So, a couple of weeks ago...

[solarbird]

...I had this weirdly intense dream, and I've posted some about it already. But below are links to some drawings I made when I woke up. Does anybody recognise this house? Where'd I get it? It's not the sort of thing I design. In fact, I don't like it, for the most part; I like the kitchen well enough and I the staircase is slightly interesting. So I'm curious about where I got it.

A floor plan, not to scale. In particular, the living room is too small. That's noted on the drawing. Also, the front door is drawn about 2" above where it should be. (This was early sketch confusion.)

A sketch of the view of the living room and stairwell, from the hallway. Really, it's a few feet away from the entrance to the hallway. Far ahead, where the people are standing, is the sunken living room; to the right is the kitchen; to the left is a sitting area. But it's definitely a house; bedrooms are up the stairs.

Looking down the stairs, towards the kitchen. You can see the sliding glass doors and the windows facing out of the house; outside there's a deck, a backyard with some new trees in a lawn, and a lot of older, native forest trees around that.

In front of the kitchen sink, facing down the hallway. There's light from the right at the far end of the hallway; it turns right there and continues on, turning left again shortly. It's a weird layout. You can also see the sitting area and kitchen table in this view, though furniture moves around.

Look familiar, anyone? kathrynt says she's seen the stairwell before, but in a magazine I don't read. So that might be right, but I'm wondering where I might have seen it, too.

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I've seen stairways like that before too, but this is what it reminds me of: An old new england summer cottage that someone remodled into a full time home. The downtairs is like a partial basement, the type on a hillside where the back is open to the yard, and the main entrance is upstairs. Things are kind of sized funny, because when they redid the house they couldn't fit everything in, the house not being that large.

My sister's house is a summer cottage that went thru the same transformation, so some of the rooms are just really odd.

Interesting...

[solarbird]

...in that it was clearly located around here - somewhere in Cascadia, I mean, not specifically Seattle; out in the country. I've never seen that kind of summer cottage conversion, but ... I guess what I should say is that I don't remember ever seeing that kind of cottage conversion. Maybe I have, and haven't remembered it.

More things I might mention are:

1) In the dream context, it's specifically not a remuldding; it was built that way, sometime the mid to late 60s, I'd guess. I was vaguely irritated, in that I'd really wanted something different, but it was what was available.

2) It's a monster of a house. I mean, it's big. (There are lots of bedrooms, too, even if you don't see any of them in this picture.) But, well, again, that might just be the dreamspace modifying it.

What I'm really wondering is whether it's a famous house. Or parts of one, jammed together oddly. ^_^

[spazzkat.livejournal.com]

It looks very much like the stairwell in the "Change anything but the expensive beautiful wood stairwell" episode of Changing rooms. The one where they rivited brushed metal onto the stairwell.

Oooooooooooooo.

[solarbird]

I've not seen that episode but I have seen the previews, so I know exactly what you're talking about. Good memory! ^_^