Precision Placement: Using 2D CAD to Position Peninsular Walls in CABINET VISION

Hello, welcome to this CABINET VISION tutorial. My name is Tayla, and today we’re going to be looking at placing peninsular walls for island benches and how to use 2D CAD to find where to place that wall from the get-go.

I’ve got this example plan in front of us, which is pretty standard of what you might receive from a builder or maybe an interior designer. It’s got dimensions for all of the outside walls and overall dimensions for the island, but it doesn’t really tell us exactly where to place that island. So, we have to use the knowns that we have from this plan, and we can use a bit of 2D CAD to help us place the peninsular wall.

In this particular kitchen, the island is 1200 mm deep, but it’s got this little dashed line toward one side which shows they want to have cabinets on this side and benchtop overhang here, on the other side of the dashed line for seating. Being 1200 mm and knowing that I probably only want to have about 300 mm for overhang leaves me with 900 mm on this side of the island. That’s going to be too deep for me to have cupboards—I would rather have 600 mm cupboards facing toward the sink, and then a row of skinny cupboards at 300 mm for a bit of extra storage facing toward the fridge side of things. So, I actually want my peninsular wall to sit pretty much right smack down the center of that 1200 mm island bench.

So, let’s jump over into CABINET VISION and start drawing in some 2D CAD to find where that place can be.

I’ve drawn the outside walls here of the kitchen already, and what I’m going to do is double-click in any of the white space to get into my CAD drawing. I’m just going to use red lines for now because I’m going to delete them once I’ve placed the peninsular wall. So, I’m going to go red and I’m going to use lines—you can use any colour you like.

Now, the first thing I know is that the end of that island lines up with this outside wall here. So I’m just going to draw a wall through there, and somewhere along that line is going to be my 1200 mm island. I also know that the island itself is 2360 mm long, and that this bench up the top here was 650 mm. So if I draw a 650 mm line down here, that’s the bench at the top depth-wise. And if I draw 2360 mm for my island length from there, that will show me what my gap needs to be in between.

So my gap is going to be 1100 mm, and I think the best thing to do would be to keep that gap even between the benchtop of the hot plate and the island, and the sink wall and the island. I’ve already got 600 mm where that wall is there, so I’m just going to draw a 1000 mm line to show the gap between. There. So now I know that’s going to be the start of my island bench here.

I’m just going to draw a line to show that, up that 2360 mm. And then, as we mentioned, I want my peninsular wall to be suiting a 600 mm deep row of cupboards along here. So from that wall, I’m going to draw back another 600 mm, and that is going to be where I place my peninsular wall.

From there, I’m going to change to drawing walls. I’m just going to use a line, and I’m going to be drawing a peninsular wall. I’m going to just hover my mouse so that I intersect this 2360 mm line and the 600 mm that I drew to find the center of where I want the wall to be. I’m just going to click and draw down 2360 mm, and click again. Now I have this pink peninsular wall, which shows the dimension 2360 mm.

If I wanted to just draw in some extra CAD to see what that’s all going to look like, I can draw 1200 mm across here, and the 2360 mm down. Then, if I delete these extra lines that I’ve used to find the placement in the first place, I can double-check and see that that looks like it does in the plan.

So there we go—that’s where the island’s going to sit. That’s where my peninsular wall is going to sit down. I’m going to have 600 mm cupboards on that side, 300 mm cupboards on this side, and then a 300 mm overhang for seating.

Super simple to find where to place your peninsular walls when you use the 2D CAD and start with some of the known values that you have.

If you have any questions about using 2D CAD, please leave those in the box below and we’ll get back to you. I hope you found this video tutorial helpful. Thank you for watching!

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