POLL: Best bedroom view?

10 years ago

last modified: 10 years ago

What would be the perfect view from your bedroom window?

Vote and comment describing your current view to be entered into a drawing for your own pair of Houzz slippers! (Photos encouraged)

*One entry per person, per drawing. Entries must be posted before 12:00am Pacific Time 11/5/2013. One winner will be drawn at random.

Long pastoral view

Nest in the forest

Indoor-outdoor living

Country side view

Island view

Other - Show us below!

Featured Answer

rosecafe

10 years ago

You know, the great thing about a water view is that it's ceaselessly changing, ever new nuances of light and wind on water. Reflections, ripples, white water, surf and sounds, calm and storm, sunrises and sunsets all are amplified in ones senses when one lives by the sea. What better way to be soothed off to sleep or to wake to, than to of the sight and sounds of the sea. Not to mention the galaxy of stars overhead, so much brighter when theres no smog or glaring city lights. City dwellers could only imagine such bed times. Presently, being on a narrow isthmus, we're within earshot of both crashing surf and lazy bay waves lapping the beach. The water's just out of view for now, but the new home looks out over the Bay of Islands N.Z. Can't wait to get back there and implement all my Houzz ideas on the remodeling :)

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indianpatti
10 years ago
I'm with Handyman on this one ... love a city view!
mefor
10 years ago
Hey, that's handyma'am, she's a girl and my friend. And I love a city view too. :)
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Kim Westwood
10 years ago
First I thought the pasture view would be my favourite but water view is so calming and relaxing. We have 5 acres lots of gum trees & wild life but 5 mins from the beach. So my decorating is changing from country to coastal with white as my canvas my colours change from Aquas to blues with a touch of yellow. I need to cool down my house without using the air-conditioner.
J
10 years ago
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I have a beautiful hilly countryside view from all windows but give me a water (preferably ocean/coastline) view any day!
orangecamera
10 years ago
My current view is directly to my neighbor's bedroom across the driveway. If they ever opened their curtains (they haven't in the past almost-year I've lived here) we'd be seeing each other in bed! Luckily for me they don't open their curtains because I like mine open in the daytime.

My dream view would be a forest, with lots of animals and birds for me to watch. I'd look every day to see what plants have grown, or what's blooming, etc.
studio10001
10 years ago
I love any view I can see the top of, be it trees, water,roof or field! One of my favourite bedrooms looked out onto a flat, gravel covered roof. BUT. Every morning the sky was brilliant against the gravel, and peacocks gathered on it outside the window, pecking at the glass for breakfast. I started every day drinking coffee and hanging out that window while they preened.
Irene
10 years ago
This one was a bit hard for me because I personally loved all of them, except for the closed off one, but I chose the island/ocean view because it is something I wish I could see through my window right now instead of a bunch of cars, streets, houses and a gray cloudy weather.....
adobe7
10 years ago
I'd love to have a country side view from my bedroom; but I live in a somewhat busy and noisy neiborhood where privacy and beauty would be such a luxury. So I'm voting for the indoor-outdoor patio view...so cheerful and yet personal and cozy too!
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I love the water view, there's nothing as pleasing to me as seeing the ripple of the lake or the surf. My dream would be to live in Monterey, Ca or some place similar. Hearing the ocean at night is so awesome!
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Love our lakeview from our second story bedroom window...
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Dream view: ocean
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I selected the island view, but of course I would. I live in the city.
fliebman
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Blue water through view of garden.
judithahall
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Love the indoor/outdoor view. How wonderful to wake in the morning to the inside of your great mid-century modern bedroom, over looking the best part of your outdoor living! Love the floor to ceiling windows, so that even in the winter, natural light can flood the room.
lindydee
10 years ago
The sea. We have two large windows looking out past the trees to the sea and the sky reflected in a huge mirror on a side wall giving us four window views. Amazing sunsets and skies and somehow different and ever changing looks in each window. "My" sky looks so much more dramatic than "yours" this morning.
reno20417
10 years ago
To beat my backyard, backed up against the Chugach Mountain Range in Eagle River Alaska, would be hard, but since I'm in love with the sun......give an ocean view and I'd be happy too!
ravibala
10 years ago
I love forest view and indoor outdoor view too. I love mountains,trees,animals,birds.I love to have a garden,flowers,fruit trees... A view from my bedroom balcony.....
salwaz
10 years ago
Water view would be perfect
shilpis
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Country side view is perfect.
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The pillows and the water, sky and landscape mixtures makes it natural.
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Our current view isn't picture worthy as it's a small grassed terrace against a 20' block and stone wall:( We're looking for a property to make a 3-gen home and view ranks high on the must have list. We're in Scotland close to the glens - gorgeous views not out of the realm of possibility!
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I love my view from window
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I picked the indoor/outdoor view, mostly because it is an extension of the bedroom. It offers whatever view you choose to make it, garden, hottub, pool, sitting/lounge area, etc. It also offers privacy and great sky views. Most practical and I love it.
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I just got back from my friend's cottage. Watching waves, the expanse of blue and a sunset on/over the water is one of my life's special moments!
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Would love to see the forest outside my window.
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Nothing beats a water view-- and it's infinite-- which allows you to breathe. With the exception of the 'pastoral' view and this coastal/water view, the others seemed too closed in and blocked to me.
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10 years ago
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ctuggle18
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calidesign
10 years ago
A view with water of any kind.
User
10 years ago
A circus!
suzanne_m
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A view of the ocean and be close enough to hear the waves.
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My husband told my daughter you have to live in a circus to have a view of a circus
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Pikes Peak :-)
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Nest In The Forest without a doubt!!
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A view of LA skyline at night :-)
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7 years ago
I live in a city! I guess no one else here does that? I like facing the street and the side neighbors. I have a lovely view of trees. My bedroom feels like a tree house. I can see front yards with flowers all year long along my street. I like seeing families bike together, couples running together, the elderly being wheeled by their nurses... it makes me feel I live in a thriving community!
Tatjana Grebenjuk ( Baa)
7 years ago
My Dream is a view on the water and landscape mixtures makes it natural.

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