What unusual feature(s) does your home have

[Toymeister]

Here's a fun thread for those who are concerned that all homes here are too similar.

What unusual feature does your home have that make it unique?

[JMintzer]

Me...

Oh, and no carpeting and 3 solar tubes...

[Toymeister]

94 year old Mother in Law (who gets cold the Florida 'winter time') vented gas fireplace.

Wife, central vacuum

Me, a home that helps them along the road to happiness

[rjn5656]

Broken molding and scrapes on garage door opening where my wife didn't make it into the garage with the car.

[l2ridehd]

Wine cellar. Holds about 1000 bottles and is temperature and humidity controlled. Air conditioned room 12 X 20 over the garage. With lights, outlets, ceiling fans.

[villagetinker]

A window seat and additional cabinets in the nook area, this was a DIY project.

[JMintzer]

Wine cellar. Holds about 1000 bottles and is temperature and humidity controlled. Air conditioned room 12 X 20 over the garage. With lights, outlets, ceiling fans.

Party at your house! :bigbow::bigbow::bigbow:

[Two Bills]

We have a plastic six bottle wine rack, and a broom for sweeping up.:icon_wink:

[JSR22]

10 foot hand carved wood totem pole from Alaska and a hand carved wood Cigar Store Indian.

[Nucky]

A downstairs.

[Velvet]

We have a couple of bunny white cotton tails who are responsible for eating my Blue Daze landscaping.

And I saw them looking into the neighbors empty pots that used to contain tomato plants. He was trying to grow tomatoes for some time now and blaming the sun etc for the plants not growing.

[jbartle1]

90079Guest suite not connected to house, cedar lined closet, courtyard fountain, golfer topiary, fireplace, tile roof, but the real prize, best husband, seriously, I'm spoiled.

[JMintzer]

We have a plastic six bottle wine rack, and a broom for sweeping up.:icon_wink:

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[charmed59]

We have a pool bath/second master with 30 windows. Can’t get all the windows in the picture…

[CFrance]

A note from our 45-yr-old son, left on the fridge when he used the house in our absence two years ago, telling us how much he loves us. It's still there.

[billethkid]

Raised dishwasher to eliminate/minimize bending down to load and unload.

Gas and electric at all appliance locations....plus on the lanai.

[Laker14]

Our lanai is kicked out an extra 5 feet in width. We like that a lot. Also, an expanded garage. I wanted a garage with the extra golf cart space, but we wound up with the expanded garage. It's kicked out 5 feet in width, and 4 feet in length. Actually plenty of room for us, even though it isn't what I originally desired.
From the street, it looks like the other 50,000 Gardenias. But we like it. And the other 50,000 Gardenias. We like them too.

[Garywt]

Wine cellar. Holds about 1000 bottles and is temperature and humidity controlled. Air conditioned room 12 X 20 over the garage. With lights, outlets, ceiling fans.

So a wine attic…

[Garywt]

A note from our 45-yr-old son, left on the fridge when he used the house in our absence two years ago, telling us how much he loves us. It's still there.

Priceless.

[Topspinmo]

Here's a fun thread for those who are concerned that all homes here are too similar.

What unusual feature does your home have that make it unique?

Unusually small :1rotfl:

[DaleDivine]

University of Kentucky tombstone in yard.
:popcorn::popcorn:

[Junehher]

Best answer ever!

[txfan]

Custom wine grotto. Custom pantry. Custom office nook. Widened and stretched garage with forward-facing window and forward wall mounted EV 240 outlet. Custom pool with four-sided spillover spa with separate gas-fed fire pit.

[J1ceasar]

Funny you should say that I have a business acquaintance in Indiana that travels a lot to Alaska and they brought back I think a 20 ft Indian totem pole and put it in there living room around a small fountain with water and bubbling. Please post a few pictures I'd love to see it

[J1ceasar]

To see so many people with a lot of extra money to spend. I do not begrudge for being successful in your life. But I truly hope you're spreading it around with charity and there still are so many homeless and so many without enough food in their lives. No I'm not so called liberal nut Job just someone who cares. So my question would be what have you done to help the world this year?

