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General Category => General Talk => Topic started by: Bondo on February 12, 2008, 12:13:48 am
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My wife and I live in a single room with her parents, because we have no money. It's not that bad, but I can't ever seem to be satisfied with the arrangement of furniture and crap.
It currently looks like this:
(http://www.gamingw.net/pubaccess/23029/bedroom.png)
That image was done in Google Sketch Up, which is a 3d modeling program that is free and awesome. It is EXACTLY to scale. (Except for details. Those are approximated.)
I'm hoping the talented members of Gaming World can stretch their homosexual interior design muscles and figure out an arrangement of furniture for this particular room that actually works. We may need to figure out how to cram a crib in there in the near future, so keep that in mind.
Sketch Up can be found here: http://sketchup.google.com/
The SKP file containing our room and everything in in can be found here: http://www.gamingw.net/pubaccess/23029/bedroomsketchup.zip
Feel free to remove any piece of furniture which you feel can go. You can also add pieces of furniture that we don't own yet that you believe would work nicely in that room.
Go crazy. Nothing is off limits here (Except for porn and stuff. Stay in school.) Post images of your design in this thread, or just post a link containing the modified SKP file.
Sketch Up is so easy to use, that anyone's grandma can learn it in less than 5 minutes, so don't think that you aren't a 3d artist. If you can use a mouse, then Sketch Up is probably going to be second nature to you.
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for feng shui i think we need to know the layout of your entire house, which i wouldn't recommend divulging online!
or do you just want us to decorate it etc? (dick wallpaper)
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I didn't literally mean "feng shui". I simply meant rearrange the furniture, decorate (yes, you may use dick wallpaper if you so desire... *sigh*) Things like that. No furniture arrangement seems to work with this room, and I have a feeling that the reason is simply my own design incompetence.
I'll select a design, use it, take pictures, and post them here.
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You can't expect us to feng-shui such a small room! Theres barely room for a living room (i'm assuming its a living room.), everything should go - thus making room for a broom closet, move things to a bigger room = feng-shuied!
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I tried to fix your room but I just made the bookshelves sink into the floor, broke your computer, and made all your walls smash on an angle into the floor
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Theres.....not much to arrange :\
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You can't expect us to feng-shui such a small room! Theres barely room for a living room (i'm assuming its a living room.), everything should go - thus making room for a broom closet, move things to a bigger room = feng-shuied!
It's a bedroom, though one that serves more purposes than just a bedroom. It's primarily a bedroom, still.
I tried to fix your room but I just made the bookshelves sink into the floor, broke your computer, and made all your walls smash on an angle into the floor
You win! :fogetbackflip:
The program takes a moment to get used to.
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i spent about five minutes trying to think of some funny way i could tell you to move out or something but i couldn't think of anything to say so
jesus christ man i feel sorry for you!!
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Paint the walls lavender and do a thick horizontal line thru the whole 4 wall of a much much lighter lavender tone at a height a bit over your waist. Below that line design vertical lines every [you ][/you] inches to form columns. those lines also with lighter lavender.
Now paint the furniture white and then paint it with this shit I dont know what it is called but makes it brighter, as if it reflects the light more. There is some white paint that already comes with this shit.
If you want you can paint the conputer desk of another color if you conputer happens to be black (ugly contrast with white desk imo).
Now hang some photos of you faggots in gay moments such as smiling in front of the anal camera all round the room with eclectic positioning. Lined up photos is boring as nun tits.
Oh you don't have money, well you're fucked
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Now hang some photos of you faggots in gay moments such as smiling in front of the anal camera all round the room with eclectic positioning. Lined up photos is boring as nun tits.
That would be difficult, considering my wife and I are of opposite genders.
It's a rental, so no painting, though lighter colored furniture would make it look a little bigger.
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Move the top-most bookshelf next to the computer against the same wall. Move the other bookshelf where the previously moved bookshelf was. Move the little brown thing next to the newly moved bookshelf. Then you can put the baby crib next to the little brown thing. Of course if you want some more storage space that it out of sight, you could switch one of the bookshelves in the living room with the little brown thing in the closet(?). This is going purely off the picture.
EDIT: The bookshelf looks like it is just small enough to be able to fit through the door to the closet(?).
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Oh shit, I'm going to be playing this for hours.
The only experience I have setting up a room is my Dorm and that looks like shit lol, so I can't help ya out. Unless you want it to look like (more) shit?
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does the computer have to stay where it is?
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ugh i wanted to do this but i dont want to download that program
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does the computer have to stay where it is?
Nope. It can be anywhere. I have a nice long cable to plug in the DSL.
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cover your room in mirrors
wedge your bookshelves between your bed and the wall and put everything you don't often use on the now unaccessable shelves
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cover your room in mirrors
wedge your bookshelves between your bed and the wall and put everything you don't often use on the now unaccessable shelves
And on that note, mirrors make a room look BIGGER, try putting a few mirrors in. (It won't be feng-shui'd if you sleep facing one of them, though! But yes, lighter colours and mirrors make a room look bigger. (While writing this post I misspelled "Mirrior" at least 5 times. :rolleyes:)
And I didn't download the program because I have dialup. :fogetshrug:
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This is awkward as you have an overly large glass door(?) and a cabinet where your bed could ideally go..I'll see what I can doooooo
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(http://sarevok.casiotone.org/misc/bedroom.jpg)
I want to come up with something cooler but god I'm just spending the whole time fighting this program. >
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tv in front of window is not a good idea hahaha.
