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>>>> On one side of the living room is the garage and the other is a
>>>> bedroom.
>>>> The bathroom that is next to the other bedroom on that side of the
>>>> house
>>>> has no exterior walls either.
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>>> Ok, understood now.
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>> Oh good. After I wrote it all out it was starting not to make sense to
>> even me.
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>> The only other person I know who has a house as weird as mine is my
>> friend. Her house is actually designed like a squared off donut. Once
>> she
>> was in hysterics because she had an assortment of cats and dogs in the
>> house. Some hers and some her visitor's. They all began chasing each
>> other and going around and around in circles until they were worn out.
>> Fortunately they were small animals. She said it was one of the funniest
>> things she had ever seen!
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>> Her kitchen is actually smack in the middle of her house. Or part of it
>> anyway. That part is almost identical to my kitchen in size, shape and
>> arrangement. But there is a doorway that goes back to the laundry room
>> and on the other side of that is the rest of the kitchen which contains a
>> built in cupboard and a very small eating area. That part I don't have.
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>> There is an exterior door into her laundry room but the other end of it
>> is
>> open so you just go from there into where the bedrooms are and then
>> around
>> into the living room and on back through to the kitchen.
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> It is fairly difficult for me to visualise in a house. I've seen offices
> like that though. Every room in my house has a window.

Yeah. Her house and mine were remodeled by Filipinos who knew nothing about
house remodeling. The similarities of our houses is amazing. Both houses
have had a lot of things wrong with them and perhaps these families were
related because they were very big into rocks and oddly elevated plantings.

Our yards do look good. I will say that. Perhaps the former tenants spent
more time in the yard than in the house. I don't know.

And after seeing what they did, I think it might be best just to buy a house
that suits your purposes and not try to go bigger with what you have.

I lived in one other house that had a garage converted into a bedroom. That
wasn't actually too bad unless it was winter as there was no heat in there
whatever. My friend's house has the converted garage too and she has to
sleep in it.

I don't turn my bedroom heat on very often at all. Mainly only if someone is
sick and chilling. But at least my room is well insulated. Those converted
rooms have no insulation at all. Ice would form on the insides of the
windows.