Comments | heresluck: graph paper house v. 4.0

heresluck

graph paper house v. 4.0

Jun 23, 2006 12:02

This chat transcript is from Wednesday night of last week and for reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture I'm just getting around to posting it now. dualbunny can pretend that her TiVo lost it until today. Or, um, something.

( I logged into chat late that night to be greeted with... )

chat, house, favorites!

Comments 22

pipsqueaky June 23 2006, 17:11:40 UTC

And here is where I say "oh, I do that too, with the graph paper!" :)

Okay, not actual paper. But I did measure all my rooms and then draw them in Photoshop, and make little drawings of my furniture (converting X inches to Y pixels) and then put all the furniture bits on different layers and move them around and rotate etc. to try to figure out the best configurations.

Ahem.

we are geeks.

Also, you are totally not scary with your stompy boots. I see you with stompy boots and I just want to pat you on the head and coo "aww, look who has her stompy boots on today!"

heresluck June 23 2006, 18:04:21 UTC

Of course we're geeks! It's 90% of our considerable charm!

Although I have to say that drawing rooms in Photoshop may be even more geeky than my graph paper thing. I'm impressed.

vrya June 23 2006, 20:32:22 UTC

I've tried out couch colors in photoshop, does that count? But when we finally move, I am so going to try to master sketchup for furniture layout purposes.... way cooler, er geekier? than graph paper...

heresluck June 24 2006, 01:06:15 UTC

Whoa -- 3D! That's some quality ambition you got there. *g*

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coffeeandink June 23 2006, 17:13:48 UTC

I do the graph paper thing. I need to see where to put all the bookcases.

heresluck June 23 2006, 18:06:26 UTC

Yes! Thank you! My point exactly!

...speaking of bookcases, I think I may have found the perfect ones for my new space, and I think I may originally have gotten the link from you. So hey, thanks! *g*

z_rayne June 23 2006, 18:44:09 UTC

I, um.

I actually bought Visio (pre-Microsoft buyout) to do that kind of floorplan layout. *koff*

heresluck June 23 2006, 19:02:26 UTC

Hey, I can totally respect that -- although I personally am too cheap to buy software to do what graph paper can accomplish. *g*

z_rayne June 23 2006, 21:27:07 UTC

I tend to lose the little graph-paper cut-outs of my furniture, and then I have to go measure everything again and make new ones. I'm kind of lame that way; uber-organized in some spheres and a total disaster in others.

Software means never having to worry about a 2"x1" paper representation of your couch again. *g*

heresluck June 24 2006, 01:06:39 UTC

Ziploc bags, my friend. Ziploc bags.

clauclauclaudia June 23 2006, 19:28:02 UTC

We moved a lab at work down the hall. I totally did graph paper and cut-out aerial-view furniture. Totally! Why wouldn't you?

Of course I also created this icon pixel by pixel. So that may not be at all reassuring.

heresluck June 24 2006, 01:07:24 UTC

Totally! Why wouldn't you?

Exactly!

Of course I also created this icon pixel by pixel.

Now THAT is scary. I mean, really.

_swallow June 24 2006, 00:45:42 UTC

I would do graph paper, because my father taught me so, but all of my furniture fits in one room. And is slight enough that I can easily lug it around.

> luminosity: All it took was ONE piano.

Ahaha!

heresluck June 24 2006, 01:09:32 UTC

Ah yes, the days when all my furniture rolled or folded up. Now I am old and stodgy and own things that are heavy and unwieldy. Which I actually feel fine about, come to think of it...