Designing Interiors with Revit: Laying Out Furniture, Finishes, and Schedules

Explore practical Revit techniques for interior design, including furniture layout, finish selections, material tagging, and working with external architectural models.

Explore the fundamentals of Revit for Interior Design, focusing on designing a one-bedroom living unit and an attached fitness center. Learn how to layout furniture, add finishes, create sheets with interior elevations and material tags, work efficiently with external models, and update projects as they progress.

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  • The course offers hands-on experience in designing a one-bedroom living unit and a fitness center, including the layout of furniture and finish additions.
  • Students will learn how to create comprehensive project sheets, featuring interior elevations, material tags, 3D views, and furniture plans.
  • Part of the training also involves learning to interact with architectural models originating from outside of one's office, including updating those models as the project evolves.

This lesson is a preview from our Revit for Interior Design Course Online (includes software) and Interior Design Professional Course Online (includes software & exam). Enroll in a course for detailed lessons, live instructor support, and project-based training.

Hello and welcome to Revit for Interior Design. In this class we are going to take a look at this project here that has a one bedroom living unit and a fitness center attached to it and we're going to take a look at a couple different projects where we lay out furniture and finishes for each of the different areas starting with the apartment that we're going to add furniture to, add finishes to, and go through the basics and this will be a sneak peek of what our midterm is going to look like where we're going to put together sheets with interior elevations and material tags. We're going to put together a sheet with a few 3D views and some furniture plans that show that and then we'll have schedules for all these different things and so finish schedule, finish specifications, and we're going to look at doing schedules for furniture and equipment and then also different ways that we can interact with other models.

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If we're using an architectural model but that's not necessarily something that comes from within our office we'll take a look at a few different methods for how we can handle working with models that come from outside of our office and how we can update those as the project progresses. And so we'll get started by getting our project set up in a way that's going to let us be work efficiently through the two different projects that we're going to be doing.

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Richard Hess

Richard Hess is an accomplished designer with over 23 years’ expertise in architecture, interior, and furniture design. He obtained his Bachelor’s Degrees in Architecture and Interior Architecture from Auburn University before pursuing a Master of Architecture at NewSchool of Architecture & Design, where he graduated top of his class. Currently, Richard serves as the Director of Career Services at his alma mater, while teaching thesis and portfolio courses, equipping graduates for careers in the ever-evolving field of architecture and interior design.

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