This is a series of 5 videos that will teach you how to design any small or large structure that could be used for a house, workshop, shed, house-on-wheels or other purpose.
The program used is Sketchup version 8 which is free to download here: http://www.sketchup.com/download
If you are building a structure or mechanical device it really helps to create a 3D visual model first and use that as your design plans and that allows you to make changes and see problems before wasting money and time in the actual construction process.
I recommend you have Sketchup installed and open as you follow these lessons and pause the video and try each command as you go along. Sketchup is fairly easy to master once you understand the basic commands.
If you enjoy designing stuff Sketchup is an excellent program and with the housebuilder module you can do a framing model so you can see how the structure is constructed and estimate material costs. You can create 3D models to display your designs and even create a walk through or 3D models for games.
I use Sketchup for all my small off-grid house designs and I have many of these house designs on my youtube channel for ideas and plans available on my website.
Please feel free to share this Instructable or video links on your social networks!
-LaMar
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Legal Note: I am not associated with Sketchup and these videos are for education/information purposes.
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Accessible to everyone, Home Design 3D is the reference interior design application for a professional result at your fingertips!
Build your multi-story house now!
Unlimited number of floors with GOLD PLUS version (depends on your device's capacity).
CREATE, DESIGN, FURNISH AND DECORATE EASILY YOUR HOME AND SHARE IT WITH A COMMUNITY OF MORE THAN 35 MILLION OF USERS WORLDWIDE!
Whether you want to decorate, design or create the house of your dreams, Home Design 3D is the perfect app for you:
1.DESIGN YOUR FLOORPLAN
- In 2D and 3D, draw your plot, rooms, dividers
- Change the height or the thickness of the walls, create corners
- Add doors and windows with fully-resizable pieces of joinery
2. FURNISH AND DECORATE
- Design and decorate both the interior and outdoor of your home
- Make your choice from over a thousand of pieces of furniture and accessories, customize your decoration and express your style, from the most classical to the trendiest!
- Edit any object, by changing its size, color, position and altitude on the walls
- Duplicate your favorite items thanks to the copy/paste function
- Use the undo/redo feature at anytime if you want to go back
- Use the eye dropper to find an existing color in the plan
- You can also import picture as texture and apply them everywhere
3. VISUALIZE AND VISIT YOUR CREATION
- Visit your creation in real-time 3D as if you were inside it thanks to our brand new photo-realistic 3D rendering
- Discover your home, your outdoor and even your neighborhood
- Admire the result day and night, the compass function will show you where exactly the light will fall at different times of the day
4. IMPORT/EXPORT AND SHARE
- Import any plan and display it on the background of the project
- Export and continue your projects on your other devices thanks to the cross-platform compatibility
- Share your projects via e-mail, Dropbox, OneDrive and many more file hosting services!
- Share your best creations with the Home Design 3D community on www.homedesign3d.net!
No internet connection required
Illustrated tutorial available
Calling all professionals! We can make it possible to see your products in Home Design 3D, or develop a unique version of the app for your needs. Contact us at [email protected]
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Home design tools
Armstrong Design Tools Armstrong's Design Tools lets you pick any room in an imaginary home, and mix and match potential wall colors, flooring, trim, and countertops. Once you change everything in the room to fit your desire, you can save the room's design and share it with friends.
Color-a-Room Better Homes and Gardens' Color-a-Room tool lets you change the paint schemes of any room in the house. Once you pick the room, you can choose the color you like for your walls. From there, you can find window treatments and save the room for future viewing. If you want to work on the outside of your home, you can pick the paint colors for your roof, siding, shutters, or window trim. As with the Armstrong tool, you won't be looking at a representation of your home, per se, but it will give you a better idea of what might work in your space.
Deck Designer If you're planning on adding a deck to your house, Deck Designer is a great place to start. The tool lets you choose the size, shape, and color of your deck. You can decide where to put it, add stairs and railings, and save as many designs as you want. When complete, you can print out a full listing of the materials you need, as well as tips on how to install it.
