We built our house for LAN parties

I'm not usually one to comment on other people's home decor but this house looks like living inside a generic office building. The board game room looks like somewhere you'd have a conference call. I'm somewhat fascinated. I can't imagine choosing to make your living space look like this willingly. And yet they have! So they must enjoy it and it must feel like home to them.

> We have efficient heat pumps and solar panels, but it's still a disturbing amount of energy usage and something I'm trying to debug. Perhaps we have too many windows letting in too much sunlight...

External window blinds work wonders with that - your AC doesn't have to work hard to get the heat out of the greenhouse you inadvertently built if you avoid the heat getting in in the first place. But yeah, these might be more widespread over here in Europe than in the US...

God, imagine having a big enough friend group as an adult to justify an 18-gaming-PC LAN. These folks are doing something right

This LAN house was featured in a LTT video. There's an entire house walkthrough https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Y0MVUgjOw

The basement is awesome, but I would not feel cozy and welcome there. From the pictures it feels like any serverroom I've ever been into. Unwanted tips: Put some plants in there, some color, some wall-to-wall gaming art prints on the closet-doors and floors. <3

Great landing page! (if I can call it so?)

Normal room: Integrated catwalk with cat doors to other cat places.

Alright.

"Invite only", ok I get they're rich but I wonder about the airbnb potential for recouping some of that cost.

I hope they invested similar money in their home security.

Wholesome read. These guys are enjoying life and I loved reading the FAQ in the end, as well as them acknowledging they are very lucky!

Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42156977

I recently landed (again) at this website while reading about Kenton Varda‘s work on Cloudflare workers. It was a nice “aha” moment!

I've seen this so many times, and every time it makes me smile. Especially the 'how the hell did we manage this' section.

Just came here to say, everything about this is incredible. The house itself, the site, the FAQs but most of all, the attention that went into the cat's needs.

11/10.

We want(ed) to do something similar (re the cats needs) when renovating our house but just could never decide!

Ngl having a house with a hot side for rack cooling sounds like homelab fun

Dude this is so freaking cool.

Especially the cat entrances / infra to allow them access throughout the home and while human doors are closed. Would love to see a cat POV via an action cam of them running through the home.

(2024)

Rich people are rich, ok I get it.

Late stage capitalism