Thanks Mills

So I read Mills latest blog and I got thinking. What I would like to have at some point in my life is a big house. Off topic? hahaha no.
If I had a big house I could have all of my friends over. We could spend long winter days there, curled up eating foreign fruits and good things lol. Crabs and lobsters, pomegranates and grapes and oranges, venison and maybe some medallions (pork : P ). We'd eat amazing desserts like french silk pie and other delicious European sweets. We'd read books and listen to music and sing and play instruments. We'd laugh and argue and hug. We'd uplift and forgive one another more times than we could count. No one would be left out and we'd go on adventures discovering the beauty of winter outside in the trees and places that surround my house. We'd stay up late drinking hot chocolate and tea, watching the snow fall out in the dark.
A Christmas tree would be cut down and dragged into the great room of my house lined with windows with heavy drapes that were always pulled back. The tree would be placed in the center of the room. It's ceiling a great dome, allowing the tree to be as tall as we pleased. A great fresco painting would exist on the ceiling all of it leading to the center where a great flurry of stars would mass and explode outward. The top of the tree with its Angel Moroni would stand just below this. He would be at least a foot tall, made with the perfect metal so as to shimmer and shine for all to see. Christmas lights wrapped around the trunk and draped amid the branches would make it glow from within.
Old ornaments would be hung. Delicate ones of spun glass and porcelain. Wooden ones and woven ones. Ornaments recently made and ornaments handed down for generations.
They would all come from there many homes for one week. We would hide ourselves in the mountains for a while to remember the past and dream of the future.
Books would be stacked by chairs in great piles. Cd's and movies would be littered on tables.
The fire place would be on the opposite side from the front entry. It would be big enough to fit a grown man or two with a beautifully sculpted mantle decorated with pictures of families and cards from loved ones.
We would all come to spend a week in this house, and we would bring all of the decorations and new recipes to try out. We'd go outside on adventures the old fashion way with sleighs and horses and the like with dozens of blankets.
The front entry would be large enough to hold fifty people easily with rows and rows of shoe shelves and coat hooks. A great closet with snow shoes and ice skates brought to the house years ago and well worn from past visits would branch to the side. The walls would all be circular. The front door would be the height of two men. It would have panels of ornate carvings with figures from long ago. On the far side would be the door to the rest of the house. It would be unadorned and without decoration except for a great wreath hung from the top. All of it would be made from the wilderness outside with berries and winter flowers and pine boughs. Through this door you would enter into the great central room.
Its panels of glass windows would be lined with great couches and chairs. Some would face in and others out towards the glass. All would be luxurious in material and perfect in its comfort. For those tired of soft lounging chairs made of sturdy wood or beautiful stone would be interspersed. Great thick lap blankets or soft light throw blankets would be placed near each. A table would be on the other side. Between each setting would be a larger table of a variety of material. All would coexist beautifully in unexpected but wonderful combinations. Connecting wall to ceiling would be colored glass of all shades. The panels would be diamond cut and about two inches across and three inches long. Each would be a different color and there would be no order in its placement. After this the fresco would begin with the deepest black becoming a dark blue near the center that would be accented more and more with star and cloud.
The entry door would be facing West, the fireplace facing East. At North and South would be two french doors. The North made of a dark mahogany wood, the other with a pale, pale aspen. Each would depict in its carvings characteristics of its direction.
Behind these doors hallways branched off. Along these hallways doors would be placed leading into each set of rooms. The wall of the hallways would match the wood of their North or South entry doors. The doors along the hallways would each be individual and none would be similar in any way to the next.
Each occupant would be placed in a suite that matched their character well enough so as to make them comfortable.
These hallways would end in another door. This door would be taller and grander than all those in the hallway and would hold either a grand library on the North or a musical room on the South. The library would be magnificent in size and almost perfect in its knowledge, holding books on the technical things in life and also the unknown and fantastical. The music room would hold any instrument imaginable with hundreds of thousands of musical texts. Each would hold more chairs and couches for comfortable study or performing. At the opposite end of the library and music room would be another door.
These doors would either lead to the kitchens on the North side or the storage and cleaning rooms on the South. All of these rooms and suites would be circular in shape except the hallways ( : P ).
So you can think of this house sort of like a snowflake. There would be one grand circle holding it together with three branches coming from it. All of these branches would be like bubbles coming from it that would connect to more bubbles. So maybe not like a snowflake : P
Oh and each room would have it's own fireplace.
Oh and connected to the kitchen and such would be an underground tunnel leading to the barn where animals would be kept, though dogs and cats would be hugely welcomed in the main house.
Oh and all those who help take care of the house and everything in it would get big pay and be a part of the family.
I think we'll need more than a week to spend here... and maybe everyone could bring their families.... It's gonna be a big house.
I pray one day I will be able to build something like this.
This is the second house I've made up, but the other one wasn't nearly as good as this one.
Well, you're all welcome to come whenever you want.