Once more, it’s time to put on your thinking caps and see what there is to find out about you. Today’s set of questions were inspired by Chef Tony, who gave us an insight a couple of days back about the type of house he’d like to build for himself if he suddenly became Croesus, Midas, and Bill Gates all rolled into one.
In that theme, then, answer for us these three questions:
1) If you had an unlimited amount of money, what sort of house would you like to have?
2) If you decided to chunk it and go the full Thoreau route, what sort of hovel would you like to have?
3) What is the one thing you’d most like to change about the house or apartment you live in right now?
There you go! In addition to your thinking caps, strap on that tool belt and get to work coming up with your answers. Remember, though--be safe and please don't forget to wear your safety goggles. As is the usual case, anyone in the entire world may play along--just leave a link to your blog in the comments, or if you’ve not managed to get your blog constructed yet, just leave your answers there.
AS for my answers…
1) I would buy the Gamble House in Pasadena. I find it one of the most intensely beautiful and sublime dwellings ever created.
2) Well, actually, I would really like to have an antique steam tugboat that I would live on and chug up and down the Intracoastal Waterway. Or maybe on Smith Lake.
3) We need another bedroom in order to keep the peace. I think we’ve decided to stay put (maybe) and add on to Boy’s room to give him a bit more space, and the area underneath where the patio is now will be enclosed and made into a fifth bedroom. Sometime in this process, I will go stark raving mad and be sent to the mental hospital.
SO, there you go!
Posted by Terry Oglesby at November 17, 2005 08:13 AMI'm up, with a note about my blogging absence.
Posted by: skinnydan at November 17, 2005 08:25 AM1. and 2. are the same: A shack on the water with a dock for the boat (Yeah, I know Thoreau wouldn't have the boat; but I think I recall he took his laundry into town or to his mom, so he wasn't consistent either).
3. Need central AC. I'm getting to old for moving window ACs around.
Posted by: steevil (Dr Weevil's bro Steve) at November 17, 2005 08:48 AMThoreau obviously just didn't know what he was missing. Nothing gets you in touch with nature quite like being out on on the water, and suddenly realizing you left out the bilge plug.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at November 17, 2005 09:01 AMI'd put Terry in charge of dealing with the contractors.
Posted by: skillzy at November 17, 2005 09:21 AMI'm up and I think Thoreau was a seriously sick man.
Posted by: Larry Anderson at November 17, 2005 09:27 AMI bit on this one.
Posted by: earth girl at November 17, 2005 10:39 AM1. Build a 3000 sq. ft. (FL Wright style) ranch halfway up on my own mountain, with my own power generating station (no phone lines coming in either). It would have a big barn, of course, with enough animals so that Lady Spud could pet her critters all day.
2. See #1. Although, if you can "tugboat Willie" then I wouldn't mind going fulltime RV (my wife hates the idea though).
3. A carport. Even in Tarheelandia, I still have to scrape the windshield every morning for 4-5 months each year. Sometimes I'll idle the car in the driveway with the defrost on, but then I feel guilty when I start thinking about all of the baby pelicans coated with oil slick.
[Oh yeah, a big screen TV would be nice too!]
Aww, baby pelicans. IN WIDE SCREEN HI DEF! Way cool!
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at November 17, 2005 01:26 PM1) If you had an unlimited amount of money, what sort of house would you like to have?
I'd like something like FLWs Falling Water but using the techniques and materials in My Moron™ dream home. My big prob w/FLW is he was short and liked low slung, won't work w/my longer legs and bad back. He also never tried to cook in a semi pro way in any of his kitchens.
2) If you decided to chunk it and go the full Thoreau route, what sort of hovel would you like to have?
Bruce Dern did a SF movie where a pod filled w/a balanced ecosystem was left floating... now that's my idea of a retreat.
3) What is the one thing you’d most like to change about the house or apartment you live in right now?
Parts of this place are wood framed and common walled, Not good, sayth the man w/11 on the loud end of the home theater system.
x-posted to my LJ also
Posted by: Tony von Krag at November 17, 2005 03:25 PM