Designing built-in alcove units using SKETCHUP

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I'm often asked, when designing projects for customers such as alcove units and other fitted furniture, how do I get the design right? How do I decide on the gaps between shelves and how big doors shoud be? How do I get the proportions right? Do I design everything on SketchUp first or do I just make it up as I go during the build? In today's slightly longer video I'm covering off my entire design process for a set of alcove units from beginning to end. From my initial scribbles with the customer through to a final detailed design. You'll also get to see some final pictures of the actual installation towards the end of the video.
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@wayne-kv9it 3 года назад

Hi Andy, just been into some diy woodworking, been browsing RU-vid for beginners sketch up. Just want to say thank you for explaining and showing how easier you made it for me in this video, love your channel by the way

@k.hussain360 5 лет назад

Really interesting to see your thoughts through the initial design process. Highlights the time and effort it takes outside of the physical build.

@drmkiwi 5 лет назад

Good stuff, thanks. Interesting how you arrive at proportions. I do a similar thing as well as try to use the golden ratio, always thought there must be a scientific way, but never found anything that is as reliable as the eye. Really appreciate you sharing your process. Cheers, David

@johnvodopija1743 5 лет назад

You are a professional good sir! I really enjoyed the design to sketch up to finished job process. Excellent video and thank you for taking the time to share your expertise 👍😎🇦🇺

@gavjav1 5 лет назад

Was about to say I can’t wait to see the finished job, very nice Andy 👍

@glennfelpel9785 5 лет назад

Very well done video and project!!! Nice work design and build!!!

@charlesarnold4963 5 лет назад

That was really useful and a brilliant insight into your design process and thinking. The end result was absolutely superb. Well done.

@GosforthHandyman 5 лет назад

Cheers Charles! 👍

@johnsmith-fz3qk 2 года назад

Criminally under appreciated video for the number of views. Inspirational 👌

@SteveHit1 5 лет назад

A really useful video - thanks for making this!

@briankrueger1142 5 лет назад

Very nice work. Thanks for sharing.

@yrification 5 лет назад

great job, and nice to see a more in depth view of SketchUp. I haven't managed to get round to using it yet but it looks a brilliant tool.

@GosforthHandyman 5 лет назад

Cheers! 👍

@billys1997 5 лет назад

really professional job here!

@christofix 5 лет назад

Sketchup is very helpful for my projects too. You make some great cabinets man!

@GosforthHandyman 5 лет назад

Cheers bud! Really useful tool. 👍👊

@normanbott 5 лет назад

Nice ! I really like the door detail - it's clean and modern as well as reflecting the existing mouldings in the room. Interesting video and you're getting good at SKETCHUP too.

@GosforthHandyman 5 лет назад

I look more professional when it's sped up to 10 times normal speed. 😂👍

@steve6438 5 лет назад

Great video. SketchUp work was helpful to see. I am learning it and feel if I can get more proficient that it will help the build process. Thank you

@PaulWoodJatobaFilms 5 лет назад

Super video Andy, I guess I should be doing this a bit more - just finished two bathroom cabinets where the drawing was in my head rather than on screen, and it certainly cost me both time and in customer reviews before finishing!

@michaelburton9638 5 лет назад

nice work Andy, I also use sketch up so useful for me to get tips . Thanks for making it

@GosforthHandyman 5 лет назад

No worries Michael! 👍

@painterman8863 5 лет назад

looks great Andy,

@GosforthHandyman 5 лет назад

Cheers bud! 👍

@michaelburton9638 4 года назад

Nice work Andy. I'm doing my first unit with an Oak top next week.

@oliverdrayton8139 5 лет назад

Great video, really helpful!!

@nickridiculous 3 года назад

Good thing I didn't see this in highschool, I never would have gone to Uni and I'd be a cabinetmaker now for sure! Great Video. I'm looking forward to wasting a shitload of time and money designing some shelves for beside my fireplace now.

@rufaromhonda164 5 лет назад

Always wanted a workflow video like this. The extra one you put on patreaon would work well here too

@GosforthHandyman 5 лет назад

Cheers! 👍

@nixy102 5 лет назад

Wow your so clever - wish I could use sketchup like that. Awsome cabinet and shelf build 👍

@GosforthHandyman 5 лет назад

Cheers - new vid just out that might help you! 👍

@freddyedwards67 2 года назад

Thanks so much. Brilliant content

@edwardholmes91 5 лет назад

Great video Andy, very informative and interesting to watch. I keep meaning to have a play with Sketch-up as it looks like a really good tool for mocking up designs. I've only ever used ProDesktop and ProEngineer for 3D modelling in the past.

