My dream house
 

http://cushdesignstudio.blogspot.com...ie-bunker.html

I want a house that bad ass one day. I love simplistic design, and stone/concrete. So this is right up my alley.

I pray for a zombie outbreak every day.

:drool:

That is sick as hell, if I ever become rich that is along the lines of what I will have built.

those are some bad ass window hinges

eh.

my house would be warm, soft and fluffy.

Dude must live in Greece.

-Zach

I want a house with big glass windows so everyone can watch me bang dimes out on the reg.

I would love to have worked on that house. It can definitely be done.

Too bad I can go up on this property that my dad poured back in the 80's The house is all concrete, super huge windows, tall as fack, and even has a full size ballroom in the middle of it. If I could I'd post pictures but I doubt they'd enjoy me walking up the driveway taking shots of it.

Not really.

I would like my house to be made out of concrete but to look like its made of wood on the inside. Short ceiling (no more than 8 feet high), lots of books, speakers in every room, fully airconditioned (I hate heat), ethernet plugs everywhere, etc.

I just want this room:

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Video
Sony SRX-S110 Professional Video Projector
Stewart 18-by-10-foot Snowmatte 1.0 Gain Laboratory-Grade Motion Picture Screen

Players
Sony BDP-S1 Blu-ray Player
Sony PlayStation 3 Gaming Console
Toshiba HD-XA1 HD DVD Player
JVC HMDH-5U D-VHS Recorder
Hard drive that holds 72 hours of HDTV
Mark Levinson N° 51 DVD/CD Media Player
Pioneer HLD-X0 Hi-Vision HDTV MUSE Laserdisc Player

Amps
McIntosh MC-2102 Amplifiers (30)
Crown Macro Reference Gold Amplifiers (3)
Mark Levinson N° 33h Amplifiers (2)

Speakers
MuRata ES103A Super Tweeters (10)
Snell THX Music & Cinema Reference LCR-2800 Center-Channel Speakers (3)
Snell 1800 THX Music & Cinema Reference Subwoofers (16)
Snell THX Music & Cinema Reference Towers (8)

Surround Processing and Decoding
Theta Digital Generation VIII 32-bit 8x Oversampling Dual Processors (13)


http://izismile.com/2010/06/08/the_m...d_22_pics.html

only cost $6 million.

I plan on having a two level garage (4000 sq ft) with an indoor pool and a racing simulator. Let me get 200k now!!!

It was social/political commentary. Every Greek family in the area is either shipping 'protection' over or shipping family members here.

-Zach

I'd rather had a decommissioned missile silo turned residential dwelling.

I like the house but when the doors are open it's just a lil bit too "hey look at what I'm doing!" for my tastes.

Ethernet. This isn't 1999! WiFi!

I've always wanted to build my own underground fallout shelter. Just cuz.

Stop posting pix of my house. My other house is Unicron.

The dude lives in Greece. They just got Half Life 2, give him a break.

Doesn't seem like it would be that hard to do. The costliest and hardest part would be making it sealed to the outside and ventilated with a serious filtration unit and battery backup and generators, ect. I'd like to just do a simple sub basement. Do just like you would dig out for a basement, but go one floor or more deeper, and build with poured concrete sealed with tar, then pour the ceiling or floor for the next level and support the inner structure with thick beams and pillars. Of course it would have to have a fire pole for easy access to the lower level(s).

I see your 54mbps/150mbps WiFi speeds and raise you to 1gbps ethernet speeds, without ANY connectivity issues.

I'm with ya.

I take it that you are computer savvy?

A bit more than most.

Cool.

There are still a few applications where wired Ethernet connectivity is necessary. And, speaking from personal experience, there are few things more frustrating than driving all over Cape Canaveral trying to find a couple of wired 10/100 ethernet adapters with only a few hours before you have to be back on a ship that'll be pushing off with or without you, and finding nothing but wireless, wireless, and more wirelesss...


Several years ago, a co-worker of mine owned a home in the Cincinnati area which had been designed (and lived in) by an architect who was a student and colleague of Frank Lloyd Wright. I wish I could remember the name of the house, as I'm having no luck finding picture of it on Google, but it was really something. The lower level was built into the side of a hill and consisted of a 6 car garage and a sort of rec room. The upper level was really something- the perimeter was almost entirely glass, and it was extremely minimalist. One whole end of the house (about 60% of the total floorspace) was a single large room that was sort of Brady Bunch meets. Dr. Evil's lair. The other end was all of the bedrooms and the two bathrooms, and again, almost totally glass. A large, covered wooden deck ran around 3/4 of the house at the upper level.

