The house

I have been trying to understand about the house - where is the kitchen located exactly, where is the bathroom and so on. We know where James's room is located, and where the livingroom is. But it seems that if you watch how James is running from room to room, there's sometimes a door on the background, and when you take into account the distance of the snowman seen through the bathroom window and James's own room window, and how he runs through the kitchen to the front door in the end -- it just doesn't make any sense!

In the bathroom, for example, the snowman is on the right and a long way away (meaning the bathroom would have to be located on the left) - but in James's own room the snowman appears on the left, as if the room would be more right than the bathroom - but architechturally that's just not possible, as James's room is the leftmost room in the building!

Also, it seems like you can see the snowman from almost EVERY room/window of the house, which just wouldn't be possible in a real building. Taking the staircase and the railing into account, it just doesn't make any sense, as I stated previously.

So did the team screw up on this, or did they just not care, or what? Can someone shed some light on this? How did they design the house, or did they just draw this without planning anything or designing anything except any given current background scenario?

The reason why I am trying to put this picture of the house together as some kind of primitive blueprint perhaps, or trying to make sense where everything is, just so that I could have a hope of perhaps some day living in such a house. Some day in the future, when I am a kid again..

But this kind of house doesn't seem to be possible to be constructed in the physical, 3D-world anyway. Makes me kind of sad.

This film is a fantastic, atmospheric, magical and deeply 'shining' (this is pretty rare, especially nowadays) artwork and it's very difficult to find anything that would match it. I just wish they could've designed the house in such a fashion that it could actually be built in real life.. would add just a tiny drop of hope into the mix.

I know I am probably never gonna live in such a house anyway, but it'd be nice to have the 'hope' of it.. But perhaps my brain just isn't up to the task, maybe it -can- be pieced together somehow nicely. In any case, the snowman's distance seems to vary a lot whenever James watches him through a window.. in the bathroom scene the snowman is very far, in his own room he's suddenly very close to the house.

I also wonder what would you see from the other windows, and where the motorcycle is located exactly (what window is that they are looking through when they see it?).

So if anyone could shed some light, or have some answers for these questions and ponderings, I would deeply appreciate them. Thanks.

- Vortac