If you were to build your dreamhome, what would it look like? Show us a picture.
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Cathedral ceiling (check)
Stone fireplace (check)
View of nature (check)
Wood everywhere (check)
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outside:
Inside:
Bedroom
kitchen
Backyard/ Patio
Here would be my new house....and a nice shade of blue too!
of course its bigger on the inside than the outside...
...total improbability drive. 
Looks rather compelling. 
Sorry, I can't limit myself to one picture.
I'd like a cottage-style house with a beautiful garden.
a sunroom
A spacious, light airy kitchen that leads to an herb garden
Cozy spots to curl up with a book.
amazing closet space
a clawfoot tub
Did I mention I want a house cleaner?
Please come visit me after we are done renovating our new house! The exterior might not appeal to you (100 Year old English Tudor) but the gardening I'm going to do and the interior overhaul? You will appreciate it because you have such EXCELLENT taste! 
...and a desk the size of Rhode Island, and a workshop the size of Wyoming. And power tools!
I've no fondness for mega-structures or arcologies at all.
Nothing that requires a homeowners association to function.
Being originally from the tropics, I like solid cement and stone construction. However, since I've been living in the US, I now know how central heating is uber important.
I like the idea of clean spartan lines from the outside, and the idea of having part of the house boxing off a square garden.
I have oriental and occidental influences, and so I like the idea of the sense of control and utilitarian design in Japanese houses while I enjoy the Western sense of coziness.
I mean, the closest thing I can think of at the moment for it is this house:
http://www.home-designing.com/2012/01/when-a-stranger-calls-movie-house
Perhaps one day I'll scan it, but it is in a large sheet that I used during college ARCH class before I decided that I didn't want to be an architect after all.
More construction pics: https://picasaweb.google.com/102536162170163114327/HouseConstruction#slideshow
More inside pics: https://picasaweb.google.com/102536162170163114327/InsideTheFinishedProduct#slideshow
almost bankrupted myself in the process but we eventually made it through
Extremely cute son too.
that kid is pistol too
I don't even care what it looks like because I'm never going to be home.
something like this, backed by deep woods and surrounded with old trees and gardens.
lots of light, big fire places, old hardwood flooring with that gorgeous patina to them.I'd have horses and big dogs and do all the gardening myself. Oh and a built in sound system throughout the house and a finished outside area with an outdoor kitchen and a pool.
Good sturdy door:
Along with a blast proof silo:
ETA: http://www.silohome.com/missile_silo_for_sale_ultimate_survival_shelter_2012_shelter_fallout_.htm
maybe you remember my choice:
I'd like to go thru the door!
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It's the Tumbleweed Sebastarosa. I'd like to put it on a suburban trending urban lot. (Long, narrow lot, high walk-ability score... Basically the town I live in now, or one quite like it in a rainier place.)
The major modifications are: extend the front porch to full width; extend the downstairs back bedroom to full width and run the downstairs bath all the way to the back wall, adding in space for washer/dryer, a soaking bathtub and a double laundry sink. (I play with textiles.) The rest of the back room is a working studio, with built-in shelves, clerestory windows and sky lights. French doors to the back porch. On a full, finished basement foundation, so Mr. Me can have his robotics lab. Move the front door to the left great-room window and make the kitchen U shaped; nix the odd pantry and what-the-hell space between the kitchen and bath. Pocket doors everywhere. Pellet stove heating. Upstairs, build in floor to ceiling wardrobes instead of the closets. Smaller bedroom is a library. Garage on the back, if possible, either two car width or a double one car, so that we actually have a place for wood working stuff.
We don't do guests or children, so three bedrooms is more than we actually need, but our heirs will be happy if they can sell our house after we're gone. Small because I hate cleaning and I'm better about being tidy if I don't have space to spread out.
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with at least one bottle wall:
