Home of the Future...

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The Home of the Future

I drew this when I was 4 or 5. A couple things of note:

1. Right side: The parking lot *inside* the house. Carbon monoxide issues, anyone? But I do give myself credit for including a “command center” in the parking lot. Cool striped chair, I must admit. (Note that I am not sure if the parking lot was actually supposed to be vertical, or this is a due to my lack of perspective drawing at the time. Either way, it is awesome.)

2. You know why you don’t know what those animals are in the pet room? Because they haven’t been created yet. This is a futuristic house. Duh.

3. Note the use of natural light in the “Pet’s Room”. It’s a sun. Genius!

4. In the bedroom: I actually remember using the silver Crayola crayon to color the mirror. Any excuse to use the Crayola metallics. (This is also why there are a myriad of treasure chests in my childhood drawings. Those were the Crayola trifecta – I could use the gold, silver, and copper Crayolas on those!!)

5. On the right side of the bedroom: That is a waterfall. I was into Feng Shui before it was hip.

6. Safety first: I even included banisters on the stairs. Yes, those are banisters. Seriously.

7. Although I do promote safety in this house, I also eschew it, as evidenced by the “trap door” leading to the “underground room”.

8. Also note the cool “storage room”. This is where you keep your three vegetables. Only issue – there is no kitchen in the house. Details, details. You have a huge food storage room. What would you need a kitchen for??

9. Whirlpool tub in the bathroom. Ohh yeah…

10. You know why the flowers outside the front door are multicolored like that? Because they are flowers from the FUTURE. Geez. Like I had to explain that. And apparently, flowers from the future are as tall as your front door. Scary. (But also note, safety first, with the addition of the porch light.)

11. The huge mailbox above the front door: This was before Internet. Please. You got letters back then. But this is in the future, so…darn, missed the boat on predicting the whole Internet thing. This is also evidenced by the lack of computers (or anything else electronic, like PHONES, in the house. (Oh, yeah, there are no phones in the house because I just use a cell. Yep, that’s it.)

12. Attic: I’m not sure if this was supposed to be an actual working space, or that’s just crap stored up there. It’s an ADHD thing. I even incorporated clutter into my future home. AWESOMENESS.

Tags: architect, childhood, drawing, future, house, kid, parking lot, storage room