Floor plans for the Villa von Trapp

LOVELOVELOVE THIS!
I am so happy I want to dance. Wait, I can go into the ballroom for that.
I just tapped on it until it opened up in a separate window and then it was plenty big. But really, I want to frame it.
I never really stopped to ponder, before, that the Laendler terrace had to be different from the back terrace.
I wondered about the kitchen, but I think it's in the basement...
Now let's all have some fun conjecturing about what goes on in the question mark room.

    
    Delighted you like it - there is more to come when we have fully digested the downstairs area! 
    
    I ought to say that the 'saloon' is not a Wild West bar!! It was  the name given to a rather grand sitting room at that time.

    I was confused because, looking at the main façade when Maria arrives, there are 5 windows on either side of the front door. However, the most windows we see on the left side in the house is the one in the dining room behind Maria when she is eating ( during the pine cone incident). Presumably the rest of the windows are for the kitchens, which would logically be beside the dining room. You can see the tall stove in the sitting room directly behind Georg when he is at dinner, and it is visible again in the Edelweiss scenes, so that told me the position of the room where they eat.

    The library is purely my conjecture, because a house of this size would always have had a library; I suppose the study is too, but Georg disappears off towards that door with his post when they return from their honeymoon. He also needs somewhere on that side of the house from where to have spied Maria when she returns from the Abbey, so I have put his study there.

    Enjoy!

fetch works. maybe summon? whatever. anyway, i'm super impressed (and appreciative). i could never have done this.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I mean, I can use this floor plan for my Sims 3 game. I'm using SOM characters there and I'm having a difficult time in making their house. This is really perfect. I love this. It's a big help for me, seriously. Are you going to do a 2nd floor plan? I'm looking forward to it.

Yes, I have the 2nd Floor plan up my sleeve, and also a few variations/additions which might be of interest and amusement to you for your consumption in due course.

I have realised, though, that I haven't drawn the downstairs as well as I could; the villa is meant to be totally symmetrical both front and back, but because I drew it as I was going along, watching the film and putting in the rooms as it went, it hasn't turned out exactly that way! So if you want a better plan, you might want to wait until I get time to rejig it a bit (maybe this week - who knows!)

By the way, Louisa, tell me a bit about your SIMS game - I haven't caught on to this one! Sounds good (to an old dinosaur like me...especially if you can have SOM characters in it!)

Indigo- the Sims 3 is a game where you will make your own characters, build their house, and control their lives. It's up to you wether your sims are good or bad, successful or not, beautiful or ugly and more. You will make their appearance, choose their trait, pick their partners and have a family. It's similar to the real life. I'm totally addicted to this game coz it is so fun. Try to search the net for more info

Yes, the kitchen: it could well be in the basement, Tranquillity. My idea was that, if it was on the floor shown above, it would account for some of the windows to the left of the front door, and would be next to the dining room (although I haven't shown it). I will have to think about that...other suggestions for the ? room are: Butler's area (to look out for guests arriving, cleaning boots and silver etc), schoolroom, or indeed a music room.

In the meantime, here is the upstairs as I pieced it together; I have put in the garden and courtyard as before so you can orientate yourselves. And yes, there does seem to be a room behind the balcony (you can see it in the Balcony Scene with G & E). What might that be used for? Have a look!



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PS indigo, I am comforted by the image of Franz cleaning the Captain's boots. "Are there any developments" indeed.

maybe the schoolroom's on the first floor? seems unlikely.
Definitely a music room somewhere, I like that.
There's also sometimes a "breakfast room," like a smaller informal dining room. Although there are a lot of von Trapps for that to work.

Food For Thought:

In the play, at the beginning of the balcony scene when Maria has come out onto the terrace, the directions say she pauses at the top of the steps and looks to her left as she hears the children's laughter. I've always wondered where they are (presumably in the house, as it is dark), and assumed they were perhaps having supper in a small dining/breakfast room near the kitchen on that side. Or perhaps the room I have labelled the '?library' is a music room, and they are in there (although the Captain banned music). Any ideas?

Anne, yes the kids need a schoolroom, so I think that definitely needs to go somewhere, probably 'out of the way' upstairs. With the bedrooms on the plan, I have tried to stick with what we can be sure about from the film, but I would think a schoolroom could be squeezed in up there - it's such fun filling in the blanks!

Don't forget there is another floor above, only half the height of the lower ones, so it is most likely to be where the servants sleep. The ante-room between the gallery and the balcony: tricky one this! Any suggestions?

You're quite right, Tranquillity! I rewatched the film last week as I hadn't quite grasped from which bedroom door Maria emerges when she decides to return to the abbey. It is actually the door at the far end of the corridor, on the left hand side (top left bedroom in my upstairs plan), so your are right, because this room is indeed on the corner overlooking the lake. Her bathroom is on the side of the bedroom without windows. It occurred to me that, if the guest bedrooms are also on this side, it would have made it easy for Elsa to slip into Maria's bedroom without being seen when she wanted to confront her about the Captain.

I agree about the room between the gallery and the balcony, it would have had a lovely view, sunshine and light. I thought it could also have been used for someone invalided, to sit in the warmth, looking at the lake.

    
    More doodling; I've called this a Songogram, for obvious reasons.

    

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Any more ideas you may have for variations on a Floor Plan Theme are welcome - I enjoy doing them (although it does drive me nuts sometimes!)

There is a lovely little thing called 'boarding school.'