Hi! I've read The Stranding 3 times now, but for some reason I'm still incredibly confused by Melanie's house. Are there 3 levels? Where's Henry's room? The kitchen?? The living room? (Are there multiple???) I don't know if it's too much to ask, but could you clarify what room is on which level? Thank you! :) <3
Hi there! I think you mean The Rescue, but I appreciate the question all the same!
The house in The Rescue is a two-storey split-level home, so there's technically four floors with three half-sets of stairs to go between all of them.
Melanie's bedroom is on the top floor, along with the upstairs bathroom (where she takes baths), and two spare rooms that are mostly for storage. There's a half-flight of stairs that leads down to the front entrance area on the main floor, and the main floor houses the main livingroom (TV, that L-shaped sectional) and is open-concept through the diningroom and kitchen. The sliding glass doors to the backyard are by the diningroom area.
Just between the front entrance and the kitchen are the stairs leading down to the downstairs level, which is where the downstairs livingroom is (another TV and a different couch, this is where Henry and Melanie had their first conversation once they came back in from the Massengale the first time, where he tried to interrogate her about the government structures) Henry's room, the downstairs bathroom/closets and the back door which is the main entrance Melanie uses in the house.
From there is the last half-set of stairs to the basement, where the laundry room/pantry/basement storage is, along with her Dad's office/music room.
I drew a really terrible, super rough and probably inaccurate layout, though! The green lines are the positions of the inside doors, the dark red solid lines are the doors to the outside, blue line is the sliding glass doors, and the squiggly paintlines are the stairs (light brown for stairs connecting the levels you see in the image, red for stairs connecting the levels you see to the other layer of bad drawing)
Thank you so so much for the ask! Hope this helps!
[EDIT] HEY COOL I JUST NOTICED NONE OF MY DOOR EDITS SAVED. Gimme a second to edit the image.
Every now and then I remember the times I would mention to my flatmate that I was thinking of buying myself something reasonably expensive (that I had been eyeing up for months and had budgeted for) and she'd tell me that I shouldn't spend that much money on something I didn't need and it would be stupid etc etc while she regularly impulse bought things that cost at least as much and she would use once (while complaining that she was under a lot of financial stress and couldn't afford <$3/week for 2 months for a rental washing machine when ours broke). She is... perhaps not my first call for financial advice
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i only moved here because i couldn't stand my old landlady anymore and she was about to sell the property and she kept violating my privacy and entering the apartment without permission and i couldn't keep my bunny there that's it that's all i would've stayed if i could have and i wish i could have i loved that fucking place that was MY place that was MY HOME.... MY FIRST REAL HOME....
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There's new carpeting throughout, but when, oh when, is this gray trend going to end? It's so damned dreary.
Nice brick features.
The bedrooms and baths are typically mid-century modern. They squeezed a big jetted tub into this one, though.
I can't. Even the damned outdated cabinets were painted gray- you just can't hide old cabinetry that's got this kind of detail. Nice modern sink and new granite counters, though.
Right off the kitchen is the dining room and a pantry.
But, look at what else is off the kitchen/dining room. Have you ever seen an indoor pool in the kitchen?
Downstairs, on the other end of the pool, is a nice rec room- those gates are pretty cool.
Here's a flex space. It could be an additional bedroom.
They left the light up for a pool table.
This is huge- look, there's even a balcony over it upstairs.
Stairs that go up to the kitchen.
You can also go out to the patio.
Next to the pool, you can shoot some hoops.
If I was gonna buy a house for $600K, it would be this one. Look at how cool it is.
There are more rooms in the basement, too. So much potential.
Plus, there's a sub basement with a workshop.
Patio with a pergola and some kind of defunct water feature in the yard. The cinderblock wall needs a beautiful mural or at least some paint.
There's more yard on the side of the house. 10,018 sq. ft. lot.
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A fun part of being a stay-at-home parent is that social media not infrequently gives me an experience I like to refer to as "my standards are either too low or way too high". Most recently would be someone talking about how it's not reasonable for men to expect their wives to give them lists of chores that they can do around the house to make her life easier.
Now, I consider my "things I do" job title (as opposed to "things I don't do" of "stay at home parent) to be "household manager" (My dislike of "homemaker" is stronger than that of "stay-at-home mom".) So yeah, making a list of "here's jobs that are easier for you than for me, in priority order, so that you don't need to spend effort thinking about what needs doing" to be reasonable. (My husband's work schedule isn't entirely consistent, so how much he can do in a given week varies, so just having some jobs be his responsibility isn't entirely practical for us). So are my standards too low?
Or maybe this is talking about households where both parents work! But... barring some sort of really asymmetrical situation (I know there are couples where one of them has more demands from work so the other one does more household labour, so this isn't just with a stay-at-home), how much of an asshole would you have to be to think that's a reasonable ask, instead of doing what a reasonable person would do and sitting down together every [frequency that works for you] to figure out who was going to do what? (I know people who just have standing chore splits. I know people who sit down every academic term. I know people who sit down weekly. It varies, ok.) So are my standards just way too high?
Before the war, after I left Gaza for Germany, I used to call my dad almost everday and tell him about my day. He would tell me how everyone else was doing and say that Salah,my little nephew, kept asking where I was.
Now, I hardly ever reach my parents or any of my siblings.I don't think Salah even remembers who I am any more as he struggles to carry water containers. I always find myself agonizing and wondering if I'll ever meet my family again, whether the newborns will see me one day and know that their uncle longs to hold them in his arms.
Every time I look at my dad's picture in our home, smiling and surrounded by his grandchildren, it breaks my heart into a million pieces. The house he dreamed the kids would grow up in was leveled to the ground in a split second. Nothing is left, not even both his shoe shops where he worked so hard to build a future for us all. My siblings are unable to work or finish their studies. There are no schools left for the children. There is no proper food, water, or sanitation, no life; only death and rubble all around.
When my brother sent me a photo of my dad lighting a fire, he still had that same old smile on his face. I was relieved to see him somewhat hopeful but it broke my heart even more. My father is the most resilient and hard-working man I've ever known. He always supported us in whatever we wanted to achieve. His only hope was that his grandkids would grow up safely and happily in their home. He never complained from work and taught us the true meaning of sacrifice and perseverance. Instead of living peacefully with his family, he, the kids, and everyone else have to endure life in a makeshift tent,God knows for how much longer, while their lives are constantly threatened by airstrikes, starvation, and disease. No child, elder, or adult should go through such hardships for this long.
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