kareina

One of the first things we did when we bought our house was to measure the rooms - exactly. Before the furniture moved in. With the power outlets marked out, and the windows. Back then, of course, we had to draw them on graph paper. I expect things are a tad easier now. :) Nonetheless, that binder with its pages of graphed out room deminsions (I can't spell that AL ALL today!) has been a stress-saver. In fact, just in the last two weeks it's been one (we've owned the house for over 20 years at this point) when we had to deal with a leaking toilet that had soaked underflooring and caused mildewed walls in two bathrooms. (They are next to each other.) Our trip to the BIg Box home repair store was a breeze compared to what it would have been if we had needed to get into the muck in order to measure for floors and wallboards.