Architectually accurate gingerbread replica of home

Posted by Cory Doctorow, January 4, 2008 10:18 AM | permalink

Jeff's family got the plans for their 1950s ranch house and faithfully recreated it in gingerbread.

Using elevations from a recent renovation, my wife constructed the sides and the girls set out to decorate. I, being the professional photographer in a previous life, was tasked with documenting the finished model. As we are a multicultural family, matzot was used for the hipped roof and garage doors.

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#1 posted by Anonymous , January 4, 2008 10:46 AM

Graham cracker scale model replicas are a holiday tradition in my family. This year my sister and I took on the brand new New Museum in NYC. Build photos here.

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#2 posted by S2L , January 4, 2008 1:03 PM

...This was what we built for our christmas card this year. The girlfriend downloaded some architectural plans for a geodesic dome, assembled the sections to find out where things didn't fit, and cut the slabs out of gingerbread. Flickr has the process:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/slavetothelight/sets/72157603540479955/

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#3 posted by nouseforadave , January 4, 2008 5:07 PM

Very cool, reminds me of sustainable gingerbread houses:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/bakeforachange

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#4 posted by sgarst , January 5, 2008 1:50 PM

My family did this for our xmas card this year. We did two versions, at 1/4" scale (my wife is an architect). The kids had a blast playing
Godzilla
(flickr photos)!