How big is your house?

One thing most everyone over looks is the one thing science fiction always has, the medical room. Second could be the communications room.

A medical room is a special room with your medical supplies, a doctors office type closet, bunk or bed depending on how sick you can be. And supplies from a medical kit to defibleration equipment. Technology allows for most of the diagnostics to be incorporated quite easily and if one can have access to a house call from a doctor, or ones own doctor or even a remote doctor, a safe place for treatment, one can always hire a registered nurse. If when need be. With quick dial emergency links etc...

A communications room used to be the radio room, but a telephone booth to a now Skype or video telecom booth. Radio, telephone, Skype, Facebook, text, while most of this is possible to some extent with a mobile phone. A properly configured comfortable chair, not a computer chair, a screen and good camera, high speed links, ham radio, CB, Phone tech, VoIP, good audio good lighting. Again much overlooked, not always expensive and not requiring a lot of space. Makes those long family phone calls so much better.

Although I have been thinking of putting together a Skype for Christmas, link my Northern Family to my Southern Family, although the 15-18 hour time difference to Australia can be a problem. However a Skype Christmas Eve, Christmas morning is the idea. Can also add other friends without needing the Christmas party and travel problems we get up here where it is truly cold. Alas setting it up sounds easy but never is.

One supposes a living room / family room / communications room might be a solution. But again is a different kind of solution.

I like the idea of reception rooms, again a foyer serves this purpose especially when cold answering the door for various purposes, be it missionaries, yes we have a lot of those in Canada. I get visits 6-8-12 times a year. Usually jehova witness or Mormons. Jehova witness switchedfrom the stoggy old ladies to the two or three very photogenic ladies, not sure if they hirethem or just luck out with their congregations. The Moromons send pairs of fit young guys willing to volunteer to help move stuff lift stuff, yard work etc... you can see them miles off, in their suits or cool long sleeve buttoned to their collared shirts. Add in the telco guys TV internet door to door salesmen, etc... And charity people. Lawn care companies snow shovellers etc... A porch might do this in warmer climes. Sometimes you just don't want to invite people in other times you don't want to ignore or freeze standing in the door. Although screen doors help, and the ever more popular camera at the door is handy too. Especially with the shifty types.

I suppose what I miss most is the milk chute. Yes we in NorthAmerica don't get milk deliveries any more. In England it was a great surprise to find the milkmen working full force. They even are green to the extreme. Electric milk trucks, glass milk and juice bottles which are washed and reused, and my milkman serviced the ladies at least six of them on his route on different days. It was only when he brought his kid with him to work that he was early for my morning delivery.

Milk chute would work good for parcels too.

MaxxQ wrote:http://youtu.be/MvgN5gCuLac

Makes me think, which box has my whip in it?

Roughly 30 ft x 50 ft, two story, and it cost only about one year's gross income. Most of it is being used for tools, growing things, etc. A fixer-upper, which has given me a hobby, including improving the heating bill. Last twelve months, heating is still about double fixing costs, roughly $1400. In North Dakota with a cold winter.

Hooray for insulation, thermal mass and good glass! Also the net. (Search on (Building AND "self heating")) Many odd ideas, some that work well.


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About 1,600 sq ft townhouse.

Keep planning to move but, like Skimper, I'm in Calgary and houses are expensive.

Cheapest place I'd find reasonable is easily $400,000, and the price goes up fast.

MaxxQ wrote:http://youtu.be/MvgN5gCuLac

Thanks for this. I needed a good laugh and George delivered. Hope he's having a good chuckle wherever he is now.

House, about 2500 sq ft plus basement and half attic, a couple garden sheds. 2 acres. Old farmhouse, latish mid 19th century. Solid built. The kids are grown and gone now but moving... did that enough in the Navy then corporations. We've been here 25 years.

I have not forgotten the books I said I'd get back to you after I read hem. I haven't read them yet. Am just getting the garden put to bed for the winter. Soon more time for lovely things like reading more.

My three story house is sitting on the a slight slope that is covered with pine trees and blackberry bushes. I can look out the living room bay windows and watch the sun rise directly over the top of Mount Shasta in the east, and watch the sun set as it disappears behind Mount Eddy in the west. The footprint of the house starts at 2500 square feet for the basement/garage. The house itself is three-story log-house built much like a Lincoln Log toy set. The first and second floors are 2500 square feet each and the attic loft is about 1250 square feet. Wrapped around the house is a five foot wide enclosed porch. I purchased the land (15 acres) with my re-enlistment bonus when I was in the Navy and my father and grandfather excavated the basement/garage first then helped me build the house which I purchase as a kit from Golden Eagle Log Home.

The house has reverberated with the sounds from one son and four daughters and now vibrates at times from the sounds of 14 grand children; 5 boys and 9 girls when they come to visit.

I live alone. 3 BR, 2 BA duplex which I bought about 7 years ago. About 1180 square feet. There is also an 8x12 shed out back. Without that storage space, the house would be kind of crowded with stuff. But with it, things stay manageable.

A tiny 24 feet by 36 feet with only two bedrooms and one bathroom and one toilet on one floor or deck. About 5 to 6 million acres outside in SW Oregon USA, most of it with no people at all. I am very lucky indeed. HB of CJ (old coot) Cm.

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Thats not a bad sized house, I managed to live in one that big in my teens with 6 of my family and a dog and cat for 5 years.

HB of CJ wrote:A tiny 24 feet by 36 feet with only two bedrooms and one bathroom and one toilet on one floor or deck. About 5 to 6 million acres outside in SW Oregon USA, most of it with no people at all. I am very lucky indeed. HB of CJ (old coot) Cm.

(Actually this is a specious post just to see if I get promoted. I love this forum!) (No, I did NOT get promoted at 201 posts. I remain a Full Commander)