My home’s digital twin
My house in 3D, at true scale, to decide which furniture to buy and where to put it without guessing.
- Time
- October to November 2026, on and off. Hours: to be confirmed
- Models
- Claude, GPT Image and Gemini
- Cost
- To be confirmed
- Status
- Private. My family uses it to decide
What it is
We are furnishing a house and I did not want to buy blind. I built a true-scale 3D model you can walk through on a phone, where every candidate piece goes in at scale, with its price and its link.
It is my home, so I do not publish floor plans or walkthroughs. What I do share is the method, documented as a kit so it can be repeated in another space.
How it was made
Capture
The original floor plan, video of every space and drone shots. Plans drift from reality over time: every difference gets written down.
Floor plan · video · droneData before images
Walls, openings, columns and levels live in a data file where every measurement carries its source and how reliable it is.
Claude · PythonCalibrated cameras
To compare a render with a photo you have to stand in the same spot. Cameras are solved from points that match between the photo and the model.
Python · OpenCVReal furniture
Every piece goes in with the store’s measurements. When the store publishes a 3D model, that is the one I use.
Blender · GLB modelsWhoever builds does not grade
Each render is judged by a fresh agent that did not see the work: yes or no, and at most five problems with their fix in numbers. The grade is the worst view.
Claude · BlenderDecide from the phone
Options arrive as side-by-side images with prices, ready for the family chat. For matters of taste, there is always an A and a B.
three.js · spreadsheets
Models and tools
- Claude
- The data model, the scripts and the review of every render
- Blender 5.3
- Photoreal rendering, driven from Python
- three.js
- The walkable tour in a single page
- OpenCV
- Textures taken from real video
- GPT Image and Gemini
- Polishing mockups and cleaning photos
- Playwright
- Checking the tour works on a phone
The creative part
The rule that changed everything: measurements come from the floor plan and the scans, and looks come from the photos. Never from an AI model’s imagination.
The first version looked like a store catalog. My family said so bluntly, and they were right. Today the twin is more useful for ruling things out than for falling in love with a render.
Time and cost
- Time
- October to November 2026, on and off. Hours: to be confirmed
- My hours
- To be confirmed
- Subscriptions
- Claude and ChatGPT, which I already pay for. This project’s share: to be confirmed
- Blender, three.js and Python
- Open source, no cost
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