To be honest, I didn’t know what the area of the guest cottages in the 1850s was. My guess was about 2k, so I wanted to know how close I was. Gretchen was solid with us and put together the measurements, but it wasn’t perfect and we wouldn’t hand it over to the engineers, but these floor plans are enough to understand and understand what we actually work.
As a reminder, we are not going to move the wall (God willingly) so the size of the room now will be later. Work within this floor plan and steal space from somewhere on the ground floor to add a bathroom (I have an idea).
Shared kitchen/living room
The first room weighs 427 square feet, and in my opinion it’s big enough for a small kitchen, kitchen table and lounge area. You can do a lot in a 18×23 room, right? You can see it below:
Now, the architect might come in and relay it and move the windows and stuff, but I really want to keep the plumbing on this side of the house (the toilet on the second floor is above the kitchen). I know that moving and reconfiguring the windows isn’t crazy, but if you need to do something else, we know that you need to do that). A good motto for modification is “Everything is something.”
The only real project I need help is where I put the bathroom on this floor. Currently there is no one (only a strange toilet closet on the second floor), and I feel it is very important, especially if older people want to hang a bit here (these stairs are quirky to say the least). So we want to maintain plumbing in that corner of the house and place the bathroom under the stairs. A small toilet, a wall mounting sink, and a shower. But at 36 inches wide she is pretty tight so you might have to smash that wall a bit.
There is still a problem with windows finding the chimney that is not working. If there was a TV in this room, I wonder where it was, but hell, by the time we’re done, the TV will be staring at the wall and the robots will make everything shine in the brain. Who knows (I’m a bit serious. Maybe we just use one of those portable TVs on the wheels and leave the strange windows).
Old prop room
This room is very strange, but cute. There’s a closet, a post and an old chimney in the middle. See here:
Hmm. Well, of course, looking at it from this view, if the room opens, if that closet is gone, it will be a large rectangle. Hmm. I saw it as a rectangle so it’s difficult to see it. I don’t know what holds me, so it’s pointless to mess with anything that might be support. But if you want to have a bedroom on the main floor, this would be a good thing…
Chimneys are one of the few things we think we can say. Windows are other things, quirky, but really affects (or not) what you can do with both walls.
I found out that this room could be rectangular. I’m tempting it a bit, hoping it will add a lot of features. I haven’t said it yet, but it’s a bit appealing.
“Canned food” room
As a reminder, this room is out of the main room and may have been built in the 1940s or 1950s. It’s big, high, full of potential (and many issues).
This will make for a nice square room with a very high ceiling. Canned cabinets go (they sound much more calm than they do). I don’t know if the windows will stay (both views are bad, the windows are terrible shape).
“Garden shed”
Nice, 12×16 room – look at it! Don’t forget that this is a room that Brian thinks we can lose. However, as you can see below, it has a huge amount of “attractiveness”.
I need a little help 🙂 Maybe this is just a clean living room? library?
Landing/Bathroom
Up the stairs (very narrow, measured at 36 inches), and when we reach the landing, we open a little with a large window. Both the toilet and shower closets are about 4′ deep and 3′ wide. That means you can if you want to put it there and put the right bathroom in it.
Of course, I love the idea of staying where the sink is. The bathroom is essentially still where they are (new), but once that’s fixed it would be totally strange to see the sink outside the bathroom
Yes, one move is to connect two “stoles” and create a bathroom for a normal person. The other is to keep the toilet stall intact and try again with the tiles to make the shower stall or, if it’s on one floor downstairs, completely redo the shower here to make it a closet. If the family lived here full time, all of these decisions would be different, but as a guest cottage I tend to do something easier/quirky/cheaper than completely decorated for an imaginary guest. But honestly, I didn’t think about this for a second.
Room on the second floor
Something that was probably a family bedroom has a fun habit.
She is not symmetrical as you can see on the ceiling. Of course, you could probably demo a closet (with a lot of storage) the same size, but I don’t know why. I love the strangeness of this room and all of it.
So what is the final area?
She weighs at just under 1600 square feet!! When you’re in it, it honestly feels big, so I definitely thought it was big (it’s empty after all). I don’t think the fact that there is no real bathroom is helpful, but I think the closet on the second floor is quite large. This is very helpful for me to see it like this, but I really want to control myself to not see it, for example moving the doorways open to other rooms or remove the oddity (like the closet in the middle of a rectangular shape).
What’s next?
Well, I’ve been trying to get multiple quotes at the foundation, but I wish you good luck. I really want to do due diligence, but it definitely keeps the process up. This week we head to the Oregon Historical Society to learn more about our homes and property. That’s about soon 🙂
*photograph Caitlyn Green
Source: Emily Henderson – stylebyemilyhenderson.com
