Short term Dreamzzzzzz with my dollar- House extn.

As usual let me start with some crap intro for the topic. You will be wondering why I added “zzzzzz” along with the word “Dream” in the heading. Yup, house extension is staying as dream for months. So, I thought about writing that and free that plan from a mere dream to paper…or well, in fact to my blog. Actually I started this house extension plan with the idea of building a big house, or a “Villa”. This idea of building a house of my own in India, actually started and ended because of Senthil. He is my room mate in Chicago who built a 2800 Sq feet big house in his home town, Salem. I was so carried away with his idea of building ones own dream house. But at the same time, I was so carried away with his sleepless nights of his phone calls to his so called Engineer and shouts and fights with ICICI bank personnel for getting his loan money. I was so carried away with his tensions, that I dropped my plan of building a dream house. But I was all ready with the floor plans, elevation, interior designs, furniture designs, and my favourite..master bed-bath and entertainment room (attached bar, lol) designs.

After a while again the idea of building house popped in to my mind when Nitya (my cousin) were searching for a 3 Crore house in Seattle. But Senthil’s lesson was in mind which slightly (or drastically, what ever) deviated my plan of building a villa to renovating my existing small house. Actually it could not be said as renovating, but just extending on to the top. For accommodating my dream bed-bath and entertainment room, I must take the entire terrace floor. It was difficult to convince my parents to give a green for building just 2 rooms on the whole terrace area. Because when I told them about the idea of my bed-bath and beyond ( :) ), their idea was to build 2 bed rooms and a hall and good that they didn’t ask me to build a kitchen also there. When I told them the idea about my BAR, they literally freaked out. Its like giving me license to “drink”, but some how I convinced them. Now this Nitya has given some wonderful ideas, which I don’t know whether it will be practical. But she knows how to spend money for luxury.

Now I need to start the whole thing. For that, I asked some so called construction engineer (he call him self as engineer, god know where he studied his civil engineering), to draw a plan. As usual Palakkad engineer, he started giving some drastic ideas of conventional house with 2 bedrooms and telling the fundoo ideas of maximum utilization of available resources. Man, give me a break. Its my house and my money. Why cant he understand his costumers need and do his work? Now another “bright” idea struck my parents. They want to consult an astrologer or some “vasthu” guy to see if the construction is feasible there and to see where to keep my bath-bed and windows. I really don’t know how to convince every one and start the work.

But let me at least present my ideas here. Where to start? Ok, let us start from the entertaining section, my TV room- bar. I want that to be in a maximum contemporary style. Ceiling needs to be designed in coffered way to hold recessed lighting and spot lights, the wall needs to be little elevated to hold my LCD and pre-planned wiring for my home theater. And in the corner of the room, comes, my favorite spot- the Bar. The bar shelves needs to be fitted with spot lights, which points to each bottle, another rack to hold my beer-martini-whisky glasses and a plug point (which wont be visible) to accommodate the mixer for my cocktails. A granite top bar table with dim lights at the sides, and 2 bar chairs, and from the ceiling 2 spot lights on to it. The shelves on the wall need to be designed in contemporary styles, and I am all ready with the shelves designs. The whole entertainment room needs to be 1 feet step down. All the plug points need to be just 10 inches from the floor. No wiring needs to be in display whatsoever. Coming to the flooring, I prefer marble or granite. The entertainment room will be having a black-gray-white theme. So my couch, tables and bean bags will go in match with the color combination.

Now let us move to the bedroom. This also has a black-gray- white theme (A night theme). No external shelves. The room would have a hidden closet. A big sliding window, a door to my balcony, and very little furniture. I don’t prefer a dressing table in my bed room but no issues even if I have one.

If possible, I am planning to have one more small kiddy bedroom with a theme of pink or blue with lot of cartoons painted and contemporary shelves and lightings.
Now my major money eating room- The Bath. RED-BLACK combination. I need to bring a new concept a bath room dancer. So bath needs to be so spacious that one could dance. Toilet will be partitioned with a door. A big oval RED bath tub on a granite top with a Jacuzzi. The top must be spacious to hold lot of candles and dry flowers and spices. Bath room needs to be circuited with speakers for a light music and the switch to be hand reachable from the tub. I need a small shelf to hold one or two bottles of wine, near my tub. Next to my tub, I need 2 square mirrors and one square shelf in between, 2 washbasins on granite top. Next to that should be my glass shower cabin. Black tiles there. If space permits, I could have one more contemporary shelf. Bath room has 3 doors- One to bedroom, one to toilet and the other to dress closet. In between the toilet and closet doors, I could place a nice picture (I have drawn a lot…may be I could use one of them :) - May be Merlyn Monroe).

You might be wondering why I am not talking about the elevation. I am least bothered about it because I know my current house on which I am going to build the new one. So, I cannot expect much of a big deal in the new elevation. Just that, in my balcony which opens out from my bedroom needs to have some space, just to sit and relax and enjoy the Palakkad wind.
Budget? Haa…A good question. I am thinking the whole idea is a 7-8 Lakh plan. I really don’t know. But I need this badly. Now let me tell you a secret. I am planning to get marired. So if I bring a girl now to my current home, I do have a room, but privacy is so less. And besides, it’s just a marketing technique to make the girl fall for my bathroom if not for me.