How to Draw Floor Plans
Re-arranging a room can be an exhausting endeavor. Simply moving your furniture around a room repeatedly until you are happy with the result can take time and wear you out. By taking some measurements and creating a scale floor plan however, you can conceptualize your room from the top down, and settle on a plan before getting to moving. Does this Spark an idea?
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Instructions
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Measuring the Room
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Draw a rough sketch of the room on your scrap paper. The drawing does not have to be to-scale, but it should be in the correct approximate shape.
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Measure the lengths of the walls with your measuring tape, and note them on the corresponding walls in your diagram.
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Measure the width and location of all windows and doors in the room and note on your scrap sheet.
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Measure the dimensions and locations of all fixed-features, such as counters or dressers, in the room and note on your scrap sheet.
Drawing the Plan
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Decide on a scale for your plan, based on room dimensions and your graph paper. You will want to choose a scale which will fit the room on one sheet of paper, and which will allow for easy conversion to the graph. A scale of 6 inches or 1 foot for every square on the graph is a good scale.
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Translate the walls and built-in fixtures to the graph paper using your pencil and straight edge, being sure to maintain a consistent scale.
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Add windows to your plan by drawing an additional line parallel to the wall line, about 1/8" on the outside of the room, where the windows are located.
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Add doors to your plan by first erasing the line where the door will be, and drawing a line perpendicular to the wall that is the length of the door, extending from the hinged side.
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Connect the end of the door line to the wall where the door would rest if closed using the compass, rotated about the hinge point of the door.
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Tips & Warnings
You can plan where items in your room will go by creating scale models of them on a second sheet of graph paper, cutting them out and arranging them on your floor plan.
