Design and Creation of Handmade Workspaces

We design our space on paper

A course by Gema Casado Olea , Founder and Director of El Jarro de ideas

Founder and Director of El Jarro de ideas. Madrid, Spain.
Joined April 2016
98% positive reviews (214)
5,496 students
Audio: Spanish, English
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About the video: We design our space on paper

Overview

“I'm going to show you how to set up your space and how to draw it to get an idea of how it will look and above all to determine what materials you will need to build it. We will make a free-hand sketch and we will make the cutting of the furniture so that with these drawings we go to our wood supplier and we tell him exactly what we need. To make the sketch I will tell you some tricks so you can practice the drawing of furniture with home resources. ”

In this video lesson Gema Casado Olea addresses the topic: We design our space on paper, which is part of the Domestika online course: Design and Creation of Handmade Workspaces. Learn DIY techniques to create a desk and a storage stool from scratch.

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson we will learn to sketch what will be the elements that will configure our workspace. For this we need a pencil, a rubber band and some folios, a little bit more. these sketches basically for two purposes. The first is to get an idea of how to make the dimension of our table according to the workspace that we chose. On the other hand, to determine which elements, what pieces of wood we will need, dimensions, slats, planks, all that is fundamental to the then go to the wood factory and be able to do an exploded as God intended. The first thing we will do is to draw a kind of lo...”

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Course summary for: Design and Creation of Handmade Workspaces

  • Level: Beginner
  • 98% positive reviews (214)
  • 5496 students
  • 4 units
  • 16 lessons (2h 23m)
  • 3 downloads
  • Category

    Craft
  • Areas

    Arts & Crafts, DIY, Furniture Design & Making, Interior Design, Woodworking

Gema Casado Olea

Gema Casado Olea
A course by Gema Casado Olea

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Founder and Director of El Jarro de ideas

Gema Casado Olea is an economist by profession and creative by passion. After doing a 180º turn in life, her work involves creating functional and decorative pieces for spaces where energy flows.

Her passion for creating things with her hands led her to found the DIY agency "El Tarro de Ideas", write 3 books about DIY with the Penguin Random House publishing house, in addition to creating and presenting the "Creative Decoration" program on Canal decasa and Más Chic TV (already with 2 seasons broadcast in Spain and Latin America) and finally, founding and decorating the Coworking Handmade Refuge “13 Manos”.


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  • 16 lessons (2h 23m)
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Design and Creation of Handmade Workspaces. Craft course by Gema Casado Olea

Design and Creation of Handmade Workspaces

A course by Gema Casado Olea
Founder and Director of El Jarro de ideas. Madrid, Spain.
Joined April 2016
  • 98% positive reviews (214)
  • 5,496 students