
Here is my drawing of the first floor. Right now, we are using the 1st floor as a place to store our stuff. There are boxes and shelves in all of the rooms but the bathroom. (Right now the floor of the bathroom on first floor is a dangerous place to be - you could fall right into the basement.) We are also stacking wood along the wall in the dining room. Our main wood pile is on the porch off of the kitchen.


This is the 2nd floor plan. We are living on 2nd floor right now.
Landing Room:
The "Landing" room is the room you are in when you first come up the stairs. Right now, it has some of our dressers in it. We also have tools that we are currently using in it. Mostly it is a large hallway to get to the kitchen and bathroom from the bedrooms and living room. But as we got the electricity working out there, we might start using it a bit more. This will also happen as it gets warmer and it is not so hard to heat. I am hoping to soon be able to put our table out there so we can eat there. It will be nice to have the table closer to the kitchen. A long way into the future, we are planning on making this our craft/hobby room. It will be a place we can hang out and work on our various projects.
Mars Room:
The kids' bedroom is the room we called the Mars room. Right now all three of them are sharing a room. This is mostly due to heat. It has been really cold and we are trying to keep the heat in as small a number of rooms as we can. The Mars room in the distant future will be a guest room/sewing craft room. Yes we will have two craft rooms. The landing room will be for more messy crafts.
Tower Room:
The tower room is currently our dining room, living room, library, and laundry room. It also has the wood stove in it so it is the warm room. We wanted the laundry up on 2nd floor. I was not looking forward to years of going down two floors to do the laundry. We will eventually close this area into a nice looking cupboard. In the future we see the tower room as a library/parlor like room. With all of the windows and doors we are not sure how the library idea will work out. But that is all still in the planning stage.
Green Room:
First of all the Green Room is no longer green. But in the old pictures and posts that is what we called it. This is Jonathan and my bedroom. That is what this room is going to be in the future.
Bathroom:
This is the one room that is nearly finished. We do still need to do the wood work. Because the roof is still leaking next to the chimney, there was a little water damage (to our new drywall) that we will need to take care of in the future. But I like to sit in here and imagine that the rest of the house looks this good. ;)
The kitchen:
This is the only kitchen beside the 1st floor kitchen that we will be keeping. This kitchen is connected to the first floor kitchen by the back stairs. In the future this will be our craft kitchen. We will be doing our candles, clay and brewing here.

This is the 3rd floor plan. The 3rd floor also has a landing room. This one is smaller than the one on 2nd floor. When we talk about it we usually say "3rd floor landing". This will be the kids' common room. The way I have drawn the third floor is what it is going to look like in the future. The bathroom is not actually against the exterior wall right now. It is towards the center of the house. We want to move it back against the outside all to add a little room to Bedroom 3. It is the smallest of the rooms, so it would be nice to give it just a bit more space. Bedroom 3 was the kitchen to the 3rd floor apartment. It is the only room we have yet to knock the plaster down in. We climb out the window in bedroom 3 to get on to the 2nd floor roof and than climb up the ladder to the third floor roof. We are considering actually making a bit of a porch up on the second floor roof and putting a more permanent ladder or staircase up to the 3rd floor roof. We want to put a telescope/observatory up on the 3rd floor roof (possibly in the tower). We still have not decided which of the rooms goes to which of the children. We will have to see as things go along. We are also considering finishing up the 3rd floor landing room first. Then letting Zeb use this room as his bedroom. But right now that is not possible with the terrible cold we have been having this winter.
I hope this helps to give everyone a better idea of what we are doing and where we are living. :D
Glad that helps. I had thought of doing that sooner. But had never gotten around to it. It would be interesting to look at in the future.
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