@GosforthHandyman 5 лет назад

Cheers! It's great once you get the hang of it! 👍

@adriandeb2710 3 года назад

Great job, def need to learn sketchup,,

@Pistol_Knight 5 лет назад

Very nice job

@GosforthHandyman 5 лет назад

Cheers bud! 👍👊

@OthmanAlikhan 3 года назад

Thanks for the video =)

@k.b.woodworker3250 5 лет назад

Wow! Great design and explanation of how you arrived at it!! I'm impressed at how fast and fluidly you work in Sketchup. Takes me much longer and fewer fancy details. Speaking of Sketchup, the newest versions are way out of my price range as a hobbyist. Hundreds per year to use it. The free version is now web-based and you can't do most of the basic things, like editing, that you could do in the previous free (Make) versions. You can only do that on the Pro version now. Just a heads-up for anyone to make sure to keep a copy of your 2016 version .exe file in case you need to reinstall. They advertise 2017 and I think later versions as being free, but for 30 days only.

@GosforthHandyman 5 лет назад

Thank you! There's an article on my Patreon about how to get an older version that's downloadable and free for commercial use. 👍

@woody123930 5 лет назад

As a patreon subscriber I will add to Andy's comment. Your get alot more info and tips not available on you tube . If your not a subscriber get to patreon and join up . Worth every penny. Keep up the good work Andy .

@GosforthHandyman 5 лет назад

Thank you Tony - really appreciated! 👍👊

@DMJ1978 5 лет назад

lol'ed at the 'posh mic' bit :D

@leelipinski4667 5 лет назад

Dude, you are class. I mean. Not only can you design such units in detail on screen but then carry them out to a super high standard. Awesome. I'm assuming the customer was very happy with the finished result. Question. Did you manage to build alot if this in the workshop first? Thanks again for sharing.

@GosforthHandyman 5 лет назад

Thank you! Yes, most of it built in the workshop first. There's a walkthrough of the build on my Patreon. 👍 www.patreon.com/gosforthhandyman

@MrBarrytommy 5 лет назад

I was trained In AutoCAD but Sketchup is my go to cad for many years but never mastered the 'Follow me' tool Anyways interesting video seeing how someone else uses it in a similar way cheers

@GosforthHandyman 5 лет назад

Lol... I haven't mastered 'follow me' either. I do it the long way. 👍😂

@animationcreations42 5 лет назад

@@GosforthHandyman I've only recently worked out the Follow Me tool and like everything else once it clicks it's so easy! Just draw an outline of where you want the profile to go, then on one of the edges, draw the profile, then with the Follow Me tool, click the profile then just trace around the guide line. Sometimes you have to wiggle the mouse around to get it to catch on, but once you work out how to do it, it works like butter!

@MrBarrytommy 5 лет назад

Thanks for the info I must spare the time to try it cheers @@animationcreations42

@DebsHill1 5 лет назад

i so need to learn sketchup

@andyburns 5 лет назад

Same as me, you keep popping-up calculator to work out dimensions, I wish sketchup would let you enter a formula (like 534/3) for a length of a line

@GosforthHandyman 5 лет назад

Yeah, I keep thinking I'm just working inefficiently and there's probably automated ways of doing this? 😂👍

@Hand-i-Craft 5 лет назад

Really interesting video Andy. Can I ask how straightforward is Sketchup to get into? You’re obviously very accomplished on it, but how did you find it when you started using it? Cheers, Leo

@aljowen 5 лет назад

Its quite easy to use, especially compared to many other 3d modelling packages. It also allows you to put things together very quickly too. There are also loads of tutorials and guides due to its popularity. With the above said, it obviously depends on what you need it to do. If your goal is to create 3D assets for media based purposes, or to animate etc, you really should be looking elsewhere. Since using Sketchup would be like using Microsoft Paint for commercial design purposes :p

@animationcreations42 5 лет назад

Sketchup is one of the easiest 3D modelling packages to get into, as the name implies, you basically used to just sketch up your designs. You can get really good at Sketchup over a weekend if you wanted, and the basics can be learned in an afternoon. There are so many tutorials online that if you get stuck, you just google your issue and there'll be hundreds of solutions! If you're a complete noob, I would suggest learning Fusion 360 instead, is more complex, but it's a lot more powerful, plus if you're learning from scratch, you might as well throw yourself in at the deep end!

