A yoga/dance studio!

A library with deep windowseats and lots of windows for natural light and comfortable chairs and bookcases on every wall, filled with my books. And something beautiful outside to gaze at.

Oh, and a fireplace for winter days.

Library! How is library not on this list already?

I'd love my own library/reading room - walls lined with shelves, comfy chairs, my various book and other collections on display to enjoy.

Soundproofed walls, a GIANT PADLOCK on the door to keep my children/husband from bothering me and a clock that freezes time would make the room PERFECT...

I agree -- a laundry room in itself is gravy to me.

My parents though have a *karaoke* room. It amazes me.

I agree... cannot believe library is not on this list!!!!! Library for sure!!

I was always jealous of those Von Trapp kids in Sound of Music for their awesome puppet theatre....stop laughing!
Jada's meditation room is pretty amazing! I could use one of those....and a sauna. :)

I love Dulcibella's vision. Also, I'd love one of those rooms Southern houses so often have, with lots of windows and/or French doors, a sort of indoor-to-outdoor room with big, plush pillows on comfortable couches and chairs, hammocks, swings, etc., sometimes with a fireplace, a kind of furnished porch. Often these rooms are an informal haven in an otherwise formal home. Sigh. Maybe I should just give in and move back home to the South.

it's a tie between music and laundry room!

"Which special room would be your first choice? And if you already have one, is it all it's cracked up to be?"

Well, I do know how lucky I am to have a dedicated room for my creepy stalking. But I confess that the basement is not the ideal choice. Sure, it's private, so I can obsess leisurely, without worrying about being interrupted by my kids or the police. And the open floor plan means I can really show off my over-sized map with all the thumb tacks tracking my victim's location.

But the dampness is an issue, and the lack of natural lighting can strain your eyes as you're pouring over grainy snapshots.

Oh well, it's an upgrade from my windowless van!

jewelry studio.

A sunny, yet cozy attic art studio. Ah...

i wouldn't need an entire room, but a big closet for placing the fully decorated (and fluffed up because that is the worst part of unpacking an artificial tree every year) christmas tree. then just trot it out when the season arrives.

I want Ducibella's library too, but one wall of the shelves would be dedicated to yarn and knitting supplies and a loom and spinning wheel would take over one corner.

what's up with the stalking room?! haha i couldn't stop laughing!

i rather have: a studio (im a student living with 2 roomates and as soon as exams come we have books and texts and notepads all over the kitchen table) with several desks sounds awesome :D

but as personal wish i would love to have an art studio too :3 its been a while but knowing i can go in there any second and all my watercolors are able to get it going sounds fabulous.:)

I have a w/d in the basement, but no "laundry room"... just a rodent-poop filled den of fear down there. A true CLEAN laundry room would be nice, but that will require a complete gut down there.

A walk-in pantry or butler's pantry would be DIVINE, as would a spray painting/refinishing booth/room with temperature control and the proper venting.

I would live a cozy library, with comfy chairs and bookshelves everywhere (and a fireplace). And a laundry room with space to fold and iron. (My washer and dryer are in a closet in my bathroom, too, although I am trying to figure out how to get a folding ironing board in there.)

But I do have a room for washing my hair. It also conveniently has a sink, tub, and toilet in there. Multitasking!

I second that dance studio <3

I actually have a library at last. I just moved in a few weeks ago and I think I can say it meets my expectations. It's cozy, cluttered, and exactly the sort of room to retire to to knit and think.

Somewhere between Jada Pinkett-Smith's meditiation room and a Moroccan-style shiisha lounge/tea room. Somewhere I can entertain, read, relax and just chillout.

A BDSM dungeon would be fun.

Rolling on the floor maryaleslie! Maybe try the attic, it's drier and you could install peepholes for your telescope.
I want a sunroom with a fireplace on one end so even on cold rainy days I can be surrounded with nature AND be warm.

My special room would be a multi functional work room for wood working and big DIY projects, with a craft area, sewing area, etc. Someplace where I could have all of my creative outlets in one spot.

At the risk of sounding like my mom... a design/craft studio. I would love to have a place where I can do all of my furniture work, create my knits, and still have people come in to relax.

I'd like a daybed (storage!), a sewing table, and my work desk in there too. That way, I could get everything done!

I can't magically add extra sq footage to your place BUT about a fireplace - something that has been on my wishlist for quite a while - if like me you don't live in a building with a chimney they now make ethanol fired fireplaces that don't need a chimney!
They can be a little pricey so here's what I've come up with so far: a fireplace dvd......yes you can stop laughing I know they're a little kitschy but there is something incredibly soothing about the crackling sound of a fire that just embraces your room like a big varm hug. Simultainiuosly burning 10 or so tea candles and you will feel toasty as well.

Ooh, a mud room with little coat and shoe cubbies for everyone! And it would include a beautiful deep foot washing basin with lots of hot water and nice soap and a little padded seat so I could wash my feet (and the kiddo's feet!) with ease. They get so dirty in the garden in the summer.

Sauna. Library would be nice but I'm just as happy curled up with a cup of tea and a good book in bed.

Every house we lived in when I was growing up had a sauna. My mom had a gym membership just so that she could have access to one; when my dad found out he demanded she quit her membership and built her one at home.

Brisk days, bad skin, colds, hangovers...all disappear after taking a sauna. It's a rejuvenating experience and I really miss it.

