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A room with a view?

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absent Mon 26-Dec-16 03:55:29

If you could have just one room that would be your ideal, what would it be? An elegant dining room with a huge highly polished antique table and chairs and a fabulous chandelier? A high-tech room with state-of-the art electronics? A massive bathroom with power shower jets and a jacuzzi? A gym with loads of equipment and a full-size swimming pool?

My choice would be a library. A room full of shelves and one of those sliding ladders so that I could reach everything. It would be packed with more books than I could probably read in the years remaining to me – but I'd give it a good try.

GrannyMac1945 Mon 26-Dec-16 20:09:02

I know someone with a Victorian former workshop, not too large, converted to a house. Large living, dining kitchen room, bathroom off. Mezzanine with bed and study area above. A spacious yet cosy space, not all glass and steel like some conversions. I'd push him out given half a chance ! envy

Lilyflower Mon 26-Dec-16 20:29:16

I have created the rooms I would like to live in but, if I could have anything I wanted, it would be a Georgian drawing room with high ceilings and a view either of the coast or sweeping countryside or of a perfect unspoiled English Georgian village square with a medieval church.

Niobe Mon 26-Dec-16 20:52:35

I would love a kitchen/ dining/ living room which looks out onto the garden. Planning has been applied for and we will probably start work in March. I hate being in the kitchen when we have guests and DH hates being alone in the living room when it's just the two of us and I'm getting dinner ready in the kitchen. There will be bifold doors out to the garden so in the summer it will feel as if we are outside. Can't wait!

Jalima Mon 26-Dec-16 21:01:12

A conservatory or sun room overlooking the sea. (I can take a book or craft in there and tidy it away afterwards. )

Otherwise I will settle for a large kitchen with a dining area and patio doors leading on to a fabulous garden.

Ps our conservatory warms up really quickly and is toasty on the coldest day

SallyDapp Tue 27-Dec-16 02:11:59

Gilly and Antonia I am so lucky, I had my ideal room built last year. A lovely big wooden shed for all my craft work, it has everything I could possibly want including a loo. I don't have to tidy stuff away as its my room and I can make all the mess I like. So I spend time gluing and sticking, sewing, crocheting, with radio 4ex or audiobooks for company, bliss!

hulahoop Tue 27-Dec-16 12:06:48

I would love a big kitchen with room for a comfy sofa and small bookcase overlooking
The sea it's just a dream though

Lillie Tue 27-Dec-16 12:37:22

That's why holidays are so important to me. I choose properties that are totally different from our London house .... so end up with sea views, mountains, lakes and rivers. Bliss. I can dream for a week, and I often wonder why the owners don't live in them permanently.

Daisyanswerdo Tue 27-Dec-16 14:17:10

I'd love a library/music room, with shelving for all my books and room for more; a sofa and some comfortable chairs, not new and chintzy but old and worn but with big feather cushions; a grand piano; an open fire; and a view over an estuary, with the tide and the weather changing the colours all the time.

Greyduster Tue 27-Dec-16 15:15:45

I'd like a bedroom like the one in the film 'Rebecca' that was the first Mrs de Winter's; exquisitely beautiful with leaded windows overlooking the sea (in fact I would love the whole house!) but I would be willing to forego the services of Mrs Danvers hmm!

Jalima Tue 27-Dec-16 17:31:42

When I see the OP I keep humming the song:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceOOXO3sm6k

Enjoy!

TriciaF Wed 28-Dec-16 14:08:02

We have a room with a view, but it's open to the elements.
Our house has a barn attached, at 90°. We knocked the end wall down, leaving the wooden end frame, so that it's open on 2 sides, with a view of the Pyrenees.
Table and chairs and a hammock seat inside, but nothing posh.
I would love to paint the back wall (breeze blocks) with a mural, but I'm not clever enough.

KatyK Sat 31-Dec-16 17:47:24

We have a tiny galley style kitchen I would love a kitchen with a big table in the middle where people could congregate. I would also love a conservatory. We do however have a living room which large patio window so we can look at the garden as we sit. smile

JackyB Sat 31-Dec-16 18:20:38

Any room that cleans and tidies itself. And doesn't allow clutter to accumulate. So I can just walk in and sit down and read a book or watch a film.