“I do. She is the strongest woman I have ever met. She is the most perfect blend of all the good attributes a person can have.
She is so resilient and hard-working, I kind of feel ashamed of myself every time I meet her. I don’t know how to explain it, but I guarantee you’ll understand it when you meet her.”
“Huh?”
“Just saying.” “Anyway, Miss Lexi, are you satisfied with my explanation?”
“Hahahaha”
“I’ll take that as a yes.”
“You are so arrogant.”
“What do you think? Tell me all your ideas, not just related to interior design and we’ll collate and plan it properly.”
“I think it’s excellent. We should have a room somewhere where you arrange the pictures exactly as it has been arranged right now. It would be a pity to put them away, though I think we should get the granddaughter’s consent first.”
“My thoughts exactly. I already have the consent, as long as we don’t publish it outside.”
“You probably know this much better, but the foundations of the house look quite strong, so let’s not change the structure.”
“Agreed.”
“Off the top of my head – let’s completely renovate all the kitchens, and bathrooms. Replace everything in there.
Repair all the windows and doors with added locks, if it can be done without damaging the original structure. The windows especially look quite easy to break into.
Need to add some sort of partition to make clock rooms in each bedroom. Let’s remove the wooden cupboards and add them to the living rooms, and other entertainment rooms instead. Or we could modify the cupboards to create some antique partitions for the clock room.
The quality of wood that is used for all is top-notch. It’d be a waste to remove or replace them. Some of the designs can be simplified and with some minor adjustments, they will be good to go.
I did not count how many bedrooms are there, but I guess you probably won’t be needing over a dozen of them, so let’s properly revisit them and we can have – 3 study rooms – your private office, general study room, and 1 library room, 1 theatre room, 1 gaming room, 1 living room in each floor, 1 something like a parlour with facilities for card games and the sort. The attic is too beautiful to be used as a storeroom. Let’s add windows on it and change it to something else. We can have storerooms on the ground floor.
The outhouse is too big. I guess if you plan to have live-in help, then the top floor of the outhouse can be a servant’s quarter. It has 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and a kitchen – so should be more than enough.
The lower floor can be 1 tool shed, 3 of them can be broken to make a big indoor sports room and with a big clock room with all the sports gears.
If you remove the fountain, there’s enough empty space between the mansion and back garden to add a small swimming pool and a court which can be used for badminton, basketball, and volleyball.
The garage can be renovated to include a proper car wash. All the walkways and driveways need to be repaired. And probably add more security there.
The lawn and gardens need a lot of work but should be easy enough to repair. Similarly, the back garden needs a ton of work starting with cleaning it up, cutting out dried up trees and planting new ones, and creating canals so that water can be supplied easily. All the trees in that corner are dried up, so there could be something wrong with the soil there – need to get that checked and fixed. Maybe you can use it as a vegetable patch instead.
And finally, I think it’d probably be a good idea to check all the plumbing of the house.”
“Wow. My throat is dry.”