I'm Tammy Cody, I’m an interior designer here on California Central Coast and this is Tommy Rouse
he's an Emmy nominated production designer. It's a pleasure to be here, and we've worked on a few
design projects together in the past. We have and honestly, one of my favorites was Queer Eye Japan,
you were a huge help on that project because of the language barrier, your SketchUp skills came in
clutch for communicating what we wanted to do and I need your SketchUp skills again for a project
I’m working on called the Treeline house. It's for a family that's moving from the San Francisco area
to the Lake Tahoe area they're escaping the bustling city to get a little more nature,
a little more space. I’ve kind of started to create a pallet here to give us some inspiration.
It's full of lots of rich colors and natural textures. This looks great! Yeah,
I was trying to put a lot of natural elements into a more minimalistic application.
Let's take a look at the 3d model in SketchUp, all right. First let's look at the house that
the client's purchase in its current state, okay even though it's a little bit larger than their
previous home in San Francisco, it's still a bit tight for a family of four, and as you can see
it needs a major update. Yes, it still has the formica countertops, the outdated appliances,
it needs a major overhaul, and the kitchen is the heart of their home, they really enjoy being
together while cooking and relaxing, but they need a space where they're not on top of each other.
The space is divided into two rooms making the staircase area more of a non-functioning hallway
so we're going to open up by taking down this wall.
Okay, that already makes such a huge difference, taking out that wall, it looks so much more
open. The area around the stairs isn't being used very well so we're going to maximize it
by adding a seating area and a gas fireplace, now that the dividing wall is gone we can blow
open that exterior wall and add some really large glass doors to highlight the deck and the gorgeous
views. So, enough of the before, let's take a look at the design we've created for them.
We took an outdated and non-functional design and we turned it into a gorgeous
open space in SketchUp, over just a few hours. Starting with the fireplace, I would
really love to see what it looks like with open shelving to the left, what do you think? Yeah,
I like that idea it's really easy to swap out and SketchUp I’ll just take out the base cabinet here
and add all open shelves.
Oh, open shelves are so much better in this space, I’m digging the clean lines and the repetition,
let's stick with it. What about adding a rug to this area, can we get some sort of faux fur or
something with an organic shape? Absolutely let's open the 3d warehouse and see what they have. I
love the 3d warehouse, yep, here is a rug here. We'll just download it and place it under this
coffee table. That looks so much better yeah I love it. When we first brainstormed about this
project we had chosen a sage green color for the walls. It's kind of a nod to the natural
surroundings and you decided to go a different way. Yeah, I wanted to go a little more bold and
so I decided to go black and I’m so happy we did it honestly highlights all the wood tones
and the beautiful trees and it really makes the space feel more cozy, even though we opened it up.
Yes, I’m so happy you asked to do that I love it I wouldn't have thought of it myself but I love it,
it looks great. Okay, let's talk about the island, the family told me they really like to eat at the
island when it's just them, so I’m wondering if we could add one more stool. Oh, yeah absolutely
we can do that really quickly in SketchUp, perfect, just creating an array and adding in four
Okay, that was really easy and SketchUp made it so you didn't have to do the math.
Now can we see what it looks like to see the island wrapped in that same dark rich material
that you have on the fireplace? Sure, yeah let's just go ahead and swap those materials
and wrap the island with it, and wow you're right that really makes it look a big difference, I love
it oh my gosh, it reminds me of when we went to Japan for Queer Eye and we learned about the
shousugibon, yeah, yeah yeah it looks like that, yeah I love it against the white oak
such a good contrast, totally, and it ties the two spaces together
and breaks up the island a little bit. Yeah, I agree. While we're in the kitchen the family
has already purchased a 48-inch monogram range, I’m wondering if we could see that in the model.
Yeah let's uh let's go to the 3d warehouse and take a look at the monogram catalog,
there's a professional ranges section already, so we can just grab a 48-inch range,
download it directly into the model. So, the great thing about this feature is that these
are models from the manufacturer. Oh, so it's not just like generic imagery of the appliances,
nope, monogram made it really easy they already have the models to scale the textures are applied,
it's super easy to spec, just like the faucet that we have that's from the Briza collection,
it's already in matte black, we just pulled it from the warehouse. That's awesome and it looks
incredible. Overall this is looking really good and I think we're so close to showing the clients
but, is there any way to make sure all our details are buttoned up, like I want to make
sure that the pendants are evenly spaced over the island. Okay, yes so SketchUp makes it really easy
to just look at it in top view. I’m going to drop this down parallel projection, and yeah I can see
that one of the pendants is slightly off it's like a little bit forward, so I’m going to move that
so that the center of it, is centered with the top of our island and you were right that looks a lot
better, and now they're evenly spaced. Tammy, I love it, and I think the family's going to love
it, and the fact that we can utilize SketchUp to visualize the space in 3d is a game-changer.
Honestly, it takes a lot of burden off me as the designer to help the family imagine themselves
in their new space, yes and this is just so much better than 2d visuals alone and actually,
SketchUp can grab 2d documentation from this 3d model so we have a little bit of both. We've got
a 2d view of the kitchen and the stairs for the documentation but obviously, we also have
our 3d model to present to the client. Tommy, I loved working on this project with you,
I think it's going in such a great direction and SketchUp made it so easy to collaborate
of course, do you think we're ready to show the clients? I think we are. Okay, let's go show
them.