A few ideas include back-painted spandrel glass or just a really high gloss paint. It could be an opportunity to introduce some color (mustard yellow?) without being committed to that color forever. We’re also still mulling over the backsplash at the range. We had originally planned on chocolate brown paperstone countertops, but with the darker base cabinets we’re now thinking of something lighter – maybe either ecotop or a quartz material. We really want the island to be a large, open work surface that can accommodate several people. For the countertop, we’re thinking IKEA’s beech butcher block or lyptus. The shelf will hold the microwave and Bailey’s bowls (hence the cutouts). The island will be constructed of two drawer units and a shelf unit, with the opposite side and back wrapped in IKEA end panels. Here’s a view standing at the dishwasher looking back at the dining and living area. We have yet to pick out a faucet, but will be looking for something that’s modern with a pull-out spray nozzle. We bought a sink on sale a few years ago, though we’re considering swapping it for a single, deep basin. For the range hood we’re thinking of going with a simple and clean model from vent-a-hood. The range shown above is the actual range we bought yesterday(!) and the refrigerator and dishwasher are what we currently own. Since the kitchen will be part of a larger great room, we’d like to express the different components as a cohesive, built-in cabinet. To achieve this, we’ll build two infill boxes out of fir, one over the fridge and one to the left of the white cabinets and then wrap the entire composition in fir plywood. White upper cabinets (and maybe countertops) will help the space feel light and bright. The darker base cabinets provide some visual grounding and will show less dirt/food splatters/etc. The bluish-gray base cabinets are IKEA Abstrakt as are the upper white horizontal cabinets (both have a high gloss finish similar to our bathroom vanity). We’re pretty happy with where things are at, but will likely continue to adjust things here and there in the next couple of months.
We then went to IKEA to more closely examine colors, sizes, and door and drawer operation. As a result, we did a good deal of tweaking. While we had worked out the general cabinet layout and “what goes where” in autocad, we wanted to see how the materials and colors were coming together.
KITCHEN SKETCHUP PROFESSIONAL
Tiles, backsplashes, countertops and a quick exploration adding lighting effects to designs with freeware and shareware alternatives will complete your knowledge to succeed in your daily professional life.During the last week or so, we have been updating our sketchup 3D model in order to study our ever evolving design ideas for the kitchen. If you wonder how you can choose certain items a cabinets company offers, and how will you get the detail of the door style and color to be what you want, you will find those answers in this book.
KITCHEN SKETCHUP HOW TO
You will also learn other topics as how to create your own parametric components capable to change size, material and dimensions or create a fast design using pictures or images. In this book you will learn how to drag and drop cabinets that are different sizes, selecting the door style and finishes, and how to create new components in blink of an eye.
KITCHEN SKETCHUP SOFTWARE
However, SketchUp is a very powerful tool to perform this type of task taking into account the vast library collections that can be found in the 3D Warehouse, the low money investment in software needed, and versatility of designs and materials available to apply on surfaces. The main benefit of this type of software is its catalogue of kitchen cabinets, as well as the instant pricing information.
Many kitchen designers have used for years specialized software to make designs fairly quickly.