For past visitors to the Mill House...

[fleetfootmike]

...you may need sunglasses when you come next time.

We just had the three useless kitchen spotlights plus the light over the kitchen table replaced with three fluorescent strips. Man, what a difference.

One amusing thing we noticed, though. The three strips were going to be lined up across the width of the room, one at each end, one in the middle. So Geoff, our very nice electrician, drew himself an accurate line down the middle of the ceiling (middle of one end wall to middle of the other), fitting one parallel to each end wall, and the other in the middle.

For a first shot, he placed the middle one perpendicular to the centre line. And it looked MILES out. A bit of closer investigation reveals:

• No two walls in the kitchen are parallel.
  
• No corner of the kitchen is a right angle.
  
• The kitchen ceiling is not flat
  
• The centre line is *visibly* not perpendicular to either end wall.
  
• The whole room is skewed by about 3-5 degrees.
  

I LOVE 19th century stone built houses :)

Comments

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

I can't top that, but I've lived in a couple places that were old (well, for us, you know!) farm houses and such, probably 70 or so years old. Nothing was square, everything had gaps, hanging pictures was an exercise in laughter, the floor noticably sloped underfoot (and didn't join smoothly from one room to the next) and none of the inside doors latched properly. :)Still, a very comfortable house!