Bobby Parker 7/28/23 Bobby Parker 7/28/23

18 Barnes House Rendering

House flipping is big business and often, the house flipper has a loan that accrues interest daily, from day one. If it takes months to remodel a home, it can cost many thousands in interest. Few perspective buyers will see your vision, like you do, and they will not take a risk on what a house might look like. A good rendering helps to sell the property by showing clients what it will look like.

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Bobby Parker 7/27/23 Bobby Parker 7/27/23

Madison House Rendering

Here is another “Up-North” house that I would like to share with you. Wood and stone; love it. These are not your low-sentence cookie cutters, but they are stock plans. The house designer's materials are excellent enough for me, but you can choose your own.

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Bobby Parker 7/26/23 Bobby Parker 7/26/23

Selway House Rendering

A lot of homes cross my desk, hundreds a year, and I like almot all of them. I called upper Minessota for about 15 years, so I am partial to the rustic home, with a lot of wood and stone. The Selway house would fit perfectly on a lake in the north woods.

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Bobby Parker 7/5/23 Bobby Parker 7/5/23

Ortiz Residence Rendering

How many decisions go into a house design? I am sure thousands, and how many options do you have? Colors alone have to be exhausting, and it has to cause a lot of anxiety. How will it look? Will I have to live with something I don’t like? The anxiety has to keep people up at night, at least it would me.

The Ortiz Residence Rendering is to solve many of those questions. I don’t know how people make thousands of decisions based on hunches? The investment in a high-quality rendering is well worth it, if you want to sleep well at night during the design process.

“It looks fantastic, you did an amazing job! Thank you for everything.”

— Homeowner

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Bobby Parker 7/3/23 Bobby Parker 7/3/23

42A Apaucuck Point Rendering

It has been a while since I have posted. Why? The past two months have been nothing but large NDA projects, so not only were they large slow-moving projects, because of the NDS, I couldn’t share if I wanted.

The 42A Apaucuck Point can be shared, so enjoy!

Typically, designs change once the designer sees their structure in 3D. The 42A Apaucuck Point Rendering changed a lot after the designer saw the initial gray-scale model. I mean, almost everything. The envelope stayed the same, but not one window or door stayed where it was originally located. Minor changes are normal and expected, and I usually wave those fees, but I quoted changes like the ones here per hour to make. I see it as value added, since the design is better.

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Bobby Parker 6/12/23 Bobby Parker 6/12/23

Remembering Why...

Remembering Why...

First, I would like to congratulate all the 2023 graduates. This year is big for the Parker family, since my youngest daughter, Emma, graduated from High School with a 3.9 GPA. In the Fall she is off to Wyoming to Equine Veterinarian School. I am so proud of her.

To start this newsletter off, you have to know two things about me. One, I started illustrating buildings to help people understand their 2d drawings. While I was in Jr. high-school, my parents had some plans drawn up for their dream home. Everything looked great on paper (2D), but not so much after they built the house. I always loved drawing, I worked for a builder during high-school, so I would render proposed designs for my boss’s projects. I didn’t want others to experience what my parents had to experience.

Second, which will make sense shortly, is I am a huge Elvis fan and have been since grade school. When the internet became a thing, I gained access to so much more material than I had available to me in the school and public libraries. One thing that fascinated me was Graceland, Elvis’s mansion in Memphis, TN. I could visit Graceland as an adult, and it was a childhood dream that I could fulfill several times. Everything but the upstairs. Now, you can see floor plans on the internet of the entire house, and I have been looking at those for 40+ years. I thought I understood the upstairs, but not until today do I understand the space.

There is a YouTuber called The SpyGuy, and he does Elvis videos. Today, he walked us through a home built from those Graceland internet floor plans. If you don’t know, only the mansion’s curator and close family members may go upstairs at Graceland, which is exactly how Elvis left it in 1977. There are very few photos, and with the internet floor plans, you can kind of make things out, or I thought. I now know what the upstairs of Graceland looks like after watching today's YouTube. Looking at floor plans for 40 years, and I understand more today after 1/2 hour of seeing the space in 3D.

I know why I do what I do, but today was a reminder of the importance of what I do. People need to see things in a way that they can understand. You can’t understand a complex shape in 2 dimensions, no matter how long you stare at it. Architectural renderings must match the quality of the motion picture industry standards to be successfull with the new technology, like Apple's Vision Pro. I look forward to what is to come and I want to be on the cutting edge. Let's allow the home owner, or investors to see and get excited about their project, like never before!

Bobby Parker 6/5/23 Bobby Parker 6/5/23

Parmer Ranch Community Center Renderings

What a great-looking park for families, and what a great way to present the potential of the space; other than an architectural rendering!

There is a lot going on here, with a lot of detail. From swings, to an enormous pool, exercise room, great room, basketball and tennis court. I can imagine the whole town being built around this park, and it being a huge part of the town’s activities.

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Bobby Parker 5/31/23 Bobby Parker 5/31/23

1000 Cove Point House Rendering

This one is exactly 1,000 sqft!

Really, what more do you need? I can honestly say, every house I owned, I used less than half of the space. This year is a new chapter in my book and I’ll become an empty nester. A 1000 square foot house would serve me well, and this one checks all the boxes.

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Bobby Parker 5/30/23 Bobby Parker 5/30/23

125 Mulford House

Photorealistic renderings have become the go-to tool for real estate. What better way to pre-sale something than pre-visualizations? Most people are visual, hence the 100’s of ads we see every day. Most things we ignore, only the special eye-candy stays in our memory. There are so many bad renderings out there, so please invest properly in some good eye-candy, so you can get your clients’ property sold.

Also, what a great way to study colors and materials. This client wanted black windows and black trim until he saw it. Studying color options on the computer is less expensive than repainting a house.

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Bobby Parker 5/14/23 Bobby Parker 5/14/23

Vintage Courts House Renderings

Remember when home builders would construct a street of show homes? You would walk down the street, in and out of each model, until you found the perfect place for your family. Well, those times are a long gone and now you can do it digitally.

Here is a series of semi-custom home renderings for my friends in Canada. What a great attention to detail in the design, from materials, to floor plans. Do you have a favorite?

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