What we've got - some technical stuff

I mentioned in my last post about the plans of what we've got at the moment and so what our limitations are, so I thought I'd better actually post those plans so you can see what I'm talking about.

Well, here are my scale plans.

They are not to scale.

However, I did make Mat follow me around the house with a tape measure while I wrote down every dimension I could think of. After that, I went home and drew said "scale plans" mostly I discovered that the walls in our house are Not straight. Not at all.

On a serious note though, the plans have been really useful. I drew them in Illustrator, with a scale of 1cm to 1m, it was really helpful for working out the layout. Its amazing how, whenever you picture a place you decide what shape a room is until you measure it and draw it and suddenly realise what space you actually have, I was convinced the bathroom was square, its not, its very much a rectangle. I printed out a few copies and we scribbled alsorts of ideas over them, such as possible wall rearrangements to try to find more efficient ways to use the space. I could then go back to Illustrator and move the walls around and work out how much space the ideas would actually give us. Then we could go around measuring random things like our bed (Bed is very important of course!) to make sure it would fit in its potential allotted space. Now we've got the drawings its also really handy to be able to print copies for planning things like where electrics will go.

Obviously if we had a lovely big spacious house this whole process might not be so essential (though having tried it, I'm willing to bet it would still be really useful), but it really was amazing how useful we found it.