Friday, April 3, 2009

Heavenly Home Day-Dreaming.

My dream home is a warm and spacious cave in the winter and a cool and breezy light box in the summer. Surrounded by vegetation and blending into the landscape, it is hard to find without directions and yet walk-ably right around the corner from the coolest shops and community in the most familiar and friendly neighborhood. It has a quiet, sculpturally beautiful wind turbine, and solar panals. It is paid for, and the taxes are hideously and flukishly low. It has a fireplace and a steam room and a pool, and a human-deep in-ground massage-jets-optional hot/cold soaking tub outside, just off the master bedroom. It's grounds include several private outdoor areas snug near the house. One of the walls of the modern kitchen is all windows, which actually can be raised like a garage door to serve as a clear or privacy-blinded awning, or can be slid into a compartment above the false kithen ceiling. There are several of these walls of windows throughout the multilevel house so that opening them captures a gentle flow of air within the house, and effectively brings the outdoors in, and makes optimal use of the adjoining decks-with-views. The flagstone flooring of the kitchen extends continuously to the flagstone floor of the patio, trailing in paths into the private garden. There are enough natural plants and growth in the garden so that you can follow a path out not so very far from the house and yet not be able to see it, so you feel you are in the woods and could pitch a tent. The house is not overly large, but feels open and huge. All the seals are tight. There are convenient and discreet outlets for electricity everywhere they are needed, and secure wifi covers the house and its furthest grounds. It is wired for sound in a way that can be seperated for different sections of the house or combined throughout. There is radiant heat from beneath the stone and wood floors. You can hear a bubbling stream running nearby from open windows. The lines are clean and smooth and modern. The fixtures are simple and funtional. The materials are earthy and warm. The water from any of the showers, including the open one near the pool, gets warm in about 3 seconds, and the pressure is as great as you like, always.

2 comments:

Sinclair Fleetwood said...

I think if you could find an architect to design these, you would become very rich. I want one too!

JPM said...

If I can ever get it made I am sure they would be cheaper by the dozen so I will definitely deal you in :) .