Casey-2A

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Assignment A First off, I had to mess around with the flooring and had to follow the books directions in order to create my kitchen. I have improved on my direction following in order to create the kitchen I had to follow the rules and put my creativity in order to make the house. Architecture and designing will require these skills in order to make certain buildings, cabinets, and furnishings. Some of the tools I used in order to create my kitchen was the "Wall Cabinet" tool, in order to create my wall cabinets in the kitchen. One of the problems I ran into while making the house was the flooring, I had the same black and white tiles all through the house and it really looked ugly. I solved this problem by changing the size of my invisible wall in order to create the Family room's carpet instead of tiles. I was succesful because I contributed my creativity in this project by making my Kitchen follow sort of the 50's decade by the black and white look.

Assignment B

I had a lot of problems making this. One of these problems was making the soffits on the deck. The soffits would copy and paste to the house not the deck, then I would have to mess around with the camera views in order to fix the soffit positions. You can see how I contributed my creativity by changing the color of the railings, stairs, siding, and the roof. Overall I think I did pretty well making the porch and deck on my bungalow. It really helped when I used my "Ctrl" button in order to move the soffits around when I had the problem of putting them where they were supposed to be going. When I first started making the house I was aiming for an all around great place to live for a family. I thought of how I would want to live, and what colors I would want to see every day. I think overall I would love to live in a house such as this one.

Assignment C In this picture I have added several things such as the Terrain, the pool, the sun house, the driveway, and the street. One of the problems I had with this was making the sun house. I had originally had a giant snowman and my pool was where the sun house is, in this picture. I thought that my house looked really stupid with the giant snowman. I replaced it with the sun house and thought it would look pretty nice and I put chairs in there so that whoever lived in the house could watch the neighborhood kids if they come over to play on the jungle gym. In this chapter I really had no issues making anything on here besides the sun house. I also tried putting in a second story but it was very difficult trying to make the stairs from the second floor touch the ground on the terrain.

Assignment D In this part of the chapter the book shows you how to make layouts and print them out. One of the skills I learned in this part of the book is how to print out a layout/blueprint that I could give to a carpenter to make my own house. In the real world blueprints are made from layouts off from a computer or is hand drawn by the person paying the carpenter to build whatever they want. One of the problems I ran into while doing this part of the book is making the lines for my layout. They have to be PERFECTLY drawn for Mr. Bailey and I forgot to fix my lines before I printed out the layout, I fixed this by going back into my layout plan and fixing the lines and reprinting the layout. I was successful in this chapter because I fixed my plans and I didn't let my failure frustrate me and get the best out of me, one of the ways I got this success is stepping away from the computer and taking a breath then trying again. I really didn't show any creativity in this chapter.

Assignment E In this chapter the book was teaching you how to change your terrain elevation, this chapter also teaches you how to use "house wizard". I really didn't have many problems with this chapter. One of the things I found easier was making the soffits, in this chapter Mr. Bailey showed me how to make the soffits without going in and actually making the soffits for the deck support, There's a button that says "Build Deck Support". I think in real life people build deck supports and use the same idea that the book uses for making the deck supports. I wasn't really creative on this chapter because I thought it would be kind of stupid to put in time and energy in this house when it didn't even really matter because I wouldn't be going back to this Plan any time soon.

Assignment F On my logo I had difficulties trying to make the name appear because in the book it asks you to put the Text background thing under "Transparent". I tried all kinds of different backgrounds and they all seemed to just disappear when I put in the text. I brought the logo into the plan view then put the text box in after and changed it around. I showed creativity in this plan by changing the colors of the boxes and the text. I made my own logo how I wanted and put it the way I liked best. I can use creativity in the real world by creating my own house and or logo. I think if I had to go back and change anything in this logo it would be the color, I really don't like the way the green looks now that I'm looking at it again. I would probably change it to black but in the plan I tried that with the background and it was too close together.

Final For my house I did a two story apartment, one of the advantages of doing this house style is that you get more space for the same amount of money. Two disadvantages of this is that maintenance is a problem because you can't clean the exterior walls as easy as you normally would be able to. I fixed this problem by using brick walls instead of vinyl wall base, (see picture C, and F). Another problem you would have for owning a two story house is that it would be harder to heat. I fixed this problem by using an open below structure for the second floor so that heating would be easier, (see picture D). I originally wanted to put stairs leading to the basement inside of the house but I decided that it would be more spacious if I put a bulkhead with stairs from the basement leading to the outside, (see picture A). Upstairs I made the Family Room extra big so that if I have guest they can sleep in there. I put the storage room upstairs for like an armory type thing for guns and swords, (see picture B).

Picture A Picture B Picture C Picture D Picture E Picture F