Your dream farm/home

[scrapmom5]

My dream farm would have a minimum of 50 acres with a large pond on it. I would have ducks and chickens and sheep and alpacas and horses and cows. I also want several acres in hay and veggies (to sell). It would be nice to have an 8000 s.f. barn to acomodate the animals with the hen house on one end. The duck house would need to be closer to the pond. At the far end of the farm would be the "hay hangar" and storage for the tractors.

My home would be at least 4500 s.f. to accomodate my large and hopefully growing family. Their would be a 2000 s.f. detached shop in the back with a 2 bedroom apt on top (for the family that comes to visit) My kitchen would be huge with 2 ovens, 2 fridges, 2 dishwashers. The home would be a 2 story on a full basement. I would want a large laundry/craft room. And a theater room. I would like to have a wroght iron fence surrounding ALL of my property with a gate that needs a code to enter. The fence would need to have very little space (2 inches or less) between the posts to keep in our little yorkies and chickens. We would also NEED a swimming pool and hot tub to help with my DH bad back.

The house would run off of wind/solar/hydro power. I would like to have our own natural spring supplying us with water.

And since we are dreaming of our DREAM homes...

We would also have this home paid for so that my DH and I could spend all of our time together on the farm. The house would stay spotless and our yard will be picturesque.

That would be my dream home..

 

[patandchickens]

When I was younger I had very elaborate ideas on the subject.

Now in middle age, and living on a property that has a significant proportion underwater for several months of the year and that's WITH extensive drainage ditch management (including shovelling alllllllll the snow and ice out of the ditches everytime it looks like we might get a winter rain or a thaw), I would say that my dream farm would be

a) paid for

and

b) well above the water table at *all* times of year.

That's really about all I'd ask for, at this point.

Pat, on 19 rather weedy un-picturesque acres that I feel lucky to have and am really pretty happy with, despite the flooding problems

 

[needmorechickens!]

Me and DH are 38 now with 2 teens and have always lived in a nice suburban home with a small landscaped yard and a 2 car garage (and located wherever our jobs took us).
I have always told him I want to move back home to TN and get a doublewide on 5 acres. He always laughed that off.
Guess what...last year we sold our house in Arkansas and moved back to TN into a brand new doublewide on 5 acres! So I am living in my dream home. Of course its still a work in progress. We still need to get the front porch completed, finish the 3 stall run in barn, get a fence up for the horse that I have always wanted, improve the driveway and build a carport.
I would like to have milk goats and more chickens of course. I still have to get that horse, but just waiting for that fence to be built. I want a larger garden next year and a larger freezer to keep stuff in.
I would like for my DH to have a large workshop, because he loves working with wood and I keep a project list going for him all the time.
I have no flowers to speak of right now, but intend to have some nice beds next year.
Oh, its been nice dreamin' a little, but I better quit now...I'm gettin' starry eyed!

~Rebecca

 

[fullhouse]

I would like more land (5-10 acres), a house without radiators, and place for my husband to have a pinball machine. That's all.

 

[Acre of Blessings]

I've got a Mansion just over the hilltop

 

[Reinbeau]

I would love it if I could win the lottery and buy out three neighbors, that would give me about 15 acres right here, where I've been for 30 years. Then I'd knock down the two closest houses, the one to my right would be where my barn would go, to house alpacas, a llama or two, and some goats, maybe even a cow or two. The one to my left would become more garden space, after I found them a nice house to live out their days, or I'd just wait it out, I love my neighbors, but they're getting old and unfortunately won't last forever. Who knows who will move in next

. Our garage out back would be expanded (and emptied!!) with a second floor added, that's where my Pilates studio would be. Behind me would remain wooded to shield us from the neighbors out back. Of course having won the lottery I'd be able to stay home and do what I love to do without worrying about money again. I'd be a happy camper to stay right here but have more land.

Edited to add: I didn't forget about the chickens, but since they've already got their Taj Mahal out there, they really don't need for much these days!

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

I was thinking about posting a similar thread the other day but never got around to it, lol.