Design Basics Design Basics is a fine resource to consult when you start building a new home or add on to an existing structure. You can search for floor plans based on the number of bedrooms you're looking for, how many levels you want, and much more. Once you find the house you like, you can buy both the blueprint and the 3D design. But beware that the charges are quite high--some blueprints cost as much as $1,000, while 3D design fees can be even higher.
Google SketchUp Pro 7 Google SketchUp Pro 7 is designed for those who want to create 3D models. It's also a handy tool when you want to design an addition to your home. The app asks you to input the area of your structure to ensure that all measurements are precise. It also applies colors and textures (of your choosing) to help you create a 3D representation of what you want to build. It's a well-designed tool, but it costs $495. There is a free version available, but it's not as capable as the paid version.
HGTV.com Whether you want to redesign a bathroom, remodel your kitchen, or add a new room to your home, HGTV.com will give you all the resources you need to do it. The site is filled with how-to videos and tools that show you different color themes for rooms throughout your house. One of its best features is its message board, which is filled with active discussions on topics ranging from buying real estate to remodeling.
Paint Designer The Paint Designer tool helps you determine what color paint you want in rooms throughout the house. Once you pick the place you want to paint, the tool's palette feature lets you flip through different shades of your desired color. When you find what you like, you can estimate the cost of your project with the built-in calculator.
PointclickHome PointClickHome, associated with the magazines Elle Decor and Metropolitan Home, boasts some outstanding resources for redecorating or remodeling your home. The site's remodeling guide gives you loads of information on topics ranging from flooring to cabinets for any room in the house. PointClickHome's 'Room Finder' tool lets you sift through photos of classic, modern, and contemporary styles for any room.
SeeMyDesign SeeMyDesign lets you create a room from scratch. You can arrange furniture, decide where to put doors, and even erect walls. If you want to paint a pre-existing room, you can input its dimensions and estimate the total cost of your project with the app's built-in calculator. It's a simple tool, but it's worth trying out.
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Description
With Home Design 3D, designing and remodeling your house in 3D has never been so quick and intuitive!
Accessible to everyone, Home Design 3D is the reference interior design application for a professional result at your fingertips!
Build your multi-story house now!
Unlimited number of floors with GOLD PLUS version (depends on your device's capacity)
Augmented reality (with ARKit for compatible devices on Gold and Gold Plus versions)
CREATE, DESIGN, FURNISH AND DECORATE EASILY YOUR HOME AND SHARE IT WITH A COMMUNITY OF MORE THAN 35 MILLION OF USERS WORLDWIDE!
--FREE VERSION--
In this FREE version, you can test the functionalities of the app and explore its possibilities.
BE AWARE, SAVE FUNCTION IS NOT INCLUDED IN THIS FREE VERSION!
However, projects created can be saved directly by in-app purchase.
Whether you want to decorate, design or create the house of your dreams, Home Design 3D is the perfect app for you:
1. DESIGN YOUR FLOORPLAN
- In 2D and 3D, draw your plot, rooms, dividers
- Change the height or the thickness of the walls, create corners
- Add doors and windows with fully-resizable pieces of joinery
2. FURNISH AND DECORATE
- Design and decorate both the interior and outdoor of your home
- Make your choice from over a thousand of pieces of furniture and accessories, customize your decoration and express your style, from the most classical to the trendiest!
- Edit any object, by changing its size, color, position and altitude on the walls
- Duplicate your favorite items thanks to the copy/paste function
- Use the undo/redo feature at anytime if you want to go back
- Use the eye dropper to find an existing color in the plan
- You can also import picture as texture and apply them everywhere
3. VISUALIZE AND VISIT YOUR CREATION
- Visit your creation in real-time 3D as if you were inside it thanks to our brand new photo-realistic 3D rendering
- Discover your home, your outdoor and even your neighborhood
- Admire the result day and night, the compass function will show you where exactly the light will fall at different times of the day
4. IMPORT/EXPORT AND SHARE
- Import any plan and display it on the background of the project
- Export and continue your projects on your other devices thanks to the cross-platform compatibility
- Share your projects via e-mail, Dropbox, OneDrive and many more file hosting services!
