How to Model a Full Bathroom in minutes with SketchUp Free 3D Modeling tutorial!

hello welcome back to the channel and today's video is going to be how to quickly model a full bathroom inside of sketchup free 3d modeling software [Music] okay so i've done a few videos in the past on sketchup and how to do really basic things like create your first model model out an accurate wall but we haven't really started doing full rooms yet and talking about how to place objects within rooms and make sure you've got accurate readings and everything so what i have is one that i actually did for my house this is a hand-drawn schematic of kind of the second floor landing it was just a big open rectangle and we were putting a brand new full bath in there and so um you're gonna want some idea of the type of fixtures that you want and the type of space you have available before you start creating a 3d model so essentially i took the entire landing um which is basically like a 15 foot by 200 inch rectangle um and i figured out how we could make a nice but moderately tight bathroom inside of that space so let's get right into it and we'll start talking about the dimensions of specific appliances as we go through it but as i think i've said in every video when you start a 3d model try to understand the outside space that it's fitting in so that your model can be built within those constraints so like i said we're 200 inches in one dimension and we're 15 feet in the other i don't know why i don't have a i don't have a better consistency like it's not feet and feet or inches or inches that's just how i took it and that's how i wrote it down on here but that's from finished wall to finished wall on my second floor and we're going to work up against this wall and assume that the stairwell is approximately over here i have the exact measurements it just doesn't really matter too much because we're going to go from inside finished walls and work our way out so let's say you have inside of two finished walls you have this space and the first thing you want to do is pick out a tub so i grabbed just a tub from the internet but a pretty standard alcove tub is 60 by 30 60 by 32 they get a little bit wider um i think in my hand-drawn one i actually had 60 by 32 but i grabbed this one from the internet it's 60 by 30 and we're going to go ahead and use that for the model so the reason i'm not actually putting it inside all four outside walls yet is where this wall and this wall are going to end up being is actually kind of flexible depending on where the spacing of the different appliances fits if you have all four of the walls your bathroom needs to go into set then i recommend you actually start with that so you would want to put all of those walls in so think of the whole model as whatever floor we're modeling and then create some additional constraints for your specific walls i can kind of define the walls after i've put the appliances in so i'm going to start with a tub here and i'm going to just drop in a rectangle for the outside dimensions of it so like we talked it was 60 inches by 30 inches outside dimensions and because i want there to still be some decent space in this hallway i'm going to use this dimension as the new line for where the front of the bathroom is going to be and then once i figure out how to get my toilet and my vanity in this bathroom i'll use that as the left dimension so a few things we have to start considering because we're going to put the toilet next to the tub is a code requires 15 inches from the center line of your toilet to any obstruction on the left or the right so if i just take a point on this edge of the tub and i go 15 inches just to make sure the toilet's far enough away i'm gonna use that line that i just made as kind of a spacer and then the next thing to note is that um code also requires and you need this for putting your toilet in the water closet needs like 12 inches is the standard from the back of the wall so wherever your water supply line is a toilet and the the actual hole for it needs to be 12 inches away because this is gonna be like a three inch drain here typically three or four inches um and so that's your center line and that actually needs to be 12 inches away for standard toilets from the back wall so there we have the middle point of where our toilet can be to be within code acceptance and so if the next thing we think of is our vanity that also needs to follow that 15-inch obstruction rule and so this is the closest that it could be and i know this is a 3d modeling tutorial and so far everything we've done has been 2d but that's how you start a 3d model you get an idea of what it looks like flat and then you start pulling things up so i have a nice 60 inch double vanity that i wanted to put in this bathroom and so we're going to use a outside rectangle of 22 inches by 60 inches for it so let's go ahead and drop that in and this part's pretty easy we'll go ahead and grab a rectangle and we'll go with 60 inches by 22 inches okay and so right here it's really starting to take shape we have the three main fixtures that have to go in to be considered a full bath we have this could be a shower cubicle whatever fixture you're putting in i'm assuming you can look up the dimensions of that unit uh but let's say we want to be a real tight bathroom not a lot of just empty space because we're this is an old townhouse and we gotta work within our parameters um so let's just say we stop it there and we want to plan for this to be as kind of as tight as possible i'm going to go ahead and start with a wall over here