[Emerald]

Irina said:

Emerald, you are right about prices!! I read the article in the Internet today with a description of several houses in different countries (every one could be really a dream house, near the sea or beautiful places, with several rooms, swimming pools and with the completed repair!!!). They have been compared with the price of a small wretched flat in Moscow. Their prices were the same - 300 th EURO. Of course, it is unfair! And at this moment we can`t go and buy this estate. And it`s really easy to fall into a depression thinking about it. So maybe the way of a repair or a decoration of our own flats could be more likely! Let`s be positive!

I'm not going nuts about real estate prices in Moscow, it might drive anyone crazy :roll:
I'm totally positive in dreaming about my perfect dream house in Europe. :D

Have you heard about a theory saying that all thoughts miterialize? So I have to go now to start dreaming even harder :lol:

[Autevielle]

To Everyone:

Since the subject of neighbors, repairs etc. seems to be cropping up a lot, go and read this:

http://thepioneerwom...category/lodge/

This is an ex-yuppy girl living on a ranch with her husband, 4 kids, truckloads of animals and real authentic cowboys; she has a lively sense of humor and tells great stories with her photos and witty comments. And it is a real story of a real dream house, prairie included

[Shaos]

Emerald said:

Shaos judging by the place you've chosen to wait for the sun it might happen that you are waiting in my dream house's neighborhood!
welcome neighbor ! :D

Yeah! I`ll be glad to be your neighbor there! See you!

[Elena]

I like Italy very much and I try to go there every year. Do you mean "I try to go"? So, I've dreamed (tense?)about a house in Italy. It should be old villa with a garden and wine cellar Somewhere in Baveno or Stresa.These are very beautiful cities on Lago Maggiore (in translate from Italian-Big Lake) on the border between Italy and Switzerland. Light blue water, parks, mountains, gardens, islands, flowers - it�s the Lago Maggiore! (1 missing article)
If you can't live without a big city- 50 minutes by car and you are in Milano. (1 missing article)
Milano....Restaurants, night clubs, SHOPPING:))))Via Corso Montenapoleone, Della Spiga, Via Borgospesso,corso Venezia), -it sounds like a song:)) And of course, Italian men So, I've dreamed (tense?) about a house in Italy!)))

[Roman]

I was very impressed by hobbit�s houses that anyone saw how watched The lords of the ring trilogy. It�s not a dream of course. But those weird round doors and windows seemed to me very attractive and cozy. Wood was all around and was felt saturated with warm. The whole house especially it�s inside view inspires in the dwellers felling of convenience, comfort and comprehensive safety. Recently a thought occurred to me that some fan of Tolkien might have already built that kind of a house. I used the internet and discovered someone have really made his dream real.
http://www.finehomeb...bbit-house.aspx

[Olga]

I read all these interesting comments, sounds very good and at the same time very different. Personally, I noticed that preference changes very dramatically depends on how old you are and what is your maritual status.
Not long ago I wanted a high tech minimalistic apartment. Which is now for sale. It was perfect back then, but it had no feeling of home. Now I want something totally different and have no regret putting my place on the market. missing preposition What I want now is........ to have two places!!! One would be in Moscow full of light, cozy, provence style, with a big kitchen, where I can bake huge cakes .
Don"t really have an idea of what will be inside, (what it will be like inside or ...?) but it must have panoramic windows (from top to bottom), bathroom with a window (you all know that it is impossible in Russia:)) and a bathtub in the middle. The second one may be in Edgewater, New Jersey with a view of Manhattan, the view that we all see at pictures and in the movies. The funny thing in it that it would cost much less than a place in Moscow would. missing verb, missing article

[Fox]

The topic was started in March and first I didn’t want to take part in the discussion. I agreed with Autevielle and had nothing more to say. I only want to note that the dream of a house with a fireplace, a patio, a library and a wine cellar is not boring. I think it’s the dream house of most people.
I decided to add a reply because it’s the main thing for me at the moment. Next year we’ll start to build our new house. It’s a pity, but the old house of my grandparents is unfit to live in and we have to build a new one. Lucky me, I have the opportunity to have a house in the place which I love so much and where I spent half of my life. And, returning to Shaos' and Emerald's replies about neighbors, I must say that there are no problems with my neighbors. They are nice people whom I’ve known since my childhood.
I believe that it will be a real dream house though I have no idea yet what it will be. So many projects and I can’t choose one of them! I hope by the beginning of the building I will be able to fix on something. In addition next year we will renovate our flat. On the one hand it’s awful, but on the other… How happy I will be when we will get it over with it!
Let all our dreams come true!

