Suburban Home
Set information:
Community rating:
5.0
(5 votes)
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Place:
20Km from Paris, France
Joined:
2015, nov 15
Seen:
26M 12d |
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7055 |
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Published: |
2017, jul 16 14:56 |
Introduction
This building was designed in order to be a house in the background of a scenery, but I liked so much the design that I made it into a MOC.
It's a red colored-building, so we can believe that it can be built of bricks. I tried several color schemes such as white walls with blue windows but I wasn't pleased. I also wanted the dhouse to be a 30's house from Paris suburbs, as we can see arround the train tracks. It was intended to be built on 16x32 baseplat, but I had to extend it to look right. So I arrived to a 24x32 size, that is very unusual in Town buildings patterns. And as I missed any squared corners baseplates, I had to put a 70's round corners one. It looks nice alone, but when placed on a layout, it's a bit more complex.
Creation feature
The house if fully furnished as is the garden. I wanted to include a place to put flowers, and I finished with this thing next to the door. Good idea to expand.
I've placed a cypress tree as this is a tall house, so a smaller tree would have been out of place.
There is a kitchen with furniture to store cooking stuff. There is even a table on which minifigures can eat.
In the living room, there is a TV, a carpet and a couch. I first wanted to put a fireplace but removed it, hence the chimney on the roof. The TV was also a good excuse to put a rattle antenna.
Then the bedroom. There is a two-place bed (but ony one minifigure can sleep on, it's not large enough) and a desk for the minifigure to work at home.
Scenery
The scenery features this house, along with 1985 one and a small holiday bungalow. There is a kid playing with a Classic Space spaceship and even a man from dog impound who is trying to capture a dog.
This building was designed in order to be a house in the background of a scenery, but I liked so much the design that I made it into a MOC.
It's a red colored-building, so we can believe that it can be built of bricks. I tried several color schemes such as white walls with blue windows but I wasn't pleased. I also wanted the dhouse to be a 30's house from Paris suburbs, as we can see arround the train tracks. It was intended to be built on 16x32 baseplat, but I had to extend it to look right. So I arrived to a 24x32 size, that is very unusual in Town buildings patterns. And as I missed any squared corners baseplates, I had to put a 70's round corners one. It looks nice alone, but when placed on a layout, it's a bit more complex.
Creation feature
The house if fully furnished as is the garden. I wanted to include a place to put flowers, and I finished with this thing next to the door. Good idea to expand.
I've placed a cypress tree as this is a tall house, so a smaller tree would have been out of place.
There is a kitchen with furniture to store cooking stuff. There is even a table on which minifigures can eat.
In the living room, there is a TV, a carpet and a couch. I first wanted to put a fireplace but removed it, hence the chimney on the roof. The TV was also a good excuse to put a rattle antenna.
Then the bedroom. There is a two-place bed (but ony one minifigure can sleep on, it's not large enough) and a desk for the minifigure to work at home.
Scenery
The scenery features this house, along with 1985 one and a small holiday bungalow. There is a kid playing with a Classic Space spaceship and even a man from dog impound who is trying to capture a dog.
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Written: |
2017, jul 16 14:56 (90 months, 8 days ago) by Evans |
MOC 90047 Suburban Home gallery
Main picture
Main picture - Front view
Front view
Interior view
Interior view
Interior view - Kitchen
Interior view - Living room
Interior view - Bedroom
Furniture
Scenery
Comments
2017, jul 23 23:40
I have been off for couple of days and here I see a nice house you have added!
Great level of detail, I like it. Very ingenious use of standard bricks to create nice things like the couch for example. You have made stickers by yourself? The house is not too complicated, but still interesting. The only thing, what will not fully work is the chair in the kitchen. Placing fig on it is probably difficult :) | |
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2017, aug 27 00:39
I made the stickers myself, as usual. The TV is a homemaker one resized to minifigure size and the newspaper is a fully custom sticker, based on a yearly program published by Lego in the form of a newspaper. So I wrote full lines that are not even readable... It's the 1983 one, but I will make some more to stick with the estimated years of my creations. The only original sticker is the one with the the cooking plates.
I know for the chair, but as it was not used, I decided to maintain the 1x1 round brick more than 1x1 round plates... The thing that annoys me is the question of keeping it. I really love this building but I need the parts to be used on others creations and some of the parts used to build this house were even borrowed to other sets. What would you do, storing this house as a WIP or completly destroying it (but having instructions to build it again)... This is a dilemma... |
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