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Family home in Vietnam | design by Coi Design

There are a lot of methods here. I’ve used the wordpress method but with that you get EVERYTHING after days of waiting with not much control. The method that gives the most control (and is so far the fastest) is tumblr-utils by bbolli on github. It can be daunting for those who aren’t familiar with command line, however. They do have a Windows guide (tumblr_backup_for_beginners) which walks you through step by step on setting it up and getting it started.

Below is my version of the guide with some helpful tips not mentioned in the original guide. Under read more for length.

$340,000 /4 br/2800 sq ft

United Kingdom, 1906: House for Dr. C. F. Wakefield

This very large house was built for a doctor, and includes offices for that profession. Nine bedrooms are provided for—five on the second floor, and four more in the attic.

Extra: This house on Google street view.

United States, 1974: The Kincaid

A rather nice split-level design with effective use of brick veneer (though I think it would look better if the brick continued round living room to the front door). 

$895,143/4 br

Unique home in a former church in Amsterdam

Editing a first draft can be horrifying. So let’s dull the pain with a good ol’ drinking game!

1. Drink every time you use the same word too many times in one sentence. 

His hand gripped the handyman’s hand, which was a warm hand, a firm hand, a sensuous hand, the king hand of all the hands – and to be honest a bit of a handsy handful of a hand.

2. Drink when you’ve forgotten what a period is and find a sentence that runs on into infinity and beyond.

3. Drink every time you’re required to hold down the backspace button for longer than it takes to top off your drink of choice.

4. Drink every time you use several adjectives/adverbs that mean the same thing to describe a single thing. 

He was beautifully gorgeous in a pretty kind of way.

5. Drink when you discover a metaphor you may have already used in several other stories, but it sounds soooo artsy fartsy and sooooo smart you wonder if any readers will notice if you reuse and recycle a perfectly good piece of religious symbolism.

6. Drink every time you need to open dictionary.com because you’re not quite sure you used that word correctly. Does the word ‘dog’ really mean what you think it does??

7. Drink every time you use the wrong tense. 

“This sucks,” she said. Then she climbs the tree and grabs a coconut. She had thrown it at the robot’s head.

8. Drink when you find an all too convenient plot device. 

Protagonist finds a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow to pay off all her debts just as she was considering filing for bankruptcy!

9. Drink every time you’ve clearly abused the use of commas and dashes. 

And, then, she ran – into the blissfully dark night, the shadows enveloping her – but, then, she tripped. She tripped over her own feet – what a clumsy thing she was – and then, a rock – fuck, that hurt – a dog – sorry dog –, a pothole – when would they fix that goddamn, awful thing, dang it – and the gruesome, yet blissful, tragic, grief that weighed down her soul,,,.

10. Drink every time your writing makes you cringe with embarrassment and you begin to wonder whether this pile of nonsense can ever become a half coherent plot.

$850,000/4 br/2400 sq ft/built in 1911

I mean really? With the book shelves?

It’s like an alcove of happiness.

You want a whole row of individual seats? Fine, here you go. 

Or how about a whole window bed for those snugglers out there.

Curtains.. Guys this one has curtains.

Seriously? This is basically a glass cube of bliss.

 You can even get them with corners! Not enough corners? Okay.

Ba-BAM!! Corners for cocooning. 

There’s also the Roman-esque themed seat for the historians out there. 

 If you don’t want to snuggle up in blankets with hot cocoa in this then I don’t even know why you’re on this planet. I mean dat stonework. 

This one’s an entire rectangle. Just imagine all the cuddling that could happen in there. It’s practically a fortress.

This one’s fucking curved okay? it’s just chillin, up of the ground, and curved for your lounging convenience.