Dream Sorority House
 

What would your dream sorority house include? What do you think are some essentials things for a sorority house?

Just a few things I love: plantation style homes and split staircases.

Essential: sleeping rooms and bathrooms
Dream House: elevators, a theatre with movie screen and stage for those skit days during recruitment, crafts room, T shirt storage room, pool in the backyard, enough power to each room to run 3 hairdryers, 4 curling irons, a milk steamer and cappuchino machine, a popcorn machine, 2 TVs, 5 computers and a parrafin wax warmer.:eek:
And a sleeping porch instead of beds in the rooms.

nice!

Pleasure-bots.

http://l.yimg.com/eb/ymv/us/img/hv/p...de_law/ai2.jpg

Just curious, why sleeping porches?

hahahaha!

Honestly, there's very little I would change about my sorority house. It's not too big, it's welcoming, and it feels like home. I love our porch swings, and our amazingly comfortable couch, and I really can't imagine another house being so "us."

That being said, however, I would love for there to be more girls living in the house at any given time. Also, more space for crafting stuff, and a bigger kitchen would definitely be a plus :)

ETA: My school doesn't have a sorority row, the houses are spread out throughout the campus area. Part of me would love to have that kind of environment :)

Sleeping porches so one can actually sleep....

my house had sleeping porches(no longer, tho), which were dark and quiet 24/7. you could take a nap anytime you wanted or stay up all night in your room with the stereo blaring and not disturb your roommates, because they were fast asleep in their beds on the sleeping porches.

Exactly!

LOL @ pleasure bots

I'd lose the sleeping porch and instead have single and double rooms. A quiet relaxation room, like some spas offer, would be nice for a quick nap.

Common areas: living room (formal enough to look nice but not so formal that you're afraid to sit on the furniture), dining room, kitchen, quiet study room, outdoor area with swimming pool and hot tub - said outdoor area magically stays warm and usable even in the midst of cold New England winters. ;) Sisters would be free to use the kitchen to cook whatever they wanted unless the house chef was preparing something for which s/he required the whole kitchen (e.g. dinner for the chapter, food for recruitment).

I would want a music room with a great Steinway piano, lots of Broadway scores, and decent soundproofing to protect studying bystanders.

Yes, and yes. TV room should also be soundproofed or in a remote part of the house, so those who need to study can do so. A DVR must be present as well. (Back when I was in college, Lois & Clark and Babylon 5 were on at the same time, and a floormate of mine, an L&C fan, staked out the floor lounge, sometimes an hour in advance, so he'd have dibs on TV channel choice. It forced me to find somewhere else to watch B5. But that was one of the things that led to my getting together with my husband, so I'm not complaining too loudly ;) )

Not just Broadway, I'd throw some classical and jazz into the mix. (I'm not a big fan of jazz, but many, including my husband, are.) While we're at it, let's add another soundproofed music room (piano optional) so that people who sing or play other instruments have somewhere convenient to practice.

All of the above, with a spa :) complete with a cosmetologist who stops in once a week to do nails and touch up roots

... and how many college-aged women have to worry about roots? (Unless the curtains don't match the carpet *cough*cough*)

A mani/pedi for all sisters just before recruitment might be a good idea tho' ... and a touch-up and polish change just before pref.

You would have gotten me to get a mani/pedi over my dead no-longer-recruiting body, particularly if I had to pay for it. Dream houses are one thing, required services are another.

/petpeeve.
//also, am I the only one who feels less comfortable with nail polish on? My hands feel wrong like they're always going to get polish on everything.

Yes. And I agree with adding some classical in. We have practice rooms in my dorm but they are nowhere near soundproofed (pretty sure I've gotten complaints from the second level above... oops...), so soundproofing is a wonderful must.


If we were allowed houses, all of this would definitely be the dream. Especially having a kitchen just for the house to bake in. So many cookies, cupcakes, and cakes would appear. And homemade candy. And soups and calzones. My friends spoke of making boiled peanuts last year so why not!

