SketchUp House

SketchUp House

Original House Reference

For this project we had to use the software called SketchUp House to create a house model that we designed ourselves. Our designs were based off real blueprints and models of houses online. We had to learn a whole new software to prepare for this project and discover new functions of the software along the way. When starting out this project the first thing I did to prepare was watch the tutorials about SketchUp that were provided. This was helpful so I wasn't completely clueless going into this project. When I actually started working on the project I started out by going to houseplans.com and choosing a house design that I found interesting and wanted to base my SketchUp design after.

    When I started working in SketchUp and building my house I had to refer to my blueprints to try and size everything correctly and use the right measurements. Overall, my house is not very similar to the house I originally intended to base it off of. Some things are the same like the measurements for the size of the house but beyond that everything else is not that similar at all. I wanted to make it unique and something that I designed myself. Once I had designed everything the way I liked, it was time to fill in my house with colors, textures, and patterns/designs. I decided that I wanted to try something different with the colors and textures so I deviated completely from my reference and decided to use brick and make it mostly grey which is completely different from my reference which was made from wood. I was already pretty happy with my house so the designs I chose from the internet were pretty simple and just consisted of some marble flooring and a brick pattern for my front wall. In the end though I am really proud of the house and design that I created.

     While creating this design I feel like I learned quite a bit. The software was brand new to me and at the end I still feel like there is so much I still need to learn about it but I am proud of what I achieved with my knowledge about the software. I feel like I learned about determination as well because the software could get pretty frustrating at certain times especially due to my limited knowledge about the software. Something I would do differently would be to watch more tutorials on the SketchUp Software and this is something that I will probably still be doing when we move forward working with this software. Something that I would do the same and something that I am proud of is my design. I am still really happy with how my house turned out despite the simple and somewhat "bland" design and this is something that if possible I would like to do in other projects (designing). I am definitely going to draw from the fact that I was really frustrated while building my house and I will try to enhance my next project by getting to know the software a lot more before starting any work. Overall, I am really grateful to have done this project and learned so many new things about the SketchUp software and how I work best and what I can do to improve and future projects.