My Room

I started reading a book, "Drawing for Interior Design" by Drew Plunkett because in the summer of this year, I will be doing a renovation of a lounge in my parent's house in Tijuana, BC, Mexico. Such project will have its own dedicated article, but as of now, I need to acquire the skills—at least partial or superficial ones, which are the ones acquired at first at the outset of any expertise immersion—to not only design the interior architecture, but survey the room, draw it, use the respective software to visualize it, create a mock-up, and materialize the respective design into reality. I decided to start the learning process with the room of the apartment I currently live, using this room, I will learn to survey the dimensions—and thereby learn how to use the respective tools to do so—of the space, draw a quasi-design on paper, transcribe the quasi-design to an architectural design software, create a mock-up of the room, and apply the respective design. Obviously, being my first hands-on approach upon this expertise, the design will be minimal, not drastic nor costly, just complex enough for me to learn how to start this process in order to gain knowledge for the summer. I will be measuring the actual site of the lounge next week, so I better know how to survey a space for the interior architectural design. I feel great immersing myself into this field, it is such an artistic and technical field. Withouth further ado, let's start.

According to Plunkett, the first step is to survey the room, annotate the parameters and dimensions visually and numerically within a sketchbook (or any annotation tool of one's choice), I already have the sketchbook, I just need the tools to measure, which is why I've purchased them:

The following are sections of the room that I measured using the tools above, I classified the sides of the room by A, B, C, and D. The layout of my apartment room is quite standard to a conventional apartment complex layout design, which is to be expected, I live in the U.S. version of a Banlieue, located in San Diego, CA. Neverthless, I like it here, it has another room, and a big living room/lounge, besides, it is quiet and far from city bustle. Anyway, here are the pictures of my room:

I took about an hour to do the survey measurements, in which I had quite some fun by moving things, making mistakes with the tape measure, and learning how to manually measure a room, I liked the activity quite much to be honest. I measured the room using the "running" dimmensions method, in which you continously measure each wall horizontally from starting from left to right from your perspective when you position yourself in front of it. I also measured the angles of each corner, as well as the heights of the room, which surprisingly enough, the heights were all the same, no room for error there. The measurements are in the unit of inches. The result was the following set of survey drawings: