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Hand Drafting for Interior Design

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Hand Drafting for Interior Design

with STUDIO

  • Textbook
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Available on 15 Oct 2026
£58.49

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Description

The 4th Edition of Hand Drafting for Interior Design demonstrates how to effectively communicate and create beautiful interior design drawings through a combination of traditional and digital methods. This text covers numerous architectural design drawings across the spectrum, such as furniture and plants, interior materials, interior elevations, electrical and lighting plans, kitchen and baths, and building sections. Visual examples are provided to cover drawings across the interior design disciplines, including detailed illustrations of hand draft perspective drawings and study details of stairs, ramps, elevators, and wall types. All hand-drafting techniques are accompanied by exercises and videos. This edition will also aid you with the updated CIDA Standard 15.

New to this Edition:
· Featuring three new chapters: Architectural Drawings: Elements and Standards, Types of Perspective Drawing, and Collaborating with Digital Tools and Software
· Expanded coverage on Space Planning Techniques to include space adjacencies, bubble diagrams, diagramming/planning, and engaging columns
· New drawing examples and detailed visuals and explanations of stairs, ramps, elevators, and wall types
· Includes brand-new step-by step videos teaching key drafting techniques
· Includes imperial and metric units for dimensions

Hand Drafting for Interior Design STUDIO
· Study smarter with self-quizzes featuring scored results and personalized study tips
· Review concepts with flashcards of terms and definitions and image identification
· Step-by-step videos teaching key drafting techniques

Instructor Resources
· PowerPoint® presentations include images from the book and provide a framework for lecture and discussion
· Instructor's Guide provides suggestions for using the text in the classroom and planning the course with sample syllabi, a test bank, and supplemental assignments

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter one Drafting Tools

Chapter two Lettering

Chapter three Space Planning

Chapter four Architectural Drawing: Elements and Standards

Chapter five Furniture and Plants Drawn in Plan View

Chapter six Drawing Interior Materials in Plan View

Chapter seven Interior Elevations

Chapter eight Types of Perspective Drawing

Chapter nine Electrical and Lighting Plans

Chapter ten Kitchens and Baths

Chapter eleven Section Drawings and Details

Chapter twelve Custom Millwork

Chapter thirteen Quick Sketching

Chapter fourteen Putting it all Together

Chapter fifteen Collaborating with Digital Tools and Software

Glossary
Index

Product details

Fairchild Books
Published 15 Oct 2026
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 4th
Extent 192
ISBN 9798765131329
Imprint Fairchild Books
Illustrations 192 bw illus
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Jane Hughes

Jane Hughes is an interior design educator at West…

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