My dream place would be 1000+ acres somewhere mostly warm where it snows for a few days in the winter but doesnt freeze everything and drift snow so much that you are stuck. It would be mostly forested with a 20+ acre lake with a dock filled with fish and not much seaweed. I would like it to be mostly flat with some rolling hills, maybe a small mountain. There would be a couple hundred acres in 'living gold' (hay) so I could make money. There would also be some wild african game animals like gemsbok, auodad, black buck, and many more like in Texas so I could have hunters come and sell them hunts for lots and lots of $$$. I would have a large garden, maybe 5 acres or so that would be filled with delicious veggies and berries that wouldnt have to worry about frost. I would have a big orchard with lots of heirloom apples like campfire, golden transparent, and some other fruits like oranges.

The buildings would be great. I would have several aviary type pens with heated buildings for exotic ducks, geese, francolins and other little birds like roul roul. I would have a huge barn filled with pens that have outdoor runs that would have automatic feeders and waterers. The pens would be filled with all of my breeding projects or projects I plan on doing like deleware patterned lakenvelders, large fowl dun and dun laced birds of several breeds, red sumatras, that kind of thing. I would have a seperate building for several incubators and another large barn for chicks. I would have yaks and would try to get red yaks by crossing them with scottish highland cattle, they would provide milk and meat. I would have a horse or two for riding, probably fresians. I would also have sheep like rakka sheep, they have long spiraling horns, maybe some fat tailed sheep. For other animals I would have mangalitza pigs (wooly pigs), some border collies, and a cat or two.

The house would be the best. It would be two stories with a full basement. It would have a grand entrance with marble floors with a big chicken inlaid in the marble with a different color of marble. The ceiling would be super tall because I would have a couple trees on either side of the doors and several plants, it would be open so when you walk into the the front door to take your shoes off you would see the sliding glass doors that lead to the deck with a hot tub and BBQer Overall the house would feel like a log cabin. The main floor would have a nice kitchen, a sitting room, a bathrooom and a couple bedrooms. The basement would have a movie type room with a huge wall sized tv and comfortable seats. It would also have a bathroom and a bedroom or two. The second floor would be divided in half by the grand entrance with a bridge type thing connecting the two sides, one side would be the master bedroom and bathroom and the other half would be bedrooms and bathrooms. The house would have 7 bedrooms and 8 bathrooms. It would be decorated in a combo of farm life and western style so it would have pictures of open range and john deere rugs.

I would also have a root cellar for all of the fruits and veggies from the garden and orchard. I would have a big shop with tools of all types. I would also have a big garage that would have my dream truck, some atv type vehicles, and a nice car for when we go out to dinner.

That is my dream farm/property/house, its really long but it is a dream place.

 

[BettyR]

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That’s just creepy!!!

I would get a post office box and remove my mailbox, build a 6' security fence around my property and get a flock of geese. If strangers come on your property geese are very territorial and will go after them while raising all kind of h*ll; for some reason people are more afraid of a goose than they are of a 90-pound Rottweiler.

 

[scrapmom5]

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Now your talking...I love everything except perhaps the decor...Instead of Green and Yellow (john Deere) perhaps some cherry wood fixtures, Moss green frize carpet or even an deep umber colored or hard wood floors, a deep red accent wall in the family room with leather sofas. Granite countertops in the kitchen with stainless steele.

This is just a thought...I would be cautious with the John Deere decor...other than that I hope you get your dream home.

 

[speckledhen]

I own someone's dream property already. My needs have changed a bit since we bought here six years ago, though. I have a cottage-style cabin with wrap porches, partial bsmt already semi-finished with an inlaw suite; 5.37 acres with mostly hardwoods on a small mountain with views of larger mtns in fall and winter. Almost half of it is perimeter fenced off from the rest with gated driveway, several coops and pens in place and a storage shed. Orchard with apple, peach, pear and cherry trees, lots of blueberry bushes, blackberries, strawberries, raised bed veggie garden, flowering bulbs galore, lots of wildlife (deer, turkeys). Complete privacy in summer, slightly less when leaves are off the trees. Walking trails are cut throughout the property.
All that said, I hope it may be someone else's dream place here in the N. Ga Mtns. I would like a house flat on the ground now (DH has severe back issues) with some pasture. Seems life changes make moving a better option than staying. My dream home would be a log home in the middle of wooded acreage with a bit of lawn and flower gardens around the house, complete with greenhouse, coops and a real barn, in TN rather than GA. Privacy and no neighbors would be wonderful, even though I have decent neighbors. 5-20 acres and a pond, too.