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Monday, March 3, 2008
Our Dream Home
A week or more ago, Johnathan and I picked up some graph paper and pencils with the express interest in my being able to sketch out ideas for a future home. It started with the urge to put to paper (in a semi-organized fashion) my ideas for an ideal kitchen area. I couldn’t stop there, though. Yesterday, I worked diligently on a first floor template and completed a version of a future home that so far includes a kitchen, spacious living room, dining room and computer room as well as a large front porch. Johnathan likes what I eventually settled on, though it’s subject to changes since I have no idea exactly where the stairs would go. We spent a good amount of time on designing a finished basement last night as well. The basement of our dreams would have a soundproof room for music making, ample area for game playing (both board and video) as well as a home theater system for which we would have a pull-down screen and projector as well as two tiers of seating (probably two cushy couches). We also started sketching out ideas for the ideal garage, but ended up having a disagreement about a mudroom and about a set of stairs so we set it aside for now for our own sanity. I figure we’ll be able to come to a decision about that eventually.
What’s really fun about this is firstly that we’re doing it together and also that we’re not letting the possible cost prohibitiveness of the things we’re suggesting stop us. It means that the designs we come up with (and I know this won’t be the first) will be exactly what we want in a future home. I love the design we’ve already come up with. It has the practicality of a family home and features that suit our specific interests. We’re also planning to essentially wire it up like crazy. We want to build a kitchen database which will house all of our recipes and have included functionality to be able to keep track of our current kitchen inventory. That’s something we plan to start on fairly soon so that we can start testing it with our current kitchen and recipes.
I am so excited! I’m using the few skills that I remember from the architecture class that I took in seventh grade during my first trimester at school in Oregon and then essentially making up the rest. I think the next step for us will be to get some kind of program so that we can more easily create representations of it. An idea is to use The Sims 2 to represent it, though I know I can’t get an exact representation of it because of the limitations of creation there. All the same, I’m very excited about what we’re doing. At some point we’ll probably post some of our ideas, if only to keep them somewhere that they’re less likely to be destroyed randomly. (Fires seem to be shockingly common at this apartment complex…)
Whether we ever are able to make this home or not is debatable but in the meantime, at least we can dream. We can also use these ideas to customize any home we do purchase sometime in the future. Either way, designing this will be really fun, particularly as we’re doing it together.
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