Whether the Patterson "retreat" has the main rooms upstairs or downstairs.
I’m confused. Was the Daily Mail pic not the front of the house? If that was the back, I see what you mean. But it appeared to be a two story house. I assumed that the door with “Patterson’s Retreat” was the front.
I could be wrong, I'm not certain. If you look at the photo of the house from the side at
Jake Patterson charged with kidnapping, murder in Jayme Closs...
it looks like in the rear is a large main room with the ceiling in the state of the front room pictures we saw. And then in the front appears to be kitchen cabinets.
Ok wait.... yup I've got it matched up now. This page has some interior pictures.
Photos: Inside the house where Jayme Closs was held
Look at the next to the bottom picture, the one with the rocking chair, kitchen sink, and the tv. Above the tv, in the window see the headphones hanging there? Now go back to the side view of the exterior of the house. In the upper front window you can see the headphones. So the first interior we saw, with the rocking chair, kitchen etc, the view we first saw, was the 2nd floor, looking from the back to the front of the house.
More detail I just noticed. Near those headphones there's a rabbit ears. That's how he got TV. He should be close enough to pick up broadcast tv from Duluth with rabbit ears. Especially if their broadcast antenna are up on the hill and why wouldn't they be.
Duluth, MN - TV Channels & Antenna Map
The picture above that, with the heap of lumber and pictures, would be the 2nd floor looking across the back of the house, from the "right" to the "left" if your perspective is from outside the front of the house. The deck would be behind us, in this photo, so this may have been taken looking in the deck door.
The room with the stuffed pig would be in the basement, judging by the duct work and pipes. This is not the room where he had her stay under the bed because the mattress is on the floor.
The bottom picture appears to be some kind of a family room or rec room, but it's definitely in the basement, because we can see the main beam. The beam would be running lengthwise in the house, below and parallel to the ridge. So we don't have the location of this room but we have at least the orientation.