Thinking about the interior of my building- Drawing & Google sketch up

As well as thinking about how the exterior of the house would look, I began thinking about how the interior would look, by doing some simple sketches in my sketch book and on seperate sheets of paper this helped develop my ideas, I used paint to map out some of my thoughts about how the rooms could be layed  at a starting point.

Idea for lounge, sofas the central part of the room, social area

Bedroom, bed central part and interesting part of the room.

Toilet, interesting design concept of all 3 corners being occupied

Kitchen, table central part of the room, with dividers to suggest the seating area is the main focus

I began to think about the kitchen, there were different colour schemes I could of had in the room, although I found by using red, black and white this would create an interesting and appealing space. I began designing mood boards both for the kitchen and the lounge, by doing this I could see what the furniture and the colour scheme would be like, although I could nto see where the objects would be placed or what the room would look like properly.

Kitchen
After coming to a decision about the colour scheme, I began to design the layout of the kitchen, I began to use Google Sketch Up for this, before begginning this course, I had never thought about using Google Sketch Up as part of a project, although I found this program very interesting and useful in my design approach. By using the building tools I began to design a traingle room, i thought about how the space could be used and occupied. I thought about how the kitchen is the heart of a home and how this would appeal to older and younger generations.
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Bathroom
When designing the bathroom, I came to a decision about the colour scheme, I thought brown and cream would work well, I thought about using a wooden floor for the bathroom, which would be bamboo, after researching different flooring I found bamboo was the most sustainable along with cork. I also used Google Sketch Up on my bathroom, this way I could get a feel of what the room would look like and how the different objects could be layed out. I also thought of how the bathroom would look modern and would appeal to both the younger and older generations.
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Bedroom
Before designing the bedroom I thoguht about what colour scheme would look fresh and appealing in a room, i thought about using a feature wall of turquoise and 2 cream walls. By doing this this added colour to the room. I used Google Sketch Up to help me see where the furniture would look right, I looked on the paint maps which I did earlier and ensured the bed was the central part to the room by putting it in the corner with furniture around it. I found by doing so other objects like a circular chair fir in well with the room.
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Lounge 
When designing the lounge I foudn the main focus for me was the sofas in the middle of the room, by putting round sofas in a circle in the centre of the room this ensured the room would be a social area and a relaxing area to sit. I found by using brown and cream this lifted the room and looked warmer. I started using google sketch up to find a few suitable chairs which would fit in with my design, I found two arched chairs which worked in the centre of the room. By doing this I found I could arrange more furniture around the chairs and even put a table in the middle of them.
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Interior Design- Housing Concept

I was asked to design an idea for a show home, taking into consideration the layout and design of the exterior and interior. I was asked to produce visual research, drawings which have been developed, the use of space in the room, mood boards to show my ideas and to take into account colour, style, textures and furnishings.
     I began to design a building which would fit in with the design brief, I began with a square building, and thought about how different parts of the building could be cut out or have a window in it. I then thought about how the house could be on stilts, therefore the garden would be larger and could go under the house as well as around the house. I thought about different window designs and large, small and different shapes for windows.With these ideas in hand I began to produce several A1 sheets of developing ideas for my house.

 To further the design I thought about how the rooms could all be seperate and how one room could be one house, therefore the rooms would have more light and more space and the space could be used better. The rooms would be seperated by walkways with a overhead cover (which would be ideal for miserable weather) leading towards the different rooms. I began to draw walkways and different ways the buildings could be angled in which the houses would link together.I also thought about how the windows would work and whether enough natural light was being created in the room.
 I then thought of how by spliting the rooms up into buildings, I could use that idea to cut a square diagnol to create a triangle shape which would suggest it was half of a building and would match the idea of rooms connected by walkways. I then began to design an interesting concept of how a triangle building would look good from the outside and also look stylish in the interior. By using a triangle room the use of space in the interior was important, as the room was half the size of the previous square building, the interior has less space and a difficult shape which would need to be designed well. After looking at this, I began to think about windows, I designed triangle windows which would fit in with the design of a triangle house, although i thought one window was not enough, i then thought about using a rectangle window underneath the triangle to add more light to the room but to also look like a show home. I then came up with a model of 4 triangle houses, joined together by walkways and on stilts so the garden was large and exposed.

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