Comments on: Prototyping your space

By: Scorpicon

Scorpicon — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:41:11 +0000

If you can get your hands on it, using Adobe Illustrator works really well for prototyping. I can make simple shapes to represent the object and move them around and save different room configurations to go over later. For large rooms use 2 or 4 pixels to represent a foot (so you can do fractions).

By: BigNerd

BigNerd — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 20:19:25 +0000

Don’t forget to get a bunch of Rubbermaid tote boxes to keep your cardboard mock-ups in, because you never know when you will need them again.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 20:01:29 +0000

I live in a 1200 sqft house with wife and child ( eventually 2x child ). My mom lives in a 800 sqft home. My mothers 800 sqft home is more spacious where it counts than most 2000+ sqft homes I have been in.

Everything has it’s place and cleaning is a breeze. The trick is de-clutter what you don’t use and organize the rest.

Don’t give up quickly too… it’s taken me a few years to achieve my current level of de-cluttering and we have another year or two to tackle the big items ( kitchen and bathroom re-do ).

By: SpaceMonkeyX

SpaceMonkeyX — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 19:19:41 +0000

I realize it’s not quite the same, but I use Google’s awesome, free 3-D software, SketchUp, to do our prototyping for room and furniture designs. It works incredibly well and has saved us the hassle of moving giant pieces of furniture around, only to find they won’t fit.

By: Jacki Hollywood Brown

Jacki Hollywood Brown — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 18:52:51 +0000

My parents wanted to put a Jacuzzi in the basement. My father built a frame the same size as the desired Jacuzzi just to see if it fit down the stairs. They ended up with the frame jammed so badly they had to take the saw and hack the frame in half to get it out.
They got a smaller whirlpool bathtub instead.