a full wall is four and a half inches thick a standard wall because that's three and a half inches from a two by four and then you have half inch drywall on either side that's just a normal wall space so i'm going to go ahead and make this wall i don't really care how far it is in this dimension i guess we can do it this way i'll take it out to here where it matches up and you can maybe see maybe not because the screen's kind of bright but sketchup's really good about snapping to logical points so there i made this this end point and it snapped to the end of the vanity and the end of the tub and so then i'm just going to make these two extra lines that are four and a half inches out uh and we're going to draw in the wall dimensionally accurate so this is actually how thick the wall is going to be since the next video the next piece of this is going to be i'm going to put a laundry little nook over here i do want this to be accurate within at least an inch or two so that i can make sure there's room for all my appliances okay so the next thing is we've just shown where the hole is going to go and where the center point of the toilet is but let's go ahead and actually draw the footprint of the toilet i grabbed a standard one from the internet again you see if you just type in toilet dimensions you get guys pooping and everything um but you can grab whatever specific fixtures you're looking for 18 and a half inches by 27 inches is a fairly standard footprint so let's go ahead and grab that what i say 27 by 18 and a half and same deal let's just go back here and let's make a rectangle of it so uh 18 and a half by 17 by 27 so from the center line 18 and a half divided by two is nine and a quarter we're going to go nine and a quarter to each side let me see here that should be here and then it's 27 inches deep and then we'll go the full 18 and a half back and you know it's not currently a rounded fixture but that's because for 3d modeling you want to quickly get an idea of the space just to make sure everything works and then you can start putting in as many details as you want so you can pretty it up as long as you want i'm not going to concern myself too much at this point with the finer details because we want to make sure the space actually works for it so let's start making this three-dimensional we have a pretty solid footprint of what it's going to look like let's go ahead and look at our toilet it comes up about 30 inches and you can see i'm just going to estimate like it's 60 3 4 of it is only going to come up about half that height so let's grab this toilet let's say the first half it all comes up 15 inches and let's just throw a line across here at what is this 27 inches long let's um let's say the back 7 inches is all just water closet okay and i'm going to make a new line there and i'm going to bring that the other 15 inches up and so what you'll see right away this isn't rounded we haven't put a seat on or anything but that is clearly a toilet or a chair of some kind and that's good enough for getting a rough estimate in and we'll start putting the finer details in after but now let's go with our tub so if we go back to it it's a 14 and a half 14 and a quarter inches off of the ground so we'll grab the whole thing and we'll go 14.25 off the ground and let's look at our vanity and it's 35 and a half inches high so we'll come back here grab our whole vanity and we'll go 35.5 off the ground so if what you're trying to do is get a feel for the space and make sure that your fixtures are going to fit in here the last thing i would recommend doing grab your outside wall bring it up nine feet you might have to do it in a few pieces because it's gonna hit every potential obstruction um but you want it to come up nine feet high and then you could either put a door in so we'll do that real quick we'll put door in or you could just punch this wall out make it invisible and then at least you're looking into the space so you could even punch this wall out and now it's like you're in a room you can see where the floor would begin and you'd walk in but it's good practice as well let's go ahead and say we're putting a standard size interior door in here so i'm going to do it centered on the sink so i grabbed the midpoint of the vanity i ran it out to here and then i'm going to go in here and i'm going to say we have a 32 inch door go uh sort of frame in the door here if you will and i'm going to say it's a standard 32 inch by 80 inch doorway so i'm going to go ahead and close those walls back up but then i'm going to give us a door to look into the room from so delete that and then to close a space up i talked about this in the past videos just redraw one of the lines from the space you deleted and it'll automatically recreate that wall and we're actually going to delete this one again because first i want to make this and i want to make it 80 inches high and then i want to close the wall up and then we'll punch out the door okay so here it's nice we can go through here and now we have a doorway we can also come up from any side from the back side and look at it as well so that looks pretty good let's go ahead and drop in this wall and now we're going to start doing the things that are going to make it actually feel like a bathroom we're going to check some clearances that you should always check so for starters we'll take this and we'll make sure that like a door 32 inch door could sweep open i always like to show this on my models to show that there's door clearances for someone to walk into it let's go ahead and put the actual indentation