Print 001 · Holly, Michigan

Mark Cohoon's house, 2000–2026.

Twenty-six years in one house. When it came time to move on, it became the very first HouseMini. Here's the whole trip, from phone photos to the finished mini on the table.

18Phone photos
2Walks around the house
497Printed layers
~1 wkPhoto to finished mini

The finished HouseMini from the garage corner: gray siding, textured black shingles, a brown front porch, and a green lawn base

01 · The photos

Two walks around the house.

One sunny September morning for the front, sides, and back. A second pass the next evening for the deck and the walkout basement, the parts that are hard to read from across the yard. A phone camera, nothing fancy. The photo guide shows the same angles.

Front of the house: two-car garage, red side door, and a covered porch with side stairs — Front, straight on

Front corner of the house showing the porch and the chimney on the side wall — Front corner

Garage corner of the house with the driveway — Garage corner

Gable end of the garage with two windows — Garage end

Side of the house with the chimney running up the outside wall between the porch and the deck — Chimney side

Back corner of the house with the raised deck and the chimney — Back corner

Back of the house: the yard slopes down to a walkout basement under the deck — Back, straight on

Back wall of the house at dusk, with the back door and steps — Back wall, at dusk

Under the deck at dusk: the posts, the patio, and the walkout door — Under the deck, at dusk

02 · Side by side

What makes it this house.

A mini only feels right when the details are right. These are the ones that make this house recognizable, on the real thing and on the print.

The front

The two-car garage, the side door next to it, the single skylight, and the covered porch with its side stairs.

The front of the mini with the garage, porch, and nameplate — The mini

The hill

The yard falls away behind the house, so the back is a full story taller than the front. The base of the mini slopes the same way, with the raised deck on posts over the walkout and the chimney running up the outside wall.

The real back corner with the deck and chimney — The house

The back of the mini: sloped lawn, deck on posts, and the chimney — The mini

The garage end

Two windows in the gable wall, siding with real horizontal lines, and shingles that are printed as texture, not painted on. You can feel them.

The real garage gable wall with two windows — The house

Close-up of the mini's garage end showing the two windows, siding lines, and textured shingles — The mini

03 · The print

Watch it print.

Printed in color, one layer at a time: the base and lawn first, then the driveway, walls, porch, and deck together, and the shingled roof last. This is the real timelapse from our printer. Scroll to run it.

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Close-up of the mini's front with its nameplate reading Mark Cohoon's House, 2000 to 2026

04 · The finishing touch

A nameplate with the years.

The front of the base carries a nameplate: whose house it was, where it stands, and the years it was home. It turns a model of a house into a keepsake of a home.

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