Downsides: single-glazed windows meant it cost more to heat in winter than the GDP of Liberia, and if I recall correctly, there were no closets.


Damn, I wish I had a picture of that house... Conceptually, it looked somewhat like the Boulter House:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...lter_House.jpg

OK fine then true dat.. Applications: Video, audio editing! High performance computing! Large data transfers! Areas with RF interference! More secure communications.

If wired then how about RJ45 jacks with Cat6 in the walls with a nice 10GigE network infrastructure that supports FCOE? I say RJ45 not optical fiber for household cable durability. And yes, 10GigE over copper will work. I'm not sure the switches that support FCOE and 10GigE have copper modules though :| Unfortunately little of my IT knowledge applies to automotive mechanical work.

Same with my audio engineering knowledge. But, Joe, I don't know if you saw the recent pics in my build thread; I wired my new coils with Canare foil sheath star quad L-4E6AT :)

... Areas where the "walls" are made out of 3/8" thick steel plate. Areas where you have a couple of thousand tourists roaming around, some of whom undoubtedly brought laptops / tablets / netbooks / smartphones, and you really don't want them fucking with your data. Areas where you have more separate networks in one room than there are channels allocated to the whole 802.11 scheme. Applications where you are dealing with pieces of equipment which are not PCs and which are equipped with 10/100 ethernet jacks.



Back in 2003, I built a new house in Maineville, OH. Ok, I didn't literally build it, I hired a GC to build it. But I did do all of the electrical and datacom work myself.

Rather than lock myself into any particular wiring scheme, I simply installed conduit. Since this was a single-story house with a basement it was quite easy; I simply installed a low-voltage ring in pretty much every single wall (except in the bathrooms), and then stubbed a piece of 3/4" conduit from said box through the floor stud and down into the basement.

I did install actual wire not in conduit for the surround speakers in the living room, as the nature of speaker wiring hasn't changed much in the last century, but that was the only permanently-installed cable (other than mains power, the doorbell and the thermostat) in the house.

For a multi-story home, or a home with no basement, it's only slightly harder. Just like a commercial building, you distribute pull-boxes at strategic locations and hub all of the local conduits to those boxes, with larger-diameter conduit joining the boxes to each other.

Btw, if you live in a crowded area, there are more access points than the 13 allocated channels. And trust me, that, is a problem.

It's never the zombies that would be the problem. If you get a place like that you should take great effort to make sure the surrounding population is unaware of it. Doesn't look too difficult to smoke the occupants of that place out. When the shit goes down your neighbors are you greatest threat.

I like dopplerbadgers idea of a converted missle silo. Most of the vertical ones have their ventilation issues figured out. They are also pretty well hidden.

http://www.missilebases.com/properties

Prices have gone up a lot in the past ten years.

I want that Titan site.

Having spent 10 months in a military underground banker, I'm not sure its for everyone. I had no problem but I've seen several people crack.

One day when I build a house, I plan to do something like this. Future proof it and make it easy to upgrade using conduit. My mom recently built on a room to her house and I took it upon myself to do something like this to her house. Ran conduit for her home theater in that room, and did some networking for the house running cat5 to most rooms and installing plates.

I already live in a bunker. I hate sunlight it seems. I keep my dark blinds and curtains drawn in the day, and am out and about on a night schedule. A night walker.

Most medical practitioners would advise you to seek treatment for priapism.

It really is the way to go, and it's not that hard to do.

Honestly, I'm surprised that with all of the various regulations and paranoae that we live with, it's still legal to wire a house by using nails and staples to hang plastic-insulated wire to wooden studs. This seems so 19'th century to me that's it's almost unfathomable. Granted, you don't actually hear of that many houses burning to the ground as a result of faulty electrical wiring these days, but I still can't see why we don't require all electrical cabling to be in conduit for residential applications the same way we do for commercial applications.

Should be regulation. Especially seeing some of the dumb asses who are electricians, and how careless they can be when hanging wire. I've found a few wires stapled to studs in my time (through the jacket), thankfully before connecting utilities to the house.

Are you kidding me??? The girls love it!

Are you a ginger?

:giggle: No