into the tub to show like how um how and where it's gonna sit so i think if we go back to the tub yeah there's a 55 by 23 point we'll just say 23.4 indent in it and again unless you're like sending this to a builder and saying like hey you shouldn't have to make any other plans because now um you know your work is done you can pretty much center it on the middle and uh that's gonna get you something that's very accurate if you're just trying to get feel for the space so we'll say centered on the middle we want to make something that's 55 by 23.4 so let's go back to our model and we'll go half of 55 is 27.5 that's fast math and then we'll come across and we'll say half of 23.4 is going to be uh 16.7 yeah that looks about right nope that looks completely wrong uh half of 24 is half of 23.4 is gonna be 11.7 yeah guess who's an engineer okay so these are our outside dimensions we're gonna start um making our rectangle for the indent using those and now that we have a corner to go from we can just do the whole 50 for that one's 23.4 um and then we're going to come down here full 55. so i recommend especially if you want to like go over this model with a spouse or a business partner whoever you're trying to plan this space with the more you can make it look like the finished product the easier to talk about it's going to be so i do recommend you go through at the end of your model and do some of these clean up some of these added features to just give yourself a better overall looking product and let's see it's nine inches deep so we'll do 9.25 just like it said all right and probably the last thing i'll do in this model before we start adding some texture is i'll just uh model a quick double sink so grab the midpoint here i'll go to there put the midpoint here and then i'll go to the midpoint of each of these yeah there we go and i'm just gonna say six inch radius sync that's not probably what it actually is but that's close enough for rock and roll um and we're just gonna punch those down like four inches to make it clear that they're sinks and then we're going to start adding textures which is kind of the really rewarding part of 3d modeling it's where it goes from like lego blocks to clearly like a impressive model that shows exactly what's going on so four inches and i think that's pretty sweet let's go ahead and just um let's go ahead and make an enclosed room so we can put like a a mirror in there um interesting that didn't go nine feet off the ground so we want it to be nine feet maybe it did and i could have raised the other walls too high but okay all right so i am gonna get rid of the walls around the door for adding texture because i'd like greater visibility into this space let's go ahead and say i'm not going to spend too much time worrying about the finer details of it but let's say we put a big old round mirror on here that'll look pretty sweet and let's start making it look a little bit prettier a little bit more like something where you're actually visualizing the space let's say you've picked so colors if you go to the right and you look at the little it's like checkerboard the tab is called materials if you have a general idea what kind of color you want to paint the bathroom you can just grab it in here let's say you go with a lavender that's pretty bad actually that looks terrible unless you're planning on painting your bathroom that color in which case i like it a lot so you can grab that color you can put it on the walls uh there's a whole section for glass and mirror so you can actually put like a mirror type texture on your mirror and it doesn't i mean there are a lot of after-market like add-ins you can do for sketchup that look a lot more realistic the stuff they give you for free is just the stuff to get you started but still it looks good enough to get you going and then they even have some tile sections so it'd be very common to put tile in the floor of your bathroom you can go ahead and model that as well and i think that looks pretty sharp say you had a different kind of tile in mind for your countertop you can do that they have a lot of options so of course cabinets probably are going to be wood so you could put a finish of wood on your cabinet that looks okay this kind of looks like a nightmare 1970s bathroom but in general you can see like the finishings you can play around these take a look at everything they have if you have a window you just punch another hole through like we did with the door you could put things like cabinet doors door handles you could round all these edges it's totally up to you from here i recommend you would save your model at this point um or even save off a copy so you can start playing around with the details but you've got this shell this essence of the basics to work with and in general this is how anyone like you don't need any formal training you don't need any license you don't need any special background or anything like that and you can completely model an entire room of your house including like fixtures with just a little quick googling and a little bit of time and patience on this free online tool so i hope you found it useful if you did please like the video subscribe to the channel it helps me out a ton and if there's something specific you'd like to see in a future video just let me know about in the comments below i'll do my best to get back to you as soon as possible if you have any questions on what you saw here just ask them in the comments as well i checked those fairly regularly and as always good luck with your models and thanks for watching thanks bye