The Home of the Future: 8 Innovations in Store

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i love it

WITH A CAPITAL L !!!

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Sam of AL 1:02PM April 11, 2011

It is a good concept embedding various technologies in the home. But what I think is that more is needed here. The aim should also be to save energy. Then some health conscious facilities. Embedding these things can really be a USP for these houses.

Steven Frnacis 12:19AM October 29, 2009

We had a smaller home built a year ago because we were living in

a 37 year old home that was needing so much maintenance, upgrades, and renovations that we felt we could no longer keep

up with the old place which required new flooring, new paint,

new roof shingles, and it was on an acre of land that took me two and a half hours to just mow and trim even with a riding mower. The house updates cost us about $20,000,00 which was

$2,000.00 more than the original cost of the home in 1977. It

was still a nice home we could have rented out for $600-$750.00

a month but since we are now in our early seventies, we felt we

should be living on a "garden home" that would be on the shore

of a small lake practically in the middle of the town where we lived (mostly hidden by trees surrounding the lake).

This home has only two bedrooms where our old home had four. The adjoining bathrooms for each bedroom has all of the modern

fixtures, including a "jet tub" and walk in showers that would

have cost us at least $25,000.00. The Living area is separated

from the kitchen/dining area by a 10 foot long bar with a granite top. We added a wooden deck with a three foot high railing the full width of the house in the back and I can cast

from the deck if I don't want to walk 30 feet to fish on the shore.There is no yard maintenance other than weeding the two

flower beds. A homeowners association fee of $40.00 a month is

reasonable and that provides mowing and trimming of the small

front and back yards. We also had an eight foot diameter pool

installed underneath the deck; we were not into hot tubs but we

can add a pool heater if we desire. We thought that the selling of our old home would be difficult but it was sold after making only one phone call. Living in this home which only has a six foor space between other homes is not a problem with noise as

there are no windows or doors on the brick walls of each side. It's sort of like being in a big city walkup (brownstine) but

it does not have a second story as many of the houses on small twenty five foot wide lots had to have for upstairs bedrooms.

We feel like we are living in a futuristic home with all of the conveniences and then some unlike our early seventies home. It's

not as if we miss the old home since we are only four miles from it and we visit there as often as possible since the home was purchased by my brother and his wife who are thrilled to be

living close to our old home town where we grew up. I forgot to

mention the two car garage with a space for a "tool room" where all of my tools I have accumulated can be locked up out of sight. We love this little place here in central Oklahoma but

do wish we could have bought something similar in Florida so we could have been closer to our youngest son and his two children (our youngest grandchildren),but a place like this would have

cost at least $350,000.00 there and that's twice what we paid

here. Lots left (3) did sell for $28,000.00!

Les Easley of OK 12:32PM August 03, 2009

We are already supposed to be living in colonies on other planets and poverty is supposed to be a memory. However, here we stand on our planet with growing poverty, crime, and unrest. A virtual cabinet or appliance may well be possible but who is going to pay for it other than a few elites who have more money than they know what to do with. Much of this article should be titled "What Homes for the Wealth Will be Like in the Future". I will bet my bottom dollar that these nice techno-dreams will be reserved for individuals that dont even use them.

Like the writer above Id hope the creative minds of our age would find something more useful to do with their time. There seems to be an undertone that suggests that continued expansion of luxury is an answer to our problems. It is only the beginning. American has to face the reality that much of the world has already begun to accept. The fact that we cannot all be wealthy and that the ideaology of "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" is dangerous propaganda, not entertainment.

Phil of OR 3:53PM July 30, 2009