How to Design a Kitchen Floor Plan for Free Online

If you are looking to design a kitchen floor plan for free, you need this advice! While some kitchens are more complicated than others, these are the basic steps for remodeling your kitchen or designing a new kitchen.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• kitchen
• home
• tape measure
• graph paper
• pencil

1. The very first things you are going to need to do to design your kitchen floor plan is a tape measure, pencil and graph paper.

2. Take careful measurements of your kitchen. Be sure when measuring your kitchen that you measure from kitchen wall to kitchen wall, not from the kitchen cabinets.
   
   Mark all of your wall measurements on your graph paper to make your kitchen floor plan. Be sure that each square on your graph paper represents one foot or 6 inches so that your floor plan is a good representation of what your kitchen looks like. It is important to not only draw the line but to mark the exact measurements above the line.
   
   Next you will need to take careful measurements of your doors and windows and draw them on your graph paper kitchen layout.
   
   If there are any other structures in the kitchen that should be noted, be sure to do so. For example, if your chimney runs through your kitchen, be sure to mark that.
   
   Now it is a good time to measure from floor to ceiling and mark that in your sidelines.

3. After you have taken all your measurements of your kitchen it is time to start designing your layout of your kitchen using a floor plan you will build on line.
   
   IKEA offers a very helpful free kitchen planner on line at www.ikea.com/ms/en_US/rooms_ideas/splashplanners.html.
   
   Smart Draw offers a really helpful free trial download program at http://www.smartdraw.com/specials/kitchendesign.asp.
   
   Floor planner is a lot of fun and is free. Check them out at http://www.floorplanner.com/.

4. Your kitchen design is on its way! On these websites you will be able to insert kitchen appliances and kitchen cabinets into your floor plan that you designed!

5. If you haven't yet started researching your kitchen appliances, now is the time to do so, so that you have all the measurements you need to design your beautiful new kitchen!

[Kitchenguy]

on 6/24/2009 Don't forget the website http://www.nkba.org/ as a great resource to keep your planning in line with industry professional's standards. Happy kitchen planning!

[MIghtyDreamer]

on 4/24/2009 These are great tips for online floor planning.. good to know and keep in mind.. you never know when this information could come in handy. thanks

[dlcass]

on 4/21/2009 Measuring is so important. Gotta get it right.

[sandhillkar]

on 4/17/2009 What great selection of furniture, cabinets, and other items for the home! I can't wait to download the kitchen planner and plot out a design!

[Upon-Request]

on 4/15/2009 Thanks for the article and resources for designing your kitchen floor plan online!