#split level house

[hometoursandotherstuff]

This gem was found on Facebook Marketplace in Lewiston, Idaho. It has 3bd, 3ba, unusual decor, and is listed for $665K.

I love the walls and ceiling in this room.

Someone really loves these rustic signs. I like the welcome one with the hydrangea.

The living room is probably larger than it looks, b/c it has very big pieces of furniture in it.

This is a nice place to sit and look out at the scenery, having a conversation and a cup of coffee.

Very large combination kitchen/family room with fireplace and a big bar.

Perfect room for entertaining- the kitchen, a fireplace, and a bar.

The kitchen's huge. Look at all the cabinetry and storage.

Talking about entertaining, the guest powder room has a urinal, perfect for the bar. The floor and counter are made with pennies.

Nice dining room has a fireplace and matching cabinetry.

Nice stairway to the bedrooms.

The main bd is cozy.

This bath is dated, but it's colorful. I like the gold sink & toilet.

Interesting feature wall in the bedroom. Would look best with modern furnishings and window dressing.

This bedroom is being used as home offices.

Outside is a nice patio with a great view.

Long driveway with a 2 car garage in the back, and the front yard looks pretty big.

[arc-hus]

Alferez House, Cañada De Alferes, Mexico - Ludwig Godefroy

[sunskate]

Lily Hensen & Nathan Lickers 2024-25 RD at Lake Placid Ice Dance International

[belethlegwen]

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.

[nerdyfangirlingbooks]

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

[magdaclaire]

my parents being fucking weird has ruined so many of the activities queers typically salivate over

[nomaishuttle]

i kind of dislike that its like. focused on your sim being a landlord it seems (from surface level looking into it) But whatever

[daedrabela]

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....

[leestraussbooks]

Exterior - Contemporary Exterior

[yarnings]

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?

[hometoursandotherstuff]

If you like the mansions with all the sports amenities, you'll love this mini-mansion. It looks like an ordinary 1964 split level in Roy, Utah, but it's got a surprise. It has 4bds, 3ba, $599K and it's a bargain- it was already appraised for $665K.

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.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2155-W-5850-S-Roy-UT-84067/11987177_zpid/

[arc-hus]

Tokyo House, Japan - Unemori Architects

[polarbearsims]

Sims 3: 15 Ocean Parkway~DOWNLOAD

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[darkandstormydolls]

PSA to all historical fiction/fantasy writers:

A SEAMSTRESS, in a historical sense, is someone whose job is sewing. Just sewing. The main skill involved here is going to be putting the needle into an out of the fabric. They’re usually considered unskilled workers, because everyone can sew, right? (Note: yes, just about everyone could sew historically. And I mean everyone.) They’re usually going to be making either clothes that aren’t fitted (like shirts or shifts or petticoats) or things more along the lines of linens (bedsheets, handkerchiefs, napkins, ect.). Now, a decent number of people would make these things at home, especially in more rural areas, since they don’t take a ton of practice, but they’re also often available ready-made so it’s not an uncommon job. Nowadays it just means someone whose job is to sew things in general, but this was not the case historically. Calling a dressmaker a seamstress would be like asking a portrait painter to paint your house

A DRESSMAKER (or mantua maker before the early 1800s) makes clothing though the skill of draping (which is when you don’t use as many patterns and more drape the fabric over the person’s body to fit it and pin from there (although they did start using more patterns in the early 19th century). They’re usually going to work exclusively for women, since menswear is rarely made through this method (could be different in a fantasy world though). Sometimes you also see them called “gown makers”, especially if they were men (like tailors advertising that that could do both. Mantua-maker was a very feminized term, like seamstress. You wouldn’t really call a man that historically). This is a pretty new trade; it only really sprung up in the later 1600s, when the mantua dress came into fashion (hence the name).

TAILORS make clothing by using the method of patterning: they take measurements and use those measurements to draw out a 2D pattern that is then sewed up into the 3D item of clothing (unlike the dressmakers, who drape the item as a 3D piece of clothing originally). They usually did menswear, but also plenty of pieces of womenswear, especially things made similarly to menswear: riding habits, overcoats, the like. Before the dressmaking trade split off (for very interesting reason I suggest looking into. Basically new fashion required new methods that tailors thought were beneath them), tailors made everyone’s clothes. And also it was not uncommon for them to alter clothes (dressmakers did this too). Staymakers are a sort of subsect of tailors that made corsets or stays (which are made with tailoring methods but most of the time in urban areas a staymaker could find enough work so just do stays, although most tailors could and would make them).