Maybe a game room of sorts. My friends and I rediscovered our love of board games, cards, light-sabers, and nerf guns during our freshman year. Throw in a good TV with some awesome gaming systems and all that we searched for will have been found. :D And another area for another TV for actual viewing... shows like Big Bang Theory will be at the top of the list!

I've never had a professional mani or pedi, just because I read that one time Paula Abdul went to get her nails done and ended up with a FUNGUS. If it can happen to Paula Abdul, it can happen to me.

Some brands of polish are "heavier" than others. There are also polishes that are sheer. Those might be a little more comfy for you.

I agree Drole!! I love having my toes painted but I can't stand having polish on my nails. I think it's from when I played the violin and would destroy any manicure within an hour of practicing...that and taking organic chem, where you wash all of the glassware with acetone (nail polish remover essentially!).

My dream house: Pool+Jacuzzi, beautiful giant bathrooms, and huge closets!

I had a pedi once because boyfriend's wife wanted someone to go with. I went, and it was weird having someone mess with my feet, just... ick, uncomfortable.

I just tend not to put any on anymore, but it's one of the reasons I stopped in high school. Of course I remember wearing like.. chrome and glitter polish so it's not like I was putting on a light top coat either.
I played the piano so that might have been part of it, i don't know if it was all in my head or not, but my hands just feel weird with polish on. And yeah organic chem was a wash, I think I'd stopped by college anyway.

I had no house so I have no real input on this thread
/hijacksarefun

I always loved the John Calvin Stevens design:
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/p...n-stevens.html (though by the time my dh was an undergrad the house was green, thus called The Big Green Barn).
That's for the exterior.....though there are many examples of half-Tudor and Georgian revival that I love, too.

The updated interior would include: double rooms with a shared bath. Study rooms on each sleeping floor. Storage rooms (so members don't have to haul everything out during the summer). A smallish formal living room (a parlor) and two informals (connected; perhaps a L-shaped). A front porch. A side or back porch, opening off the informal and/or dining room. Adequate wiring for all appliances, good HVAC, wireless Internet.

I would literally DIE without my own room with a bed! I studied sitting in bed with the TV on. A sleeping porch with study rooms would never have fit the bill for me. Not to mention, what do you do about alarm clocks? :eek:

I had a couple of chapter visits to houses with sleeping porches.

Often there were two: a warm dorm and a cold dorm. People had alarm clocks next to their beds -- it was a shared porch, but they had their own beds. They got accustomed to listening for their own clocks, blocking out the others. The individual study rooms (with dressers, closets, desks) sometimes had lounge chairs or daybeds.

My chapter house was built in 1964. We had 4-person rooms with built-in closets/storage cubbies/dressers. There were 4 desks and 4 twin beds per room (no bunks).....and just one 4-outlet receptacle in the middle of the floor!! Even in the early 70's that was totally inadequate.

Speaking of dream houses:
http://www.themaneater.com/stories/2...tion-beta-the/

$12m and a 110-seat auditorium.

I should have clarified. I meant the cosmetologist would be available for a couple of days just prior to recruitment (as opposed to the normal once-a-week / twice-a-month / whatever schedule) so that sisters who chose to have a professional manicure, pedicure, or both - with or without polish - could get one. Same for sisters who wanted a haircut, wanted their eyebrows done, whatever.

There have been threads in the recruitment forums about how some chapters have crazy strict rules for their sisters about outfits, hair, makeup, etc. My chapter was more toward the lenient end (although there was the year that our rush chair demanded we buy brand-new name-brand Keds for round 1, and then whined afterwards because her feet hurt :rolleyes: ) - our outfits had to be approved, but as far as hair and makeup went, as long as you didn't look like (a) you'd just rolled out of bed or (b) you should be working a corner, we could do pretty much whatever we wanted.

As for the money issue, this is a dream sorority house, so sisters don't have to pay - the money comes out of thin air. ;)

An extra room with mirrors, hardwood floors and a music system to practice for dances (ie greek week, anchor splash, derby days etc)

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