SangeethaJaikumar

Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Real estate boom... I ended up building this house

Real estate in Chennai is moving towards its peek. People say that this is because of IT boom. I do not agree completely, as the population keeps increasing and the available land space keeps reducing. Getting a new appartment in the city has become unimaginable even for upper class.

I planned to buy a house to avoid income tax; But now I think I will opt to pay the tax instead of paying huge EMIs every month.

I have learnt to build this paper hut in remembrance of my house hunting.





This will be your final product. Now lets learn how to make this hut.



You'd need:

A daily calendar

Step 1: Tear all the sheets off the card board. Do not tear each sheet, but take it out as a bunch.

Step 2: Remove the two thick sheets (first and the last sheets of the calendar)

Step 3: There are two simple folding methods.

Pattern 1:




a) Fold the bottom right corner of a sheet to make a triangle.











b) Fold the bottom left on to the traingle made in a, to form another triangle.








Pattern 2:

a) Same as a) of pattern 1.




b) Fold the bottom on to the triangle made to form a trapezoid.









Step 4: Do these patterns on alternate sheets of the calendar. Don't forget to make the folds sharp.

Step5: When you are done with all the 365 sheets, you will get a beautiful paper hut.