house layout

[same_sky]

When we were at the house during the inspection this week, M was wandering around taking pictures and the realtor asked what exactly we did with all the pictures we've taken. He's seen us take pictures of every empty house we've been in--did you know it's not lawful to take pictures of a lived-in house?--and he's never really asked, but we've taken many, many more of this house for reasons that are probably obvious. They're good to have, because you can't always (or even usually) remember the details, and they kind of blend together after a while. I mentioned that none of the pictures we've taken have been particularly brilliant, and the listing agent who was also there suggested that we could take them to WalMart and use their picture copier thing to lighten them up. This kind of made me smile because I have passed many an hour carefully retouching photos for absolutely no purpose other than that I enjoy it. It's relaxing to say, remove a chair from a room, or get rid of stray smudges. I don't have much skill as an actual artist but I do have a decent grasp on photo editing, if I do say so myself.

Last night, M took the measurements we made and drew a large plan of the house, nicely to scale and everything. This involved twelve pages of Swedish-size grid paper taped together. It looks really neat now that it's done, but I can't exactly scan it all in and post it. So we thought we'd take a picture, but the pencil lines didn't show up all that well. And you know I have nothing better to do right now than create a photoshop drawing based on a picture of M's map. starrflowerr, this is for you.

Mainly to scale but a little wonky (especially in the garage area) because of the perspective of the photo, and there are a couple of areas that our measurements are sparse and therefore they appear slightly differently than they should. Oh, and I forgot to label it, but those are stairs leading down from the kitchen (behind a door.) The funny thing on the right wall of the living room is a fireplace and built-in bookcases.

Fun! Oh, and by the way. No signs of termites, past or present, and so far, it's looking like the sellers will fix everything on our repair list. So, we're still progressing smoothly. Can't wait until we get the keys and move in!

Comments

[reebert.livejournal.com]

That's a very nice floorplan. It looks like it was well thought out, there's nothing obviously strange about it. Some of the homes we looked at made me really wonder. haha Does that one bedroom have it's own bathroom? And you have a sunroom! Very neat! :)

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Thank you! (answering comments a week late.. oops.) I know what you mean about strange layouts.. we looked at one that seemed to have been designed around a small master bathroom instead of having hallways. And yes, the smallest bedroom has a bathroom. The sunroom is something we're excited about but still have NO IDEA what we will use for.

[lizardek.livejournal.com]

Cool! I love floor plans!

[brief-therapy.livejournal.com]

I love looking at floorplans and imagining myself living there. For some reason I always start by pretending to come home with a trunkful of groceries. Do you think you'll take the path through the sunroom to the kitchen or in through the front door? I think I'd unload them all into the sunroom first. It'd be so nice to move in and out of that space (as I imagine it).

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

I think we'll come in through the front door because I don't think we'll park in the garage, so it would just be closer. The sunroom will be quite nice, though, I think!

[ozswede.livejournal.com]

I really like the spaciousness of your living area and the very practical location of the kitchen which I always feel is the heart of every home.

Now I'm waiting for the pictures :)

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Thank you! And the problem with answering week-old comments all at once is that you start feeling redundant and you start imagining comment spam piling up in people's email. Oh, well. I guess we've already talked about the pictures by now. My bad. ;)

[stewlis.livejournal.com]

I always do that when we're looking at places to live, too. I take pics of the places that we're interested in (some we've looked at just weren't even worthy of taking pictures) and the realtors always had to ask. :) It's just so handy to go back through when you've toured 3 or 4 places that day and several more in the last few days and yeah. It works. I figured it was illegal to take pics in homes that people still lived in...so I couldn't get any of this house when we came here but we liked it anyway.

I won't have many options with this upcoming move, since we're pretty much stuck living on base, at least initially, because of the electrical differences in Japanese homes and heating/cooling issues (very expensive there) and such. But I'm still planning to take better pictures than what the military posted on the Iwakuni site.

Oh, and I love the little wall in your bathroom pic by the toilet...depending of course on if there is plenty of room to you know, reach for TP and all. No real good way to say that, but I've been in bathrooms before that the toilet was so crowded up by a wall or something else in the room that you just didn't have enough space there. Mom's new bathroom that she built in her basement is like that, the potty is just way too close to the wall, so you're sortof sitting not exactly right...okay, nuff of that, that's getting to be a very weird topic LOL!!!

I love the wood floors, but I'm questioning the person who painted the walls that shade of green/blue with the dark wood floors. It just doesn't work. Maybe it's different in person.
Oooh!! I totally love the dining room! I was going to ask you (or read some more of your recent posts to see) if this was the same house you originally posted about buying, but now I see the bean bags in the livingroom and remembered you mentioned them. Yay, chick! I'm so excited for you buying a house! Oh! OH! And a fire place with bookshelves on each side! *bounce* I'm excited for you.

I love the huge driveway too, ours is just wide enough to park the cars end-to-end, so sometimes we (against our lease) park in the yard temporarily if the other person is leaving sooner the next day, usually me in the yard so I don't have to get up early to move my car for Andy to leave.

Oooh a sunroom! :) I am in love with this house. I love our sunroom, it might not be the most beautiful place due to the crappy windows, but it SO serves the purpose. I wish ours had windows like yours, or anything besides what it has. We'll deal with that kind of thing when we buy/build once we settle down.

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I haven't actually had to read for TP in the bathroom yet, so I can't say for sure, but I think there's plenty of room. I hate that, too. In the trailer, it was over the toilet and impossible to reach. We finally decided that we were just going to have to leave a roll on the counter and forget about it unless we had company over.

The walls are blue, and we're questioning it, too. They'll be painted pretty soon, although we're not sure exactly what color for those rooms. NOT sky blue, though!

I think we could park twelve cars easily in the driveway, if they're triple-stacked. Four cars wide. I am really surprised that it's that big but it's nice that it is!

Okay, so the thousand-dollar question... what do you DO in your sunroom? We have no idea what we're going to do with this space!

[stewlis.livejournal.com]

I think an off-white (eggshell is nice) color on the walls would work. White definitely won't do it, because it would be too contrasty with the dark floors.

In our sunroom, we have two of those big lounge-type fold-up lawn chairs you get at walmart, and we just sit out there on nice days, and chat, and Andy smokes his pipe and cigars out there (won't let him do that in the house, it stinks). And I store stuff out there some, and hmmm...used to have some nice hanging plants out too, until the cold December weather got them one year when we went home for Christmas and I forgot to bring them inside. The cat loves playing out there, because there are windows with big enough sills she can sit in them. That's about it. I wanted to get a little round picnic table (one of those pretty iorn ones with the neat tiles in the top) to put there, but we knew we'd move again one day and likely not have room for it where we moved to (correct there) so we didn't bother. Someday, I will have one of those!