McVay’s clean, pale home

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    Avatar photowv
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    McVay’s house has all the charm of a sterile, bourgeois, off-white-pillow.

    No quirky-ness, no character, no humor, nothing challenging….

     

    Just my opin-yun.

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    #136947
    Avatar photonittany ram
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    Sterile and stark.

    Hitler’s Encino bunker.

    I’ve always dreamt of having a Victorian style library in my home.  High ceiling with built-in bookshelves, walls covered in old portraits of family members who died decades before I was born, a giant globe, high-backed cushy chairs, fireplace etc.

    I could sit there in my smoking jacket, dog at my feet, sipping single-malt scotch and smoking one of those big curly pipes while I peruse my first edition copy of Bleak House or something…

     

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    #136966
    Avatar photoBilly_T
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    Agreed, Nittany.

    An old house like that would be great. Though I’d prefer a castle. Wish I had the money to buy one, or build one. Thick stone walls, hardwood floors, and ceilings built to last a thousand and one years. A massive kitchen, with an old-school “hearth” I could use for cooking. Huge cauldron there, over a big old fire. Enough surface area to cook for an army, if necessary.

    But I’d wire it for the 22nd century, somehow. Fiber to the prim. Gigabit-plus ethernet throughout the house. Easy to reach patch panels for everything.

    And greenhouses near the house, so I’d always have fresh veggies and herbs, exotic plants and trees, etc.

    Large wood-shop, metal-shop, my own small dairy. Several ponds stocked with fish, ducks, pheasants under glass. I mean, water.

    And a small troop of beautiful Amazons to hunt for me, with bows and arrows. Fresh food, never store-bought.

    Aaah, that’s the life!

    #136973
    Avatar photonittany ram
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    Amazons are a nice touch but mine wouldn’t hunt for me.

    They would be in my state of the art lab culturing meat from bovine progenitor cells.  Lab grown meat.

    Yes, that does sound delicious.

    #136983
    Avatar photoBilly_T
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    Lab grown meat!? There’s no lab grown meat in baseball!

    But, back to McVay’s house. Yeah, it’s far too bland for me. Never got into “modern” architecture like that, despite majoring in Art and minoring in Art History. If I wanted sharp angles and artificially arranged geometry, I can always open a book. Don’t want to live inside that, though.

    After the 16th century, give or take, I’m kinda bored. But a Victorian mansion would be kinda cool, as mentioned.

    Castles rock.

     

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