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Surface Design is a Girl's Bestfriend

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 That was a complete and utter lie, I love pattern and it is truthfully a loyal pal however, in the arena of Danielle Makes Pattern  it's less of an arena and more of a graveyard. I've put a lot of thought into this dilemma, I've decided the sole reason I struggle so hard with pattern is because I'm having a very steamy affair with checkers. Is it because little cubes side by side are soothing no matter how perfect the corners? Is it because it looks good in any colour? Is it because it's so subtle that you can wear it head to toe and no one will be visually offended? I don't know and neither does my therapist. So I'm sure you will giggle when you see the photos I took for inspo. I promise in a big way that this was all subconscious, I didn't realize all of them had some aspect of checker until I was starting my sketches.  Flash back to me pulling on my Dora the Explorer backpack and heading out for an adventure earlier this week, I took these photos at

Villa Cavrois (Castle)

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  For this attempt at restarting my Rhino memory I chose to (semi) replicate Villa Cavrois. Villa Cavrois is one of my favorite pre-ww2 architectural works. The villa also now houses post-restoration furniture designed by Fien MullĂ©r and Hannes Van Severen who I shamelessly fan-girl over.  As for the Rhino file - it's quite literally a dumpster fire. I made the mistake of creating the file in mm, while referencing floor plans that were in feet. Tried to build a staircase while converting the math from standard stair builds into mm - safe to say I had about nine small melt downs. However, I learnt that the divide tool is my new obsession and spent an hour dividing everything I could click on. Second mistake was thinking it would be easy to build the four levels with accurate floor plans inside, but I think we can all take a guess on how that turned out. I gave up on trying to be a Rhino Youtube star when my walls didn't line up and started eyeballing things and filling in gaps w