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Speaking Of Scouring Through Photos and AI Image Generation…

I was looking through all my old menz photos to locate this picture:

Back in 2001, it spoke to me for a variety of reasons. I liked it; I liked it a lot. So in a fit of creativity in 2001, I painted it and called it, A Man Who Knows His Place.

For shits-n-giggles, the other day, I uploaded the image of the painting to ChatGPT and instructed, “make it photorealistic.”

I would say it did an eerily accurate reproduction of the original photo.

And while I cannot for the life of me locate the original photo that inspired the next painting I did…

Probably my favorite piece from that whole period.

I do like what ChatGPT did to it with similar instructions:

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You Could Probably Fit Four Of These Inside The Footprint Of A Modern House

With only a few minor updates, this could be a very livable house for a single person or couple in 2026.

I mean honestly, who needs this:

And that’s only the FIRST floor!

And yup…the entire top floorplan would fit inside the Great Room/Kitchen of the bottom plan. SMDH.

WHO NEEDS THIS?!

I case you’re wondering where I’m culling these monstrosities, it’s from reddit.com/r/floorplan.

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Fabulous 50s

I don’t like the idea of having to take my laundry outside to get it into the wash on the top plan. I’d have put a door directly from inside the house, closed off the one to the carport, and ditched that room’s “storage” designation. I also would’ve made it a double carport with storage on the outside edge that runs the length of the carport.

I understand the design philosophy behind the lower plan, but it seems that entry hallway is a tremendous waste of space.

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This Was Called A “Cottage”

Convert the Dressing Room to a walk-in closet. Close off the existing closet in that bedroom and turn it into a half bath accessible from the hallway. Alternately, move the Bathroom to the Dressing Room space, turn the existing Bathroom into a walk-in closet. Seal off the existing Bedroom closet into a half bath with a door to the hall. Any number of options on the First Floor.

Upstairs Maid’s Room could be a great home office or Guest Bedroom. Likewise, the existing “Work Room” would make an excellent entertainment room—or in the vernacular—a “Man Cave.”

Overall, this is one of the favorites I’ve seen recently.

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Another Tiny Russian House

At 77 m2 (829 sq. ft.) it is indeed tiny, but not overly so. I’ve lived in what felt like very spacious one bedroom apartments that topped out at about 700 square feet and a lot of that felt wasted.

The one thing I would do is get rid of the wall separating the front entrance hall from the living room as well as the walls and doors separating that expanded space from the rest of the house. That central hallway is still wasted space, but at least you’d get the illusion of the space being much larger and open.

And as to why Russian homes have such thick walls, it’s as I suspected…

That probably also explains why the public part of the house is divided from the private area. It can be closed off to save on heating!

 

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I Could Live There

I would definitely rip out that entire kitchen/maid’s room area and convert it into one large kitchen with adjacent 1/2 bath and laundry room. Might even open it up to the Dining Room. The Sleeping Porch would make a nice home office.

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Hmmm…

 

This reminds me very much of something I saw in one of my dad’s architectural magazines in the early 70s. It was an ad for plywood manufacturers of America or something, and while that house (elevations only, no floor plans) more resembled a group of tubes capped with geodesic domes, this one definitely reminds me of it on so many—pardon the pun—levels.

This is my take on the concept:

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I’d Make a Few Changes

Seal off the maid’s room from the laundry/wash porch. Get rid of the maid’s room bath and closet opening to the bedroom. Take that space and turn it into a nice en suite and walk-in closet. Seal off the existing bath that connects to the bedroom and turn it into a nice half bath that opens to the entry hall. Remove the wall between the kitchen and dining room and make it an “open concept” area.

The second floor seems to work as it is. Wouldn’t touch a thing.

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I Suppose It Makes Sense For The Era In Which It Was Built

The garage, if it had one, would be at the back property line, accessed from the alley or via long driveway at the right side of the house. That makes most sense with the location of the kitchen door.

I don’t like the idea of guests having to traverse either of the bedrooms to get to the bathroom. Perhaps they were expected to use the Maid’s Room’s Bathroom?

In fact, the more I look at it the more convinced I am this floorplan would take a major reorganization to make it livable for anyone in 2026.

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