Sunday, February 7, 2010

Sketching & Brainstorming My Living Room’s Layout.

I was very reluctant to post these sketches (because they’re not perfect) but then I thought: this is my style, the way I think, these are my sketches, although in my mind they’re always perfect.

Sometimes I wish I could sketch beautifully, with perspective, depth, colour, volume… those kind of sketches that look like photograph’s rather than drawings. But then I think “I can’t be good at everything, can I? I’m good doing other things like technical drawings, come up with concepts, starting projects, improve details, presenting ideas to clients, find the right furniture for interiors, among other little things.
So, these are sketches/ideas to change my living room/home office layout. As you can see they’re not in scale, which is something that drives me nuts, but I thought I should do it to challenge my comfort zone.

I have to say I haven’t measure my living room because I know if I did I would draw straight to autoCAD, but I promise I will update this post in scale (sometime soon).

I’m not sure if it’s better to get into the room straight to my ‘office’ or to my living space, as the first get’s very easily a bit messy.

I want to have my armchairs together, so this is not a good option. I wonder if I should leave it as it is… (1st sketch).

So, what are you good at? What would you like to be good at?

5 comments:

heather jenkinson said...

What? These are fine - they're fluid and flexible and perfectly readable. What more do you want from a drawing? If you want to draw like a photograph, would it not be simpler to just photograph the room? Good enough, is good enough.

Unknown said...

ok, maybe you're right! well, you're right, right? but you know what i mean, right? :) my sketches are only ideas, nothing else!

Southern Aspirations said...

This was a fascinating look. I do not like the last option but do like the original and a few more. Could the chairs be moved towards the center- near the table? (please note that I have no idea what I'm talking about, probably).

Unknown said...

Thanks Southern Aspirations. I've already restyled the room and i ended up styling with a few alterations. Next week i will post as it is now.
of course you know what you're talking about. you found gaps straight away and ideas poped out! that's wonderful.

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