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How will you ever plan the office building of your dreams without understanding accurate measurements? We know everyone has a dream office building... right?
Transcript
- 00:13
Things are falling into place at Olive’s new tax office. [Olive stood outside the tax office]
- 00:16
Her architect and his team built the walls dividing the space into different rooms and
- 00:20
everything is great…
- 00:21
Except for the fact that her water feature isn't a centaur. [Olive looking sad over her water feature]
- 00:24
Oh well.
Full Transcript
- 00:25
Can't win 'em all.
- 00:26
But Olive isn’t going to let it get her down.
- 00:27
Today’s the day that she’s ordering furniture for the place...
- 00:30
And the one thing Olive likes more than doing people’s taxes is buying desks.
- 00:34
She’s really a special sort of person.
- 00:37
[Olive browsing the internet for desks] Olive decides to start with her own desk.
- 00:39
She finds a walnut beauty that’s 60 inches wide, 30 inches deep, and 30 inches high.
- 00:43
She adds three more desks for her employees, but they get smaller ones...48 inches wide,18
- 00:48
inches deep, and 30 inches high. [Olive ordering a small desk on the internet]
- 00:50
Olive thinks desk size is important for showing her workers who’s the boss.
- 00:53
She writes down the dimension for all of these, so that she can check if they’re going to
- 00:57
fit.
- 00:58
Olive then goes through all the rooms and thinks bout what kind of furniture they’ll [Olive walking through rooms thinking hard about what furniture her workers need]
- 01:00
need.
- 01:01
A table and chairs in the break room…that’s 42 wide and deep, 29 inches high, and she
- 01:05
adds an extra 12 inches to make room for the chairs…
- 01:08
The workers might need a little belly room after their daily doughnut binge. [Olives worker eating a pink doughnut]
- 01:11
So that makes the whole shebang about 54 wide and deep.
- 01:14
When Olive gets to the waiting area, she gets super excited.
- 01:17
She finds an amazing plush couch that’s 190 inches wide, 40 inches deep, and 31 inches [Olive browsing for a new couch on the internet]
- 01:22
high.
- 01:23
How impressed are those customers going to be when they see a couch like that? [Customer looking impressed at a new couch]
- 01:26
They’ll probably look at it and immediately run back to tell all their friends just how
- 01:30
phenomenal the couch is at Olive’s Fast Tax.
- 01:32
Not to mention that water feature…that could've been a centaur….. [A 5 star review of Olive's Fast Tax shop on shmelp website]
- 01:35
Olive is exhausted by the time she’s done recording all the dimensions on her incredible
- 01:39
furniture list.
- 01:40
How much fun can one person take?
- 01:42
She’s about to click "buy" on her cart, when she thinks… [Olive clicking buy now on her cart on shmayfair website]
- 01:45
"Oh, no!
- 01:46
I’d better make sure all this stuff will fit."
- 01:47
Olive starts to use the dimensions she’s recorded to draw the furniture into the floor [Olive studying her dimensions on a blueprint of the tax office]
- 01:51
plan that her architect made.
- 01:53
But then she just can’t do it.
- 01:54
It reminds her of him and his refusal to agree to a centaur water feature. [Architect disagreeing with Olive on the centaur water feature]
- 01:58
She'll never forgive him for that.
- 01:59
Instead of drawing the furniture onto the floor plan, she decides it’ll be more exciting
- 02:03
to make paper models.
- 02:04
Because the only thing more awesome than full size furniture is miniature furniture.
- 02:08
The thought of it its overwhelming cuteness is almost too much for Olive to stand. [
- 02:11
So Olive pulls out her list of dimensions and gets to work making little furniture [Olive creating to scale furniture models using the dimensions in the blue print]
- 02:16
that’s exactly to scale.
- 02:17
After she makes the furniture, she plunks it on top of the floor plan to see how it
- 02:21
will fit in each room. [Olive placing each furniture model onto the dimension blueprint map]
- 02:22
Everything is looking like it will totally fit, and Olive is beaming with pride over
- 02:25
her furniture picking skills.
- 02:27
But then…
- 02:28
She gets to that massive, gorgeous couch…the crown jewel of her customer waiting room. [Olive placing the large couch in the customer waiting room on the blueprint map]
- 02:33
Turns out it’s too big.
- 02:35
If she bought it, one leg of it would be hanging in the water feature.
- 02:38
With great despair in her heart, Olive goes back online and finds a couch that’s a couple [Olive going back on shmayfair to find a smaller couch for the tax office]
- 02:43
feet less wide.
- 02:44
She trims down her mini paper couch and sees that it will fit snugly in just the right
- 02:49
spot.
- 02:50
It occurs to her that she could’ve cut the water feature instead… [Olive pondering whether she should have removed the water feature]
- 02:52
But she's already compromised so much on that water feature.
- 02:56
She won't change it again.
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