PIR Thoughts

I warn you, this post is going to sound like someone complaining about how difficult it is to find good servants.... or moaning about how the damn Lexus just cahnt get reliable internet access at high speeds. In other words, Problems of the Idle Rich. It isn't intended that way, but thats likely how it will sound.

I'm sitting in the kitchen nook, looking out through the sliding glass door that gives out onto the vestigial desk which was left once we had the nook built. From where I am, I can see the right side of the house -- the master bathroom and bedroom windows on this level, and below, the top of the storage room (formerly the garage) window, and, wrapping around the far end of the house, the garage. Its not the world's best view, but I like it. And what I'm thinking is, if we go through with building the arcade, we're going to wipe out about seventy percent of it. You'll still be able to see off to the right, and if you look through the windows (there are three on the rightmost end of the octagon that forms the nook), you can still see the farm and its buildings. But the view straight ahead -- the building, the landscaped area beyond it -- could be gone, once we do the deed with the arcade.

So, I'm thinking "I wonder if there's a better way?" One that doesn't decimate the view, while still providing what we need -- elevator access to the second floor in a reasonably convenient manner. And it turns out that we could do it a different way. We could have the elevator structure put at the far end of the garage -- there's enough space there. If we did that, we'd have to build a room on top of the garage, which would mean modifying it to support a new room. Access to the new room would have to be from one of the two bedrooms, which means either a) ours, or b) moving my daughter to one of the downstairs bedrooms (ahem, those other bedrooms are where my mother's currently in residence, though my daughter would be glad to take over the whole den as her room) and using hers as the entry point. Let's assume we'd use ours. That would means that anyone using the elevator would have to come through the master bedroom to do it. And we'd lose the additional storage that the arcade would give on the lower level. Not likely we'd put the lawnmower in the added room, for example! Also, I wouldn't be tempted to do the other things -- enclosing the slab, putting paving stones in where the old tanbarked play area is -- because we wouldn't be working in that area. It'd be just the elevator structure, and the new room. Plus, we'd save the view.

Hmmm..... And I was just getting used to the idea of the arcade, too.

Told you it'd be a PIR post!