I am glad you made it home, shrift, however late You aren't sick are you? I am on day two of the cold from hell. ( I managed to shower and dress in outside clothes today, which puts me ahead of yesterday, but I gave up before I actually made it out of the house)

Dumbwaiter x-post!

Oh yeah, I want a turret room too. More than one.

Our old farmhouse had push-button lights--they were fun.

I had a fireplace in the quadraplex I lived in a few years ago. I never had a fire in it - partly because it was never cold enough (being in Florida) but also my apartment was always way too warm. I think my downstairs neighbors kept their apartment really really warm and it kept my place warm.

My future dream house has a dishwasher, washer and dryer that are not in the kitchen, woodstove or fireplace, lots of space for books, enough space for books, screened porch and/or three season porch.

Some of the co-ops in my old neighborhood in Queens had working dumbwaiters. They used them for daily trash removal - the super would buzz each apartment in the evening and the dumbwaiter for their bag of trash.

I have a gas fireplace, too. It is my only source of heat at the moment, but where I live heat is not that critical so only being able to heat one room is okay. And it gets the living room nice and toasty, as long as I don't have the back door open

Every time I think I'll light a fire in the outside fireplace doohickey it seems to be a no burn day (air quality thing).

My personal trainer session was just, like, assessment and planning, no actual working out, yay! But I had coffee before, so now I am so very tired but definitely awake. I do not know what to do with myself.

My wish list would be wrap around porch, curved stairwell, a magic vegetable garden that only needed a tiny little bit of work, and a bathroom with an oversized jacuzzi tub.

I may be able to add that last one, some day.

It's like 65 degrees in New Orleans. I'm just saying.

Also, I had a muffaletta for lunch. Well, a quarter of a muffaletta. Well, I bought a quarter and then ate half of that because those sandwiches are huge.

I want a steam shower. And a cabana boy.

And a bookshelf that's a doorway to a secret compartment.

I toured a house that had one of those! It was a pretty ordinary house, but in one room a bookshelf would swing out to reveal a little extra room - IIRC the owner was a carpenter or shipbuilder and did built it himself, just because he could. I think the hidden room was used as an office.

Fireplace, claw-footed tub, ENOUGH BOOKSHELVES AND CLOSETS, and maid service. Those are on my wishlist.

High on my list are series of pneumatic tubes. (Possibly cat-sized) and a secret passage/room through a bookcase.