Our Favorite Supermodel

9/3/2006

 Here is a picture of a model (I like to think of it as our supermodel) of our little cape. (Note: goldfish not to scale).

I strongly encourage anyone who is thinking of building or designing a house to make a 3-d model of it. The spatial relations of the different rooms becomes much clearer when you can hold and rotate your design. Believe me, the two hours you spend cursing at your glue-stick is worth it.

Our Final House Design

Yeah, this makes sense to someone out there. To me, it looks like a dragon trapped in a box.

After many months of looking at plans, shuffling room sizes, and grappling with square feet, we finally settled on a simple cape-style house, 33 feet long by 24 feet wide. Even better, it is a do-it-yourself house kit. This design is the brainchild of David Howard, founder of First Day Cottage. I won’t go into many details right now about First Day—you can click on their link to find out about how their ideas can revolutionize your homebuilding experience. Don’t worry, plenty more will be said about them as the building actually gets underway. But I will say we are grateful that our paths have crossed with theirs, for without First Day Cottage, this process would have been improbable, if not impossible.