3D renderings

The finished room, before it exists.

From plan to picture

The floor plan

It begins on the walk-through: the room measured, photographed, and what stays noted. Then the room is drawn from above to those numbers, with the walls, the openings, the run of the cabinets and the island in their places. Whether the layout works is settled here, first.

A 2D floor plan of the kitchen: thick black walls, the range and its dashed hood in the run of cabinets along the top wall, the sink drawn in the island with three stools along its near side, a window in the left wall, a tall refrigerator cabinet and a door in the right wall, and dimension lines around the outside. — 01The floor plan

The elevations

Each wall drawn straight on. The plan says what goes where; the elevations say how tall it is and how it meets the window, the ceiling and the floor. Cabinet heights, the hood, the line where the tile stops.

An elevation drawing of the range wall, straight on: four shaker doors left of the hood and three to its right, the hood centered over the range, one unbroken counter over base cabinets and drawers, and the run ending at the built-in tower with the microwave over the wall oven, with dimension lines. — 02The elevations

The model

The plan and the elevations become the room in three dimensions, with the finishes on together in its own light. If you have made a mood board, this is where it stops being a collage and becomes a room.

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A SketchUp-style 3D model of a kitchen: white shaker cabinets, a marble island with three stools and a pale oak floor, every edge drawn as a thin line, seen from above. — 03The model

The view

The room lit as it will be lit, from where you would stand in it: at the sink, from the doorway, from the table. Change your mind here, while it is still a drawing and not a demolition.

The same kitchen as a photorealistic rendering, fitted out: white shaker cabinets, a range under a plaster hood, a wall oven, a refrigerator, the sink in the marble island with a brass faucet, three white pendants over the island, oak stools, a runner on the pale oak floor. — 04The view

The package

Everything together, as one set from our in-house designer: the floor plan, the elevations with every cabinet drawn and sized, and the views. It is what the crew builds from, and what goes to whoever is making the cabinets or cutting the stone.

A bound residential drawing set for the kitchen, fanned on a table: the cover sheet with a small 3D view and the sheet index, then the demolition plan, the proposed floor plan, the electrical plan, interior elevations with every cabinet dimensioned, a section and details, and the schedules, each sheet with its title block and number. — 05The package

What it is for

Three things it settles before anyone picks up a tool.

01
Deciding
Whether the island fits, whether the wall should come out, whether the window wants to be bigger. Hard to answer in an empty room; easy in a modeled one.
02
Agreeing
You, the crew and the cabinet maker all looking at the same room. Fewer things left to be imagined, so fewer things imagined differently.
03
Ordering
Cabinets and stone are ordered to a model, not a sketch. The sizes are the sizes, and what arrives is what was drawn.

A gabled house at dusk, every window warmly lit, seen across the yard.

Begin

Start with the walk-through.

Not every job needs the whole set. A bathroom where the fixtures stay put may only want a plan; a kitchen where the island moves, or a renovation that runs through several rooms, gets the full package. Tell us about the room and we will say which yours is.

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