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   Ian.D.Gilham. | May 18, 2001 10:42pm | #1

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   Don,
   I can't help you with a program, but what about posting a couple of pictures of the exterior here as well, and inviting suggestions?

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   Allyson_Stiles | May 18, 2001 10:46pm | #2

   *I have one I can send you that is just what you are looking for. I have to send it in the mail though.Billy

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   Courtney_Ostaff | May 19, 2001 12:10am | #3

   *"Punch! Super Home Suite"...about 65$ at Best Buy last year...upload pic and edit both by hand and computer aided.....my fave easy-buy-cheap program of that sort

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   John_Sprung | May 19, 2001 12:16am | #4

   *I've done something like that using Adobe Photoshop and TurdoCad. If you don't need precise dimensions, forget the CAD, and just play with it in Photoshop. Put your real world photo on the bottom layer, and use the Photoshop drawing tools -- lines and fills -- on other layers. These are bitmap images, so you can get rough dimensions by counting pixels and scaling.-- J.S.

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   Courtney_Ostaff | May 19, 2001 12:27am | #5

   *That's actually a very good suggestion. Photoshop's lower versions...I think 3.0 or 4.0 or perhaps 5.0 are free downloaded from CNET....and they do have some neat features....I play with pics on there a lot....that could be excellent for messing about with a house....

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   bake_ | May 19, 2001 03:16am | #6

   *Wow, you guys are great!!! All smashing suggestions, Here's a pic, keep in mind that the posts are rotting and the walls that support them are seriously out of plumb and level, what ever I do these will have to be redone and I think it would be a good time to change the looks of the building.Billy, What is the name of the program? And maybe it's possible to upload it via one of the instant messangers? (eg ICQ)

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   nathan_wegemer | May 19, 2001 04:31am | #7

   *Walls that support the posts?looks like the builder was bake(d), too.

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   bake_ | May 19, 2001 04:33am | #8

   *Yes Nathen

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   Courtney_Ostaff | May 19, 2001 05:59am | #9

   *wow honey, you got yourself one seriously ugly building..:)you could....1) go really really modern with some big glass windows and stucco..might be the cheapest option... 2) put high pitch metal roof on top and reface the front with brick and center the front door and go sorta georgian, i think maybe?.... hmmm...what would I do....you could put vinyl/aluminum/whatever siding on it and put a two-story porch and go southern veranda style with that high pitched metal roof...I guess you could also go sorta southwestern with stucco and a lower roofed porch and some of those beams sticking out for the porch roof...or you could go lofty NYC style and leave as is without the porch.....these are all off the top of my admittedly tired little head...:) I'd really like to hear your plans, actually :)

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   bake_ | May 19, 2001 05:20pm | #10

   *Courtney; Moving the doors wouldn't work, I may elect to form a small bumpout between the 2 windows to house the furnaces that take up so much interior space, bear in mind this is a duplex and I need both front doors. My plans were to put some stuco details around the windows and doors, possibly add some siding partway up the building to break up it's awkward height. I don't know if u could tell in the photo but the roof slopes slightly to the front, (who thunk of that one) making it seriously ugly but with a south west flavor, I will probably try to replace the posts and supporting wall with that theme in mind. My biggest problem is the visualization, I have been a tradesman all my life and have no problems doing the tasks, I just want to get a better idea of what the finished project will look like before I begin

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   bake_ | May 19, 2001 05:20pm | #11

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   I recently bought a run down duplex that I am fixing slowly, now that the insides are getting in good shape I am looking at the outside and want to change it's ugly apperance.

   I need a program that I can use in conjunction with my digital camera, so I can take a photo, then edit it adding facets until I see something I like. Any ideas out there?

   Home Architect just dosn't have enough features to do a outside drawing and I really don't feel like learning cadd.

   Thanks for any advice
   Don