erock308 wrote:And then I find this...
Hey Erock,
Great find! I have to say those drawings are spot on to the set. I looked at them for a few minutes and can't find anything that differs from the set. As I said a while back, I did drawings like these years ago, though not colored. I even had the furniture placement. That being said, the set has many problems in relating it to the actual boat house as I've said many times before to many people's disappointment.
First, what is in all the area behind and beside the bathroom? The lanai is above it but there is no habitable space below it. The floor plans I've seen elsewhere, adjust the closet and bathroom to fill this space, but then it doesn't match the set.
Second, not one of the set windows is in the same place as the boat house windows. Not one! There should be one window
centered on each side of the upper floor. The door is shown in the center when it is actually off-center in the boat house.
Third, where is the chimney for the fireplace? The boat house has no chimney and it could not direct vent to the lanai it is adjacent to.
Fourth, the lanai makes up approximately two-thirds of the second floor of the actual boat house, with the enclosed space being the other third. The set has reversed this.
Fifth, the overall square footage of the set is about half again larger than the actual boat house.
Sixth, where is the large garage-like door facing the beach that should be on the bedroom wall of the set?
I could go on...
Edit:
I did find a mistake in the drawing. The lanai has a shed roof extending from it toward the beach that is missing. That would extend the bedroom and bathroom about five feet further up on the drawing. Still very good drawings though... of the set.
I also remembered a major problem with the set than can't be seen on the floor plans. It has to do with the elevations. If you look at the floor level of the front door of the set, over the closet, note how the top of the closet door (6-8) is less than a foot below that floor level. That under-stair closet has less than 7 feet of headroom, which is fine for a closet, but if the lanai extends over the bedroom also, then the bedroom would also have less than 7 feet of headroom, which not only violates code, but would be mere inches above Selleck's 6-4 head! The set likely had just a small platform outside the front door to enter from while the attached bedroom set had a more usual ceiling height, though not an actual ceiling for filming reasons.
I also failed to mention above that no respectable architect would design a guest house where you climbed up a flight of stairs to a front door only to immediately go back down a flight of stairs into the entire livable space. That's just stupid and I remember thinking that when I was 9-years old and the show debuted. I've been thinking about this stuff for a looong time! Sadly!!!!!
Again, I feel like I'm ruining everyone's dreams about the guest house but it just doesn't work. Sorry everyone!
