“Our Home” Map — a Housewarming Gift with Your Address

A housewarming gift nobody else has

People usually bring dishes, plants or a gift card to a housewarming. An “Our home” map is different: it is your street and your house, highlighted in colour, with the address and a caption — no other family will have the same map. It stands on a shelf or a chest of drawers and reminds you every day where your home began.

What we need from you

• The address or a point on the map — from Google Maps or OpenStreetMap.
• The style: round, heart or plaque.
• The caption: the address, “Our home”, the family name or the housewarming date.
• The house colour — orange or another PLA colour we have in stock.

Before printing we show you the map and check it with you — we only print once you approve it.

How we make the map

We build the map from OpenStreetMap data: buildings by height (slightly exaggerated so the relief reads well) and dark streets, because at that height we change the filament during printing. Your house is printed separately in orange and glued into place, and the heart stands above the roof on a peg. New buildings are often missing from OpenStreetMap — we will check your address and let you know.

Care and limitations

• PLA is for indoor use: keep it out of the sun and away from radiators, as it softens at just 55–60 °C.
• The heart and thin towers are small parts: this is a keepsake, not a toy for small children.
• Dust it with a soft brush.

A map of a city, a neighbourhood or the place where you met is on the 3D city map page. More ideas are in the article housewarming gift ideas from a 3D printer.

Map data: © OpenStreetMap contributors, openstreetmap.org/copyright. The credit is also engraved on the back.