{"id":5539,"date":"2015-04-16T07:59:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T11:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=5539"},"modified":"2015-04-02T08:04:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T12:04:20","slug":"the-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/04\/16\/the-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"The plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"1211plan\"My last mention of the Internet Archive\u2019s Building Technology Heritage Library<\/a> collection didn’t highlight my obsession with house\/floor plans, and I though you should know.\u00a0 I have a whole notebook full of houses that I have dreamed up over the years and before any move, I would obtain the floor-plan of the apartment so I could plan the furnishings.<\/p>\n

Lucky then that the\u00a0Building Technology Heritage Library<\/a> collection included home plan catalogs for prospective 40s and 50s home owners to dream and plan, right?\u00a0 Or, no.\u00a0 I was really hoping that I would stumble upon the original plan for our house, but I have not, yet.\u00a0 That’s the house as it is above.\u00a0 There are a few thick walls round the outside, making up planters and defining the patio space.<\/p>\n

With what I have seen of common house plans and houses in the area, combined with examination of walls and doorways, I think the house was originally laid out like this:<\/p>\n

\"1211orgplan-800x362\"<\/p>\n

The ‘dining room’ was a 60s addition that used the existing roof over the breezeway and added a doorway from it to the utility room hallway.\u00a0 A bathroom\/bedroom area was made out of, what I think would have been, a workroom beside the utility room.\u00a0 Finally, perhaps in a 90s kitchen remodel, the wall separating the kitchen and living room was opened up and replaced with a counter peninsula.\u00a0 Even with two remodels, the house footprint hasn’t been changed from it’s original 1949 slab and footings.<\/p>\n

I can find some plans with an original bedroom layout like mine, and some with a breezeway to utility\/workroom area like mine, but none with all of it combined in one plan.\u00a0 It could just mean that my house wasn’t bought out of a catalog, and that’s just fine too.\u00a0 I just wish one day I will stumble onto some blueprints shoved in a rafter or something!<\/p>\n

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My last mention of the Internet Archive\u2019s Building Technology Heritage Library collection didn’t highlight my obsession with house\/floor plans, and I though you should know.\u00a0 I have a whole notebook full of houses that I have dreamed up over the years and before any move, I would obtain the floor-plan of the apartment so I… Continue reading The plan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[123,214],"class_list":["post-5539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-research","tag-the-house"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5440,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2014\/10\/22\/midcentury-design\/","url_meta":{"origin":5539,"position":0},"title":"Midcentury design","author":"leems","date":"October 22, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"A rather boring, boxy remodel was committed on my kitchen, but other than that and most of the flooring, I have a lot of original materials in my house.\u00a0 In fact, I have a lot of original materials outside of my house...like roof timbers, flue tiles and concrete partition blocks.\u00a0\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"concrete blocks","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/concrete-blocks-600x195.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/concrete-blocks-600x195.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/concrete-blocks-600x195.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5180,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2014\/05\/01\/floor-plans\/","url_meta":{"origin":5539,"position":1},"title":"floor plans","author":"leems","date":"May 1, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I am enamored of floor plans.\u00a0 I don't gaze wistfully or draw them all the time, but I have amassed a collection of imaginary houses and whenever we are planning a move one of the first things I do is draw a plan of the new place. 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