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Lori’s Studio

Knowlesville Posted on December 4, 2022 by MattDecember 4, 2022
Lori's Studio, workbench

Earlier this year we finally completed the work in Lori’s studio, and with it being a rainy day today, I decided to take some photos of it since I wasn’t going to be working in the yard. I was in …  

Posted in House | Tagged Bradbury & Bradbury, wallpaper

New York Brownstone 3D Model

Knowlesville Posted on October 2, 2022 by MattOctober 2, 2022
New York Brownstone

While I was working on the New York Engine Co. 31 model, I thought about putting it in a neighborhood of brownstones. The fire station model became too large and complex to keep adding to it, so I created a …  

Posted in 3D Design | Tagged Live Home 3D, New York, Victorian

Pirate’s Cove Resort – Boathouse 3D Model

Knowlesville Posted on August 28, 2022 by MattOctober 2, 2022
Boathouse at Pirate Cove Resort

This LiveHome 3D project started from the idea of building a boathouse, and ended up being inspired by a vacation to Mexico we took with our friends Carol and John back in 2002. On that vacation, we took a cruise …  

Posted in 3D Design | Tagged Live Home 3D, vacation home

Engine Co. 31 Firehouse in Manhattan

Knowlesville Posted on July 28, 2022 by MattJuly 28, 2022
Engine Co. 31 Firehouse

As we’ve been having fun creating our dream houses around the world, one theme I wanted to try was to create a Victorian firehouse. I’ve seen examples of several Victorian firehouses that were converted to living spaces, and being a …  

Posted in 3D Design | Tagged Firehouse, Live Home 3D, New York

Indian Mansion

Knowlesville Posted on May 19, 2022 by MattMay 19, 2022
Indian Mansion

After completing our Egyptian house, Lori suggested another exotic destination to continue our building spree: Inda. I must admit, I knew little about Indian architecture so a lot of research had to be done. Mostly what I found was that …  

Posted in 3D Design | Tagged Live Home 3D

Build Like an Egyptian

Knowlesville Posted on May 6, 2022 by MattMay 15, 2022
Egyptian Pyramid House

In many of our previous houses, there has been one room done in an Egyptian style. One of my first projects had an Egyptian parlor, the next project had an Egyptian bedroom, and another had an Egyptian styled home theater. …  

Posted in 3D Design | Tagged Egyptian, Live Home 3D

Modern House in the Rocky Mountains

Knowlesville Posted on April 20, 2022 by MattApril 20, 2022
Rocky Mountain Modern House

After working on Santa’s Vacation Retreat I was in the mood to try another more modern house than what we usually design. Inspired in part by Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water, I wanted to design a hillside house that would …  

Posted in 3D Design | Tagged Live Home 3D

Santa’s Vacation House

Knowlesville Posted on April 18, 2022 by MattApril 18, 2022
Santa's Retreat

This is a house we started working on last year, and while we were working on it, Live Home 3D was updated. Part of the update was nice, as it added a library of Christmas models which fit in perfectly …  

Posted in 3D Design | Tagged Live Home 3D

Japanese House

Knowlesville Posted on March 8, 2022 by MattMay 15, 2022
Japanese House

This Japanese House is one of the smallest Live Home 3D projects Lori and I have created, but for both of us, it is the favorite model we’ve worked on. It took a fair amount of research and even quite …  

Posted in 3D Design | Tagged Garden, Japanese, Live Home 3D

African Tree House

Knowlesville Posted on March 3, 2022 by MattMarch 8, 2022
African Tree House

After we built our castle in England, our next project was to travel to Africa and build a tree house. This was Lori’s idea, and I wasn’t sure if it was going to be technically possible, as the program didn’t …  

Posted in 3D Design | Tagged Africa, tree house

Knowles Castle

Knowlesville Posted on February 27, 2022 by MattMarch 3, 2022
Castle Knowles

Welcome to Knowles Castle, our most complex building project to date. This 55 room castle got so complex that we had to split it into three files to be able to finish it within the memory constraints of the Live …  

