Design the kitchen yourself: how to draw a sketch with a pencil or make a project on the computer

No one needs to be convinced of how much the preliminary visualization of the kitchen facilitates the process of repair and redevelopment. But not everyone is sure whether they are able to create a picture on their own, on which all the details of the kitchen space will be clearly shown. However, by selecting the appropriate toolkit and using the below-mentioned plan of action, you can make sure by your own example that even a person who does not possess the artist’s talent is able to draw a sketch of the kitchen.

Why draw a sketch – the purpose of sketching

Even the most simple pencil sketch is able to save on paper a suddenly come idea, which further develops into a full-fledged concept. What can we say about the outline design of the interior design? With its help, you can solve several problems at once:

• due to the rational distribution of space to achieve the functionality of the room and comfort for all household members and guests;
• determine the optimal location of furniture, electrical equipment, sanitary and household appliances in accordance with safety and ergonomics requirements;
• specify the dimensions of the elements of the working and dining area, design the kitchen set, develop a detailing of the kitchen for cutting;
• to see their intentions in 3D-format, to choose the appropriate color scheme and to select materials, if necessary, to correct them;
• think over the elements of the decor in accordance with the style of the kitchen and compare it with the design of the whole house or apartment;
• consult with a specialist, draw up a plan for erection and dismantling of structures, coordinate repairs with performers, and conduct author’s supervision.

As you can see, the desire to see the kitchen in all its future beauty is far from idle, and efforts to create it are repeatedly justified by saving time and money.

Self-contained draft outline in step-by-step instructions

If as a result of sketching you want to get not only the development of a general interior concept, but also a detailed plan for a kitchen with furniture and dimensions, prepare yourself for the fact that you will need many more drawings. In addition to the preliminary sketch (it, by the way, is also performed in several versions), you need to create a sweep of the walls, a plan for flooring, placement of sockets and lamps.

Room measurement

Before you draw a draft of the future kitchen, you need to carefully measure the space. To this stage in the room must be completed repair for finishing: the walls are leveled, the floor screed is made, the construction debris is cleaned. This will ensure that you get free access to all corners of the room and to its communications and, accordingly, make the most accurate measurements.

Armed with a tape measure, pencil, eraser and a sheet of paper (you can replace it with a A4 sheet of paper), find out all the necessary dimensions and distances:

• width, length and height of the room;
• dimensions of window openings, doors or arches;
• the size of the existing protrusions and indentations.

Be careful – you need to measure all the key objects: a ventilation duct, a boiler, a gas boiler, meters, window sills, utility pipes, a heating radiator, etc. In addition to their dimensions, you also need distances from them to conditional baselines, for which The floor and one of the corners of the room is accepted.

Long distances, such as the length of the walls, are recommended to be measured at three points:

1) below, almost at the very floor;

2) in the middle – at the level of the countertop (800-850 mm);

3) above, at the height of human growth.

So you make sure that the curvature of the walls has been corrected, or you can identify defects in time and take them into account, taking the smallest size as the right one. Record all the measurements obtained in the table or in the schematic drawing. For accuracy, take millimeters as the unit of measure, not centimeters, and make sure that all dimensions are written only in them.

Sketch of kitchen space – top view

After the measurements you will enter into the role of the draftsman. To accurately display the actual dimensions on paper, it is important to select the optimal scale, since too large a drawing is uncomfortable in work, and a small one is not informative. For such purposes, usually in engineering and construction drawings, the scale of reduction is 1:10 or 1:20, but it is better to decide on your own, based on the area of ​​your kitchen.

Thanks to the scale-coordinate marking on the graph paper, it’s quite easy to draw a sketch of the kitchen with a pencil, especially if you follow a simple algorithm:

1. Checking the dimensions, transfer to the paper sheet the kitchen plan in the top view.
2. Mark the location of windows, doors, all protruding objects.
3. Note where the drainage, ventilation hatch, heating battery is located, adhering to the dimensions of the indentation from them to the wall.

Being directly in the kitchen, you can check whether all objects are transferred to the plan and, if necessary, specify a certain distance.

Reamers of walls – a view from the side

To make the interior design of the kitchen as useful as possible, the second sketch must be made in the form of a wall scan. It is a large-scale image of the wall surface, from which you plan to put a kitchen set and / or a dining group. The sweep is an extremely convenient tool for positioning shelves, cabinets, bedside tables, as well as household appliances, lighting fixtures and decor.

