Every time I move into a new home, I get, or make, a floor plan. Innana thinks this is silly. She has done since I bought my first condo in 1992 and continually showed her the very simple floorplan of a one bedroom flat that had absolutely no distinguishing characteristics. I managed to make her moan today (or possibly yesterdyay, I forget) by mentioning that I had a floorplan for my soon to be new home.
Now again, this home is merely up one flight of stairs from my current home. We're not moving interstate or cross-country. We're moving up a flight of stairs. Nonetheless, I am mailing a copy of the floorplan to FoilMormor, I'm reviewing the floorplan, and I have given TG a copy of the floorplan, as she cares deeply about where her bed, her books, her nightstand, her bureau, her toys, etc. will be. DG is a little less invested. She knows she'll be on the lower bunk of the bunk bed, but she is thrilled that our new apartment is a two-story townhouse, not just a flat, with the bedrooms on another floor from the kitchen, dining room, and living room. All good.
I still have to draw furniture on the floorplan and rearrange things.
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I'd call that sensible - not silly. Then again it's kind of what I do for a living [grin]
What do you do for a living? Having commented with you and "known" you going on four years now, it seems ridiculous that I haven't a clue. Of course, it took me a year to realize that despite the kittenish name, you're a guy, not a gal, so maybe I should have know this for years. Email at foilwoman at gmail if you'd rather not post any info out in public.
I'm an Office Accommodation Project Manager, well at least until the Project finishes in 2012!.
After that.... who knows...
Good move -- drawing a floor plan. Is it to scale? I hate having to draw to scale, but it makes a difference when you're trying to place furniture.
If I may share a little experience- probably too late to help, but . . Years ago Spouse and I moved five stories up in an apartment house. Our plan was to load boxes, haul them up in the elevator, empty them and bring them back down to reload. STUPID IDEA!!!!!! Hope you've got better sense than we did.
I do that whenever I am rearranging furniture - although I cut out the bits of furniture and move them around the rooms without one muscle being pulled.
My word verification is "nongs" - which would be (in the local vernacular) those who don't do this simple process!
My mom does that. She makes the furniture to scale and then rearranges everything a time or two before she gets something she likes. I'd make fun of her if her home didn't always look straight out of a magazine.
Happy moving!
I fancy myself too spontaneous for this level of planning (which translates: I'm too lazy to work things out in advance).
So do you implement, when the time comes, strictly according to your planning? Or do you still improvise to a large degree (and is the planning then useful, or can you simply not help yourself)?
(WV: dumersit)
When I was, say, <30 years old, I use to rearrange my bedroom every year or so, just for the hell of it. Now, the older I get, the less that happens. :)
Mr. Cat: Office Accommodation Project Manager? What happened to job titles like librarian, teacher, doctor, lawyer, accountant, clerk, farmer, soldier? So that means you do floorplans? Fun!
The floor plan isn't guaranteed to scale, but it has measurements, so I can plot it on graph paper. No, I'm not packing, unpacking, and repacking boxes. It's one flight of stairs. Small stuff will be carried up by TG and DG. Big stuff will be carreid by a bunch of moonlighting marines with tattoos. FoilMormor will supervise (read: boss the living shit out of those poor guys who thought they knew how tough a drill sergeant could be, but they'll learn).
Jeanie: Yeah, I do paper cutouts, and also draw with mechanical pencil on graph paper. No nongs here.
Wunelle: Not to completely abdicate Foil-superheroine status, but FoilMormor has an artistic eye, and I'll just take her advice and let her tell the marines where the furniture goes. It will be according to the floorplan she and I agree on (but honestly, it will be the floorplan she decides on, I'll be drugged up on painkillers, and anyway, her plan will be more convenient and look better), but that means I just agree with what she decides. Moving right after surgery means I'll just bow to her superior skill and knowledge.
Joe: I rearranged my living room a year ago or so: I do it every so often, but this move will mean that's it for a couple of years.
FW said: So that means you do floorplans? Fun!
Well, I *also* do floorplans [grin]
I'm part of a small team basically responsible for a long term project to reorganise our entire office structure all over this part of the UK. Its quite complex and rather costly.
A small part of my job is reconfiguring office space for several hundred people at a time to make sure they get everything they need in the space we've been given for them. As I'm basically the only person who uses CAD (computer aided design software) I also design floorplans for the rest of my team too. It fun and lets me be creative which I like. It's great visiting a building I've part designed to see the final result and being able to say "I did that".
Hey -- it's not the floor plan -- it's how often I had to look at it and comment.
She wasn't that excited over her pregnancies!
Innana
Mr. Cat: A kindred spirit, then.
Innana: Okay, next time, I won't show you floor plans. I won't tell you anything. First thing you'll know will be the USPS forwarding address postcard. Ok?
I am suitably crushed.
Innana
Innana: Yeah, yeah. You're still going with me to the Danish Christmas Bazaar, right?
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