My Happy Daily Life After Being Reborn-Chapter 279 - 10 Drowsiness

Next was the house she would live in. Lin Xiaoguai, a bit greedy, thought that the bigger, the better. Growing up in the countryside, perhaps due to the spacious rural homes, she had always preferred wide-open spaces and couldn’t adapt to the cramped quarters of apartment buildings.

For this reason, even though she was planning to construct an apartment building this time, she didn’t intend to follow the example of future property developers, who built floors with ceilings as low as 2.8 meters and even as cramped as 2.5 meters, where the reduced ceiling height after installation of suspended ceilings made it difficult to breathe.

According to her plan, the apartment building was to be a modest high-rise of twelve floors, providing one-bedroom, two-bedroom, three-bedroom, and four-bedroom two-lounge layouts for employee housing, distributed based on the employee’s position and length of service. Initially, everyone could only choose a one-bedroom apartment, but of course, if a household had more than two members working on the farm, they could be considered for different layouts as appropriate.

As employee dormitories, Lin Xiaoguai didn’t plan to make the property rights available for purchase by the employees, but she did plan to establish a rule that any employee who worked on the farm until retirement would own the property rights to the assigned apartment.

Thinking about how most of the apartment building would stand empty for many years, Lin Xiaoguai sighed. She knew this was wasteful and that daily cleaning and maintenance would be troublesome. However, with national policies changing every year, she wasn’t sure if she could still build the apartment block a decade from now if she didn’t build it today.

This matter had to be set aside for now until the apartment building was constructed; then she could decide whether she could rent out the apartments.

Bringing her wandering thoughts back, Lin Xiaoguai once again focused on the planning for her own residence.

Because she would live there, operate a storefront, and bring over three elderly family members, Lin Xiaoguai planned to create a comprehensive workshop-style private studio. Therefore, she planned to build a terraced villa-style residential building that was both connected and independent.

However, unlike typical terraced villas, Lin Xiaoguai planned to build a single large, five-story European-style architecture, including a larger underground garage. The villa was divided into four sections: the storefront, workshop, their family’s residence, and the three elders’ living quarters. The four parts were integrated so that daily access was convenient, while still maintaining separate entrances, preventing mutual disturbances. For the connected pathways, she envisioned something akin to sky bridges found in twin tower buildings, unique and aesthetically pleasing.

When it came to architectural style, she always favored the grandeur of old Western-style buildings and planned no exception this time. On the other hand, her preferences for interior decoration leaned away from the luxury of Zhongnanhai-style and the opulent extravagance of American styles; she was fonder of modern minimalist, pastoral, post-modern, and Chinese styles, which felt more simple and refreshing.

In truth, Lin Xiaoguai’s plans were somewhat fantastical, but 001 had said that any idea could be recorded and, with enough Gold Coins, even the most capriciously odd requests could be fulfilled by an architect.

Therefore, Lin Xiaoguai didn’t hold back at all, proposing strict demands and specifications on various details, even mentioning her own color preferences. Many of her requirements were vague, but 001, as an observer, did not make any corrections.

Additionally, she included the interior design schemes for all the apartment buildings, thinking that since they needed to be decorated eventually, it was best to have the design plans on hand and ready; construction could happen anytime.

Next up was the planning for the farm. Lin Xiaoguai pondered and began to note down her requirements—the breeding grounds had to be located far from the residential areas so as not to affect the daily lives of those living on the farm. A greenhouse zone was necessary to grow fruits and vegetables not suited to the local climate, including off-season produce.

There were also fields, vegetable gardens, fruit orchards, and ponds. She intended to create an artificial water circulation system within the farm, connecting artificial lakes, ponds, and rice fields, benefiting not only aquaculture but also environmental maintenance.

Right, livestock breeding should take advantage of the space in the fruit orchard, following the model in the space.

Moreover, she wanted to set up a simple amusement park within the residential area and a swimming pool would be nice too. Attention to landscaping was important, and the artificial lake could serve as a key attraction...

Lin Xiaoguai had little knowledge of architecture; it was precisely because of this lack of understanding that her wild ideas were unabashedly written down.

When Han Shouzhen came in to call her for a meal, she had almost finished writing everything down. All that was left was a bit of final summarizing and refining before it could be used.