I've always wanted a cozy library room with a giant pile of pillows in it and a little corner for me to read in, no formal furniture required (except shelves, obviously).
Though, in looking at the ones posted? A bowling alley'd be awesome, too.

That meditation room blows me away, and I second the library idea, but what I long for the most is a real bathtub, not the shallow tub/shower combo that I currently have.

An extra bedroom so I could take in a foster child. They need their own space.

I suppose I already have a special room - our sunroom! We call it our cottage... Since not all that many houses around here have a glassed in veranda, we can't count on it being a feature in our next home. *sigh*

But what I'd REALLY like is a dedicated, large, well-lit art studio, with lots of wall space to hang my paintings between sessions. No basements. What I'm currently sitting in is an 8' x 9' room that houses both our office, the AV equipment for our living room next door, a wardrobe for our outdoor gear, AND my art space, including a large and cumbersome drawing desk. It is not heavenly. Art space is a REQUIRED special room in the next house.

Marzapane - Agreed! Always have wanted an above-garage dance studio with wood floors, a mirrored wall, barre, and a tv/video set up for copying the latest music videos.

I FINALLY have a library! I labeled the room as a library when we moved in, and just refused to call it anything else or use it for anything else. I was so stubborn that we actually completely remodeled another room to be the dining room, even though my library would have worked just fine.
It took 8 years, but it is now complete with bookcases with ladder, reading/psychoanalysis chaise, desk, art and collection of natural curiosities. Dreams can come true!!

Large dance floor with good sound system, mirrors along one wall and the other floor-to-ceiling windows (or open, in a good climate) with a killer view beyond. Artistic, fun decor all around, not bare and echo-y like most studios. Thank you!... Can it be done next week?

I used to have a prewar townhouse with a stone turret.

It was my first house, and a gut rehab. I relocated the front door to the first level of the turret and used it as a foyer. On the second floor, the turret was off the master bedroom. I found furniture that fit it perfectly, including a rug, and reupholstered the furniture to match the colors in the bedroom.

It was my favorite place. It will always be the most favorite place I ever had in a house.

Library. check!
Laundry room (tiny but functional). check!
Home theater. check!

So the winner is an art/crafts studio, hands down! Counters, storage, huge windows, a sink, room for my polymer clay, jewelry design, paper crafting, sewing, and other messy projects, with a door that closes everything away so I only have to be as tidy as I feel like being!

A hidden workshop for all my projects and gadgets I make would be perfect and i've always wanted a hidden room :)

I love the hidden room idea. Far down my list of DIYs is making the door to my guest room/sewing room into one of those library shelf hidden doors. I think AT posted about the one at the Magic Castle not too long ago.

See, I do most of my creepy stalking on the internet these days, so my office can work double duty. That's just smart space planning.

Like most apartment dwellers I vote for an outdoor room. I big beautiful patio with a dining table and a grill. I dream of hosting casual outdoor gatherings and serving up sangria =)

Without a doubt, a room with an indoor lap pool. If only I could just tear off my clothes and jump into my private pool and do twenty laps.. and then right into a hot shower.. bliss!

three wrapping rooms? really? why. each to their own i guess. love that meditation room, but it would probably turn into my napping room too.

Since I'm just wishing, I'm going to wish for a room with a view, dedicated to the hot tub/ jacuzzi in the middle, but also with a small wet bar, towel warmer, fireplace, and large TV. Maybe there could also be a massage table for my private masseuse. Sounds like the life!

i'm not gonna lie... i do dream of someday having my very own gift wrapping room.....

@yoyos: it would be my eating a cannabis caramel, zoning out, giggling while listening to the Star Wars disco album, rolling around, and then napping room. The snuffalupagus mattress is a nice touch.

We have "library" (really an "office") but it's pretty small. So my boyfriend's desktop computer and desk take up most of the room, with our generally cluttered secretary desk and three large bookshelves taking up the rest of the room. I'd love to have a library big enough to put big comfy chairs in!

I also have a craft room that is not often used (it's upstairs with the guest room - we like never go up there) but I like it pretty well.

Someone else mentioned that their laundry "room" is the basement - mine is too! Except our basement has more than adequate lighting (there are bare lightbulbs like every five feet on the ceiling). But it is unfinished poured concrete and more than a little dirty (although we've already spent a whole day vacuuming up cobwebs and cleaning down there) and although there is a giant, vintage, I'm-pretty-sure-it's-zinc double sink, it's filthy. We wear a lot of wool in the wintertime, so I'm dreaming of turning it into a hand-washing station with a custom-built hanging drying rack, but the basement needs serious cleaning before that can happen.

But besides that? I'd love a spacious dining room with a walk-in butler's pantry with a butcher block counter top reserved for only baking bread. THAT would be a dream room, since our current house, while near-perfect, does not have a dining room and not much room to eat in the kitchen. So our eating table is wedged into a corner of the living room. Not ideal.

That walk in pantry makes me swoon. And I agree with others, a library would be at the top of my list.

I have several: a walk-in closet, a walk-in pantry, a mudroom, a library, and most of all, a studio. I'm carving out a space in the basement for a studio (not the greatest spot), but the rest will have to wait for a future addition/renovation of some sort.

A dedicated sewing room where I could throw around as many fabric bits as I like. Since the steamer and iron would live in there, I'd be willing to have it do double-duty with the laundry room.