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What is your favorite house style?
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| ranch |
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| victorian |
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| spanish/california adobe |
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| New England |
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| colonial |
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| cutting edge modern |
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| mediterranean courtyard style |
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| stone |
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| log |
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| other |
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Total Votes : 35
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(last vote on : 7/30/2008 9:25:23 AM)
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RE: What is your favorite house style? - 7/14/2008 9:38:48 AM
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bluestone
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I voted "other". I like antebellum and Greek revival, as well as traditional Tudor, sans thatch roof.
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RE: What is your favorite house style? - 7/19/2008 12:47:28 AM
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nanato3
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I voted log, my dh & I both love log. But what we have is a ranch.
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RE: What is your favorite house style? - 7/19/2008 10:49:30 PM
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loveleee
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I live in a log home (which made me realize that I really dont like the color brown) It has an upstairs and a downstairs (which I really really really dont like) because I have fallen down them and have broken my tailbone. So I am very much looking forward to hopefully having a ranch style home with no stairs and walls that I can paint. 
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RE: What is your favorite house style? - 7/19/2008 11:28:31 PM
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Covaan_Meshuga
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Oh, you ask a hard question!
When my son was taking computer drafting, he asked me what I would want, if I could have a dream house and money was not a problem. I told him, and he drew up the plans. I still have them. It is such a cool house for me!
Three stories plus a basement.
I was young then. Today, I would ask him to put an elevator in it; then, I asked for both a known staircase and a hidden one as well as a silent butler.
My husband and I would occupy the third floor, with its luxury bedroom, bath, and closets.
The second floor had three luxury bedrooms, each like small luxury apartments, with full facilities for guests, with their own outside entrances.
There was also another guest bedroom on that floor that was purposely cramped; its bathroom, also cramped, was down the hall; and its only entrance was through the house, down to the main floor. Its bed was a Murphy bed, and when it was down for sleeping, there was just room enough to get around it. The closet was minuscule. This guestroom was for people I did not want to stay long.
Downstairs was the main living area, with a grand piano in the great room, a family room, a dining room, and a large-eat-in kitchen, with a balcony outside it that swooped around to the outside of the dining room and farther down, looking over the back yard. There was both a full bath and a half bath there. The tourette started on this floor and extended through the second floor and the top of it was in our third-floor bedroom, where it contained a breakfast table, and we could watch the sun rise there. There was stained glass in it on the second and third floors.
The silent butler went from the kitchen up to our third-floor bedroom and down into the basement. There was also a fire-fighter's pole that went into the basement.
The basement had a special room that surrounded the bottom of the firefighter pole, and the floor there was covered 2.5 feet deep with softish rubber balls. That room was mainly Plexiglas. Outside that room were many built-in toys -- swings, slides, full play kitchen in a little house, full play builders' shop, and lots of storage for toys. There were also three small rooms with built-in bunk beds for grand children. The basement also held my son's luxury room with its own small kitchen-with-everything, a sunken living room that was a round leather couch, a luxury bathroom, and its own entrance. His entrance opened to a garden with a jacuzzi.
There were three garages in the basement, also, and their entrances were in the back of the house.
The house was set on a hill, so that from the front, the basement didn't show, and it looked like a Victorian.
See? I don't want much!
My son was still living at home when he drew this, and the 3 luxury second floor bedrooms were mainly for our other children, when they would visit.
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Oh! But on your poll, I actually voted mediterranean courtyard style, but it was a hard choice next to victorian and spanish/california adobe.
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RE: What is your favorite house style? - 7/25/2008 2:38:53 PM
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barbhuff
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We're restoring a Sears Roebuck 1917 foursquare. It still has much of the charm of the Victorians that preceeded them-- gorgeous woodwork, pocket doors, built-in cabinetry in the dining room. It's funny-- even though that most of the houses in the town that I grew up were a Sears foursquare of some sorts, I've always wanted one.
I grew up in a glamorized shoe box (as my mother HATED me calling it) also known as a 1950's ranch.
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