Walkthrough

For those who haven't been inside yet, it sbows what the ground floor looks like. The basement doesn't look like much, but it is huge. I'll probably upload a clip of that once it's fully finished and furnished (to my liking), but that would be a while yet. Below, I've included (rough) current and potential floorplans for this house. I found out that one of the walls I was planning to knock down was load-bearing, so I had to rearrange some things, but the basic, non-shotgun idea is still executed, I think.

This is how it looks now. As you can see, I have two entrances for what is essentially two shotgun houses set beside one another with a bathroom between.

Again, a basic rendering of what the basement looks like. The basement is unfinished, for the most part, the empty lower right-hand third still has a dirt floor. At first, I planned for every single room to have a closeable door of some kind, even the living room. Then I realized that the living room didn't really need to have a door, and that would just stunt the openness of the space anyhow. So, I left it open and allowed it to feed into a hallway. This way, when visitors arrive, they have access to the public areas of the house as needed, but not the private areas. Now, I suppose a nosier being could sneak through the laundry room into my bedroom, but I could always lock that door from the other side if I felt the need. I wasn't originally intending on having a dining room, but that would eliminate the need to seal up the door between what used to be "library(?)" and the kitchen, though I still seal the door between the guest bedroom and the dining-library. Call me lazy for adding a master bath mere feet from the public bath, but it's my house and I'll be lazy if I please, thank you very much! ^_^!! I left the double deck doors because (1) they really don't look bad like that and (2) it would probably help in an emergency to have more than one route out of the back of the house. I would also hope that sealing the old western door between the kitchen and the bathroom would give me more space in both areas.

The entertainment room is going to probably have a large projector screen instead of a television, a pool or foosball table, comfortable armchairs, a refrigerator, video game systems, and so on. You get the idea. The storage area will be for, well, storing various items like the lawn mower and garden hoses and whatnot. The study/guest bedroom is large enough to have a decent sized bed and a desk. When no one is staying with me, I can set up my painting supplies there (or on the "deck" I guess), writing utensils, instruments for practice, and so on.

If you see any problems with the logistics of these plans, please let me know as soon as possible. Thanks.