20 Apr As-hole Built Series: Here is a post-it…
You all know we love as-builts (eye roll) … and Los Angeles 1920’s hillside houses are our very favorite to field verify. The boss man innocently handed us two post-its with some sketches for the areas that we needed to focus on for our new Linwood project and we thought oh how great! We only need to do the Kitchen and the Master Bath area… this will be easy peasy… WRONG!
In preparation for the field trip, we generated a site plan with the building footprint from an aerial view and the Zimas Map and took some graph paper just in case we wanted to sketch out details or more additional information and oh did we NEED that graph paper!
There is a breezeway between the kitchen and the fitness room that we hope to enclose. 
The kitchen is two intersecting rectangles that create a space for the functional cooking space and an eat in breakfast nook area. 
This is where things start to get interesting… In the Master Bath we are entering the angled portion of the plan and it was a little dissorienting. You can see I sketched the plan twice to try and wrap my head around what was happening. Also, in this portion of the house, every floor was on a different level. Every. Single. One. 
Moving from the bathroom to the large shower room and water closet space… that feels a little tight… 
Now moving to the Master closet area… oh, great more level changes…
Well, these should be interesting to translate into AutoCAD (is that a 3 or a 5???) … Let’s hope we get the survey information soon to help us with our orientation and rotation!
Well, those dimensions cleaned up pretty nicely if I do say so myself! Stay tuned for some sketches as we work through schematic design!
-hlj
