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A client in Austin said my floor plan felt like a maze, so I started sketching in 3D first
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mark6763mo ago
Wait, your friend's shed door faced a WALL, @milar46?
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taylor3051mo ago
milar46's story about the shed door is exactly why I started pushing for rough 3D sketches before floor plans. The brain just can't picture depth and angles properly from flat lines on paper, no matter how good your imagination is. You think you know where the light will hit or how you'll walk through a space, then boom, reality smacks you. That maze comment from the client probably hurt but it actually saved you a ton of headaches down the line. Getting a cheap foam model or even a quick SketchUp view can reveal stupid problems you'd never catch in 2D. It's like trying to learn guitar from a chord chart versus actually holding the thing in your hands - totally different world.
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milar463mo ago
Oh man, that reminds me of a friend who tried to build a shed from just a flat drawing. The door ended up facing a solid wall, and the only window looked right into our fence. He spent a whole weekend before he saw the problem. Some things you just have to see from all sides first.
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