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Remember when builders actually used hand drawn floor plans?
I was digging through some old files last week and found the blueprints my dad drew for our house back in '88. Everything was on graph paper with pencil, and you could see the eraser marks where he changed the kitchen layout three times. Now I watch these young guys walk around with iPads and laser measures, and they finish a whole set of drawings in a day. I mean, I get it, it's faster and more accurate, but there was something about those hand drawn plans that felt more personal. My dad would sit at the kitchen table for hours with his scale ruler and a cup of coffee. Anyone else miss that old school approach or am I just being nostalgic?
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spencer_moore3916d ago
Man my buddy runs a small contracting crew and he told me this story. Last year he had this older client who pulled out these hand drawn plans from the 70s for a house addition. The guy wanted to match the original extension perfectly. My friend tried to scan them into his tablet but the scale was all off because the paper had shrunk over time. He ended up having to redraw the whole thing by hand on graph paper to get it right. Said it took him three evenings but the client cried when he saw it because it looked exactly like the originals. There is something about seeing those pencil lines and eraser marks that just hits different.
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river_scott16d agoProlific Poster
Idk that actually sounds like a huge waste of time and money when a modern CAD file could do the same job in an hour with perfect accuracy. The client crying just means he was emotionally manipulated into paying for nostalgia instead of getting a better result.
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