Visuals in progress

'J' came over this morning and we worked on the visuals, patching together ideas onto what I guess you might call mood boards. Plus he sat up late last night working up early watercolours for a couple of visualisations. The mood boards are essentially collages of ideas, using pictures from online, magazines and so on. For example:



I'm still trying to get the imagery squared off in my head. But that's possibly because we have significant distractions this week with our youngest child in hospital for heart surgery.

While on the design path, we've teed up a coffee with our friendly architect for this Wednesday. We're hoping she'll come on board - we're going to need scale technical plans for submission to the Council.

I've also excavated a neat home design program from the closet - allows you to draw scale plans, model rooms in 3D etc. It's designed basically an interior design CAD program for home use, but I'm keen to see if we can use it to create digital visualisations. One of the software's cool features is the ability to created animated 'fly throughs' - just perfect for convincing the bank manager. I have vague memories of de-installing the program in frustration after a short try at modelling our lounge room last year. I'll try and be more patient this time.

The agent for new site cafe #2 ('M') rang this morning while we were having a lunch break in the hospital garden. I told him we'd try and wrap up a decision this week, and it would be a big help if we could have scale floor plans. He kindly sent a PDF scale floor plan through. Only had a quick look, but should kick us off. I want to see if I can import the plan to the home design program and use it as a tracing template to then lay up the walls in the CAD system.