If you were to build your dreamhome, what would it look like? Show us a picture.

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52. I think this is it, with a couple modifications.

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It's the Tumbleweed Sebastarosa. I'd like to put it on a suburban trending urban lot. (Long, narrow lot, high walk-ability score... Basically the town I live in now, or one quite like it in a rainier place.)

The major modifications are: extend the front porch to full width; extend the downstairs back bedroom to full width and run the downstairs bath all the way to the back wall, adding in space for washer/dryer, a soaking bathtub and a double laundry sink. (I play with textiles.) The rest of the back room is a working studio, with built-in shelves, clerestory windows and sky lights. French doors to the back porch. On a full, finished basement foundation, so Mr. Me can have his robotics lab. Move the front door to the left great-room window and make the kitchen U shaped; nix the odd pantry and what-the-hell space between the kitchen and bath. Pocket doors everywhere. Pellet stove heating. Upstairs, build in floor to ceiling wardrobes instead of the closets. Smaller bedroom is a library. Garage on the back, if possible, either two car width or a double one car, so that we actually have a place for wood working stuff.

We don't do guests or children, so three bedrooms is more than we actually need, but our heirs will be happy if they can sell our house after we're gone. Small because I hate cleaning and I'm better about being tidy if I don't have space to spread out.