The Super-House I Could Be Living in by 2030

When it comes to the way you live at home, it’s arguably the most important aspect of sustaining your life, vital enough to make or break it. It’s where you’ll likely spend the majority of every day, where you eat, where you sleep, where you bathe, where you spend time with your family, and sometimes maybe some friends. If taken care of well, it can protect you from the harsh seasonal elements, and almost all types of weather. ☀️🌧️⛈️❄️🌨️

For anyone reading this, you may be interested in how I want to live at home in the next 10 years. But before I get to that, I have some bad news for you: If your home lifestyle has always been 100% NORMAL, as in the 1950s to 2020 normal, I will be very blunt: you’ve been living your home life WRONG.

Wrong for your health. Wrong for your family. Wrong for your budget. And wrong for the environment.

How do I know all this? When it comes to my personal preferred lifestyle, it’s the same way I look at life in general: simply put, I’m always on the lookout for what’s the BEST to do, and the BEST to have, not just what everyone else does or has.

Fortunately, after doing a few years of research (and getting some ideas from watching commercials on CNN) I’ve now heard of – and will be planning to work with – several companies that have innovated the ways people everywhere are living in their homes, and changed them for better than average. If any family were to implement all that these services have to offer, they would have no need to keep up with the Joneses – they could simply outrun them.

Therefore, I take pretty seriously the qualities in which I plan to live at home. I’ve never owned my own house before, but I’ve always had plenty of ideas of how a future home of mine could and should be like, which you’ll read about below. So, come take a look, and maybe something here will inspire what you put in your home, too. 🏡

Bedroom 🛌🏾

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Clean Energy 🌞⚡️

One of the first necessities any human house needs is electrical power; it’s what gives the energy needed for many functions, from heating and cooling, to cooking to refrigeration, to lighting, TV, and internet, to possibly washing and drying clothes. Growing up, I’ve heard from my parents for many years that paying for electric bills can be expensive, but that mainly if you’re drawing power from the local electric company. However, the modern age has provided cheaper or even profitable alternatives that also happen to be cleaner – renewables such as wind power, or, as will be explored here, solar power.

Once these panels would collect solar energy, any remaining unused power can be stored and saved within this type of generator for either the nighttime, cloudy days, or even when the power’s out:

Smart House 🧑🏾‍💻

In my technology blog, I talked about how innovations are constantly being invented, sold, and distributed. Nowadays, many of them are marketed through the As Seen On TV commercials you may have sometimes seen; these products are used primarily for cooking, cleaning, laundry, or repairing around the house. The U.S. companies Sam’s Club and Verizon both have a wide variety of the latest gadgets to help with home comfort, entertainment, and security. Another company, Touch of Modern, features a whole series of uniquely innovative modern tech items rarely found in the mainstream retail market.

Furniture 🛋️

Have you ever found your own home furniture, like your sofas and couches, to be too big, bulky, and heavy to carry around? This company named Lovesac has its furniture built in separate pieces, but able to assemble together, sort of like building blocks. Watch this YouTube video to see for yourself:

Secret Doors & Passageways 🔎🚪

You may have seen these before in classic movie series like James Bond, Batman, and Harry Potter – secret passageways to mysterious rooms, from doors and other openings hiding in plain sight. So you wanna know a cool secret? It turns out there are companies that can build real-life secret passageways for your own house, too! Aside from the cool super-spy appeal, these doors could serve at least several practical applications: personal privacy, extra room for storage, or protection from nearby natural disasters. 🌪️🔥🌊 So, wherein my future house would these be built, and to where? Well, I’d like to tell you, but then it would no longer be a secret, now would it? 😉 Shhh….. 🤫

Artwork Museum 🎨🖼️

Anybody who knows me well knows that I love drawing art and displaying art. So ideally, I’d like my future home to one day double as both a residential house and as an artwork museum, where anyone visiting can see my works on the walls, free of charge! One way I’ve thought of rendering my art pieces (or family photos) is with Fracture (see the portrait on the top right in the photo below).

