Detached Cottage Review – How do you name a house if you don’t know how to use it????

You guys. I am very happy with the name of this house (our guest cottage). We don’t even know what it will be used for, but I have ideas for future projects, which will inform our decisions. So if you’re looking for the inside of my mind (not sure I recommend it), here’s what’s knocking there:

• My home office (and meeting space outside my house). I still have a problem with having an “office” where everyone has to go every day (there’s a reason none of us chose regular office jobs), and I don’t want the cost (our office in La was $5k a month). But no Portland group likes to “work” in my family at home (this is inevitable, and no one complains, but the new thing has bothered him). Of course, we have to be inside the photo shoots, but until the meetings, writing, planning, etc., having a non-barting place to bark would be good (right now everyone works from home unless there is a shoot). I spend most of the morning cleaning up breakfast and making school lunches before everyone gets here so they vary in success rates. So the top floor position would be the office, the bottom floor would be our “break room,” and the “canning room” would be where the podcast would have been (just drop it there and it just shows up).

• Band / Game room. Charlie plays drums and Elliot plays guitar, so this would be the perfect place for them to release together. We do it like “this house” where all the kids come, and I don’t take that responsibility lightly. So creating a room where they can hang it like new (properly in an analog way) sounds good and safe for me. Do foreigners like the young and the old need this space? Apparently not. But it is “If we build, they will stay the situation … We are safe” when we don’t have helicopters. (We’re the Great Jonathan Haidt fans here – they give free returns with safe borders).

• Long live the old parents (or the US). This can play out in a few different ways. If we ever need to take care of any of our parents, we want to make sure that there is a bedroom and a bathroom on the first floor with small steps. This means it’s not a shower/bath combo but a walk-in shower.

• In addition (and my real life fantasy that I just show), should both of our children want, raise their family (our grandson) here, Brian and I will enter our guest computer and we have our meeting place of my dreams !!!! Brian laughs when I talk about this, but I’m dead wrong. While I wanted our children to fly, live in a big city, build an independent independent life, etc., and in the end I loved nothing more than this around them and their children. I can help a lot, I promise! .

• Accommodation during photo or film rental. We recently rented out our entire house (every room was used) for a big commercial shoot, and frankly, it’s a great way to make money (almost no real costs or more). I’m proud of this house and property, and I’d love to share it with more people (strangers, though). So I would like to continue hiring Photo / Film / commercial shoots without completely removing our family (we stayed in a hotel with our dogs for a week, but it is not easy for anyone, but to do completely). This is our third time renting from others (not including myself), and it’s 100% worth it.

• Nice selection of events. While we will never likely turn this into anything too commercial, if a friend’s kid wanted to get married here or if someone wanted to rent it out for a 50th birthday party, we would totally consider it (unsure of the permitting or legal liabilities of this, BTW, we aren’t in a hurry, so we haven’t done the research). So having multiple sleeping areas (and a bathroom that you can access from the outside) is something to consider. I also checked out ADA Designs just in case.

So, can I design this tour company to work for all of the above situations, not knowing if any of them will be a thing? Yup. But doing this work has helped our decision. Here is the biggest change…

New downstairs bathroom

At first we were going to make a simple and cheap bathroom under the stairs – Teeny, Teeny Tiny, but I made it good. Senger and Water Connect in the corner of the kitchen, so bringing it to the stairs under the house, like 10 to 12 feet, is easy (Our repair team would mold it to make room for plumbing). But a person, it can be small. The bath will be 30 “max, which is also legal, but it is very small. It is good … but there-… In addition, the kitchen would always be smaller, using the same kitchen in the kitchen (before refrigerators and dishwashers were invented). Trying to hide in the small fridge, sink, range or cooktop / stove, and the sink to that corner was impossible. To make it work, I got a range and a dishwasher, and we were going to do a 2 burner cooktop and a countertop oneaster in an “oven like” oven. And, everything is fine and better than several of our apartments in New York, but then … we realized that we did not know what to do with the “Garden Shed” or the blue printing room “or the front room of the sky. So basically, we were trying to tear the two most functional and most important rooms into the smallest space, which was obvious to both of them. At that time, we have two empty rooms that cannot really be used? If we put the bathroom in another place, I could use this place below on the stairs to put the fridge and the pantry!

I threw this idea out there a few weeks before the demo, and Brian pushed it back, pointing out that it went against our original project for this house, which was a low cost renovation and just “made it work”. BTW, I’ll probably be doing some Splurgy Design stuff, so this doesn’t mean this is a budget or cheap project – we really want to work with what we have open on every wall, rearrange the house, and spend money where we’re happy to spend it. But since we were demons (more on that soon), I pitched this idea to him again with the help of my brother, Ken, (a contractor) who just convinced us (the quotes we are now at a bad level of, we can make the house much better.

Brian was worried that the bathroom would be too far from the main area, but I’m not at all. People will find it. And I love that there will be an outside door because we have a lot of big / neighborhood / school events here, and having a dedicated bathroom so people can go inside the house is great.

But you want to know what really sold? I promised him a shower in that bathroom. You guys, men are so easy. Next time, I should just tell him that it’s our bathroom for sex, and he’d fall over quickly. She is very happy with the Urinal, and I am very excited to get it working (post coming soon when I can do a good look.

Finally… We keep the toilet upstairs

Going through this application for possible future use helped us also make the decision to keep the toilet and sink up. At first, we thought we’d keep it simple with a bathroom downstairs and nix on one floor, which doesn’t require the same amount of letting because we’re just switching to “One for One” (not adding). There are many transport effects when you add more water / toilets. But we have to improve the drainage to be the biggest thing where we get our house, so while this requires more permits, should anyone want to sleep there. We have a space and it is directly in the kitchen, so spelling the pipes is not a problem (the line is already there, although it will be used). And hell, improving the sewer all the way to the street was so expensive that I at least wanted to find a use for it 🙂

During the weekend, with both children at friends’ houses for the night, I started designing the kitchen and bathroom, and y’all, I’m very happy. I’m working on my idea why this one feels different to me, which I can’t say if you’re going to hate it or love it (not the design, but the reason behind it). So stay tuned for that, too. I’m finally at the end and I want to write about it and think about it every day, which I think is a good sign of true alignment. More to come soon!!

* Photos by Kaitlin Green