[J1ceasar]

That's something I always wish kitchen designers would have thought of to help us seniors. I also have always thought that microwave should be on the counter. But of course none of us ever have enough counter space
Raised dishwasher to eliminate/minimize bending down to load and unload.

Gas and electric at all appliance locations....plus on the lanai.

[BlueStarAirlines]

To see so many people with a lot of extra money to spend. I do not begrudge for being successful in your life. But I truly hope you're spreading it around with charity and there still are so many homeless and so many without enough food in their lives. No I'm not so called liberal nut Job just someone who cares. So my question would be what have you done to help the world this year?

I wouldn't call you a "liberal nut job", but I find it interesting that you have no problems "suggesting" how others spend their money.

[Miriam2940]

Here's a fun thread for those who are concerned that all homes here are too similar.

What unusual feature does your home have that make it unique?


ME!

[Baldbaron]

Self-cleaning kitchen and bathrooms, self-stocking refrigerator, self-ironing laundry room and self-making beds. Signed, Self...

[TorriJ]

Instead of a Florida Room, we have a North Woods Room.

[dyendell]

After reading these ive come to the conclusion that no improvements justify the 100% price increases now. Wonder why? Maybe because TV isn’t a lunatic run liberal city.

[Taltarzac725]

A closet full of One Blood t-shirts and other items to wear along with way too many One Blood blankets, One Blood carrying cases and other One Blood items. That is what happens when you donate platelets about 20 times year.

But there are a good number of One Blood platelet donors who show up about the same time I do so maybe this is not a unique situation.

[La lamy]

Older manufactured home got some walls taken down to become open concept kitchen, dining and living area.

[GOLFER54]

My beautiful wife.

[Hdljet]

10 x 40 ft extension behind cart garage man cave workshop garage bay

[rjn5656]

A large patio out front where friends and neighbors congregate (sometimes even when we aren't home).

[davephan]

To see so many people with a lot of extra money to spend. I do not begrudge for being successful in your life. But I truly hope you're spreading it around with charity and there still are so many homeless and so many without enough food in their lives. No I'm not so called liberal nut Job just someone who cares. So my question would be what have you done to help the world this year?

That’s true there are homeless in America, but no one is starving in America. There’s a tremendous amount of free or subsidized food for the poor in America. Often times, the poor are the most overweight and obese in America.

I eat only one meal a day, no snacks and I’m not hungry all the time. I do the intermittent fasting to lose weight and to improve my health with autophagy.

Many people are poor and unsuccessful in life because they are simply too lazy to work hard. Of course, bad luck plays a part, but you can improve your life if you are motivated to do so. Some of the poor people are simply lazy freeloaders. I used to be one of those poor people until mid-life when I radically improved my life and my standard of living, by investing the effort into improving my own life.

Charity starts at home. Give away all your money and possessions first, before telling others what they should be doing with their hard earned money.

[Fltpkr]

Here's a fun thread for those who are concerned that all homes here are too similar.

What unusual feature does your home have that make it unique?

Homemade acoustic music!!

[JMintzer]

To see so many people with a lot of extra money to spend. I do not begrudge for being successful in your life. But I truly hope you're spreading it around with charity and there still are so many homeless and so many without enough food in their lives. No I'm not so called liberal nut Job just someone who cares. So my question would be what have you done to help the world this year?

Spending that "extra money" spreads it around to the local economy...

[HJBeck]

Me. My wife says I’m very unusual.

[Annie66]

My beautiful wife.

That'll get you a romp in the hay.

[Paula]

Wine cellar. Holds about 1000 bottles and is temperature and humidity controlled. Air conditioned room 12 X 20 over the garage. With lights, outlets, ceiling fans.
I'll be right over!!!

[Mohawksin]

To see so many people with a lot of extra money to spend. I do not begrudge for being successful in your life. But I truly hope you're spreading it around with charity and there still are so many homeless and so many without enough food in their lives. No I'm not so called liberal nut Job just someone who cares. So my question would be what have you done to help the world this year?

