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Walk the house before it’s built.

Ovara turns residential plans into a 3D house your clients walk through on their own, room by room.

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Ovara render · Brick Ranch 002

Your crew reads the plan.Does your client?

A drawing set holds everything a crew needs. For a client it’s a stack of sheets to sign: does the island crowd the walk to the patio, where does the stair land, how do the bedrooms sit off the hall?

Sheet A1.1, the first floor plan of the Southern Farmhouse drawing set: rooms, dimensions, door and window schedules, and notes.
Sheet A1.1 · Southern Farmhouse, a design by Jay Osborne, FreeFarmhouse.comCC BY-SA 4.0

Ovara turns the drawing set into a 3D version of the house, so they can walk it before anyone frames a wall. We’re asking builders whether that changes the questions that come up later.

How it works

Built from the drawing set.

The house your client walks is read from the same sheets your crew builds from.

  • Walls, doors and windows.

    Read from the floor plans.

    Brick Ranch 002 from above with the roof cut away: the bedrooms, the family room, kitchen and the three-car garage, as drawn.

    Ovara render · Brick Ranch 002

  • Checked by a person.

    Each model is checked against every sheet. Anything we had to assume is labeled.

  • Roof, siding and heights.

    From the elevations.

    Brick Ranch 002 from the front corner: brick, cut stone and the stucco porch tower under an architectural shingle roof.

    Ovara render · Brick Ranch 002

  • Every door, from the schedule.

    Open it and walk through.

    Inside Brick Ranch 002 at eye height: a pair of doors, an arched doorway and the family room beyond.

    Ovara render · Brick Ranch 002

  • Lift the roof off.

    Look at each floor from above.

    Brick Ranch 002 from above and behind with the roof cut away: the rooms of the main floor and the garage.

    Ovara render · Brick Ranch 002

  • Every room, in any order.

    At eye height, in a browser on a desktop or laptop.

    The family room of Brick Ranch 002 at eye height: blue-gray walls, an arched opening and windows to the yard.

    Ovara render · Brick Ranch 002

  • Three houses to walk today.

    Demos built from residential plan sets.

A rendering is a postcard of the house. Ovara is the key to it.

Renderings and flythroughs are good at selling a look. They show the views someone else chose. In Ovara your client walks in and decides where to go next.

Brick Ranch 002 from the front corner: a single composed view of the brick gables, shutters and the stucco porch tower.
A rendering: one view, chosen for you.
  • From the entry of Brick Ranch 002, past an arch and a column into the family room and its fireplace.

    Inside the front door

  • The blue-gray family room under a ceiling fan, with columns and arched openings to the rooms beyond.

    Across the family room

  • The breakfast room's bay of three windows looking out to the back yard.

    Into the breakfast bay

  • The main bedroom with its tray ceiling and a bay of three arched windows.

    Into the main bedroom

The walk: every room, in any order, at eye height.

All images are Ovara renders of the Brick Ranch 002 demo. Ovara is in development; the demos open on a desktop or laptop. Renderings, flythroughs and walkthroughs compared.

Three houses, built from their plans.

The Southern Farmhouse is adapted from plans by Jay Osborne, FreeFarmhouse.com (CC BY-SA 4.0).

For the people who draw and build the house.

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Brick Ranch 002 from the street: brick gables, the stucco porch tower over an arched front door, cut stone and a bronze hood over the bay window.
Ovara render · Brick Ranch 002