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I’ve been dreaming again… I often think of the way I’d love things, but it’s always a little difficult to imagine it. The past month I’ve been OBSESSED with trying to figure out what my dream home would look like. I’ve been thinking in circles, in octagons and every shape imaginable.

I figured it out. Now, I’m not exactly an architect. Sure, I’ve passed Advanced Higher Art - but that doesn’t make me an artist. I’m a designer. My father is though, but I’ve never really learned anything about architecture from him. Well.. he did tell me to do one thing… “Don’t get into architecture.”

Last night I just doodled for a while, and I started to figure it out. It was amazing. I thought I’d share what I came up with. It’s not exactly finished, but it’s getting there.

The front of the house hasn’t been given much consideration. It’s just a bog-standard flat face.

 

It looks a little nicer from the side. I might add some windows, but I was kind of thinking this may go in between houses in the city (So close up that stuff such as windows don’t make sense).

You might also notice the fact that the left hand side of the roof is slightly slanted, just enough to drip the rain off yet look good.

Also, for the end of the roof which covers the balcony - I was thinking it may be pretty cool if it retracted into the roof when not needed to let more light in.

 

 

Ignore the lines, that’s just Sketchup being an ass. The bottom will have a lot more windows - right now the living room has none! The middle windows at the bottom and top take you to the corridors of both the top and bottom floors. The windows on the right take you to the kitchen/dining room area.

The balcony has a thick glass to stop people from falling off - but even if little children are walking around the top their view won’t be spoiled.

The stairs don’t need to be there - but I know a little from my dad regarding new buildings, and I know I’d need a fire escape for the top floor.

 

The kitchen is in the bottom floor, and incorporates the dining room too. Pretty basic, and includes a breakfast bar and built in accessories. Tasty.

 

Here’s the bottom guest room. There’s also a small kids bedroom (same size) and a bathroom and restroom (but I forgot about them in the design and closed them off from the rest of the house - oops!) including a living room on the bottom floor.

 

The top floor is a lot more interesting - let’s just call it my ‘personal space’.

 

The ofice is pretty simple. It’s just a small workstation but enough to make sure I could get my work come without interruptions.

 

Yes, a home cinema. With about 17 seats. I had to. It’s been a dream of mine for ages!

 

There’s also another bathroom, restroom, spare room (don’t know what to do with it), darkroom (just because), utilities store and the master bedroom - but I didn’t want to make this post too big.

 

So far, I’m pretty chuffed.

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