- Share your best creations with the Home Design 3D community on www.homedesign3d.net!
Suitable for the iPad 4 and iPhone 4s or latest
No internet connection required
Illustrated tutorial available
Calling all professionals! We can make it possible to see your products in Home Design 3D, or develop a unique version of the app for your needs. Contact us at [email protected]
_________________________________________
Follow us on Twitter @homedesign3d
Join us on facebook.com/homedesign3d
Get inspired on our Pinterest boards/homedesign3d/
Follow us on Instagram @homedesign3d_off
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Ratings and Reviews
It’s good but has its problems
It’s def helped with my remodel of my house, love being able to see some different ideas quickly. That being said there is some glitchyness - for example your second story floor will have a massive hole in it u less on the first story you use the ‘room’ tool, this is counter intuitive because sometimes a room is not a square or rectangle but the room tool is only square or rectangles. So if you build a section of your home with just walls you will have no ceiling/floor on the second story. You still don’t have a ‘room’ according to the program. Strange.. after you figure unexplained stuff like this out it’s easy. Also where is the scale textures function? I don’t want tiles the size of somebodies head. That should be a no brainer. Another gripe is how things are scaled. It would be nice to be able to scale and have a control that only effects the side you are pulling on, especially because most items are up against other items or walls. Also the textures/models are very low res, they look like an early 2000s game. And finally please add being able to select /copy paste multiple objects instead of having to drag the same item from a menu 59 times..
Almost perfect, just needs more customization ability
Overall I love this app and it’s pretty easy to use. I used it to redesign my hair studio. There are just a couple of minor things that are missing that would earn it a five star rating. When in 3D mode, I wish I could add the exam dimensions of the night of an object. It’s great that you can change the altitude with a slider, but it’s a guess as to what the scale is and I have to just guess. Another thing that would make this app complete wold be if there were a generic object(s) or shapes that could be used to represent miscellaneous items that are not included in the object list. Those two things would make it 5 star for me. As a bonus, more customization and objects would make the app even better! The app has more possibilities beyond just the home, It’s great for small bizz owners with space to design! Perhaps more packs to unlock by “ liking” or writing a review.. or incorporating more objects when you pay for an upgrade? Otherwise, I do love the app!
Mostly great but could be amazing with a few tweaks
I have spent many a late night twiddling away on this. I use it to map out places for the stories I write and it really helps me orient my mind and makes it a little easier to work out a scene. But there are a few issues that frustrate me sometimes:
1) I often run into problems with the ceiling disappearing when hiding or deleting walls or when changing wall height (and sometimes when snapping rooms together, be it far less often).
2) Uploaded textures are automatically resized into a square with no cropping, causing it to be stretched and deformed when using
3)About half the time I attach land to the outside of a structure an overhang can be seen running along the top of the land boarder
Improvements:
1) Ability to sort our imported textures into the pre loaded folders
2) Display the angle of a wall when we are creating or moving, especially if angle is not 0 or 90
3) Allow us to adjust altitude of all objects
4) Option to have light sources (lamps, ceiling lights) actually emit light
5) Ability to to lock objects into place
6) Option to delete certain items in a furniture object without deleting the entire object
7) An invisible texture for removing certain parts of an object or making parts see-through
8) An option to make rounded walls
9) Ability to set wall height for the entire project or floor
Information
Requires iOS 10.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
Computer House Design Programs
English, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish
- Upgrade to the Classic version$6.99
- Upgrade to the Gold version$11.99
- Upgrade to the Gold version$3.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.