Re: Re: OT: research help - Detailed Description

[danspector@xxxxxxxxx]

A few more notes:

It definitely is only one bathroom upstairs; in "Normal Again", when
Dawn runs in there to flee from Buffy, you can briefly see the door to
Willow's room in the background. That's also why when Buffy kicks down
the bathroom door, Dawn has escaped and is back in Willow's room. (Why
she hasn't taken the opportunity to flee down the stairs, I don't know.)

There's a planter on the stair landing now; it wasn't there when Buffy
kicked Ted down the stairs.

There's a room of some sort in front of the bathroom, towards the front
of the house, opposite Buffy's Angel-kissing window. You can see the
matching window on the front, right corner of the house, but the
bathroom has no windows on the side that faces front (that's where the
shower/tub is).

The upstairs corridor does NOT dead-end at the window near Buffy's door;
it makes a left turn. We saw Drusilla come around that corner at the
start of "Surprise", but we've never been around it, so we've never seen
the room or whatever the abovementioned windows look out of.

There's a small balcony outside the window in the corridor, which is
strange because there doesn't seem to be a door to reach it. Bizarre
variant on a "widow's walk", as far as I can tell.

There's a water cooler next to the refrigerator; Southern California
tapwater is just awful, I can tell you that.

There used to be storage closet in the sitting room, beyond the doorway
to the kitchen; this is where Cordelia and Oz were hiding in "Dead
Man's Party" and found the ski poles. However, by "The Body" this has
been remodeled away, and the window moved over where the closet used to
be.

There's an unexplained dead area where the foyer narrows into the
corridor by the stairs. This is the wall Buffy leans against when she
has her first awkward talk with Willow in "Dead Man's Party", but, as
far as I can tell, there's nothing on the other side of that wall, as
neither the living room nor the sitting room juts into that space. This
is not the stairs to the basement (those are located directly under the
stairs to the second floor). Indeed, this area has no doors at all. I
fanwank that this is the desperately-needed downstairs bathroom, and the
door is just cleverly concealed, but it really doesn't make sense.

There is also some dead space between Buffy and Dawn's rooms; there are
two pictures hung on the wall between Buffy's door and the door to
Dawn's alcove, and although Buffy's back wall extends a little, it
doesn't cover that amount of space.

Lastly, since the basement stairs are directly under the main stairs,
why is there a basement wall directly next to them? The basement is
only below the living room and the foyer/hallway; what is below the
kitchen and dining room?

Oh, and in the "I defy you to do something with this" category, the door
on Dawn's alcove has been reversed over the years. The handle was on
the left side and the hinges on the right in "Dead Man's Party", but
it's the other way around in "Normal Again" (and "Forever", I think).

Dan

too much time on my hands....