Model Making

One of our early lockdown projects was creating a model of our house. We started working on it when the start date of the build was still unknown and the true impact of COVID-19 was only just starting to unravel

It felt quite therapeutic ‘building’ the house together with bits of card, foam, and PVA glue while our daughter slept. A strange way of keeping us connected to the surreal concept that we were ACTUALLY going to be building a house… at some point.

The process helped me to understand how the house would be ‘assembled’ far more easily than any of the technical drawings that Lanre has to produce, which I honestly find terrifying. I could now begin to understand how the steel structure would work, why the column near the kitchen was needed, how insulation and waterproofing worked, the level changes between different spaces, ceiling heights, and a host of other quirks.

I also learned that I do not have the patience or hand strength for model building. It’s too fiddly, you have to hold bits together and wait for it to dry, and the cutting of the pieces gave me wrist pain that was reminiscent of the carpel tunnel I experienced after childbirth. My new baby was worth it….. (mmm…. yes, definitely worth it), this cardboard version of my future house probably isn’t.

Anyway. As soon as the build started and our bandwidth for ‘fun projects’ got completely annihilated, our modelling efforts were abandoned. The pictures below show where we’ve left it.

We’ll get back to it soon, I hope. And by we… I mean Lanre.