3D Printed Card Trays for Welcome to...Your Perfect Home


Last week I shared a 3D printing project to upgrade our Quacks of Quedlinburg board game.. This week I'm sharing another board game upgrade. One of our favorite games is a flip and write (flip cards and write on a game board) called Welcome to...Your Perfect Home. We have purchased several expansions for the game, so I was having a hard time figuring out how to neatly store everything. So, when I saw this card tray set for Welcome to..Your Perfect Home, it looked like exactly what we needed.


I set up the files with standard settings (.2 resolution, 20% infil) and sliced the small tray and the large tray files. With our 3D printer, I printed the smaller tray first using some Blue PLA.


The smaller tray took about 7 hours to print. Between the design and the PLA plus that we used to print the tray, it's very sturdy and it printed perfectly. It did take a little bit of coaxing to remove it from the print bed, though.


The larger tray was printed the next day. We used the same settings and filament.


This one took 17 hours (well, that's what was estimated, it finished while I was sleeping) to print. It also came out really cleanly and very sturdy.


One of the other issues with storing our Welcome to...Your Perfect Home game was that we had several expansions (which for this game include a few cards and a pad of game boards). They wouldn't all fit in our game box, so I used the laminator to turn our expansion game board papers into dry erase boards. I already had dry erase boards for the base game, so we knew the game worked well played that way. So, I went ahead and laminated 2 sheets for each of the expansions.


We have 6 expansions, so I ended up with 12 sheets to trim after running them through the laminator. I had to trim them pretty close to their edges so they would fit back in the box, but they came out pretty well.


After the trays were printed and the sheets were laminated, I could finally assemble the whole game back in its box. I started with the two printed trays.


The large tray sits right in the bottom of the box. It fits perfectly.


All of the number cards can be divided among the top row. If you only have the base game, you can leave the bottom row of the tray empty. I had task cards from our expansions to put in those trays for storage.


Then the task cards from the base game go in the smaller tray and set on top.


Then there's just enough room left over for our stack of instructions and wipe off boards. If you have the base game, your pad of player board papers can go on top.


When playing the game, the two row tray gets used for flipping over the number cards and the small tray is used to display your game's task cards. It works perfectly for storage and for gameplay. I'm so glad I printed these trays. They were long prints, but came out so nice and sturdy--definitely a great add-on for a great game.

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