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3-D Home Kit: All You Need to Construct a Model of Your Own Home or Addition (with Booklet "Architecture & Math Workshop Notes") | 
| Authors: Adventure Publications, Dan Reif
Brand: Design World
Category: Book
List Price: $39.95
Buy New: $26.37
You Save: $13.58 (34%)
New (7) Used (2) from $25.87
Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 7424
Media: Misc. Supplies
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 21
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 18.3 x 12.5 x 1.1
MPN: 30820-16
ISBN: 1880301016
Dewey Decimal Number: 643
EAN: 9781880301012
ASIN: 1880301016
Publication Date: September 1998
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Product Description
Calling all aspiring architects! -- Have you always wanted to design a home? Are you planning on building an addition or doing renovations any time soon? Are you at the very beginning or your illustrious architectural career? -- The 3-D Home Kit provides everything you need to design floor plans and build a detailed, 1/4" scale model of a home or remodeling project up to 6,200 square feet! Building materials include siding, roofing, over 200 windows and doors, brick, stone, interior walls, stairs, kitchen cabinets, appliances, bath fixtures and much more. Also includes complete instructions, scale ruler, roof-slope calculator, floor plan grid, design notes and other helpful planning tools. -- Enhance your structural, spatial relation and mathematical skills while producing something tangible ? at home! -- For professionals or amateurs. Ages 14 and up. -- Check out the Home Quick Planner Peel-n-Stick Kit (#30309-85) and be your own decorator and interior designer!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
 Not worth the price of a stamp November 29, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this kit for my daughter's ten year birthday. It is nothing but a box full of large cardstock printed with brick and siding. There is nothing to show you how to draw anything from scale. This is NOT a toy or intended to be used by children; it is primarily for adults who already have professional floorplans and wish to build a model.
 Wonderful gift for amateur designer November 8, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have used the 3-D Home Kit for the past four years as the basis for teaching the Architecture and Mathematics Workshop at the SummerMath program at Mount Holyoke College. My students are high school girls and they come from economically and culturally diverse background--from everywhere throughout the U.S. to Europe, Asia and African. They have little or no prior architectural training. Each student gets a kit and the opportunity to design and construct a model of her own dream home.
Students mostly work independently, sometimes help each other, and get my assistance as needed. Using the kit, they learn about space planning, size, scale and proportion, as well as endless design details including where to put a bathroom or stairway, furniture layout, and how to design a kitchen and a roof. Some students work on landscape design adding pools, patios, trees and walks. The students also improve their hands on skills including how measure, cut and glue. The workshop is one-and-a-half hours per day for two weeks.
Some students jump into the kit's design process in a moment, others take most of the two weeks to understand that making a mistake is a valuable lesson. Problem solving is the name of the game. When one design doesn't work, the student can scrap that approach and quickly measure and cut another sheet of the kit's building materials to actually see another option. The kit provides a wonderful way for the student to try several designs. The 3-D Home Kit turns each student's efforts into a realistic three-dimensional house model--and they love it.
I highly recommend the kit, and have used it to plan several of my own design and fantasy projects: my own home, art studio from a tobacco shed, and vacation home designs such as a seashore cottage and mountain yurt.
An Excellent Teaching Tool August 12, 2005
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
This kit does a difficult task admirably – it offers novice designers a clear and understandable path through the complex processes of house design and paper model-building. As a K-12 design educator who uses 3-d Home Kits with my middle school (math and engineering) students, I can tell the creator of this kit has refined the process by teaching with the kit many times himself.
The wealth of information (text plus illustrations) in the “Hands-on Design + Math” section teaches a good introduction to the design process for students and homeowners alike: program (determining your needs); site considerations; interior spaces; how to work in scale; and roof design. The “Model Construction section, a concise step-by-step guide, wisely includes a sample room addition with which to practice.
Homeowners creating their own home design or remodel should be taking their time with process; I would suggest absorbing what this kit can teach, then doing drafts and rough study models using other paper and oak tag, then using the kit’s materials to create an attractive and useful final model.
new house project June 22, 2005
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I purchased this kit in the first stages of planning my new home. I found it very helpful in planning the layout of the rooms, the roof design, and the locations of windows. The model helped me communicate with my architect and builder.
Don't buy this January 4, 2005
27 out of 33 found this review helpful
I thought this kit would allow you to create the kind of house that is pictured on the cover. It appears that the kit will allow you to build walls and design rooms. In reality, the box only includes a series of pieces of paper with pictures of furniture and building materials printed on them. There is no support structure whatsoever for the building. The design items are not self sticking or even easily accessible. They are tiny pictures printed on large pieces of regular paper. Hours of cutting would be required for the simplest of home designs. "Fun and easy to use" is quite inaccurate. Also, $22 for a stack of paper is ridiculous.
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