Things I learnt after buying a house and going through lots of shitty products

Things I learnt after buying a house after 1 year and going through lots of shitty products and things and what I'd do know if I bought or build a house again:

• home assistant + their HA Green (little box that's open source to connect all your devices with Home Assistant)
• LG or Mitsubishi air conditioning in EVERY room, both cooling/heating, every unit should have its own outdoor unit, or you get annoying things like you can't cool one room and heat the other at same time! I think they're called mono splits
• xiaomi air purifier in every room, big spaces get the big purifiers, smaller rooms small ones (most air purifiers are too small for the space they're in!)
• a good smart lock, it's so good because you come home and your door auto opens (esp nice if you carry stuff)
• matic vacuum (they gave me one so I have to disclose but it's GREAT, all the Roomba and Chinese ones suck)
• unifi router with access points, outdoor extenders, cameras, doorbell, all PoE
• starlink with local fiber backup
• tesla dreamwall or other batteries sufficient to power for days (means like 4-8 batteries @ 13kwh per maybe!), then connect your freezer, fridge, stove, etc to it (heavy loads) so you can keep and cook food when shit goes down
• related get a Weber Genesis gas bbq so you can always cook food, fun with friends too
• solar panels actually sufficient to power (so like 30-50, crazy number but if you get like 15 it's just not enough?)
• pool is honestly overrated, you'll almost never use it, also lots of maintenance (we had a massive water leak with a $10,000 water bill this month, so F that)
• but u DO want a standalone jacuzzi, that's nice, with lights!
• if you care about safety get steel doors with massive locks for other rooms, and make those safe rooms, so if someone comes in you have multiple layers of security
• also get weapons to defend you and your family where legally possible!
• garden should be permaculture kinda concept with vegetables, herbs and stuff you can grow to eat, like strawberries, rosemary etc
• harvia dry sauna, and if outside, add a little changing room to it so you don't exit in the cold outside!
• related, build a home gym, get a big power rack with cables, free barbell, smith barbell, everything built in, and then some dumbbells and kettlebells, and a gym bike like concept2, maybe concept2 rowing machine too, with that you can do almost anything to stay fit! then hire personal trainer to come to your house or you will never go!
• ALL lights should be changeable to red at night, via home assistant, so you can make everything red at 10pm for sleep!
• also get outdoor lights for fun and security (burglars hate lights)
• ALL windows black out blinds on outside, for both security and just NO light during sleep
• when you're not sleeping, get lots of sunlight, big floor to ceiling glass windows, it's great!
• all doors to outside flat on floor level, no stepover edges (like in PT)
• preferrably lots of land around your house so you're not close to any neighbors (neighbors are always annoying even if they're nice!)
• fellow water kettle, fellow ode 2 coffee grinder
• sofas, other interior, make sure to find natural materials, 99% of interior is polyester/plastic
• LG makes the best TVs, end of story, but their software is shit and spies on you, NEVER connect them to the internet/WiFi, instead buy an Apple TV box and connect that, that doesn't spy on you and has no ads, then connect it with HDMI and you're good, also no annoying LG TV updates
• re: TVs, people show these formulas of like blalba distance to sofa from tv is N meter so now you need 60", in my experience they always sell you a TV like 10-15" too small, we had 77" LG TV and it was like diving into the screen, beautiful, but then we followed the formula and changed it for 65", not the same! get bigger!
• get a VERY big bed, 2m wide by 2m long at least, get natural bed sheets/duvet and seperate duvet from partner, the less you wake up when your partner moves the better
• guest rooms are a bad idea, it's annoying to have friends and family IN your house for weeks or a month, good luck trying to have SEX! better get a small house or apt near for them or put them in airbnb!!!
• add a delivery box outside ur house so delivery people can put packages inside without having to ring your doorbell 10x per day
• get a $500 mini projector and big projection screen outside (or a white wall) so you can have movie nights outside w friends

Some things I forgot:

• Japanese toilet seat (via @tdinh_me)
• Thai bum gun (toilet water spray)
• Miele fridge and freezer and washing machine and dryer
• Get 2x combo washing machine and dryer so you don't have to move clothes, less work!
• Bosch dishwasher and oven (avoid Electrolux/AEG at all cost)
• HRV or ERV system to get fresh air while heating/cooling it to your indoor temperature, essential for CO2 refreshing without having to open window (open window = outside noise, outside pollution etc), system should go every single room: bedroom, living room etc to keep CO2 levels at 400

Some things I forgot 2:

• you want really powerful water pressure, so you need very strong big water pipes, most houses and hotels have water pressure that's too low, the classic rain shower doesn't even work well, it just drizzles down
• you want a big water boiler or water heating system so you're never without hot water anywhere, even when having over lots of guests
• reverse osmosis system with automatic remineralization to get drinkable water without microplastics and junk to make coffee and drink from!

Some things I forgot pt 3:

• Your laundry room with washing machine + dryer should have its own air vent, otherwise they will exhaust detergents, VOCs and micro fibers into the rest of your house, simply because it can't go elsewhere, this should probably be part of your ERV where every room has a vent

Some things I forgot pt 4:

• Get 2 dishwasher next to each other, use one for clean, one for dirty, like this guy below

Some things I forgot pt 5:

• Measure/analyze the place you buy a house for radon background radiation, it significantly varies by region but even by plot of land! It's a radioactive gas from natural rock and soil that causes cancer and it varies a lot. I got an @Airthings sensor that can measure Radon, problem is if you buy a house you gotta measure it for a few hours at least to get a good reading, but important! In addition, it makes sense to just get the soil tested wherever you buy a house to see it's not contaminated, lots of soil is!

Some things I forgot pt 6:

• you want floor to ceiling glass windows, but you also want your house to be spacious enough that it can have rooms inside which are not facing the outside for privacy reasons, if that's not possible you want to be able to have ALL windows be fully shut with external electric shutters/blinds (which you want anyway) for privacy and safety, especially at night otherwise you're sitting in your living room and anyone can look inside

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