SketchUp: Kitchen Design

Design your dream kitchen with the 3D drawing tool SketchUp. Learn how to model and demolish your current kitchen to make room for a new design that fits your existing space.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files

1. Modeling the Existing Kitchen

• Exploring SketchUp's user interface
• Saving a custom template
• Assigning keyboard shortcuts
• Importing a 2D sketch
• Creating walls based on a sketch
• Modeling the existing kitchen
• Demolishing with layers

2. Designing the New Kitchen

• Creating a massing model of the new kitchen
• Altering the kitchen walls
• Designing an island at an angle
• Detailing counter and lower cabinets
• Detailing with the Section tool
• Detailing upper cabinets
• Creating cabinet moldings
• Adding cabinet handles
• Inserting appliances and fixtures

3. Making It Look Good

• Assigning materials
• Casting shadows
• Animating a camera to visualize the kitchen

Conclusion

• What we've learned
• Next steps