Posted in 3D Design | Tagged Castle, England, Live Home 3D

My Dream Victorian

Knowlesville Posted on February 22, 2022 by MattFebruary 22, 2022
Queen Anne Victorian

It’s been a while since I’ve posted any new 3D models. Not that we haven’t been busy creating new ones, it’s just that in December an update to the Live Home 3D program introduced a bug along with the welcome …  

Posted in 3D Design | Tagged Live Home 3D, Victorian

Pemberley – 1901 Tudor Revival Mansion

Knowlesville Posted on November 15, 2021 by MattNovember 17, 2021
Bird's Eye View

Pemberley is of course the fictional estate in Pride and Prejudice which happens to be one of Lori’s favorite reads. Our own modest estate had picked up the moniker Pemberley Rose, and so when I convinced Lori the characters in …  

Posted in 3D Design | Tagged Live Home 3D, Tudor Revival

1911 Tudor Revival Mansion

Knowlesville Posted on November 10, 2021 by MattNovember 10, 2021
1911 Tudor Revival Mansion

This model is the second location I designed for the series of books I’m writing. This house is the main location in the stories. It is based on an actual house and lot in Beverly Hills. When I started the …  

Posted in 3D Design | Tagged Live Home 3D, Tudor Revival

Some Things Never Change – Replacing an antique toilet spud

Knowlesville Posted on October 13, 2021 by MattOctober 13, 2021

Last week I finally thought that we had our house back to a two loo status. We’ve been without our main bathroom for three years as the tile problem and Covid-19 impeded my renovation of the room. The tub and …  

Posted in House | Tagged Bathroom, plumbing, renovation

Gladstone’s Land

Knowlesville Posted on October 13, 2021 by MattMay 15, 2022
Gladstone's Land 3D Model

This Live Home 3D model was the first structure we built to help Lori with her novel. Her story centers around a couple who inherit property in Scotland and decide to open a school for students interested in creating operas. …  

Posted in 3D Design | Tagged Live Home 3D, Scotland

Rooms With A View

Knowlesville Posted on September 30, 2021 by MattOctober 2, 2021
Palos Verdes Estates Ranch House

This is the first house I designed with Live Home 3D. It was designed to help with continuity for a series of books I’ve been writing during the Covid-19 pandemic. This house belongs to the lead character who just so …  

Posted in 3D Design | Tagged Live Home 3D

Lakeside Log Cabin Vacation House

Knowlesville Posted on September 28, 2021 by MattOctober 2, 2021
View of the cabin from the southeast

I had originally intended to do posts on each Live Home 3D project we created in the chronological order that we created them, but I was talking about this project to a client today and so I thought I’d go …  

Posted in 3D Design | Tagged Live Home 3D

Live Home 3D – Finally an easy to use home design program

Knowlesville Posted on August 23, 2021 by MattMay 15, 2022
Lori's office in 3D

Ever since Lori and I have been homeowners, I’ve been searching for a easy to use program to do home design with. Whether it was visualizing how a room would look with Bradbury & Bradbury wallpaper, or whether the furniture …  

Posted in 3D Design, House | Tagged Bradbury & Bradbury, house planning, Live Home 3D, Lori's office

T-Mobile 5G Home Internet Review

Knowlesville Posted on July 20, 2021 by MattAugust 8, 2021

Short Review: It doesn’t work and I had to go back to my hated cable company. Read on for the long review. After hearing that AT&T bribed paid Michael Cohen (Trump’s former attorney and fixer who has since been disbarred) …  

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 5G, Ferndale, Home Internet, review, T-Mobile

She Left Me and She’s Never Coming Back

Knowlesville Posted on July 23, 2020 by MattJuly 23, 2020
Crashed Triumph motorcycle

It’s the end of a long love affair. Today I watched as my favorite motorcycle of all time left my yard on the back of a Humboldt Towing flatbed. Even though I was getting close to saying goodbye, this isn’t …  

