Since I’ve been such a misery all day I felt a little effort was needed in order to shake off those blues before bed. Stef started the process with our little trip to the trafford park driving range (open til 10pm, £10 for 100 balls and the hire of 2 clubs, it’s one to remember) but i’m still not back to cheerful so..
I’m creating my perfect happy place, the place I would build/ buy if I had a fair ol’ ton o’ cash to hand and nothing else to do. I think this may be something that runs over into a couple of days because my happy place will need pictures, photoshop is in for a pounding on the morrow methinks..
EHHHHHHHHHHhhhhnyway..
First of all – my dream house:
- 4 bedrooms
- 1 study
- 1 games room (pool table/ air hockey/ big tv & games consoles plus decent card table that can be used for jigsaws)
- Basement library with hidden passageway to the outside (Just cos..)
- Lounge
- Kitchen/ breakfast room
- Dining room
- Utility room
- Workshop (equipped for everything from wood to metalwork – must also have inspection pit)
- Conservatory
- Indoor pool (this is a dream house)
This has to back onto a small woodland park – nothing fancy, a few deer dotted about the place for prettyness and awww factor – no hunters allowed.
It has to have at least one old willow tree and several silver birch, and oak and a beech – and a climable horse chestnut. It needs to be wild enough to be pretty and house wildlife but tame enough to walk in without worrying too much about the consequences (so no wolves/ bears etc).
The other side of the wood needs to back up onto a climbable cliff face (good for abseiling purposes) There also needs to be a waterfall (complete with hidden cave behind the water) that falls into a pool suitable for swimming (gotta have a skinny dipping picnic pool in your happy place!) that leads onto a stream that runs through the wood to finish at the resevoir that borders the other end of the property – this can be used for canoing and windsurfing practice.
At the top of the cliff will be a go-kart/ mini moto track that’s set far enough back that the sound is covered by the noise of the falls.
There will be a golf driving range and putting green at the opposite side of the wood to the waterfall and the bar will be in a building separated into sections, booths that can hold up to 15 people that can be used for karaoke or music practice rooms – these can also be linked into the recording studio (just a basic one) for the use of visiting friends. (it’s also where most of the car parking facilities will be since the house has space for only 3 cars)
I want everything to be as self sufficient and eco friendly as possible so there will be wind turbines at the top of the cliff and everything gets composted/ recycled as much as possible, I want there to be a farm by the driving range that supplies most of the food for my happy place, everything else can be ordered online because there will be a massive wireless network in place so that whereever you are on the land, as long as you know the passwords you can log on.
(I may want things eco friendly but I refuse to go without net access)
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.. I feel so much calmer and ready for bed, I can guarantee pleasant dreams after envisioning this little lot *grin* mesa happy bunny now.
Go – Let me know what you’d have in your happy place. S’an order!
Oh can I come live with you??!!
I’d be wanting to following:
Parents retreat – preferably a whole block away from the kiddies
A hard plumbed espresso machine in the commercial style kitchen, oh fuck it I’ll just have a small cafe setup in the middle of the house!
A spa….most definitely a spa
And an inground warmed pool, like the old greek style baths they used to have with water sprouting cherub fountains…
I could go on and on, but these would be the main ones!
ACtually, I kinda like the idea of the old roman style bath houses now you mention it Kel.. Hmmm.. to update or no..
As for the espresso machine.. I live with a partial Italian! Of course there’ll be real coffee knocking about, be more than my lifes worth not to have that on offer!
Wow, sounds really nice, but I have a question, do Brits really play air hockey?
indeed we do m’lovely – there’s one in almost every cinema and arcade in the country – and a few other places besides..
No, I will be having the lads round to hunt deer occasionally! Me, Bobby De Niro and old Mr C. Walken talking about the good ol’ days in ‘Nam.
*sigh* yes dear *pat pat*
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I’d buy a whole farm, land and all, build a mansion in the middle of all the land and then plant most of the fields with native trees, just keep a few as meadows.
The house would have to have a pool/snooker room, a pool, a library – octagonal and at least two stories with shelving all around, a hidden doorway and a pit full of cushions in the middle. Four bedrooms, a computer games room, a small home cinema (probably in the basement) and a large workroom for me to do my dyeing in.
OOHHHHHHHHHHhhhh Meadows! how could I have forgotten the need for a picnic place?! good call there Kitty m’love, glad to see you’ve still got some time to yourself for browsing