern given enough tiles. Atthose prices by the time I got enough of 'em to tile a room they'd be burying me in a marble garden.

Stormbringer · « **Reply #48 on:** December 14, 2003, 12:42:05 pm »

Some ceramic tiles are affordable and look pretty good. I just have caviar tastes and a tuna fish budget.

Rondo_GE · « **Reply #53 on:** December 15, 2003, 03:28:43 am »

My mansion would be built like a Roman Villa...with a garden in the center/perhaps a fountain and rooms for living all around.

The section furthemost from the entrance would have more than one story, with a third story/study/observatory like tower.

My manse would also have a small theater in it with a popcorn and a soda machine on the first floor somewhere...perhaps in the West wing. Bedrooms would be beneath the tower and the Kitchen and den would be in the East Wing; with a service entrance their. The formal "Living Room would be in the West

Aperatures would be large as i love wind and light.

An American poet named Robinson Jeffers (one of my favorites) built a stone Tower he called Hawk Tower and his house was called Tor House. So I might want to make a Tower separate from the house.

If I did that them the far end of the house would have just two strories, with the Master Bedroom surveying the interior garden. There would be a balcony of course.

I would also study some true Roman designs before I proceeded with the final design with an eye toward fusing Roman ideas into my own desires.

Jeffers link:

http://www.torhouse.org/

(sigh)

Ave Caesar

No bitterness: our ancestors did it.
They were only ignorant and hopeful, they wanted freedom but wealth too.
Their children will learn to hope for a Caesar.
Or rather--for we are not aquiline Romans but soft mixed colonists--
Some kindly Sicilian tyrant who'll keep
Poverty and Carthage off until the Romans arrive,
We are easy to manage, a gregarious people,
Full of sentiment, clever at mechanics, and we love our luxuries.

Robinson Jeffers

Taldren_Erin · « **Reply #54 on:** December 11, 2003, 07:14:05 pm »

...what would it have in it/what would it incorporate? Sky's the limit.

Tus · « **Reply #55 on:** December 11, 2003, 07:59:02 pm »

had to do somthing like this for cad last year, guess i will post a pic of it when i get home in a week

Tus

WaterTiger · « **Reply #56 on:** December 11, 2003, 08:31:22 pm »

It's funny you post this topic. Kinda gave me chills for a second.

When I was young, my mother worked as a secretery for a major archetect firm in Phoenix, Az. She sometimes would bring renderings home ... I took up an interest in art, and for Christmas "Santa Claus" brought me an easel. I sat there for days and watercolored and pencil drew my own renderings so that she would be proud of me and show her bosses at work.

I had a picture that I'm sure mom has stuffed away in some box of a southern mansion that I envisioned as a home -- my own private little castle. I drew a large library for the master of the house (me) with leather chairs and a dark cherrywood desk, and a huge kitchen and winding marble staircases in the entryway, like those in "Gone with the Wind."

The mansion had a long road dirt road to its circular horse and buggy driveway and wrot-iron gate. The road was draped and shaded by decades-old willow trees, so that it looked like a tunnel to the marble columns and stoney white brick that layered its entrance ...

This picture was so vivid in my mind, I drew every detail, from every angle ... It's almost as if I had lived there in a former life. And at the age of nine, the visions rushed to the paper in a flash.

The grounds were covered in flowers and you could almost smell the suckle-sweet aroma fill the air and honeybees buzzed dance around your head, flying harmlessly to the next rose for nectar.

I found something on the Web that comes close now 32 years later.

Southern Mansion

I don't know if you spotted the "wedding" specials, Erin ... but I'm currently single. *wink*

They even have two-for-one weddings specials.

You can bring a friend. Perhaps ToastyO would like to ride along?

WaterTiger

Stormbringer · « **Reply #57 on:** December 11, 2003, 09:09:17 pm »

Queen Anne Victorian (turrets) Three story with basement. Vestibule entry with cloakrooms/closet. Beyond a curved stair. Also an elevator. parlor/den. 2 story library. guest suite on first floor. Island kitchen. dining room. gathering room. 2 car garage with work area. skylighted sunroom conservatory. gathering room. living room contains plasma TV/stereo system. 2nd floor contains master suite which has balcony and stairs, sitting area and master bath. Master bath has walk in closets, and a huge spa type bath tubon a dias, also a shower stall with sitting bench. separate vanities, linen or towel closets. toilet is out of site in its own chamber. exits to balconied gallery. Exercise room. lounge area. 3 additional bedrooms each with bath. third floor turrets. Used as office, studio and activity or storage. Basement. Safe/storm room. Utility/laundry/sewing. mechanicals, alarms, automated systems. Gameroom and storage.

House has additional victorian touches: Wrap around veranda/covered porch, hardwood or marble tiled floors. Dumb waiter and laundry chute.

lot size: 5 or more acres. Old trees. Water garden. southwestern patio like area with marble benches (forgot the term)

Cost to build locally over 500K.

Kmelew · « **Reply #58 on:** December 11, 2003, 09:34:51 pm »

Quite frankly I would be happy with a modest house.

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