Posted in Motorcycles | Tagged Sprint ST, Triumph

C-Thru Sunrooms and The Building Company Review

Knowlesville Posted on March 19, 2020 by MattNovember 14, 2021

The short story, don’t do business with either C-Thru Sunrooms, or their local contractor, John Mielke DBA The Building Company. For the long story, sit down, this is going to take awhile. This is an honest account of the construction …  

Posted in House | Tagged C-Thru, John Mielke, Sunroom, The Building Company

Heritage Tile Review

Knowlesville Posted on August 13, 2019 by MattAugust 13, 2019
Scraping the mortar out tends to pop out tiles

Our main bathroom has been a work in progress for over a year now, as it was gutted completely including no ceiling and no floor. I’ve been spending the last couple of months doing the tile, first the walls and …  

Posted in House, Uncategorized | Tagged Bathroom, tile

The Return of the Greenhouse

Knowlesville Posted on June 21, 2019 by MattJune 21, 2019
Victorian Greenhouse

Unlike most Hollywood sequels, the sequel to our first greenhouse is far superior to the first one, which would have rated 0% on Rotten Tomatoes. First a quick review of version 1 of our greenhouse. In the summer of 2006, …  

Posted in Gardening | Tagged Greenhouse

Outbreak

Knowlesville Posted on June 10, 2019 by MattJune 10, 2019
Caterpillars

In 1994, Ferndale was the main location for filming the movie Outbreak, a story about a virus that takes over a small town. 25 years later, we’re experiencing a real outbreak, although with less catastrophic results than the movie virus. …  

Posted in Fauna, Gardening | Tagged Orchard

Kinetic Sculpture Race 2019

Knowlesville Posted on May 25, 2019 by MattMay 29, 2019
Kinetic Sculpture Race

If you’re standing on a street corner, and a neon green brain, a psychedelic hippopotamus, and a fire breathing rainbow zebra striped unicorn pass by, it can only mean one thing; You’re in Arcata for the start of the 50th …  

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Kinetic Sculpture Race

12 Hours at San Jose Speedway

Knowlesville Posted on May 11, 2019 by MattMay 13, 2019
San Jose Speedway

A couple of weeks ago Rick Phillis invited me to participate on a team going to San Jose to participate in a 12 hour slot car race. I hadn’t traveled before for a slot car race, but since it was …  

Posted in Slot Cars | Tagged San Jose Speedway

Early Ride up to Route 1

Knowlesville Posted on April 28, 2019 by MattApril 29, 2019
Sprint ST

One of my springtime rituals is riding up to Route 1 in the South Fort Mountains to see my favorite wildflower patch. I usually start trying Memorial Day weekend to see if the road is even open. But this year …  

Posted in Motorcycles | Tagged Sprint ST

Frogs and Mosquito Fish

Knowlesville Posted on April 25, 2019 by MattApril 29, 2019
Mosquito Fish

Apparently the saying is true, “build it and they will come”. No sooner did we put plants in the pond, the frogs moved in and started laying their eggs. But even earlier some unwanted guests moved in, mosquitoes. Since I …  

Posted in Gardening | Tagged Pond

Kerria japonica

Knowlesville Posted on April 24, 2019 by MattJune 6, 2019
Kerria japonica

I forgot to mention in the garden tour one special plant that is blooming right now. This plant involves my entire family with the exception of my brother Derek. It has a long history and it doesn’t look like much …  

Posted in Family, Gardening | Tagged Kerria japonica

Spring Garden Tour

Knowlesville Posted on April 22, 2019 by MattApril 22, 2019
Pond Garden

The winters in Ferndale can be long and wet, so wet that it makes getting any gardening done nearly impossible at times. Even mowing the lawn becomes a challenge, and unlike what I was used to in San Jose, the …  

Posted in Gardening | Tagged driveway, Fern Garden, Herb Garden, Orchard, Pond, Rose Garden, Spring

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