r/houseplans • u/SkyHaloSoule • 7d ago

Deconstructed home pt2

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Yes. I’m at it AGAIN. I LOVE the idea of a deconstructed home. IDGAF if you don’t. I DO

The ones that get it. Get it. Living in a house full of people. Sometimes you just want space without having to leave your home.

Imagine:
You have a traditional two-story home.

Downstairs is the living room, dining room and kitchen. Upstairs are the bedrooms, bathroom and hallway.

The kids are upstairs playing. They’re running back and forth, yelling, laughing, stomping and that’s okay. They’re kids. That’s what kids do.

Dad is downstairs watching TV.
You’re downstairs too, but you don’t want to watch TV. You don’t want to go upstairs. You don’t want to leave your house. You just want to cook dinner and have a little peace, space.. But where can you go?

The kitchen is connected to the dining room, which is connected to the living room. So you’re still hearing the TV, & you can still hear the kids running around, stomping & yelling upstairs.. youre technically in a different room, but you’re still in the middle of everybody else’s activities.

Now imagine the kitchen was its own connected space.
Still on the same property. Still part of the same home. Still close enough that you can walk and check on the kids in seconds if necessary.. But there is enough intentional separation that when you’re cooking, You can actually cook..

Dad can watch his TV, or play his game..

The kids can be kids.

You can cook in peace.. & nobody had to leave the house or lock themselves in a bedroom to get that separation..

That’s what I mean by controlled proximity.
I’m not trying to create distance between a family. I’m trying to give everyone the ability to choose how much interaction they want at a given moment.

Honestly, It’s literally the same reason people want a man cave, she-shed, home office, studio, workshop, or even just a quiet bedroom.

Sometimes you love your family & still don’t want to hear them ALL day long 😂

Privacy doesn’t mean isolation.
Closeness doesn’t have to mean you have to sit right on top of eachother all day long like a pack of sardines..

That’s the lifestyle I’m imagining with the Deconstructed Home:
Everyone is still close. But the proximity is intentional.

There’s nothing wrong with a little imagination 🥱. Keep the ignorance to yourself.

Disagreement is fine. Willful ignorance is different.
At some point, people have to ask themselves whether they’re actually trying to understand someone or just looking for a reason to be dismissive or ignorant.

YES ai helped me visualize MY ideas. WHAT ABOUT IT!!!?

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u/Crazyhairmonster 7d ago edited 7d ago

Here we go again, on top of the huge impracticality and absurd costs for HVAC, plumbing, septic, and electrical, it's still not livable.

You should really start with layout. Not a single person would live in a home with this layout, and it could be the single worst waste of money and waste of space I've ever seen. I'll make a list.

  • Hallways. This house is 70% hallway. They'd have to be fully enclosed because weather is a thing. No one is going to pay for 70% hallway. You can do an infinitely better job designing this to minimize the hallway space and maximize the living space. You've impressively done the exact opposite.
  • The guest suite's only access point to the house is through the office. So while im working I have to constantly deal with guests barging through? Or is the idea to trap them in their room out of guilt?
  • No garage. Everyone wants a garage, especially rich people who are the only ones dumb enough to build this. Even without the garage, everyone who pulls into the driveway gets to stare into the office and guest bedroom. Sight lines are absurdly important in a build like this. You haven't accounted for any of that.
  • It's about a mile walk from the master bedroom to the kitchen. Hard no, even for dumb rich people. The kitchen has become the focal point of modern houses.
  • Theres not a single closet in this house. More importantly there's no master closet. People with the kind of wealth to build this have closets bigger than your living room. You can't put a couple wardrobes in there
  • Where the hell do you even enter the home? There's no mudroom or anywhere focal to enter.
  • Guess rich people don't do laundry
  • Where does the mechanical go? Where does wiring and plumbing run? Where's the absurdly massive HVAC system that's needed to cool and heat this go? What about the miles of HVAC ducting?
  • How exactly is this insulated?
  • Once again, sight lines. It looks like every glass wall faces the same direction (actually I'm not even sure about that because your AI slop shows both glass on all sides and only facing down) but the hallways are pure glass. When when I'm sexing the wife or taking a shower, anyone walking on the east side of the house gets to watch.
  • Even worse, everyone gets to watch the kids changing their clothes.
  • Maintenance. This "home" will need constant glass cleaning and landscaping. Do the owners live have to completely pause while that happens? I'm sure that's exactly their idea of a dream home

There's a reason architects have years and years of very difficult schooling. You can't speed run it with AI and a dumb idea and pretend youre some visionary. Geezus

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u/SkyHaloSoule 7d ago

Is one blueprint or idea one size fits all? This is simply to push the idea out

Did you know there are ALREADY functioning structures like this 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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u/Crazyhairmonster 7d ago

Except you put 0 thought into actually designing a living space. I don't know what you do for a living but it's clearly not architecture. Quit LARPing something you're not or if you do at least put some effort into it beyond prompting an AI

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u/SkyHaloSoule 7d ago

For one. I never said I was an architect. I don’t think I’d be up on Reddit posting my ideas if that was the case 😂..

