Selected renderings, 2017 – 2019

What this set is

Eight presentation renderings I produced between 2017 and 2019, while I was a kitchen and bath designer at Remodel Works Bath & Kitchen in San Diego. The work is client work, shown here anonymized: no names, no addresses, no project narratives. What's on the page is the output a homeowner sat in front of at the showroom table before signing a remodel contract.

A presentation rendering at this stage of a residential remodel is a sales tool with a structural job. The homeowner has approved a layout on plan but hasn't yet committed to the cabinet line, the door style, the counter slab, or the tile. The rendering closes that gap. It puts the specified product list into a single image so the decision is made once, against something that resembles the finished room, instead of being made twelve times against twelve swatches.

The range

The kitchens cover the spread the showroom was selling against in those years. A dark-wood-and-brass kitchen with a contrasting island. A white shaker kitchen with a marble backsplash. A blue-island kitchen with white perimeter cabinets. A transitional kitchen with marble counters and panel-faced appliances. Each is a different answer to the same client question (what does my house look like if I stop apologising for the kitchen), and each answer is rendered to the level of detail that lets a client see their own choice.

The baths run the same span. A master bath with a freestanding tub, a marble shower, and a steel-mullion picture window framing the tub wall. A dual vanity bath worked around mirror and sconce placement. A patterned-tile bath that turns the floor into the room's primary material decision. A blue-marble bath that puts the slab on the wall.

The technical practice

I produced the renderings in 2020 Design Live, Chief Architect, and SketchUp, finished with ray-traced output. I matched the software to the deliverable: 2020 for kitchens where the cabinet catalogue had to match the order sheet line for line; Chief Architect where the scene needed framing, ceiling, and window geometry to read correctly; SketchUp where a one-off custom element sat outside the cabinet libraries.

Fixture-level detail is the point. A faucet in one of these renderings is the faucet on the order (same finish, same spout height, same handle) because a client who approves the rendering has approved the spec sheet underneath it. The same is true of the tile pattern, the slab veining, the cabinet door profile, and the pull. The rendering is the contract drawing in a friendlier format.

Eight rooms over two years, held to one standard: what the rendering shows is what gets installed.