I have built the facade of a two storey Iraqi house, with a little bit of the rooms present. Does anyone have any pics of the insides of houses in iraq. Google came up with a few, but nothing really useful.

if anyone's interested, the house was made from polystyrene and wall filler and is part of a base for a Stryker and accompanying infantry.

Thanks in advance

Try:

white marble/ tile floors
sparse but comfortable furniture
TL lighting
"hanging/ draped" curtains in front of windows

(From memory, of seeing tv news clips)

Here's a usefull link:
http://al-saeed-group.com/en/products_en.htm

any chance of pictures of the house?

I can email you some after tomorrow. My own computer lacks the proper uplink.
Most homes have a main living area, with pillows along the wall, no tables or chairs. You'll find gas heaters (Pro Art Models sells the tanks) or in rare cases a wood burning stove. There'll generally be a display area for family knickknacks, in the center of which is a TV. Almost every house I took had a satellite dish, even the mud huts had them.
Bedrooms (one for male, one for females) generally have a large European style "schrank" on one end, which is piled to the ceiling with blankets and pillows. These are stored every morning. Few other items are there, perhaps a smaller TV hooked up to a VCR. in the cabinet containing the ladies' underwear, you could usually find two fully loaded AK mags. (honestly, 75% of the time)
The floors are either bare concrete or packed earth, covered with rugs. Sheikhs homes might have tile, but more often than not poured concrete. A note on Iraqi construction - most dwellings are built with the walls first. The floors, if they are concrete, are poured afterward.
Nicer homes might have a refrigerator, usually cool storage, as it's hard to keeps things cold with only two hours of electricity every day. Stoves were rare- most cooking is done outside in mud ovens.
Bathrooms might be 3x3 or 4x4 feet square, just a hole in the center of the floor, sometimes with a porcelain receptacle, sometimes not. There might be a small faucet about a foot high, attached to a hose. Either way, also a small water vessel, like a plastic pitcher.
Nicer homes had a sink for hand washing.
In most cases, water was stored in a cistern on the roof or on a stand outside of the house.
If I've missed anything of interest to you let me know.

In case you need some, Blast Models has released a set of household appliances (BL35040K). Plus Model makes a fridge set (#222) and a cooker (#293)

HTH
Frenchy

Refrigerator. It's new. Honest.

Typical living room:

Bare floor:

The loo:

May be this is of any help, too?


http://flickr.com/photos/soldiersmediacenter/2387972168/

(by the way, this photo stream is great)


Johannes