Creating living room with a kitchen island - Tip of the Week

Archinteriors vol. 58 for Blender is a collection of ten scenes for architectural visualizations - complete and ready to render in Cycles. You can get this collection or singkle scenes here.

The final rendered scene.

The scene in Blender viewport - solid view.

The scene in Blender viewport - Material view

Outside view - a plane for a background, some ground below the building, a couple of trees and the main building.

Building construction

Wall mesh.

Wall materials

Nowadays the most of materials are made with PBR textures and this is no exception - standard diffuse / roughness and normal maps used.

A simple geometry of surrounding brick wall.

All details are made with normal map (no displacement)

Details of the top on the other hand are in geometry.

Normal map of brick wall.

Render settings.

Lighting is made with a 4k HDR map.

Camera settings.

Practical light settings.

The collection can be found here.