I've often that about that if I could design a house, I'd have a room just like this. Like there would be a section of the house that was tower like and the only way to get to the room at the top would be to take an exterior balcony-like-staircase from the second floor to the room in question - the sole room on the "third floor".

There's just something about a room like that that makes it fell so isolated, peaceful and serene. And the exterior access makes it feel like a little adventure getting there. Like if the weather were bad you might opt not to go there because it would mean gearing up to make the trip.

[–] Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I want to build a house that has stairs that go nowhere and a bunch of hidden passages and rooms that only makes sense if you live there

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I've fantasized about this.

I had some friends who actually DID build a secret room behind a bookshelf, where they had their home theatre or something like that I forget (they were more like close coworkers of my wife than my own friends, but they were super nice).

[–] franzfurdinand@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Ah, the Winchester Mystery House approach

[–] pfm@scribe.disroot.org 2 points 1 month ago

Good luck getting there on a wheelchair... Or under influence of C2H5OH.