Home building ideas
These are some cool ideas I've had that should be easier to do if you do when you're building a house, rather than having to remodel.
- Intercom with radio/cd
- Network every room, preferably with CAT-6 STP cable
- 20 AMP electrical circuits everywhere
- Solar power
- Secret passages/doors
- Alarm system
- Built-in/anchored safe
- A/C zoning
- Ultraviolet A/C filter
- Poured-in-place exterior walls, or cinder block with rebar and concrete poured in the holes
- Door handles instead of knobs
- Handicap width hallways, doors, and entrances
- Pocket doors, potential use: sound zones
- Extra long soffit-vent overhangs over windows
- Rain gutters
- Double-paned and/or impact resistant windows
- Mini-blinds between glass panes
- Water softener/filter
- Lawn sprinkler system
- Central vacuum
- Dog door
- Solar screens
- Dumb waiter
- Blower on a gas fireplace
- Instant water heater
- Gable/tray/layered/slanted ceiling
- Personal water well
- Spinning TV cabinet to hide the TV as a bookshelf
- Extra wide door border (to go with crown molding)
- Fire pit in the pool
- Pneumatic tubes to each room, like the bank drive-thru
- Model trains that run through along the crown molding from room to room and through holes in the wall to skip the doorways
- Drawers in the staircase
- Panic room
- Corridors inside key walls (wiring, sound proofing, secret passage, storage...)
