Over to the stairs. Width of the stairs, four feet, double that for the second set, that marks the inside wall of the bedrooms. He stood next to the chair at the desk, mentally counting of distance from there to the far wall.
"Far outside wall to inside bedroom wall will be twelve feet," he said, then looked around the room again. "Now that I'm up here, looking at the floor space itself, and not the stairs, you're going to have a bit more room than I estimated earlier."
He walked back over to the railing to look down at her. "Better than the other way," he said with a grin.
A knock at the door drew his attention over, and he straightened. "I'll bet that's the boss. You want me to answer that?"