Professional designers make sweeps in special programs – Archicad or Revit, and work for their uninitiated seem very intricate. You, as a man who does not plan to connect his future with architecture and design, but only wants to correctly design the kitchen with his own hands, drawings and schemes with complex nuances are not needed.

So do not rush to abandon the creation of a sweep of the walls and pay attention to an easier way to draw them:

1. Draw a rectangle on the graph paper, which has the height and length of the most significant wall in the interior.
2. Measuring from the previously chosen base (floor and kitchen corner) the required distance, mark on the wall the position of the door or window aperture, battery and other stationary objects.
3. Mark the sweep as type A, B, C or D and repeat the process for the other wall.

It is optimal if all the drawings of the kitchen are made on a single scale, but sometimes a larger scale is allowed for maximum detailed processing, and it is important to indicate its value in the corresponding image.

How to arrange furniture – a sketch layout technique

So, you have on your hands one or several sketches, which depicts your kitchen in several angles. The next step is its virtual acquisition of furniture and equipment. Before you draw a kitchen set with your own hands, duplicate drawings and schemes on a copier – having enough photocopies, you will spare yourself the need to repeat scrupulous work if any of the options prove unsuccessful.

First, work with the placement of large items of furniture. To do this, take a copy of the plan from above and put on it pre-prepared cartoon models. In their manufacture you will be helped by the standard sizes of kitchen modules:

• the internal depth of the upper cabinets is not more than 300 mm;
• the internal depth of the lower cabinets is not less than 460 mm;
• width of the box under the oven and microwave – 600 mm;
• width of a curbstone under a sink – 550 mm;
• the depth of the countertop is not less than 600 mm.

Do not forget also about large household appliances. If its acquisition is only planned, find the geometric parameters of the main devices in any online store. If there are no restrictions on the dimensions associated with the features of the room, give preference to models with standard characteristics.

By compactly placing on the sketch kitchen layouts and headsets, you will accurately determine with the help of a ruler and reverse scaling, what size the table and chairs can be put without compromising on comfort, and whether there will be free space, for example, for a sofa or a bar counter. If desired, you can even make a layout of a human figure and thus assess the degree of convenience of the chosen layout.

Space allocation rules

To forget nothing when designing a kitchen, immediately divide it into zones – working, dining and storage area of ​​supplies and utensils. Keep outline objects away from the window so that they do not interfere with the natural lighting of the room. There are several more recommendations that will help you to properly use the space:

• When choosing the type of planning, consider the area and configuration of the kitchen: for small kitchens, a linear or angular arrangement of furniture is recommended, for medium sized – peninsular or double-row, for large – island and U-shaped.
• Try to observe the ergonomic rule of the triangle, according to which the slab, the sink and the refrigerator should be installed in the tops of the conventional triangle with sides no more than 2.5 m. So the mistress can work, making the minimal amount of unnecessary movements.
• Layouts of devices should be placed taking into account the location of engineering communications – the further the kitchen sink from the riser or the hob from the gas pipe will stand, the more problems you will create yourself when installing and operating them.
• Do not make passages smaller than 90-120 mm, otherwise free movement around the kitchen will be difficult, as well as opening doors and pushing drawers of cabinets.

After determining the location of all kitchen elements, securely attach their layouts to the top-plan picture or simply circle them in a finely sharpened pencil. Measure the ruler with the key distances, multiply them by the scale value and designate the sizes on the paper – that’s how you finally created your own kitchen scheme (drawings and photos you will attach to it later).

Projects of a straight and corner kitchen with the sizes:

Algorithm for designing a kitchen set

Since you are engaged in independent design of the kitchen, it’s a sin to stop at what has been achieved and not to try to design a kitchen set. Since the most common variant of the layout is the corner kitchen, it is given as an example of detailing. To work you will need a clean copy of the sketch kitchen in a top view and sweep the corresponding wall.

Drawing a scheme and drawing of kitchen furniture

To draw furniture, perform a series of actions, simultaneously checking with visual examples of photos:

1. Given the standard length (3050 or 4200 mm) and the depth of the countertop (600 or 800 mm), draw its outer contours.

2. Dot the line of the lower cabinets, for this, retreat 50 mm (use scale) from the walls and facade, and also 30 mm from the counters and pipes.

