I love this thread!!
I have three dreamhouses. Everybody who knows me well knows how much I crave Victorian houses. I am crazy nuts about them. If I pass one, my head will be hanging out the car window like a golden retriever. I am on it.
My first choice is a Second Empire or Mansard style house. This is your typical haunted house. A house like The Munsters had. I would go without food to live in a house like this.
My second choice would be a standard Queen Anne. This is the house with all the rambling shapes involved, and onion roofs and widows walks and whatnot.
From every place I've ever been, there's a photo of me sitting on the steps of some old house. I seek them out. They find me. I fall out of the car, camera in hand and trespass on people's land so I can take 57 pictures of their house. I have no shame. Most people are really nice about it though.
My third choice and the one I've been thinking about more lately, would be an old villa in Tuscany. I think living on a sun-drenched hill amidst cypress trees and those incredible landscape colors in a 200 or 400 year old house would be the best.
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