Tailors and dressmakers are both skilled workers. Those aren’t skills that most people could do at home. Fitted things like dresses and jackets and things would probably be made professionally and for the wearer even by the working class (with some exceptions of course). Making all clothes at home didn’t really become a thing until the mid Victorian era.

And then of course there are other trades that involve the skill of sewing, such as millinery (not just hats, historically they did all kinds of women’s accessories), trimming for hatmaking (putting on the hat and and binding and things), glovemaking (self explanatory) and such.

TLDR: seamstress, dressmaker, and tailor are three very different jobs with different skills and levels of prestige. Don’t use them interchangeably and for the love of all that is holy please don’t call someone a seamstress when they’re a dressmaker

[ketchuppee]

During the 2008 recession, my aunt lost her job. Her, her partner, and my three cousins moved across the country to stay with us while they got back on their feet. My house turned from a family of four to a family of nine overnight, complete with three dogs and five cats between us.

It took a few years for them to get a place of their own, but after a few rentals and apartments, they now own a split level ranch in a town nearby. I’ve lost track of how many coworkers and friends have stayed with them when they were in a tight spot. A mother and son getting out of an abusive relationship, a divorcee trying to stay local for his kids while they work out a custody agreement, you name it. My aunt and uncle knew first hand what that kindness meant, and always find space for someone who needed it, the way my parents had for them.

That same aunt and uncle visited me in [redacted] city last year. They are prolific drinkers, so we spent most of the day bar hopping. As we wandered the city, any time we passed a homeless person, my uncle would pull out a fresh cigarette and ask them if they had a light. Regardless of if they had a lighter on hand or not, he offered them a few bucks in exchange, which he explained to me after was because he felt it would be easier for them to accept in exchange for a service, no matter how small.

I work for a company that produces a lot of fabric waste. Every few weeks, I bring two big black trash bags full of discarded material over to a woman who works down the hall. She distributes them to local churches, quilting clubs, and teachers who can use them for crafts. She’s currently in the process of working with our building to set up a recycling program for the smaller pieces of fabric that are harder to find use for.

One of my best friends gives monthly donations to four or five local organizations. She’s fortunate enough to have a tech job that gives her a good salary, and she knows that a recurring donation is more valuable to a non-profit because they can rely on that money month after month, and can plan ways to stretch that dollar for maximum impact. One of those organizations is a native plant trust, and once she’s out of her apartment complex and in a home with a yard, she has plans to convert it into a haven of local flora.

My partner works for a company that is working to help regulate crypto and hold the current bad actors in the space accountable for their actions. We unfortunately live in a time where technology develops far too fast for bureaucracy to keep up with, but just because people use a technology for ill gain doesn’t mean the technology itself is bad. The blockchain is something that she finds fascinating and powerful, and she is using her degree and her expertise to turn it into a tool for good.

I knew someone who always had a bag of treats in their purse, on the odd chance they came across a stray cat or dog, they had something to offer them.

I follow artists who post about every local election they know of, because they know their platform gives them more reach than the average person, and that they can leverage that platform to encourage people to vote in elections that get less attention, but in many ways have more impact on the direction our country is going to go.

All of this to say, there’s more than one way to do good in the world. Social media leads us to believe that the loudest, the most vocal, the most prolific poster is the most virtuous, but they are only a piece of the puzzle. (And if virtue for virtues sake is your end goal, you’ve already lost, but that’s a different post). Community is built of people leveraging their privileges to help those without them. We need people doing all of those things and more, because no individual can or should do all of it. You would be stretched too thin, your efforts valiant, but less effective in your ambition.

None of this is to encourage inaction. Identify your unique strengths, skills, and privileges, and put them to use. Determine what causes are important to you, and commit to doing what you can to help them. Collective action is how change is made, but don’t forget that we need diversity in actions taken.

[simpleesong]

Contemporary Living Room - Living Room a large, modern idea for an open-concept living room with a bar and white walls.