What I Wouldn’t Give For A Basic Floor Plan...
I’ve just spent the last HOUR pouring over pictures of Asa’s ‘house’, trying to get an idea of the floor plan, and it’s driving me nutty.
I’ve got a combination of pictures from what the house looked like during filming of the end of ‘The Collection’ and the realtor’s current listing of the house to work with, and I’m trying to figure out from window and door placements where certain rooms are in relation to others.
Here is the front view of ‘Asa’s house’ as it would have appeared during the events of ‘The Collection’. Notice the carport on the left side…
This is the door that’s under the carport. If you were to step through that door, immediately to your right are (what I imagine to be) the double doors to the kitchen.
See the double doors? I imagine you just stepped through them from the ‘mud room’ where the door to the carport is. The small door to the right of the stove is the pantry.
This is the kitchen (the other side of the room in the pervious image). Very cosy, isn’t it?
The luxurious bathroom, which is located at the back of the house on the left-hand side. How do I know? See the long ‘curtain’ with the daylight shining through above it in the second image? Look at a view of the house (from the relator’s website) from the back side…
See the door on the left side at the top of the stairs with the small window above it? That’s the door that leads to the bathroom.
This is a long view of the dining room where Arkin placed the red trunk. That scene still makes me angry. How DARE he…
Here is what appears to be the ‘guest bedroom’, but it’s hard to tell from the windows where it is in relation to the floor plan. Is it on the first floor, or the second?
Here is what appears to be the ‘master bedroom’, but I have the same issue. First floor or second? It’s hard to tell.
At the end of ‘The Collection’, you can see Asa waking up a flight of stairs adjacent to the front hall, but it doesn’t show anything beyond that. However, here is a picture of the house post-remodel that I got off the realtor’s site, and you can clearly see a spiral staircase that leads to the uppermost floor of the house…
…to this room. It works well as either another bedroom, or an office. Either way, it’s awesome.
Here is what appears to be a sitting room on the first floor.
In ‘The Collection’, when Asa comes back down the stairs, he turns and you can very briefly see a small room with a sink…
This is the half bath at the bottom of the stairs. Here is what it looks like in the realtor’s listing…
It’s a lovely house, perfectly ‘normal’ for his ‘Asa Emory, respected Entomologist’ persona.
But can someone please, for the love of kittens and sour blue raspberry candies, tell me where in the floor plan the master and guest bedrooms would most likely be located?
Upper floor? Lower floor? Is one up and the other down?
Also, how likely would it be that this house has a basement? I really, really want there to be a basement…
I need this information for…reference purposes…
Edit - if anyone’s interested, here’s the link to the website that shows the house post-remodel. There are still some elements that carry over between the two, and it did help me get a better feel for the layout for the house as it was in the film.
Searching the address on Google Maps and getting a street view was awesome!
EDIT - I recently received a message from @hongzhizhu and I can now officially give him credit as the source of the pictures of Asa’s house as it was in the movie that I used in this post.
I remember browsing tumblr after watching ‘The Collector’ for the first time and I came across someone’s tumblr post before I even had a tumblr account of my own, and saved the images to my computer because I thought they were fascinating.
Unfortunately, I didn’t even think to copy down the source of the images at the time, but I was actually hoping the original poster might come across this post and contact me. And it happened this morning!
Thank-you @hongzhizhu !