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!

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[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!