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The north side on a spring morning, from the gravel track where it comes through a gap in a dry stone wall, past an open timber field gate, with daffodils along the wall and hawthorn in blossom on the left. A plain long larch wall under a steep dark slate roof, with a slim black flue on the roof. A plain vertical-boarded oak front door under a small black steel canopy, with a sandstone step, a pair of green wellies and a terracotta pot of rosemary beside it. The kitchen window to the right of the door, to the west, and the east gable on the left with the corridor window and the landing window above it. Green fields, sheep, trees and gritstone edges behind.

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Arrival from the north, spring morning

Exterior, view 02. Attach the model screenshot, then paste the prompt.

The card

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Arrival from the north, spring morning

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The notes

rendered

Exterior · view 02 of 14 · for ChatGPT image generation, in landscape format.

Attach model-north.jpg (shape reference), the screenshot from the model's Arrival, north view. The render here was made from the concept book's own screenshot of its model, which hid the roof window under wing 2's roof; the screenshot on this page is retaken from the model on the idea's page. The first image here is the result.

Start a fresh chat for each view, so it does not borrow from the last image. Attach only the one reference image named, if there is one, then paste the prompt.

how it came out

The quiet north wall, the oak door under its canopy, the wellies and the rosemary, the track, the gate and the daffodils all landed.

prompt

Turn the attached 3D model image into a photorealistic architectural photograph. Keep the exact shape, proportions, camera angle and position of every window, door and roof from the attached image. Only change the materials, lighting and surroundings as described below.

Setting: a fresh spring morning, soft low sun from the east, dew on the grass, a few high clouds. Camera at eye height on the approach to the north side, 28mm lens.

Shape rules (do not change these from the image): a modest one-and-a-half storey house in an L-shape. Two simple gabled wings meet at a right angle, each about 5.4 metres wide, with steep 45 degree roofs of the same ridge height that meet in one clean valley. The main wing is about 9 metres long; the second wing projects about 3.6 metres from one end. The eaves are low, about 4 metres up, so the roof is the main shape and the bedrooms sit inside it, lit by windows in the gable ends. No dormers, no chimney stack, no porch, no extensions.

Materials:
- Walls: vertical untreated larch boards, weathered to an even soft silver-grey with a little honey colour left under the eaves, with slim dark grey corner trims.
- Roof: dark grey fibre-cement slates in neat straight courses, crisp thin verges with a small overhang, a lead-lined valley, slim black half-round gutters and downpipes.
- Windows and doors: plain standard-size casement windows with slim anthracite grey frames, set neatly in the boarding. Only one roof window, in the main wing's roof slope that faces the yard, close to the valley.
- Base: the house sits on a low dark timber skirting just above a narrow strip of pale gravel. No brick or stone plinth.
- A single slim black steel stove flue rising through the north roof slope near the west end.
- The north wall is quiet: the front door is a plain vertical-boarded oak door with a simple black latch, set under a small slim black steel canopy, with a single sandstone step and a boot scraper.
- Beside the door, a pair of wellies and a terracotta pot of rosemary.

Surroundings: a flat paddock in a quiet Peak District valley: dry stone walls, rough grazing with a few sheep in the distance, hawthorns and one old ash tree, gritstone edges along the skyline. A gravel track runs up to the house through a gap in a dry stone wall with a simple timber field gate. Daffodils in the rough grass along the wall.

Style: high-end architectural photography, natural colours, crisp detail, real weathering and texture. Avoid: changing the shape, dormers, brick, render, stone walls on the house, porches, conservatories, big glass walls, barn conversion look, modern villa look, people, text.

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The north side on a spring morning, from the gravel track where it comes through a gap in a dry stone wall, past an open timber field gate, with daffodils along the wall and hawthorn in blossom on the left. A plain long larch wall under a steep dark slate roof, with a slim black flue on the roof. A plain vertical-boarded oak front door under a small black steel canopy, with a sandstone step, a pair of green wellies and a terracotta pot of rosemary beside it. The kitchen window to the right of the door, to the west, and the east gable on the left with the corridor window and the landing window above it. Green fields, sheep, trees and gritstone edges behind.
01 · The north side on a spring morning
Screenshot of this idea's 3D model from the approach to the north-east, in flat colours. The long north wall with the oak front door under its canopy and its stone step, the kitchen window to the west of the door, and the flue on the roof. On the left, the east gable with the corridor window and the landing window above it. The gravel track to the door, a hawthorn and dry stone walls. The shape reference for the arrival views.
02 · Screenshot of this idea's 3D model from the approach to the north-east