Our New Old House

The lady who lived in my house as a little girl sent me a letter with a floorplan she drew from memory. She moved out of our house when she was six years old or so and it’s amazing how much detail she remembers. Her drawing is practically to scale and nearly all the locations of doors, windows, and other details are accurate. If you click on the image below it will take you to my Flickr account, where I’ve added some notes to the image listing the little inaccuracies. But for our purposes here, you can pretty much think of this as the current floorplan of our house. I’ve never gotten around to drawing one myself, so this one’s as good as any. I’m so grateful for her generosity in sharing all this with me!

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I received a lovely letter this week from the lady who lived in my house as a little girl.  She included pictures, which are awesome, and also a sketch of how the house was laid out when she lived here.  I was amazed at how accurate her memory of the house is 60 years after she moved out at age six.  She got every detail right except the closets around the bathroom and the phone stand in the hallway.  She also has lots of really sweet memories about living there as a child.  When I get my scanner hooked up I’ll scan the photos and her drawing of the interior layout to share. 

[tags] previous owners[/tags]