House Design 101

The house we used as a baseline was the Stellar Homes Mirage as seen amongst the display homes at Blackwood Park. After trying to change it on a sketch pad and having little success given my limited drawing ability I decided to give it a go on a medium with which I am a little more familiar. At the time I was playing around with a Macbook Pro and after cruising the App Store I found a application that looked the goods in Live Interior 3d Standard.

Firstly I transposed the Mirage floor-plan into the program, there was no easy way for me to do this just spent some hours with a ruler  and a mouse. Once transposed I moved a few of the elements around, added a room  and managed to size the structure to fit on our odd shaped block. The beauty of this software is that it can instantly switch between 2D and 3D without which I don’t think Louise and I could have envisaged the final product which is now under construction.

I was able to print off the 2D version and give to the draftsman at Stellar Homes to formalise the design and produce the final building plan that we were able to submit and have passed through council.

The images on this blog show the floor-plan that we settled on and the 3D representation, Note that the front of the house will be constructed of Tamala Limestone blocks and the back liquorice bricks by PGH.

The last graphic links to a movie made within the application and posted on youtube, this took 15 hours to compile on the macbook.