P.S. Sometimes when I go too far in my dreams my husband stops me with an acid remark: “Renovation doesn’t get finished, it just gets stopped”.

[Nastya]

First of all I want that in my house there will be a large and cosy bathroom!

[Autevielle]

Nastya, on 14 January 2011 - 01:42 PM, said:

First of all I want that in my house there will be a large and cosy bathroom!

What does "cosy" imply?

[solar prominence]

A house of my dream is very far from Moscow=) Near the sea, maybe in the Crimea. There are only several things which I want in my house...
1. A big library with plenty of books - novels, scientific literature. I want my library to be comfortable. There should be soft armchairs and many candles.
2. Many bright rooms for my children. In Moscow you have as many children as your floorage allows. There would not be such a problem in my house.
3. A swimming pool outdoors. An aquapark.
4. Household servants:
- A cook. I will cook only when I wish.
- Someone who will prepare a hookah for me. During his free time he will look after my children.
- A brawny masseur-mulatto.
5. A carpet for my husband. It can lie even inside the house.

This post has been edited by solar prominence: 10 October 2011 - 09:48 PM

[Bill Stickers]

That's the spirit. What's the use of dreams unless you dream big? But, lady, a husband who is content with a carpet and has nothing to say about a brawny mulatto masseur may take a while to find.

[solar prominence]

Bill Stickers, the topic's name is "Dream House"=) so I'm dreaming=)
I never thought about it until I saw this topic. I rent a flat and can't change anything in it . I can't even nail a picture to a wall . It's not a complaint, it's a statement of fact. So if I dream about a house which can exist I'll become sad. And it's funny to dream about smth impossible because you understand that it's impossible

[Caledonia]

A dream house... mmm - so many ideas and images come to my mind that it is even difficult to catch all of them and put into one whole picture. Anyway my dream house
is by all means (usage) located on a seaside or on an ocean coast looking at the sea or the ocean. Surely the sweetest dream is a cosy two srore detached house with a terrace and a mansard
where my studio is, located in the South of France on the Cout d'-Azur in a secluded village. The light is perfect here and I can paint any time.
Usually a mansard is a French roof in English; if Shiverdark stops she could tell us a bit more about the mansard vs. a Fr. roof vs. a gambrel!
Undoubtedly (Definitely/I'm sure/I'm imagining etc.) there is big library with a fireplace and two big armchairs in front of it. There is a shady garden near the house where it is such a pleasure to have a meal at any time of the day. A truly marvelous view opens from the garden: a sea slick (look up the usage, it almost always refers to an oil slick!) is blending with the horizon, sailboats are drifting up and down giving a feeling of pacification etc. I can continue it endlessly)
Another variant is a house on Bali from the film "Eat, pray,love" starring Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem. The house that is full of cordiality (usage), warmth and love.

[Shiverdark]

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Usually a mansard is a French roof in English; if Shiverdark stops she could tell us a bit more about the mansard vs. a Fr. roof vs. a gambrel!

Mansard roof, French roof and Gambrel - these are names of a shape of a hip roof with two slopes on each of its sides. There are 4 sides in a mansard roof and 2 sides in a gambrel (also there are 2 gables or frontons in a gambrel). In France and Germany there is no distinction between gambrels and mansards – they are both called "mansards". If we speak about a roof we mean construction: a skeleton frame, insulation, lucarnes or dormer windows, etc.


An attic, attic floor, mansard floor - these are names of living space directly under the roof. The cross-section of this roof can be triangular or similar to that of a mansard roof.


In the French language, "mansarde" can be a term for the style of a roof, or for the attic living space.
I hope, it was useful