House Library 📖📚

At least one room or a part of a room should have shelves of books to read. I’ve collected many books over the years – yearbooks from schools, textbooks from college, comic books, magazines, all 8 in the Harry Potter series, books I first read as a little kid, and many more I bought from Amazon. It’s likely I’ll buy even more books to read in the next decade and beyond, certainly if I have and raise kids of my own (look below).

Production Studio 🎥

Remember those secret passageways I mentioned earlier? I figured one of them could lead up to a special secret place where I could find time and space exclusively to do my creative works within a production studio; if it’s a drawing or graphic to design, a song to play or write, or a video or film to edit, it would all be done here.

Cable TV Alternatives 📺

Growing up, I would hear my mother complaining nearly every month about the rising costs of her TV cable bills. One of my top priorities for the next ten years will be to cut or keep costs low wherever possible, while still maintaining a good quality of service for myself as well as my potential future family. That’s why I’ve decided, for my future home, to forgo TV cable service, in lieu of streaming platforms such as YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, and possibly HBOMax & Apple TV, among others.

Home Security 🔐🛡️

No house would feel completely like home unless it can also be kept safe, inside and out. To help protect my future house from potential thieves, I am currently considering 3 different companies whose services appear somewhat similar: ADT, SimpliSafe, and Ring.com. I’ll decide sometime after I get my own first house to own, although it’s unlikely I’ll choose all 3, since that would be excessive.

Plantin Plantings Grocery Garden

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In normal times, people can simply take a trip to their local grocery store for produce to eat as food. However, as we all know, in 2020 especially, normal times are not to be taken for granted. Tough times can may it trickier to get or buy certain foods, such as fruits and vegetables. That’s why, as a back-up plan, I’ve considered learning how to grow my own plants to eat, just from and for my future home. Now, I don’t exactly have the best Green Thumb, so I plan to ask for the aid of the Victory Garden Initiative, a non-profit in Wisconsin that helps people start food gardens for self-sufficiency, sustainability, health & community. For the times of the year when the weather may not be best to grow outdoor produce, there’s an indoor alternative to growing plants, as well. Even if we don’t know when the next recession or pandemic will hit, it always helps to be prepared for when they come.

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Swimming Pool 🏊🏾

In some of the summers I had living in New York, I used to go to a day camp that has a 12-foot (3.66 meters) deep pool called a Diving Tank; this is where I learned how to swim, and I enjoyed diving down during those times. I haven’t gotten that kind of exercise since moving out, but if I had an inground pool by my future house’s backyard, as pictured below, I wouldn’t have to go far from home the next time I or family members wanna take a dip in the deep (it would likely be 8 to 9 feet, or 2 and 1/2 meters deep).

Trash Minimalism 🗑️🚯

Personally, this was always my least favorite chore growing up: taking out the trash. (Okay, I lied – usually either my mom or stepdad took out the trash.) But even so, on average we would generate about 1 to 2 full bags of trash a week. I’ve heard stories about landfills, and how our environment is being polluted more and more by the millions of trash bags we stuff them with. So once I heard about these young women named Lauren Singer and Kathryn Kellogg, and their ways of generating less trash from their apartment homes, I knew I had to learn from them. Between now and 2030, I want my future home to be a Zero Waste household, and this is how it can be done:

But, with all this said, these are all just ideas I have for amenities in the ideal house I’d like to live in, provided that I can afford them. I cannot 100% guarantee that ALL these ideas will become my reality – much of whether or not they can be done will depend not only on who owns the house (which would have to be me), but also where I live and who I live with. I would say the 3 most likely location would be somewhere in the USA, between central Ohio, Long Island, New York, or perhaps Los Angeles, California. But even so, the possibilities of what independent living can bring are kinda fun to imagine and learn about!