Eccentric House Awards: You get to spend Five Million $.... but...

This would take forever to write down! I know that if I had the money I'd do whatever it took to win!


But so would everyone else...

I don't feel creative, so I would just make myself a nice, big, space efficient mansion.

My house will be done up to look like a cottage under the sea. The outside will be turquoise with lots of tropical fish, shells, and plants painted on it. You will enter by walking over a rope and plywood bridge. There will be lots of portholes, so you can see outside, to check the weather and such. The entire living area will be clear unbreakable glass surrounded by a gigantic real aquarium. The bathtub will be shaped like a giant cctupus. There will be lots of caves and hidden passages.

I don't want a "weird" house. If I lost, then I'd just have to live with it? That would kinda suck. I'd take the $5 mill and run with it.

Jacuzzi, an extension on the back of the house with new instruments (drum kit, guitars etc) and a recording studio, an egyptian sarcophagus with loads of other egyptian artefacts for the living room (I'm mad on Egypt) A PC in every room, SKY TV in every room, that's all I can think of for now. I know that's not particularly weird, but there you go. I wouldn't care if I won anyway.

I get to live in it if I lose? Well, in that case, I'm going to spend the 5 million dollars to re-do my house, and lose!

Good answer, Jemmy. Never thought of that.

I'm really bad at this. "Eccentric" seems to be synonymous with "tacky" in my head. Why can't there be another prize for most beautiful house? Long veranda, sliding glass doors onto decks, bright white swimming pool...

yes, I do...

Well, I suppose the easiest thing for me to do would be to just describe my dream home. I've spent a little time thinking about it already and it is a bit unconventional:

It would be built in the Edwardian style with a big turret. The ground floor of the turret would be a breakfast nook in the kitchen, and the top floor would be part of the master bedroom. The house would be spray painted with horizontal stripes of various earthy tones, browns, golds, greens...The expansive yard would combine landscaping in the style of a Japanese garden, but would also include some wacky lawn gnomes and garden sculpture. There would be a swimming pool with a waterfall, a stream, a bridge, a Jacuzzi and a platform that you could swim under and emerge through a hole in the center. The inside of the house would be in stark contrast to the outside. Very white with black accents. Smallish paintings with rococo frames. The kitchen would be farmyard style in muted orange and yellow. The bathrooms would be in turquoise with seascapes. Eight bedrooms upstairs. Kitchen, livingroom and grand entrance hall on the ground floor. The basement would have a music room, a library, a painting studio, maybe a room with a pool table. The livingroom would be set up somewhat like a cocktail lounge, with a big bar, a bunch of small tables and chairs, and a few comfy couches scattered around. The whole house would be wired for sound.

why is it that men always want big turrets??

i would use the 5 million to hire a bunch of gangsters to tear my house apart. it would cost like 200$. even if i didn't i would still have the money to buy a great house

I would use 1million to build an incredibly large showroom/garage
and the other 4 million for Harley Davidsons(including a 2002 VRod), some Indians(including a1928 101 Scout and a 2001 Indian w/Lehman trike) and one vintage BSA just like my dad rode on the wall of death.

I'd convert it to a lighthouse but there's a shrink living across the road.

I'll buy the house next door and connect its second-floor kitchen to my second-floor kitchen with a giant bridge, with a breezeway underneath. I'll lower the foundation and put in a ramp down to new workshop and garage space beneath both houses. I'll add a turret and a grand staircase and stained-glass windows to the back of the house, refocusing the house to face the back yard. I'll put a hot tub on the roof, heated by solar panels. I'll put in a ground-loop heat pump even though the house is in New England and the yard is so small that the loop will have to run vertically. I'll put in a door in the back staircase that will go from the ceiling of the room next to it down to 32 inches off the floor, and put a stepstool in front of the door. I'll put in windows in the interior walls of the house. I'll put in curvy, off-kilter built-in bookshelves in the downstairs office. I'll pull out the chimney and replace the holes in all the floors and the roof with skylights, so that light comes all the way down through the upstairs office and both kitchens into the basement. I'll put lots of extra shower heads in all the bathrooms. I'll run compressed air piping all through the house, and have all compressed-air powered kitchen tools. I'll add new dormers to the roof in all different styles. And I'll hire Classic Restorations to do it all, which means they'll come up with 1000 more wacky things to do and convince me they're a good idea when they're not.

I would buy a really, really expensive house, then use the remainder of the money to have it knocked down. I would live amongst the piles of bricks. A totally trashed house is eccentric when owned by the upper-classes, so I guess I would have to get myself a peerage too, or I'd just be considered a poor homeless person.

I started reading that and thought, "ooh, that sounds like my school!" but we don't have half of the cool stuff - we really could do with a Japanese garden to complement the Edwardian building!

I would get you to do that for me.

This is my new dream bike!

lol Yes, only a conniving mind like mine could come up with a scheme!

Wow, that's a gorgeous bike!

So is yours!

OIC!

Oh that's easy. I want a house where everything is suitable for my birds. Fountains everywhere,a loft where they can sleep (entire second floor)Sky lights. I'll have a room in the downstairs.I'm sure it won't cost millions but I don't care.We'll be happy anyway.

That's the new liquid cooled Harley? Almost makes me want a Harley?

Yes...the first ever liquid cooled Harley(60 degree V-twin, 15 degrees wider than the air cooled Harley's), the most technologically advanced Harley...the Harley to beat all Harleys!!!!

They refer to it as a drag racing inspired power cruiser *giggles*
hehehehe a Harley with a water pump!

*excited chatter*
Double overhead cams, 5 speed transmission, four valves per cylinder, 108 rear wheel horsepower, plain bearing crank shaft and the gas tank is under the SEAT!!!!
That hump in the front where you'd think the gas tank would live is actually where the air cleaner and fuse box live. There's also a bunch of aftermarket gear available for it so far..including backrests and saddlebags(hard)and windsheilds..
It is beautiful and I cannot wait to actually see one...touch one...sit on one...
(Yay! Willy G.)
That long raked out front end is sooo sexy...
At 616 pounds I'm thinking it's a lot of bike for a gurlie....but *shrugs* I don't care....I'm in love....

I'd just build my damn house. 25 million. Bah.

WHITE NOISE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm trying to shape up my act. Please don't keep me from being able to change my mind and my opinions !!!

Just letting you know what reading that is like.

I would use the 5 million to make my house a dream home to my taste, which would be far too picturesque and not bizarre at all, so I would not win the competition, but I would be happy with the $5 million dream home I would then have.
Incidentally, the home would have 2 stories, a basement, a fabulous gourmet kitchen with a desk, adjacent to a sewing and laundry room, a master bath with a luxurious bath big enough for two or more, an office for my husband, a media room for his movie addictions, a root cellar, an open front porch, and an enclosed back porch, and perhaps a nice sunroom for breakfast and pleasantries. Oh, and laundry chutes and dumbwaiters would be a nice touch for the upstairs.
Yes, I could be happy not winning the $25 million!

Um....
*glug glug glug*
Too drunk- can'tanswer that now...

I would make it into a medieval castle.