The Biome and Sustainability Dream Home

Hello I am a student and this is my first Instructable! I have been instructed to make a sustainable house in a specific biome. I got the temperate forest biome. I built my sustainable house in the Olympic National Park, Port Angeles, WA.This is online and it is not real but the program I used was floor planner.My teacher told my class he is going to pick a place that is in that specific biome for us to create a house in (in my case temperate forest) and build your house either online or in person ( like out of cardboard). I am really happy with how my project turned out and had fun doing it!You can also design your house how ever you want!

Things you will need:

You will have to log in to google and search up floorplanner.com and sign up with your google account or any account.Then press your account in the top right corner and that will take you to your projects.Then press the plus sign and that will bring you to the location of your house.Pick your placement for your house and press create project on the bottom right corner. Then press empty plan and you are ready to create you new home! You also will need some creativity!

So I got Temperate forest biome. The other biomes I could of got are grassland,Tundra,desert and there is more to them but those are just the basics.In Olympic National Park, Port Angeles, WA The average daily temperatures range between -30°C (-22°F) and 30°C (86°F) with a yearly average of 10°C (50°F).Also Olympic National Park, Port Angeles, WA gets 140-100 inches of rain respectively. Most of this precipitation falls between the months of November- April.they get 25-30 inches a year of snow.The flora found in this location are Mosses, Ferns,Sitka spruce tree, Western hemlock tree,and Festoon tree trunks and branches. The fauna found in this location are Roosevelt Elk,Black bears,Mountain lions,Sea otters,and Bald eagles.My Location of my house is Olympic National Park, Port Angeles, WA.The latitude of Olympic National Park, Port Angeles, WA, USA is 47.802109, and the longitude is -123.604355.

Drawing a sketch is very important.This will give you ideas on what your house will look like in the future.This sketch is not going to be your exact design.But this will give you a ideas on what your house will look like.As you can see that my sketch will not look like the final product.

To create your house you have to start by creating the base of your house to start.To create the base of your house you would have to press create a room and pick a corner and drag down and across to make how big of a house as you want.Be creative.It can be as be big as you want or as small as you want.Just be creative!

It is time to decorate the inside of your house.This is the fun part. I had so much fun doing this part. This was my favorite part. The only you need is CREATIVITY! Just have fun and explore what floorplanner has to offer.Also you can add different flooring by pressing the create a surface button. Then go to furniture and press on the flooring tab and you can pick any flooring you want. Have Fun!Also if you want a front lawn add some fences and this is where you will start your front lawn.

It is time to do your lawn or your front lawn.I put a garden, a couch, and table out there so people can relax outside.You can add walk ways or anything.This is your house after all! We are getting so close to the finish product! Also you can add lots of trees to make it look like you are in a forest. Add different types of trees and different colors of trees to make it look real.For the front lawn you can add different flooring by pressing the create a surface button. Then go to furniture and press on the flooring tab and you can pick any flooring you want. you can also do this for the path.

It is time to put a roof on your house.To find roofs you go to the hammer and press place instructibles.You can pick any roof you want. I picked this sky light roof. You have to expand the roof to fit it over your house.OS to do that double click you roof and press that square that does not have lines but has dashes and it has the black box at the bottom.Press that then by pressing and dragging the dots you can expand your roof and drag the raise from floor option to place it on your house. You can go into 3D mode which is on the top right hand corner to see your placement of your roof on your house.

Now time to make your house Sustainable. To make your house sustainable you go into place instructibles and you can find a electric water heater and radiators> if you are going to use a radiator you have to have a electric water heater to heat your house. You can also go to furniture and press see all categories and type in solar panels and you can add solar panels to bring electricity to your house. For the electric water heater you can put it in a shed with a solar panel on top for the electric water heater so it can heat your house.You can also add a compost and recycle rain water etc.

We have made it!You can add more trees (At least I added a little more)and BAM you are done. I had so much fun doing this and I hope you did too.I love being creative and I bet your house's look so good!I hope you had fun!You can add anything else you want because it is your house.So have fun!