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an open house: laundry, back
hall
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kitchen | family room | back yard | back bath & bedroom
| front hall & bath | workroom | living
room
Now we're back standing inside the sliding glass doors, looking up to the
laundry-"room" area. The laundry machines originally lived in the garage,
but were set up in here several years ago when my grandparents started
slowing down a bit, physically. Before that, it was kind of a
miscellaneous music area with an upright piano and guitars in the closet,
and the bookshelves.
Oh, and there's an old hi-fi stereo system inside those
shuttered cabinets under the bookshelves that can record and play 8-track
tapes, among other things, just to give you an idea of the vintage.
ze mazhines de laundree. ta da. one mildly annoying thing about this "room" (it seems not quite a complete room because you can't close it off from the familyroom) is that it has no artificial lighting, just that window and the door. Trying to do laundryish things at nighttime, it's helpful if you've been eating your carrots.
The light in that hall is pretty much all there is, that and the
familyroom chandelier. The dark green tiles on the floor show you where
the newer (60s add-on) part of the house is, as opposed to the old
wood-floored part.
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