Hi Doug, > Well, if I can realistically expect to afford a completely custom home, > it means the Lottery Fairy visited and price is, practically, not > really > an object. So, if I'm gonna dream, I'm gonna dream big. :-) > > Anyway, I'm more about the land than the house. If price is no object, > I'm going to build a pretty modest house in the middle of a property as > large as I can afford. There are limits, afterall. But I could easily > envision living in a 300 or 400 m^2 (3-4000 ft^2) house on thousands of > acres of land.
My ambitions are far more modest, but even so, would require said Lottery Fairy - I suppose entering would be a help. > Yeah, wasted space is one of my pet peeves. A boatload of new > relatively high-end housing was built around my area in the run up to > the bursting of the mortgage bubble. A lot of them are sitting empty, > so I go around and look at the ones that aren't locked up. I've gotta > tell you, the vast majority of them are aesthetic nightmares, for a > huge > number of reasons including wasted space and rooms apparently designed > with the specific purpose of making it impossible to place furniture > without blocking doors or traffic flows. It seems a similar problem both sides of the pond; again, one of the reasons I gave up looking and extended here. It's all a compromise though and by going up, I've added another flight of stairs which as I get older will be a real pain. To get this back into photography, I will take some photos next time I go past the development. Malcolm -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