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tv in front of window is not a good idea hahaha.
Yeah, I'm with Dada on this one. That looks pretty dumb (the TV in front of the window not the whole design).
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Needs some texture maps for one
Also why do you live in that Royksopp video
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Which direction does the window face? I mean, Sarevok's idea could work if you switch the TV and the bed. A bed in front of the window seems romantic enough to get you head every non-cloudy night.
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Which direction does the window face? I mean, Sarevok's idea could work if you switch the TV and the bed. A bed in front of the window seems romantic enough to get you head every non-cloudy night.
The problem with that is when light shines through the sliding glass door, it creates a greenhouse effect and the whole thing turns into a giant glass furnace.
If I can figure out a way to keep the glass from turning into an enormous natural light heater, which is less than ideal in the summer, where here it routinely gets up to 110 degrees Fahrenheit, then yeah! I like it!
I currently have thermal drapes over the glass, but those only seem to marginally decrease the heat that radiates. The glass faces South, so it gets the sun ALL THE TIME.
I'm thinking of some kind of reflective film, that appears mirrored on the outside, but tinted from the inside. Or perhaps an outdoor awning to put the glass in shade.
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Out of curiosity, are the colors of your furniture accurately represented in that?
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Out of curiosity, are the colors of your furniture accurately represented in that?
Somewhat. It's a mish-mash of furniture, I know.
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Yeah, I'm with Dada on this one. That looks pretty dumb (the TV in front of the window not the whole design).
I don't think it LOOKS dumb, it's just that all that back light would make watching the TV pretty damn hard.
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If you had the room and money, I would invest in some kind of awning for the glass. Because if you use the thermal curtains, the sun's heat is still going through the window into the room, and when it hits the thermal curtain it builds up in that small space between the window and curtain, then slowly releases itself into the rest of the room. If you had an awning outside, it would stop the sunlight before it even reached the window, effectively reducing the heat. You could try putting the thermal drapes on the outside for a day and see how you like it (it should have similar results to putting up awning).
EDIT: (except the awning wouldn't block your view)
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My wife and I don't have a lot of space for our stuff (we just have too much stuff :P ) so one trick that works real nice is using a big plastic container (for holding/moving stuff) as a table. I set my laptop on it in the living room and I can watch TV, have a handy table, AND have storage space all in the same room. :)
Storage on walls is also your best friend. We had way too many kitchen utensils in our drawer, making it impossible to find the exact one I wanted, so I attached a cooling stand/grate looking thing (No idea, I don't bake much) to the wall, and stuck some spatulas and other stuff through it. Looks ghetto, but it serves its purpose without spending money on something fancy.
Hooks, shelves, and cabinets are your friends as well. Just be creative. :)
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I don't think it LOOKS dumb, it's just that all that back light would make watching the TV pretty damn hard.
Well I was thinking more because if something happens that smashes your window, be it a nature or a thief, your tv is going to be in trouble.
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If someone smashes through your window..your TV is gone WHEREVER it is you dummy.
Also yeah backlight may be a problem I didn't know your facing when I did it. But TV in front of window does work pretty well I find, and the bed should be in the center not the corner and it's the only real space it can go.
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tv in front of window is not a good idea hahaha.
Man where is that Pokey comic Hundley made that had a panel saying THE WINDOW TO THE WORLD LOOKS MUCH BETTER WITH A TV BLOCKING IT!!!!!
I will edit this post later.
Yeah, I'm with Dada on this one. That looks pretty dumb (the TV in front of the window not the whole design).
Um, #1 Dad is Vaginal BARREL, not me.
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Oh, I guess I just read it wrong / made shit up.
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How do you control the direction you move furniture? Because whenever something needs to be raised or lowered I keep moving it horizontally. D:
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How do you control the direction you move furniture? Because whenever something needs to be raised or lowered I keep moving it horizontally. D:
You know, I'm not entirely certain. It seems to be context sensitive depending on what face you click on to move the object, and where the camera is positioned.
And I realized that I didn't group the computer to the desk. Sorry about that.
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Haha yeah, it took me 20 minutes just to move the computer. I would've done a few designs but URHAKSDHGFsdljghalsjghlsadjgh christ this program is so painful. How did you even make those objects with it being SO DAMN PAINFUL to make even 2 squares?
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How did you even make those objects with it being SO DAMN PAINFUL to make even 2 squares?
You get used to it pretty quickly. Before long, you're throwing down faces and extruding them, creating objects at the speed of thought.
Also, if you Google "Sketch Up Tutorial", there are some really handy video tutorials made by Google themselves. I just watched part of the first one and I knew enough to make anything.