"spreading it around with charity"

I consider spreading the $'s around to carpenters, laborers, plumbers, technicians is more of a win-in.

[ellenwelsh]

Red walls.

[davem4616]

we replaced all the stainless steel kitchen appliances shortly after moving in with white appliances of a higher quality

the width of our home is extended 4 feet and 7 feet on the depth

the chandelier in the dining room came from Murano, Italy

[Jazzcat]

A Generac whole house generator, a Viking dual fuel range and a Toto bidet. All are “priceless”!😉

[mrf6969]

Tall ceiling

[Ttiffany]

Opened up the wall between kitchen and dining in my Coronado model. Removed tub in guest bath, and replaced 30” box shower with open Roman shower in master bath. Much more modern.

[Lynnesail]

Fun thread!

[CFrance]

Raised dishwasher to eliminate/minimize bending down to load and unload.

Gas and electric at all appliance locations....plus on the lanai.
I'm trying to imagine what the dishwasher looks like. Do you have a picture? Sounds like a great idea.

[caljeff]

My home has an illuminated lighthouse on the exterior and a turntable and mixer setup on the interior replete with supporting 8 track, cassette, cd player and VHS player. This is to play a very large vinyl, cassette, CD and VHS media collection also located on the interior.

[mamamia54]

None! I’m going to try for a note from the kids saying they love us. Of all the nice things, that’s the best so far!

[Road-Runner]

Pupkiss on the windows inside...

[richdell]

Here's a fun thread for those who are concerned that all homes here are too similar.

What unusual feature does your home have that make it unique?

An anole that we've named "Ralph" that visits our lanai from time to time. :)

[flflowers]

Here's a fun thread for those who are concerned that all homes here are too similar.

What unusual feature does your home have that make it unique?

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My goldfish and Koi courtyard pond

[MidWestIA]

Last house was a sycamore I moved the living corner to the wic & made it 15 feet long

[The Left Mitten]

94 year old Mother in Law (who gets cold the Florida 'winter time') vented gas fireplace.

Wife, central vacuum

Me, a home that helps them along the road to happiness
Would love a picture of your fireplace!

[Toymeister]

Would love a picture of your fireplace!

Here you go.

[Rodneysblue]

Here's a fun thread for those who are concerned that all homes here are too similar.

What unusual feature does your home have that make it unique?

Nothing unusual, it’s just perfect for my wife and I. We love our home in The Villages!

[snbrafford]

Pull out shelving in the bottom kitchen cabinets and in the pantry so we can easily get to items in the back.
Custom master bedroom closet rather than the wire racks that seem to come standard.
Skylights are common in living area but we added one in the master bedroom and in the guest bathroom - both of which lacked light from outside and both of these tubes have solar powered "night lights".
We added soffett lights around the perimeter and put on dusk to dawn sensor AND also added a dimmer switch in the garage.
We added a chandelier over the dining area table on a dimmer switch. Makes for much nicer lighting than the standard ceiling lights plus can only light up the dining area.

[billethkid]

I'm trying to imagine what the dishwasher looks like. Do you have a picture? Sounds like a great idea.

I have never posted a picture before. I tried copy/paste and it did not work.
When (if) I figure it out I will post it.

[oldkatz]

If only we could see pictures from everyone. So many wonderful rooms and items

[Two Bills]

If only we could see pictures from everyone. So many wonderful rooms and items

Here is a picture of our broom.
Wife uses it sometimes to go shopping on!

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[Worldseries27]

here is a picture of our broom.
Wife uses it sometimes to go shopping on!



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i believe draco reported it " missing"

[Two Bills]

i believe draco reported it " missing"

Wife found it when out toad hunting with Druella.

[Scbang]

How about 70 feet lap pool ( longest in the villages )? It's for sale for Olympic swimmers.

[New Englander]

That'll get you a romp in the hay.

