When in doubt, make it up...

I sat down and spent a couple hours working out what I needed for the boys' home in Chapter Three, diagraming and sketching and tossing aside ideas, and searching the streets of Montréal to make sure I could do what I planned to do (thank you Google Maps). And what I came up with is livable. Even believable.

I went up the Island on Montréal to where the yards were more spacious and the St. Lawrence River merged with the Prairies River. I built a corner lot with lots of trees and shrubs, a detached garage in a back corner connected to the house by an enclosed walkway, and structured a house with two floors and a basement.

First floor is sitting room, dining room and kitchen on one side of a center hallway; the other side is the owner's living quarters. Six rooms upstairs, with gable windows, a bathroom and a closet of things. The basement is the game room and library, with another private room for one of the boys and another bathroom.

The garage has been done over into two rooms where the boys go to meet with their visitors. Also, while drugs are not officially allowed that is not strictly enforced. Adam does pot in a bong and smokes cigarettes, and a couple of the boys use drugs to numb being used.

I feel a lot better about it, now. I might add a second bathroom upstairs. I'll think about that. But it would make sense. Maybe one that's just a shower, no tub. And a free-standing pool in back?

I like being at the point where I can fuss over details instead of messy structure.