Theme based designing: A world of new opportunity for home furnishings by using CAD

Abstract

:Home furnishings are one of the most demanding and emerging fields, full of scope of innovation and creativity. Consumer choices in home decoration keeps on changing from time to time, due to changing fashion trends as well as need for comfortable home environment. So there is a great demand for theme based designing. An attempt was made through this study. Ten theme based design line were created for home furnishings by using different designing software's in 2D and 3D rendering in virtual design drawing cum lounge area. Themes include Black and white (accented neutral colour scheme), contemporary with polka dots, Floral, Natural botanical, Ocean, Silhouette, Sunrise, Traditional, Tribal and Zodiac.

Designing of Diwan cover sets inspired from Chikankari Embroidery using Computer Aided Designing

“…These woven designs along with their draft and lift plans were further evaluated by the panel of judges and on the basis of the scores obtained 5 highly preferred designs were selected for fabric construction. These selected designs were finally woven on handloom shawls 7 9 . Theme based curtains (20) inspired from nature were designed using CAD for girl child's room 10 .…”