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...)