I bought a house.... really!

Author: jawapro
Date: Tue 19/02/2008 10:36 PM




 

Yes - it's true. I am now a landowner.

Well, not quite. I have to get a home-loan and things sorted. But I made an offer, and it was accepted (which makes me think I should have gone lower).

It's a nice little place over the river in the main part of Devonport. Currently tenated, and we might let them stay for a while, not sure yet.

Its only small - but everything is really nice. The kitchen and bathroom seem to have been done up not long ago. You can drive into the back yard easily, so lots of room to park cars (I didnt want anywhere with only one car space). There isnt any garage/carport yet, but we'll fix that in time.

The front yard is really boring - but with some plants, and maybe a wooden dinosaur skeleton or something to liven the place up, that will change too.

The really scary thing is that in some ways this feels less real than the new computer I'm also buying at the moment.

I cant wait until I live in my own place though - I'll finally be able to put an air-con unit in!



Comments: 20

 

Comment: 1

Author: jawapro
Date: Tue 19/02/2008 10:39 PM




Yes, before anyone asks - I do eventually want to build a life size wooden skeleton of a velociraptor.

I might even get around to it one day.

 

Comment: 2

Author: turkeybrain
Date: Tue 19/02/2008 10:43 PM




Why would I have asked that?

 

Comment: 3

Author: turkeybrain
Date: Tue 19/02/2008 10:46 PM




Apparently I'm blind, and that might have something to do with me not asking questions...

 

Comment: 4

Author: klutz
Date: Wed 20/02/2008 10:00 AM




Another option would be one of these

http://cgi.denpetersen.com/YAK1/viewtopic.php?t=2040&
sid=06f0fb3409f670b7b2ba3ebb8317c23b

 

Comment: 5

Author: klutz
Date: Wed 20/02/2008 10:04 AM




Are you planning on a big 3d skeleton to put on your lawn, in the style of the wooden kit ones you have, only... bigger

Or just a big 2d thing

If you had a big 3d one, at christmas you could put a santa on its back

 

Comment: 6

Author: jawapro
Date: Wed 20/02/2008 10:10 AM




Yes, I was thinking of the wooden kit sort. It's a sort of 3D made of 2D slices.

 

I just need to work out how to enlarge the plans so I can cut the pieces out for a life sized version.

 

Comment: 7

Author: turkeybrain
Date: Wed 20/02/2008 12:37 PM




That is going to be one serious piece of work. I reckon the best way to do it would be to upscale one of your models, but even then, it's going to take a while, and that wood (I don't know what kind you would look at) isn't going to be stupidly cheap, although MDF isn't exactly expensive either...

Hmm, indeed an interesting and fascinating concept. The neighbours would love it. Well, at least their children would!

 

Comment: 8

Author: jawapro
Date: Wed 20/02/2008 12:53 PM




I was thinking of MDF, as long as it can be made weather-proof.

I have 2 of these models. One is put together, and the other is still flat-packed. But how to enlarge it so I can cut the new bits out - that I dont know.

Any ideas?

 

Comment: 9

Author: turkeybrain
Date: Wed 20/02/2008 01:16 PM




Weatherproof is easily done by painting. How to make it larger would be a good question. There's probably a couple of options, one being the whole draw a grid thing and then draw a larger grid and copy, although that would be a lot of work and take a while. I don't really know what else to do though. Perhaps scanning it and printing it out bigger might work, but it's going to take a mega amount of paper and a fair bit of a jigsaw puzzle. But hey, there might be other ways as well, I'm not sure. I'm sure you'll work it out.

 

Comment: 10

Author: mlipsy
Date: Wed 20/02/2008 03:30 PM




Wow! That is really cool. I hope the financial and practical details are worked out satisfactorily. And it'd be awesome if a house-warming party materializes in time. :D 

 

Comment: 11

Author: klutz
Date: Wed 20/02/2008 04:46 PM




Mdf with paint or varnish would work, but you probably would make it uniform grey or black or green or something. as for the enlarging, if you can scan the pieces and work them out in psp to be as well fitted onto an image with the same aspect ratio as the wood, project your cutouts on the board for marking and cut out and then adjust the slots to match the thickness of the board.

 

Comment: 12

Author: klutz
Date: Wed 20/02/2008 04:48 PM




PS if you wanted it longer than a piece of mdf board, you could always put a puzzle type join in the middle of the backbone section and sandwich pieces on either side.

 

Comment: 13

Author: klutz
Date: Wed 20/02/2008 04:50 PM




Actually the still flat packed one would be fairly efficiently laid out on its board, so just scan, project, trace, jigsaw, cut slots, build, paint, mount. If you put small holes in the feet near the ground so you could bend some custom pegs for it that reach a fair way down, then sat it on something, rocks, so it doesnt absorb too much moisture... mdf, would absorb a lot of paint too, but it would stick well, so no sanding between coats, and you'd want to do lots of light layers rather than heavier layers, cause that thing'd run like nothing else.

 

Comment: 14

Author: jawapro
Date: Wed 20/02/2008 05:05 PM




I was thinking I'd attach it to some metal poles, which would be stuck in the ground a fair way, and keep the wood off the ground.

It might need a metal structure to support the weight of all the MDF too - I dunno.

How do you do the projection thing?

 

Comment: 15

Author: DarthOblivion
Date: Wed 20/02/2008 06:11 PM

Well, one way to enlarge the model would be to take the sape of the pieces, then just um... sorry, I got nothin. It would be a reward in itself, however you do it. But I must say, this is kind of irrelevant to houses...

 

On another note, what Klutz is talking about would be SWEET! 

 

Comment: 16

Author: turkeybrain
Date: Wed 20/02/2008 06:19 PM




I've done something when I was learning air brushing, but I don't know if it could apply to this sort of thing. The guy who was teaching me had a thing that you put over the picture, and it projected the picture onto the piece of paper you were working on. It was a little on the rudimentary side, but it could work. you could also get yourself a data projector, so project the scan. That would probably work as well as anything.

 

Comment: 17

Author: DarthOblivion
Date: Wed 20/02/2008 06:32 PM




Good idea, Turkeybrain! Clever...

 

Comment: 18

Author: Nifen
Date: Thu 21/02/2008 04:47 PM




Hmm. Lucky you, i'm up for buying a house, Soon as i find a job :)

I'm doing some plans of the house i'd be intrested in, or more i'd prefer to buy a block and then build on it.

I'm looking to build most of the house underground ether being 1 floor underground or 2 floors underground, and having the lowest level containing the Pool and Movie Theatre. Right now i'm designing 2 level flooring, which is open from ground level to minus level 2. giving direct sunlight from top to bottom, and using LED's with solor panels to power the rest of the underground parts of the house.
Always wanted an underground house. Might as well actually build one :)

I can imagine taking out all that earth from your place, building 1 floor underground with a small house on top and lots of garden :)

 

Comment: 19

Author: jawapro
Date: Thu 21/02/2008 05:06 PM




Right... Nifen.

And Oblivion (Mike) - Lol on your avatar change. (its now a picture of a Mac saying "Fear me, for I am a Mac" in case he changes it again).

 

 

Comment: 20

Author: DarthOblivion
Date: Sat 23/02/2008 01:54 PM




Gee, thanks. I did it on Paint Shop Pro, and unfortunately, it wouldnt let me put in the little details I wanted to. But I wont be changing it for a while... at least not until I find a really funny/stupid/random picture.