I like the "oversize" 6' wide bed and the 20'4" x 21'4" garage, which is pretty much the minimum by modern two-car standards, that has te note "Plenty of room for a built-in workshop!" And how he has a study which she has a kitchen "office" (quotes are theirs, not mine).
OTOH the cork flooring, speaker wiring throughout and passive solar features sound pretty up-to-date still. It wasn't clear to me if the "air-conditioning" system cools as well as heats, but I think the one in my parents 1947 row house that I grew up with was original, so it might.
In 1961, after returning home from delivering his atomic-doom-laden Guest of Honor speech at the Seattle Worldcon, Heinlein built a fallout shelter here.
Bruce Pelz and Ted Johnstone once got to spend the night in the shelter (http://www.jophan.org/mimosa/m27/pelz.htm).
Years after the Heinleins moved elsewhere, Robert Crais toured the shelter (http://web.archive.org/web/20051224024837/http://www.robertcrais.com/worldheinlein.htm).
From Crais's snapshots, it appears that between the 1960s and the 1990s, subsequent owners did not remove the oxygen cylinders or the cot frames from the shelter.
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OTOH the cork flooring, speaker wiring throughout and passive solar features sound pretty up-to-date still. It wasn't clear to me if the "air-conditioning" system cools as well as heats, but I think the one in my parents 1947 row house that I grew up with was original, so it might.
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Bruce Pelz and Ted Johnstone once got to spend the night in the shelter (http://www.jophan.org/mimosa/m27/pelz.htm).
Years after the Heinleins moved elsewhere, Robert Crais toured the shelter (http://web.archive.org/web/20051224024837/http://www.robertcrais.com/worldheinlein.htm).
From Crais's snapshots, it appears that between the 1960s and the 1990s, subsequent owners did not remove the oxygen cylinders or the cot frames from the shelter.
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Heh, no wonder he went on about upholstered caves! I do wonder how much shipboard living influenced his home design.