@GosforthHandyman 5 лет назад

Honestly, I'm just a beginner with it - accomplished users would cringe at some of the inefficient ways I do stuff! Pretty easy to learn when you get the fundamentals. Obviously depends how technical you are - Fusion is a bit of a beast but a lot more powerful by what I can gather. 👍

@zorro587 5 лет назад

Hi Andy, did/do you use any external resource to learn to use/navigate Sketchup or suck-it-and-see?

@GosforthHandyman 5 лет назад

Watch this space - coming VERY soon. 👍

@taylo256 5 лет назад

Great video roughly how long to make stretch up drawings if done without video ?

@GosforthHandyman 5 лет назад

The timelapse bit was about 1hr. 👍

@hansdegroot8549 5 лет назад

Great job, both the sketchup plans as well as the realization. When you do this kind of customer's jobs when you need to make sketches and make a price offer, how many percent of the customers will not give you the job for one reason or another (too high price in their eyes, which they might not say straight away and find other excuses)?

@GosforthHandyman 5 лет назад

I do try to give the customer a vague idea of the price before starting anything, so normally if cost is going to be a factor we've already parted ways. I then take a deposit before doing the final detailed design. 👍

@hansdegroot8549 5 лет назад

@@GosforthHandyman Thanks for explaining.

@joychip5994 5 лет назад

What wood did you use for shelving and cupboard doors Very interesting

@GosforthHandyman 5 лет назад

Open shelves are solid oak, everything white is MDF. 👍

@joychip5994 5 лет назад

Thank you

@simonpritchard6074 5 лет назад

great work! can I ask what version of sketchup you use?

@GosforthHandyman 5 лет назад

Version 8 👍

@simonpritchard6074 5 лет назад

Thanks for taking time to answer Andy..

@springboard9642 5 лет назад

I've seen people using taps to put threads in holes drilled in wood. Next time you're in the mood for stress testing how about torque testing metal machine screws in wood?

@diyengineer811 5 лет назад

Looks great! Looks like they just used a bucket for the wood storage though? Before I saw that I was thinking that the right hand one might have been better with the shelves out so that they could keep a basket of firewood in it? Customers decision though!

@GosforthHandyman 5 лет назад

Yup - I'm assuming they're adding logs at a later date. 👍😀

@animationcreations42 5 лет назад

It's quite interesting to see how different your Sketchup workflow is compared to mine. I don't think I've ever used the tape measure tool, I just wing it with the line tool! I like Sketchup for my architectural designs, but as I also do a lot of 3D printing, I've been slowly moving everything over to Fusion 360 as parametric modelling makes changing things down the line a lot easier. If you want to make your designs look more professional, I recommend using a piece of software called Kerkythea, it allows you to render a photo realistic image. This is one of the renders for my Kitchen ibb.co/TKjpBjw I've been using Sketchup for over 10 years now, and have a fairly accurate model of every house I've lived in. When we bought our house, before we'd even got the keys, I went onto the planning portal and found the plans for the house (there was an extension built a couple years ago so the plans were online) and modelled the house up, so by the time we got the keys, I had the whole refurbishment planned out and costed.

@GosforthHandyman 5 лет назад

Wow - that kitchen render looks awesome! Yeah, having some basic SketchUp skills for room layouts etc. is so useful. I haven't modelled our whole house but have a good few of our room layouts done in it. 👍👊

@ricos1497 5 лет назад

@@GosforthHandyman I've been using Blender of late. It's really cool. A bit of a learning curve, but good videos on youtube. You can also add detailed monsters to your kitchen design, with animations showing them coming out of the full height larder cupboards. Gremlins in the microwave would pretty much get you any client job ahead of the competition I'd wager.

@multibusa 5 лет назад

Looking at some of the cabinets you’ve made previously, your not doing yourself justice with you channel name which is describing you as a “handyman”. I’ve never in all of my years in the trade come across a handyman capable of that level of quality workmanship. A handyman will put a shelf up or perhaps fix a broken garden gate but not the kind of high quality items you’ve just shown at the beginning of this video. Some very nice bespoke cabinets there my friend. 👍

@GosforthHandyman 5 лет назад

Ha, thank you Steve! My actual business is a cabinet making business under a different name. Gosforth Handyman is just my RU-vid channel name - gives me a bit more flexibility on video content. 👍

@multibusa 5 лет назад

Gosforth Handyman Understood.