Showing posts with label Technical Drawings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Technical Drawings. Show all posts

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?

Monday, November 30, 2009

Colour Scheme.

Terrace house plans on a project I’ve posted before.
To see more detail on the plan, please click for larger image.

Ground Floor

Living room

Dining room

Wallpaper detail in the living room

Kitchen detail

First Floor

Main bedroom

Guest bedroom

Hall

To see more photos on these plans, please click on the following links:
The Colour Of Dreams
The Orchid Bedroom
The Green Kitchen
From Portugal With Love

Monday, November 23, 2009

Concept: A Big Christmas Box.

There’s one thing I love to design and admire: spatial installations and shop windows. I don’t do it for a while, but lately I’ve been driven to design an imaginary shop window (which I’m going to include on my portfolio). Hope you get inspiration from it. I would love to hear from you.


A space styled with layers and layers of tulle and knitted snowflakes.

To keep the knitted snowflakes they’ve to be attached on cardboard.

The idea is to have a light bulb in the centre of each snowflake.

An imaginary christmas box full of tulle and knitted snowflakes in white and red.

Materials: White and red tulle. Wool. Cardboard. Light bulb. Lead strings.









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A story behind this 2D christmas styling: when I was in primary school I (we) had a class about christmas tree decoration. We had to choose one of the two (and of course to say why): a super well decorated one and another one with no deco but a star on the very top. Somehow, I feel the styling for this window started when I remembered this class I had many many years ago.

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