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That's exactly what I was thinking
I was just coming in to check on that .. glad I saw the budget increase
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@TresaofPern - as long as you have at least 3 floors total (including the basement) you are good to go.
See attached photo for a similar house.
PS when the challenge is over I intend to make that floor accessible and functional. It's a cool space.
You can have 3 upper floors should you wish @Cebu2cool - the brief states at least 3 levels (including the basement).
The grand entrance, just isn't as grand without the stairs.
Yeah, that's what I had in mind... Lots of regency buildings look like that
I hope that's within the rules. (Kinda breaking my brain right now to work around it, so I hope I don't have to )
yeah, but the two arches lead to the servants and delivery entrance. No worries, I'm re-doing my build anyway.
@gmcrozier - it's really not a basement though is it? It's entirely up to you how you wish to interpret the brief though.
"Parlor is a dated word to mean a sitting room in a private house. Generally it means a room in a private house used to receive guests; it could also be a room in a convent.
Drawing room is a room in a large private house where guests are received."
So based upon this definition... A parlor, a sitting room and a drawing room are the same thing.
Thanks for asking! I was wondering myself.
Earlier I asked an English friend on Twitter, Cinderellimouse, if she had any insight. I think she's a literature major and might have a clue.
Here's her response.
"I know all those words but I always thought they were the same thing!
Lol!
Ok, so I gather a parlour in the Regency period would have been
the best room in the house and used for entertaining guests and for
parties and events like for wedding receptions.
The word 'parlour' is derived from a word for speaking, so it's 'The Talking Room'.
The Drawing room is similar but it's more private.
It originally meant the 'withdrawing' room because the hosts and a few special guests
would leave the main entertaining space and go to that room to talk a bit more privately.
In the Regency period it was often upstairs and it would lead to the main bedroom.
So it was like a reception room for people close to the host.
I'm less sure about the sitting room, but I think this would have been used more for
reading and casual social events. So it was quieter and less formal than the other two rooms.
It might have been less fancy as well because it wasn't as 'public' as the other two rooms.
So comfortable and homely with lots of books, I guess."