Built in 1929 our beach house wasnt ours till 1965 when my Grandmother bought the “Beach Shack” down the shore with money she inherited from her father. A grand some of $30,000.

Barely touched since its original construction the house had reached its peak in material life and was beginning to fall into disrepair. We hired Collinson Home Improvement and started on our home renovation journey.

This project was focused on opening up the kitchen to the dining space, improving overall materials and structure of the home, improving bathrooms, adding a second floor deck space and improving all of the bathrooms.

I started by measuring every room and all of the spacing in the house. I took note of trim heights, window heights, door sizes and the spacing from one major object to the next. I took pictures of existing details and created a hand drawn floor plan of the overall home. Next, I used AutoCAD to convert the hand sketch into a digital floor plan. I verified this floor plan by going back and measuring dimensions that were in question.

Lastly, I converted the AutoCAD Drawing into a Sketchup 3D Model. I added digital furniture and other finishing details to the overall model. In Sketchup, I color coded the model so that I could add materials in Lumion and create realistic 3D Renderings.