:1rotfl::1rotfl:

[dougawhite]

Want to improve your life for under $500 add a bidet toilet seat. We have one in each bathroom. I learned while traveling in Japan that this is the best way to comfort and cleanliness. Look up Brondell washlet 300. You'll need a gfci outlet installed near the toilet for power.

[Flgagg]

I’ve considered getting a whole house Generac generator.

[Flgagg]

2 sided gas fireplace (one side is in the extended living room and the other side is in the additional sitting area of the master bedroom)

2 lovable and adorable Papillons. They make my house worth more than money can buy.

[davephan]

I’ve considered getting a whole house Generac generator.

If you’re serious about getting a whole house generator, if you sign the contract today, you might have to wait until 2022 to have the whole house electric generator installed. We ordered our whole house generator in January, a month after moving to Florida, and we’re still waiting. Maybe another month or two before we have the generator installed. The total cost is about $13K. If we didn’t have natural gas service, it would be a few thousand dollars more for the buried propane tank.

I think fireplaces in Florida are a total waste of money! We were surprised how many fireplaces we saw in Florida homes when we were house hunting. We had natural gas fireplaces in Minnesota in two different homes. We used the fireplace maybe 10 times after first moving in the house, then never again. To us, fireplaces are highly overrated. I guess we are just not fireplace people.

We aren’t beach people eithet. Once a month or every other month is enough. After a few hours, we’re tired of the beach. Some people are beach people and hang out at the beach at least 8 hours a day, almost every day.

[Quixote]

Our Annamaria courtyard villa has the largest window configuration in our master bedroom that I’ve seen in TV homes—8 feet wide. Our first home here—a Designer—had one standard window in the master bedroom, maybe about 3 feet wide. What a difference!

[lmack]

Wine cellar. Holds about 1000 bottles and is temperature and humidity controlled. Air conditioned room 12 X 20 over the garage. With lights, outlets, ceiling fans.

And hubby and I thought we had a lot of wine at 300 bottles! 1000, impressive! Can I ask, where did you put your wine cooler?

[patfla06]

If you’re serious about getting a whole house generator, if you sign the contract today, you might have to wait until 2022 to have the whole house electric generator installed. We ordered our whole house generator in January, a month after moving to Florida, and we’re still waiting. Maybe another month or two before we have the generator installed. The total cost is about $13K. If we didn’t have natural gas service, it would be a few thousand dollars more for the buried propane tank.

I think fireplaces in Florida are a total waste of money! We were surprised how many fireplaces we saw in Florida homes when we were house hunting. We had natural gas fireplaces in Minnesota in two different homes. We used the fireplace maybe 10 times after first moving in the house, then never again. To us, fireplaces are highly overrated. I guess we are just not fireplace people.

We aren’t beach people eithet. Once a month or every other month is enough. After a few hours, we’re tired of the beach. Some people are beach people and hang out at the beach at least 8 hours a day, almost every day.

I disagree. We had a wood burning fireplace in our living room in our Tampa house ( easily convertible to gas) and we used it a lot. We only used Duraflame logs. It w@s beautiful when the Christmas tree was up.

Miss our fireplace.

[jbartle1]

If you’re serious about getting a whole house generator, if you sign the contract today, you might have to wait until 2022 to have the whole house electric generator installed. We ordered our whole house generator in January, a month after moving to Florida, and we’re still waiting. Maybe another month or two before we have the generator installed. The total cost is about $13K. If we didn’t have natural gas service, it would be a few thousand dollars more for the buried propane tank.

I think fireplaces in Florida are a total waste of money! We were surprised how many fireplaces we saw in Florida homes when we were house hunting. We had natural gas fireplaces in Minnesota in two different homes. We used the fireplace maybe 10 times after first moving in the house, then never again. To us, fireplaces are highly overrated. I guess we are just not fireplace people.

We aren’t beach people eithet. Once a month or every other month is enough. After a few hours, we’re tired of the beach. Some people are beach people and hang out at the beach at least 8 hours a day, almost every day.

I totally agree about fireplace, have used ours twice in 15 years.

[Bay Kid]

Windows with great Chesapeake Bay views!

[RICH1]

Skeletons in my closet !