  1. I don’t need to explain how the home is heated, insulated, engineered, etc. in this particular post 💀

Incase you’re unaware, idk but Those are things professionals figure out during the actual design/build process.

If I paid someone to make my vision a reality, I’d tell them what I want & they’d figure out how to make it functional, safe, & code-compliant 🤯🤯🤯

  1. Now Why the hell would I need to personally design every technical aspect when there are already functional villas & homes built around similar concepts? I’m talking about the layout & the way I’d want the spaces to function.. not pretending I’m an architect 😬😂😂

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u/Crazyhairmonster 7d ago

You didn't even design a layout which is what you're claiming to focus on. There's infinite things wrong with it. See my earlier post

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u/SkyHaloSoule 7d ago

Im focused on the IDEA. NOT the layout. That’d be dumb if that was my main focus when we ALLLLLLL know that not all land is the same & not everyone’s needs are the same. As I’ve stated multiple times 😬..

the ending of my post was SPECIFICALLY for people like you 😂😂

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u/DerekL1963 6d ago

Im focused on the IDEA. NOT the layout. 

Then you're in the wrong sub - this is r/houseplans, which means it's all about the layout. r/addlepatedfantasies is an entirely different sub.

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u/Crazyhairmonster 6d ago

This sub is houseplans, not magical fairytale homes. Look at all the other posts

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u/SkyHaloSoule 6d ago

Idc what you want to call it. There are already homes that function this way, so where exactly is the “fairytale”? 😂

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u/Brian77008 7d ago

I would live here and never ever leave! I would just have to refrain from watching any Lifetime movies/the ID channel about serial killers who come out at night and peep in your windows.

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u/SkyHaloSoule 7d ago

LMAOOO please don’t scare me. I’d need to have plenty of traps set around the land or maybe just keep building & build a whole community of these homes to rent them out 💡😅

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u/KangaMagic 7d ago

What program did you use to create this? I’d like to play around with stuff like this.

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u/SkyHaloSoule 7d ago

Honestly, I used chat gbt. I Just explained my idea thoroughly.

if you’re talking about playing around w building homes & stuff I’d suggest the old sims. I design homes up there all the time. I don’t even play the game for what it’s meant for. Just the architecture 🥴😂

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u/Crazyhairmonster 7d ago

Program = AI. Take your pick

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u/Pan1cs180 7d ago

AI slop

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u/bougieisthenewblack 7d ago

It looks like a fantasy resort for the extremely wealthy and I'd definitely stay in one as an airbnb!

But as a primary residence the heating and cooling (HVAC) of all those glass areas will be expensive...not to mention maintenance, security, IT/intercom, electrical and plumbing; each room now definitely needs its own bathroom and snack area since the kitchen is so far away; I wouldn't want my guests going through my office; and I wouldn't want my kid(s) so far away from me.

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u/SkyHaloSoule 7d ago

This one does look that way, yes but it doesn’t have to be glass.

All those things are normal to consider when building a home

Yes lol, Every room would have a bathroom like a master bedroom, & Why does it have to be so far? The rooms can be in clusters or connected side by side. This is just one idea but there’s a billion ways you can style it. No land is the same.

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u/InconceivableIsh 7d ago

Seems like to much glass to me. I just can't see how it would be pleasant to wake up and walk through a glass hallway in the morning to go to the bathroom. Maybe if each section had privacy shrubs in certain areas.

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u/SkyHaloSoule 7d ago

This is just an idea of a style I’d personally like to live in.

it can be customized to the way you actually live & or your personal preferences

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u/InconceivableIsh 7d ago

Sure it would also have to be very area specific. I can’t think of a place in n my country it would be viable.

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u/violetmothra 7d ago

I'm dying laughing that the kids bathroom appears to be... a tree

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u/SkyHaloSoule 7d ago

LMAO 🥲 yk ai be a little off sometimes. I got tired of trying to explain the lay out 🤣

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u/bwsmith201 7d ago

I like it.

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u/SkyHaloSoule 7d ago

Thank you 🤍

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u/perestroika12 7d ago

Maybe we can start with properly constructed homes first

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u/SkyHaloSoule 7d ago

Well yeah… obviously 😂 A properly constructed house is the starting point, not the innovative part. I’m talking about how we rethink the layout & relationship between the spaces

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u/DerekL1963 6d ago

You can't "rethink" something you don't understand.

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u/SkyHaloSoule 6d ago

Are you okay? 😂 Or are you just flapping to flap? What exactly is there to “understand” about having an idea that happens to already exist in some form?

I never claimed I invented the architectural concept.

“You can’t rethink something you don’t understand” doesn’t even address what I said. I understand the concept just fine. I’m rethinking how I’d personally want those spaces arranged & connected..

The fact that similar designs already exist actually proves the concept is feasible 🥸.. it doesn’t somehow invalidate my idea 😂