3D Design

      For the past couple of weeks, Efrain has been busy learning how to use Chief Architect, a Home Design Software that allows you to see your future home in 3D.  He got  into this project after I casually mentioned that we needed to visualize our new home, especially since we were finalizing window position and starting color choice..  It was either that or hand drawing every single room...

     

       He diligently went to work, and applied himself to the study of this new tool after work, everyday for the past couple of weeks.  Chief Architect is a complete and very versatile software, but you need to spend time learning the functions in order to get any kind of results!   While he says he hasn't mastered it inside out yet, he has nevertheless managed to render each floor quite accurately.  That is certainly good enough for me!  

1F - Glass View

      His renditions have helped us make decisions about window size and position, door type, as well as get a feel for the space at our disposal.  They were also helpful in figuring the position of furniture.  We hope to be able to use this software extensively to define color in the various rooms. 

    Now, if we could just change the beautiful view that we get from out the windows (green field, blue skies...) to more realistic surroundings typical of Tokyo suburbs, we would get a real feel of what our house would be like from the inside.