jenniferw8b

This week I made my company sign "Watts-UpCo CAD". This will definitely help me later on by knowing exactly how to make the sign and adding it to my house and modifying it if I ever want to change it. These skills could be applied to the real world because if I ever make a company (which I doubt) this could be my sign/logo. I didn't run into any problems this week trying to make this, it was extremely easy to make and it took no time at all. I was pretty successful doing this by actually making the arrow and the lines above it. I got really creative this week because I could make up my own sign/logo and decorate the arrow, this section was actually very fun to do.



This week I build a whole different house and added a different landscape- the hills. I've learned how to make hills by the house and make it looks a little more realistic. It will help me out later on in the course by adding some hills into the next house i build to make it look a lot more realistic. These skills can't really be applied to the real world, hills are just made, you cant change them. I ran into a major problem trying to do this, the hills were too high and under the house and for whatever reason it wouldn't let me build a roof, but later on my teacher figured it out for me. That took a lot of time and it was extremely frustrating. I actually wasn't too successful doing this because it seemed like everything that could go wrong did go wrong so it was frustrating, but it was actually really fun to try to figure out how to fix it. The only way I got to be creative this week is adding my own hills, I can make them look like whatever I wanted, and my teacher actually figured out the roof, and that looks quite neat the way it is.



This week I've been working on the Landscaping, and Lighting. I added Lights to the outside, Cars, Kids' play area, a pool & spa, a lawnmower, and a couple trees to make it look more realistic. This will help me later on by knowing where to put certain things to make the landscape better looking, and just how to decorate the outside of the house nicely. These skills that I have learned will help me in the real world when it comes to me getting my own house and decorating the lawn and play areas for children/adults. This week I had a lot of problems with trying to find a tree to put a tire swing on but there wasn't a tree that you could hang the tire swing on, and trying to make the Children's play area look nice but I got around to just putting up a regular tree and putting the childrens play area over in the corner where anyone can see them from the porch. The only thing I could really think of that I was successful at was putting the pool and hot tub over to the left behind the house and making it look really nice, as you can tell I added a diving board, and a ladder but you can't see it. The way I was creative this week was designing the kids' play area and adding a couple features to the pool on the outside to make it look like it's a little more fancy. Also I added some street lights, make it look like its not out in the middle of nowhere.



This week I've been working on the exterior design- porches, siding, grass, and the backdrop (background). I've learned so far how to make the porches, modify the grass, and change the color of the siding and roofing. These skills will help me later on making my own building by making porches on the house and picking other things ouside that make the house look nice. These skills would be applied to the real world by showing how to make a porch and other simple things that make the porch. I didn't have any trouble with the porch at all. I thought I was pretty successful because the porch was really easy to make. Many other people had troubles with the porch, this will help me later on by knowing where exactly to put supports, where to put the stairs etc. I got to be creative this week because of the backdrop, which is the background. It makes it look like the house is in the middle of the woods when its fall. Its really pretty and it makes the house look a little more realistic.



a This week I've been working on the interior design, and to be exact I've been working on the Kitcken design- the cabinets and appliances. Ive learned so far how to make simple things like a kitchen in your house, how to change the design, and how to make the soffits. These skills will definetly help me in the future making my own house and adding interior designs. These designs could be applied to the real world by showing how to do certian things in a kitchen, how to make the kitchen look nice, and how to change some things around in order to make things work out the way you would like them to. I didn't find any difficulties making this area of the house. I was one of the few that didnt have problems with the cabinets above the counter, in the future it may help me know how exactly to do things like i did this time so I wont have any difficulties. I definetly got to be creative by adding other parts of the kitchen that I didn't have to add, but I wanted to add to make the kitchen look a little nicer.