Brick in front, a walkout out back.

From the street it's a red-brick colonial with white columns. Walk around back and it's a different house: white siding, a screened porch, and a walkout basement set into a hill of boulders. Six phone photos on one evening walk were enough to model both sides.

6Phone photos
~2 minTo take them
446Printed layers
4 daysPhotos to finished mini

The finished HouseMini from the front corner: red brick, black shutters, a white-columned portico, black shingled roofs, and a green lawn base

01 · The photos

One walk around the house.

Six photos on an early October evening, all taken in about two minutes. Front, both corners, the garage end, and the back from the yard and from up the hill. A phone camera, nothing fancy. The photo guide shows the same angles.

Front of the house: red brick, black shutters, a two-story portico with four white columns, and a lower wing on each side — Front, straight on

Front corner of the house: the brick front meets the white-sided garage wing — Front corner

Garage end of the house with the brick chimney rising behind it — Garage end

Back corner of the house above a long boulder retaining wall — Back corner, boulder wall

Back of the house at dusk: white siding, a bay window, string lights, and the walkout patio with family sitting outside — Back, straight on

The back of the house from up the hill: the screened porch, the bay window, and the walkout patio between two boulder walls — Back, from up the hill

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

Red brick, black shutters, and a two-story portico on four white columns, with a lower wing on each side. Even the shrubs along the front of the house made it onto the base.

The front of the mini with the brick, shutters, white columns, and shrubs — The mini

The walkout

Around back, the brick gives way to white siding and the yard drops a full story. The walkout level is dark stone with a wall of sliding doors onto the patio, and the bay window sits right above it. The base of the mini drops the same way.

The back of the mini: white siding, the dark stone walkout level with sliding doors, the patio, and the boulder walls — The mini

The porch and the boulders

The screened porch on one end, and the boulder walls that hold back the hill on either side of the patio. The boulders are printed one stone at a time, so they stand up off the lawn the way the real ones do.

The real screened porch and boulder walls — The house

The mini from the porch end: the screened porch, the brick chimney, and the printed boulders — The mini

03 · The print

Watch it print.

Printed in color, one layer at a time: the green base and lawn first, then the brick, siding, shutters, and columns climbing together, and the shingled roofs and chimneys last. This is the real timelapse from our printer. Scroll to run it.

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