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A Place to lay my head...
- Thread starter eclark1894
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eclark1894
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I'm glad everyone's liking what I've done so far. I found out the reason doors open into the house, btw, which also has to do with why they have those door stops. Doors open in towards the side where the hinge is. The stop keeps the door from swinging too far and tearing the hinge out over time, and the hinge is hung on the INSIDE of the house because you don't want crooks and burglars pulling out the hinge pins and taking the doors off. Simple stuff you never really think about.
Another thing we experienced here in our building is, the doors leading out of the building need to open in, because opening out is a fire hazard. If you open a door out when escaping from a fire, opening the door outwards sends the flames out to the air outside, which in turn feeds the flames. Opening the door into the building doesn't do that. Don't ask me for the details, but that's what we were told 2 years ago when the building was last inspected.
eclark1894
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From what little I know of backdrafts, which is the phenomenon you're mentioning here, I don't really think it matters which way the door opens, just as long as it opens. Also, if the door is extremely hard to open, it's best to let it stay shut. It's the difference in inside and outside air pressure that's keeping the door closed.
eclark1894
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One problem after another. One of the things I want to do is to put cameras in certain areas of the house so we can see Dawn doing her daily chores. in some cases, that may not be possible such as this narrow hallway which leads to the garage. I can make the hallway a little wider, but it won't really matter that much when it comes down to the camera placement. it will just have to be on one end of the hallway or the other. Here's the other thing. I don't know if you can see the washer and dryer in the laundry room as she's walking by, the the dryer and washer barely fit. Again, I can widen things a bit or shrink the washer and dryer a tad, but there's not gonna be enough room to swing the Hivewire housecat in that hallway.
In my experience, many homes have an area or two that is narrow like this. I think it's fine. It works. There's room enough for her to go from the garage to the door and vice versa, and it's basically a utility access.
Nothing wrong with it being narrow in my opinion.
I think the narrow hallway is fine. Houses are like that. I can see the dryer, but not the washer. I wonder if there's a way you could make some sort of preset that hides the wall opposite the washer and dryer so that you could then see them better?
eclark1894
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Hmm, that's an idea. I can hide the room across from the laundry room in Poser with the material room. Of course that means going back into Blender to redo the mat zones. I haven't done anything with DS yet, so I don't know if the same thing can be done with the Surfaces tab, but it should work if it does.
eclark1894
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I was sooooo close. I couldn't help it. I doing a little expansion on the house and widening a few rooms and hallways. I'll not going too far, but I'm going to have re-texture some stuff. Don't hate me. I'm working as fast as I can.
eclark1894
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I'm working on a shower stall for Dawn, but haven't actually decided what to do with it yet. By that I mean, I haven't decided:
1. whether to use it
2. which bathroom to put it in.
Here's the problem: the rooms in this house are spacious enough for Dawn, BUT looking back on it now, I realize I should have made the rooms in this house larger because I wanted to put cameras in these rooms and they're too small to do that without adjusting the focal perspective and THAT will clearly distort the camera view. Gadget girl has suggested texturing the house in such a way that I can simply make any walls invisible Right now that may be the way to go, but just to be on the safe side, I'm also widening and lengthening the house a bit.
The other part is that in reality these bathrooms, while large enough to accomodate Dawn, may actually be too small to accomodate anything larger than a tub. I have thought and may still go with simply adding shower fixtures to the tubs OR I may just remove the tub and replace it with the shower.
My head hurts now. I also wanted to include this quick screenshot, but I don't want to run afoul of the TOS rules, so if it does, would someone please delete the pic for me?
1. whether to use it
2. which bathroom to put it in.
Here's the problem: the rooms in this house are spacious enough for Dawn, BUT looking back on it now, I realize I should have made the rooms in this house larger because I wanted to put cameras in these rooms and they're too small to do that without adjusting the focal perspective and THAT will clearly distort the camera view. Gadget girl has suggested texturing the house in such a way that I can simply make any walls invisible Right now that may be the way to go, but just to be on the safe side, I'm also widening and lengthening the house a bit.
The other part is that in reality these bathrooms, while large enough to accomodate Dawn, may actually be too small to accomodate anything larger than a tub. I have thought and may still go with simply adding shower fixtures to the tubs OR I may just remove the tub and replace it with the shower.
My head hurts now. I also wanted to include this quick screenshot, but I don't want to run afoul of the TOS rules, so if it does, would someone please delete the pic for me?
Have you thought about looking at actual house plans and working off them? Bathrooms in the real world do tend to be quite small. As a reminder, you can always resize the camera.
This is one of the biggest frustrations in Poser, IMO. Just as we can't seem to get real-life sized figures, we can't seem to get real life sized houses.
This is one of the biggest frustrations in Poser, IMO. Just as we can't seem to get real-life sized figures, we can't seem to get real life sized houses.
eclark1894
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Second page, 28th post.
eclark1894
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McMansions? Dude, the house is barely twice the size of the one you posted. It's got walk-in closets, a laundry room a three car garage, and 2 baths, but those are hardly mansions.
I like this house too. It was one of the several hundred "kit" houses one could order and have delivered to your lot. This one is one of the larger ones (1100 sq ft) - most were between 700 - 800 (2 bedroom). Basements became popular in the Eastern US after WWII. Most of the kit homes had versions with and without basements.
Mid Century Home Style - Design Inspiration of the 1940s, 1950s, and the 1960s
has hundreds of them - they also have a sister site that covers home plans from the 1st half of the 20th century (That feels weird to type).
Mid Century Home Style - Design Inspiration of the 1940s, 1950s, and the 1960s
has hundreds of them - they also have a sister site that covers home plans from the 1st half of the 20th century (That feels weird to type).
3 car garage = McMansion in my book.
Today's new homes are 1,000 square feet larger than in 1973, and the living space per person has doubled over last 40 years - AEI
eclark1894
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Well, not mine, sorry. To be honest, I tried to put three Daz cars in the garage. Two fit with no problem, but unless the third is a VW bug, the space is gonna be kind tight.