quick question

[constance]

Okay, so I have two houses mostly drawn up and ready to go, and I have two computer programs that build houses. One displays floorplans in simple blue-and-white lines (it also displays dimensions), and the other displays them in real-time color, walls and floors in the colors that you choose as decorating elements (and does not display dimensions).

Which, as a viewer of house plans, would you prefer to look at? Or would you rather they be hand-drawn?

Comments

[resonant]

I ... don't even know enough about house plans to be able to evaluate those options.

Which one do you find easier to look at?

[constance]

I find the blue and white easier, and the full color more interesting. So far, I have one vote for blue and white, one vote for color, and everyone else undecided! Which I guess means that I get to decide, but I've never been very good at decisions. :/

[pocketmouse]

I would actually say both. Start with the first, which sounds like it looks like proper blueprints, then use the second for the final final product.

[constance]

both is an an excellent idea. I'd initially considered it and thought not, since a plan takes hours of labor, but it's not like I'm on a deadline or anything. :D

[pocketmouse]

I actually love doing drafting, and I tend to take any opportunity I can (moving, buying new furniture, etc) to do it, so that's what I'd do myself.

[constance]

Agreed on the drafting-love! I started college as an architecture major, and never quite lost my taste for the drawing part of it. (The structural-engineering part, on the other hand...!)

[pocketmouse]

I work in theatre tech, so I don't do a whole lot of drafting, but when I do, it's usually fun, interesting stuff.