Floor plans

While planning for furniture and all that jazz I like to have a picture of the layout of the house... so here is what I have from Visio and it's only PARTIALLY correct in sizing.  Butch went out and bought a tape measure - which was helpful when shopping in Ikea today to see what would fit into some of the nooks and crannies. 

We picked up a few things, but mostly we're sill figuring out what we want for where.  So... here we go, here are the measurements we have to date

This is the basement - the lower left is the "laundry" and electrical and hot water heater room ... it's quite long and has one tiny window.  The storage room also has a window (not shown on here, but you can see it on the pictures of the front of the house as the grate is right beside the house and the garage.  Odd place for a window, but hey, whatever works for codes I guess.  So, there is that very tiny and high window in there as well.... the stairs here are open and the floating sort... so under them is open and they spiral up and out to the entry on the First Floor

 Welcome to the ground floor - the entry hall is quite large and actually has a bump out where the stairs come up. Anyway... there are nooks and crannies in there where a coat rack will be in the future, but it was hard to get the walls to behave and stay the right size... so the empty box off the kitchen and entry is actually a little nook that will eventually house a bench and a coat rack of some sort.  The kitchen is really tiny and although there isn't much as far as cabinets, they are all the Ikea type and have multiple pull outs and drawers and think they will store quite a bit.  The refrigerator is tiny... we did get a 2nd one from the base... we had them put it downstairs in the laundry so we have more freezer room than in the one here... I will have to remember to take a picture of the inside of it because it really IS tiny... but this is our effort to downsize and quit buying so much for just the two of us!!

The 1st floor (at least here in Europe it's considered first) has two bedrooms and a LARGE bathroom with a deceivingly large looking bath tub.  I did take a bath in there the other night and although it is big it's not really deep enough to really enjoy a good soak.  Maybe if I was a twiggy person, but I am NOT so it was ... meh, OK.  Now what I want to try soooo bad here are the baths.  The Germans have zero problem with nudity so you just go in and soak in your birthday suits and enjoy the thermal waters... which to me sounds super ideal.  Butch is not on board with this however... so I will have to find a non-shy person to join me on this adventure!!  Anyway... the bedroom with the ed in it is the one we will end up putting our room in as it's slightly bigger than the one we have our bed in now... so it's been decided we move to the back bedroom... which I LIKE the idea of as it's a super sunny room :)

Upwards... to the TOP of this joint... this is the attic rooms.. they have sloped roofs, but honestly they aren't too bad as they brought in the walls a little and the slope is very tall.... so there we have no tub, just the shower, but they are square, not cut off like this one shows... so they offer quite a bit of room in there!  This floor has a tiny balcony off the south facing room... and the doors that open on both sides... makes for a very sunny room up there for sure.... this will probably be a bedroom or an office.  I think as it's slightly larger it should be a bedroom but time will tell on that one!

So for those of you who like to have a nice floor plan to really put things into perspective there you are... that and looking up the place on google maps is about all you'll need to know to really see what it looks like here... our NEXT adventure is to use the Micheria - which is a farm place near here that has a milk automat for fresh milk... Yep, fresh, unpasteurized milk straight from the farm.

OK, more on our trip to the black forest when I can actually get the blasted phone to load my pictures to Blogger :)