Hi Everyone.. just found this forum. I have been tasked ith trying to find information on a christmas project for my mother in law. What she wants is something like the ty pennington hallway organizer here, http://www.howardmiller.com/Product/Details.aspx?StyleID=2201
I thought of trying sketchup to make a layout and not entirely adept with it yet. I would appreciate any help with this project.
Thank you
Robert Gaul
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Hi Ron,
Welcome to Knots.
You can do this!
Get a piece of graph paper, a good ruler and a mechanical pencil with an eraser. The ad gives you dimensions. Decide on a scale on your graph paper - perhaps each box = 3" so that 4 boxes = 1' or something like that. Now draw a box the height and width of the piece on your paper - 73-1/2 tall and 41-1/4 wide.
Now start drawing in the other lines. Use your ruler on the photo to get the proportions to figure out how high the top of the bottom chest part is - say 16" or so. If you keep taking your measurements that way, approximating the measurements with your ruler against known measurements on the drawing (73-1/2 and 41-1/4,) and before you know it you'll have all the lines drawn in and the basis for your plan.
As you go, your eye and your taste will have you making adjustments and you will be incorporating your own design influences into the piece. With enough of your own style changes thrown in you can call the finished piece a "Herman Miller inspired hallway organizer :-)
If you have the inspiration to build this and believe you can, then you have what it tales to draw it up and work out a plan. And in the end you will be glad you did.
After you do this on graph paper, a few times you will find yourself moving on to a drafting board, t-square, triangles, eraser shields.... It's a slippery slope!
Phil Lowe did a great article on basic drafting for FWW here https://www.finewoodworking.com/SkillsAndTechniques/SkillsAndTechniquesPDF.aspx?id=2834
I'm not a sketchup user but I have designed several pieces on CAD software. I've now moved completely to paper and pencil. Just a preference of mine having tried it both ways. But if the learning curve of CAD/Sketchup is in your way and you do not have time to practice drafting techniques, get out that graph paper and work the boxes with a ruler.
You can do this, Ron.
Good luck and keep us posted.
Frank
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Maybe It's Too Late But...
...Did you come up with plans? This would be an easy project in SketchUp. Good way to learn the program. I just roughed this out in about 10 or 15 minutes. It's just for looks with no construction details. Wouldn't be too difficult to flesh out into plans, though.
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