Gottfried Green

As we move forward with designing our house in this 3rd attempt, I couldn't help the nostalgia pouring in for our 1st attempt with Tim Snyder at Osborn Sharp in Sarasota. I was also looking to explore the capabilities of Google's free Sketch Up download. Tim had first told me about it and how he exported our model to Google Earth to show our future home in 3D from every angle under the sun. You feel like you can control your own destiny. A feeling that has been fleeting at every turn. It allows you to "walk through" your home, look out at a water view, see bird's eye and worm's eye views from any distance. Looking back at our first design in Sketch Up is inspiring even though it won't be this house we'll live in. Even the ability to pretend to be in a house and see a house on the site still hints at all the possibility.

Labels: siteplan, software