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When I used to build rich-people mansions in the Park City area, we'd see all sorts of crazy @#$%^ that people wanted put in their houses. We'd just shake our heads, and figure out how to put it in. Here's some of the outlandish things we installed:
2,000 SF wine cellar
Laundry closets with stacked washer-dryers in every single bedroom (about 9 bedrooms)
showers with the nozzles hanging from the ceiling, and the water flowing down from 10 feet in the air
Toilets with the tanks built into the wall so the only thing you'd see is the seat sticking out like a ghostly chair
An open channel water fountain that flowed down the side of the stairwell like a wet bannister
A dark room (who uses wet film any more?)
A miniature train on tracks travelling around on some dropped soffit at the ceiling of the room like that restaurant in Heber.
A garden on the roof (not on a widow's walk or anything-- the dirt was on the roof)
The house built over a creek with a glass floor
A salt lick on the deck
Some of the stuff was crazy, some of it was cool, some of it I knew would be a nightmare to maintain. The coolest thing I liked was for a 5,000 SF bachelor pad. The guy mounted a flat screen plasma tv in his bathroom directly behind the huge bathroom mirror. When the tv was off, you'd see nothing, just a bathroom mirror. Click the remote control and you had a 36" tv in the mirror. The mirror was surrounded by an ornate frame that hid a hinge. You could flip up the mirror for tv maintenance.
So what do you have in the back of your mind that you'd like to put into your dream house one day when you have a ton of dough? If money were no object? Rumpus room? Conversation pit? Room sized shower made of glass block?
2,000 SF wine cellar
Laundry closets with stacked washer-dryers in every single bedroom (about 9 bedrooms)
showers with the nozzles hanging from the ceiling, and the water flowing down from 10 feet in the air
Toilets with the tanks built into the wall so the only thing you'd see is the seat sticking out like a ghostly chair
An open channel water fountain that flowed down the side of the stairwell like a wet bannister
A dark room (who uses wet film any more?)
A miniature train on tracks travelling around on some dropped soffit at the ceiling of the room like that restaurant in Heber.
A garden on the roof (not on a widow's walk or anything-- the dirt was on the roof)
The house built over a creek with a glass floor
A salt lick on the deck
Some of the stuff was crazy, some of it was cool, some of it I knew would be a nightmare to maintain. The coolest thing I liked was for a 5,000 SF bachelor pad. The guy mounted a flat screen plasma tv in his bathroom directly behind the huge bathroom mirror. When the tv was off, you'd see nothing, just a bathroom mirror. Click the remote control and you had a 36" tv in the mirror. The mirror was surrounded by an ornate frame that hid a hinge. You could flip up the mirror for tv maintenance.
So what do you have in the back of your mind that you'd like to put into your dream house one day when you have a ton of dough? If money were no object? Rumpus room? Conversation pit? Room sized shower made of glass block?
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