I’ve been messing around with Google Sketchup for a couple of years now. I’ve never made anything particularly interesting, (or more to the point, worth showing anybody,) but I still enjoy going back to it every couple of months. 

Of late, I’ve spent spare class time sketching out a mansion on graph paper.  To be fair, it started out as a room. A friend of mine recently bought a house, and after seeing the two bedrooms he was renting out for the first time, I went back to school wishing I could move in.  As money is a bit tight, and as I have a perfectly functional home to stay in for free, claiming a room is somewhat out of the realm of possibility right now.

This knowledge just led to me trying to figure out how I would lay out stuff if Idid have a room. I’ve always really enjoyed this sort of thing. Whether it’s  laying out desks in a room or laying out rooms in a building. I don’t know that I’m especially good at it, but it’s fun, and a good thing to devote the wandering bit of attention I always have during classes.

So anyway, I started laying out this room, and then this mansion on paper, and yesterday I started trying to work out how actual measurements.