OK, for those who are interested
Mar. 17th, 2006 09:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jaeclecticSince one or two of you have expressed or hinted at interest, I shall proceed to babble at length:
It is a loft space, so mostly open, but not exactly the one-big-room style that I have now. There are three levels: the "ground floor" which has a long wide hallway (wide enough for bookcases, yay!) leading to a combined kitchen / living room. It's a reasonably big room, 18 ft square by my rough measurements -- which is to say, about the size of 1/4 of my current space. Which is to say, I'll be merging my living room and kitchen furniture into about half the space they occupy now, so it will be interesting -- although in fairness the current space is very generous, and some of my current furniture I won't need or want to keep, so it really should be OK.
The kitchen island shown in this picture will be staying, so I plan to abandon my current kitchen table and use it instead. No formal dinner parties in my future, sorry!
The second level is what the selling realtor's flyer calls the "mezzanine" area.They've got it staged as a bedroom, but I will actually put my bed on the third level, which is either storage or a sleeping platform or a guest room for hobbits: the ceiling is about 4-1/2 ft tall (I forgot to measure). The top level is also odd in that there are not full stairs to access it: there are two steps, then a wall about 3ft high (right now they have a stool on the top step to make it easier to get up there). My plan (if I get the place) is to put in something a little more permanent to allow ready access.
Anyway, the mezzanine is a up few steps from the ground level, and has walls about 3 ft high, with a very nice 10-ft long built-in shelf unit on one wall, which you can see in the picture. This space will need to serve as both my office and the home for all the bedroom furniture that won't work well in the hobbit-loft (e.g. two substantial chests of drawers).
Back down at ground level, on the opposite side of the mezzanine (i.e. near the entrance door rather than near the windows) there is the bathroom, a utility closet with a very small all-electric washer/dryer, a large walk-in closet (plus access to a crawl space under the mezzanine, and I do mean crawl, it is only a couple of feet high).
If all goes well, I should have happy hours ahead figuring out the exact furniture arrangement, including such pressing questions as: Should any of my bedroom furniture go into the walk-in closet? What aside from a bed and my stationary bike can reasonably go up in the hobbit-loft? Do I really need a new desk to make the mezzanine office work? et cetera.
Oh, also, in addition to doing something about the stairs to the hobbit-loft, I am planning to replace the ground-level carpet with hard flooring, probably bamboo, before I move in. Watch the money just spilling from my hands...
It is a loft space, so mostly open, but not exactly the one-big-room style that I have now. There are three levels: the "ground floor" which has a long wide hallway (wide enough for bookcases, yay!) leading to a combined kitchen / living room. It's a reasonably big room, 18 ft square by my rough measurements -- which is to say, about the size of 1/4 of my current space. Which is to say, I'll be merging my living room and kitchen furniture into about half the space they occupy now, so it will be interesting -- although in fairness the current space is very generous, and some of my current furniture I won't need or want to keep, so it really should be OK.
The kitchen island shown in this picture will be staying, so I plan to abandon my current kitchen table and use it instead. No formal dinner parties in my future, sorry!
The second level is what the selling realtor's flyer calls the "mezzanine" area.They've got it staged as a bedroom, but I will actually put my bed on the third level, which is either storage or a sleeping platform or a guest room for hobbits: the ceiling is about 4-1/2 ft tall (I forgot to measure). The top level is also odd in that there are not full stairs to access it: there are two steps, then a wall about 3ft high (right now they have a stool on the top step to make it easier to get up there). My plan (if I get the place) is to put in something a little more permanent to allow ready access.
Anyway, the mezzanine is a up few steps from the ground level, and has walls about 3 ft high, with a very nice 10-ft long built-in shelf unit on one wall, which you can see in the picture. This space will need to serve as both my office and the home for all the bedroom furniture that won't work well in the hobbit-loft (e.g. two substantial chests of drawers).
Back down at ground level, on the opposite side of the mezzanine (i.e. near the entrance door rather than near the windows) there is the bathroom, a utility closet with a very small all-electric washer/dryer, a large walk-in closet (plus access to a crawl space under the mezzanine, and I do mean crawl, it is only a couple of feet high).
If all goes well, I should have happy hours ahead figuring out the exact furniture arrangement, including such pressing questions as: Should any of my bedroom furniture go into the walk-in closet? What aside from a bed and my stationary bike can reasonably go up in the hobbit-loft? Do I really need a new desk to make the mezzanine office work? et cetera.
Oh, also, in addition to doing something about the stairs to the hobbit-loft, I am planning to replace the ground-level carpet with hard flooring, probably bamboo, before I move in. Watch the money just spilling from my hands...