Use Case: Interior Design

Interior designers use Canvas as the starting point for their projects. We have a few case studies with interior designers using Canvas available and we were even featured on the popular TV show Ask This Old House as part of a design project in Worcester!

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Case studies
Interior design projects
The process
Skipping to the fun part
Common ROI's
Advanced workflows
Further reading

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Case Studies

Interior Design Projects

Kitchen remodel by Lane McNab Interiors

Bedroom by Maria Tsamis

Nursery by Tetrachrome Design

The Process

In each of these cases, the designer:

Scanned the existing space with Canvas
Used Scan To CAD to convert the scan into a simplified, editable CAD model
Used SketchUp to design the space in 3D
Created photorealistic 3D renders to sell the client on the design

And in each of these cases, the client said yes and signed off on the project!

Skipping Right To The Fun Part

Generally, we see interior designers using Canvas at the very beginning of a project, to capture the existing conditions of a home and create a SketchUp model for use throughout the design process. This might be on the very first meeting (before a client has committed to the project), or after they’ve put down a deposit for the project to kick things off. Some projects focus on just one room, where others focus on a whole house (pricing starts at $0.14/sqft). We’ve seen Canvas used across all levels of interior design projects, with client budgets ranging from below $1,000 to $100K+.

Across these projects, the main value proposition we find is that as a designer, you can skip right to this for every single project:

You can learn more about how Canvas works specifically with SketchUp here, as well as in our interview on the SketchUp blog. Canvas can work with many different design programs, but we find that amongst interior designers, SketchUp tends to be the most popular. You can learn more about using Canvas with other programs here.

Common ROIs We Hear From Other Designers

1. Dramatically shorten the time spent on-site to capture existing conditions and re-create a 3D model to start design. Across case studies we’ve run with interior designers, we found that the average designer saved about 7-10 hours of time per project when using Canvas.

2. Parallelize work on a project. While you’re waiting for your CAD models to be delivered (2 business days), you have that time back to spend more time with the client or take on more projects.

3. Expand 3D to projects where it previously was simply not economical. Jumping into 3D requires measuring and modeling the space, and Canvas effectively automates all of that for you. When you only need to worry about the design itself, 3D becomes a lot more practical.

4. Allowing you to up-sell other services by making it more cost-effective to do concept work in 3D. A common example we hear is that our customers will visit a client site to do one kind of job, but they have a list of other ideas that they’d love to see come to life. Using traditional methods, it often just isn’t economical to measure a room and create a 3D model unless the client has already agreed to pay for the project. However, with Canvas, capturing all the dimensions of a room takes only a few minutes, so it’s more practical to do a quick concept in SketchUp to start a conversation.