O com’n now my friend! No, it wasn’t Diane.It was a hypothetical. Truth be told, neither of us liked the original design, especially me. And by this time we’d torn the kitchen apart. It wasn’t until a ‘clean mind’ was able to look at it (her son) and suggest the obvious (switch the fridge with the cabinet!) that we both realized that was the kingpin move that could point to a great solution to the whole problem.
More to the SketchUp point, it wasn’t until a carpenter friend of mine and myself took our SketchUp drawing and confronted the actual space that I realized (as an artist, I’ve known this for years, but never had it demonstrated so severely and practically) that PERSPECTIVE IS AN ILLUSION and that having to deal with a drawing–even one with dimensions–in perspective was an incredibly difficult way to translate a drawing into actual planks of wood. (My carpenter friend had just finished having to count floorboards (whose width he knew) on a photograph someone had sent him in order to get some sort of dimensional idea of a job he’d been asked to do.)
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