3. Draw the furniture tied with the dimensions and configuration to certain places in the kitchen – the corner cabinet (its width should be at least 800 mm), the hob under the hood, the sink next to the sewer, etc.
4. Free space is functionally distributed between lockers with drawers or swing doors and cargo racks.

At this stage, the “skeleton” of the lower corner of the corner kitchen can be considered ready. Further on the same scheme with a pencil of contrasting color, you need to draw a plan for the location of hanging cabinets:

1. In the corner, draw a trapezoid locker measuring 600×600 mm. At a distance of 300 mm from the walls of the kitchen, draw a line of the upper facade.

2. Select wardrobes with attached to standard sizes – a cabinet with decorative shelves (300 mm), drawers for extraction and a boiler (according to their dimensions).

3. Consider the rational placement of hinged furniture on the remaining unoccupied space.

All the resulting dimensions are transferred to the front image of the wall – so you will create a sketch of the headset in the side view. Obtained in this way, two sketches of a corner kitchen with dimensions are enough to show them to a specialist in the production of kitchen sets or to do the detailing and manufacturing of their furniture themselves.

Detailing the headset under the sawing

To calculate the size and quantity of all elements of the kitchen, number all the cabinets on the sketch, combining the identical in shape and size models into groups with the same numbers. After that, study the procedure for calculating one of the most common cabinet configurations. For example, for the lower kitchen cabinet with one shelf in the middle it looks like this:

1. The overall height is calculated as the difference between the overall height of the lower tier (according to the standard – 850 mm) and the thickness of the table top (38 mm). At this size, it is 812 mm.
2. The height of the sides can be found by subtracting the length of the support legs (100 mm) from the height of the lower tables. In total, the height of the rack is 712 mm.
3. The width of the side when the depth of the tabletop 600 mm according to the standard is 500 mm, but if there are protrusions, counters, pipes, it should be reduced by their size.
4. The depth of the bottom of the cabinet is equal to the standard width of the side (500 mm), and its width is calculated as the difference between the width of the cabinet and the two thicknesses of the facade material (for the chipboard it is 16 mm).
5. The width of the upper strips serving as stiffeners is 80-100 mm, and their length is equal to the width of the bottom.

Sketches for calculating the floor corner cabinet and the cabinet for the built in oven:

Thus, for the manufacture of a 300×500 floor cabinet, you will need:

• side walls 500×712 – 2 children;
• the bottom is 500×268 – 1 child;
• shelf 500×268 – 1 child;
• stiffeners 80х268 – 2 children.

Following the same logic, you can calculate all the remaining lockers kitchen set.

Sketches and 3D layouts in the computer program

To significantly speed up and facilitate the work, try to draw a sketch of the kitchen online using the appropriate program. There are a lot of similar products – SweetHome 3D, Pro100, ModernlineFurniture, Stolplit, KitchenDraw. Almost all of them are designed for non-professionals, so you will not be difficult to understand them.

Before you design a kitchen on your computer in one of these programs, you need to download it or register on the developer’s website to work in the online version. Having opened the utility, you need to follow step-by-step instructions that look something like this:

1. Open the section “Premises” (it can be called differently) and indicate the real dimensions of your kitchen, while you need to consider the measurement units that are accepted by this software.
2. In the section “Doors and Windows” and “Communications” select the necessary elements and drag them to the room image with a computer mouse, changing the geometric parameters in passing.
3. Click the “Catalog” icon and choose furniture options, making their dimensions in the appropriate boxes and turning around the axis in the desired direction.
4. Determine the style, material, texture and color of the facades, adjust the direction of opening the doors.
5. Save the project of the 3D model by activating the icon with the disk or by pressing the hot keys Ctrl + S.

After these manipulations, you can see how much easier it is to draw a kitchen project on your computer yourself – drawings, dimensions, photo, the program creates itself. Thus, you have an opportunity to assess the feasibility of your ideas almost instantly, to consult them in detail with a professional and get an individual study of the kitchen interior almost for free.

Video: an example of the design and implementation of a kitchen project

Measurement and design of the kitchen:

Adjustment of the implemented project: