Okay, so you've moved to your ideal city. Now what sort of house are you going to live in?

I would start with a gigantic covered porch with hanging plants and cushiony sofas where I could have tea parties. (Wouldn't everybody?) The house itself would be three stories tall, because I like being up in the clouds, with high ceilings, lots of windows with intricate wood work and stained glass, lots of tiny odd shaped rooms that do not have any specific function, and balconies, and rooms that are so big that the furniture sits in the middle, not against the wall, and all the upholstery would be velvet and the all the pillows silk and stuffed with down.

-- Anonymous, June 16, 2000

Answers

Have you ever seen the Winchester Mansion? Stairs leadng nowhere, doors that open onto brick walls...that sort of place. Just to drive everybody nuts.

-- Anonymous, June 16, 2000

Oh any, any, any house that's self cleaning. I'm so tired of mopping and dusting and scrubbing and and and.....

-- Anonymous, June 16, 2000

I'd have a big front porch, the sort of modified southern kind with two brick pillars, and a screened back porch and deck, and a huge garden and a hot tub. I think I'd also have some Southwestern-type things inside like stucco-looking walls with cool little nooks for pictures and stuff, and I'd have a loft-type room just for myself and my computer and whatever toys I wanted to put up there. And the whole thing would have to be on a hill. And there would be lots of silvery windchimes. And hanging lanterns.

-- Anonymous, June 17, 2000

Bungalows...I love bungalows on tree-lined streets. Oh and a HUGE garage

-- Anonymous, June 17, 2000

I would love to have a home and some land!

I like the open concept of a home, no walls, except for a loft/bedroom area.

An indoor sunroom, like being outside but in your home.

An indoor built in pool.

Built in book shelves in all the walls

Lots of big pillows, stringed lights, lava lamps, books, pets, plants...

I dream, dream, dream....

-- Anonymous, June 17, 2000

I'm so sick of apartment living. I'd love to have a little Victorian bungalow in a quiet neighborhood. An old house with histroy and character. It will have a sizeable porch (screened in)and a lush flower garden. Wood floors, lots of windows, a guest room, a dining room. Plenty of space for my kitties to run and frolic and enough room to entertain.

-- Anonymous, June 18, 2000

There would be two adjoined physical structures, one for me and my daughter and my pets, and one for my husband. The girlbunker would be covered in linoleum and Barbie-themed vinyl wallpaper (for the kid, not me) and lined with bookshelves. It would open up to a maintenance-free backyard where dog waste was automatically disposed of, that had tall fences and was soundproof. My husband's dwelling would have a loading dock in the back, where the refuse collection unit would scrape the trash straight off the floor and cart it away once or twice a week, and every room would be wired with the latest and greatest computer equipment. We could communicate via email or those family radio things.

Not very Brady of me, I guess, but it's my dream and I'm sticking to it.

-- Anonymous, June 21, 2000

A fireplace and a pool would be musts for me if I was ever to stay in one place for more than 6 to 8 months (sigh). Oh yeah, LOTS OF SUNLIGHT. The last two places have been so lacking in sunlight, I had to move so I didn't kill myself. Apart from that, the only other must-haves are NO INSECTS and a gas stove/oven. And the ornamental male or two,just for decoration.

-- Anonymous, June 22, 2000

Mary Ellen -- HA!! Loading dock!

I always say that I'll get a house that has no cracks so bugs can't come in.

-- Anonymous, June 22, 2000

Oh Gwen, you know it. We just moved into a "fixer" (to put it politely,) and half the windows don't have screens and the ones that do have holes in them. We're having a record heatwave here and no air conditioning, so we've got to have the windows open once in a while. Consequently, I currently have a few dozen mosquito bites on my body. Are mosquitoes the scourge of the universe, or what?

I've also been going around and diligently filling every single crack and opening (like between the baseboards and walls, because you know that's where the ick-bugs live) with caulk before painting. I just love caulk.

-- Anonymous, June 28, 2000

well folks id like to live in a trailer butim in scotland and we aint got trailer parks here they should have though but i anm not to sure about living in one in the deep south.from what ive read the take pre- pubescent brides and in-breeding is rife.is it legal!!!!!?

-- Anonymous, November 18, 2000

Not only is it legal, it's illegal NOT to do so.

What's with all the floosie imitators? Are you people coming over from one of those bulletin boards of bitterness?

-- Anonymous, November 18, 2000

oh i hope them mean poeple dont come here. there so nasty!!! and they gots no life if they make fun fo me!!! loosers

-- Anonymous, November 19, 2000

I want a solarium. And balconies. And tile floors. And hardwood floors. The rest is pretty negotiable.

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2000

My ideal living space would be something bought and paid for in London that would fit all my stuff in it. Secondarily, something affordable that would hold all my stuff in it.

You may now laugh hysterically at my naivete. Silly me, thinking that there's semi- affordable housing in London that might hold, say, even my books by themselves...

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2000