How to Do Blueprints
Doing blueprints for a home plan can be challenging, but it's also fun. This will teach the first steps of creating a blueprint for your home project as well as the more advanced requirements for house blueprints. Does this Spark an idea?
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First of all, we need to understand that all blueprints seem big and complicated when they're finished, but they always start out as a simple idea or plan.
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We will need blueprints of each of these things.
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It's best to start a house blueprint plan with simple graph paper so we can keep everything to scale.
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We can start out small by using science paper where each square on the grid paper equals one square foot of the home plan.
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The first few drafts can be very simple to give us an idea what we want and how each room will be located. We will need to use several sheets of graph paper for the different components of the plan.
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We can draw in different components as the plans become more detailed, but at this point they are still quite basic.
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We can start to put in architecture symbols like doors, closets, windows, and stairs.
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Other blueprint symbols help us know what we're looking at as we design the entire house plan.
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Each room will have the measurements added in so we can see how they fit into the design. This will help us to know the amount of materials to buy.
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Now as things get a little more involved we will need to have detailed blueprints for each section and function of the home. This isn't as hard as it sounds. We can start off with a detailed blueprint of the house foundation.
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We will need to do a blueprint of the "sections" of the home. This shows us and the builders how each wall, door, stair, roof, and many other special additions all fit together.
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We will need to draw in the exact "elevations" of the front and side of the home.
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This is how it looks on real blueprints.
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Builders will need the elevation side view also.
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Next we will move on to create the "details" part of the plans. This is where each complicated component of the house has its very own blueprint. Things like stairs, specialty windows, fireplaces, decks, and cabinets require a little more building information than walls and doorways do. The details help us with these special components.
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Certain things have special measurements. This gives the builders a good idea how to make what we want.
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We can add electrical diagrams and symbols to the architectural design plans.
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They will look like this on the real blueprints.
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We can add the plumbing symbols to the architectural blueprints.
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Once we have created our blueprints we will need to make them to scale so they fit onto a large sheet of blueprint paper. There are many ways to do this. There are several different home design programs that have the option to save plans in a large format.
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We can also take our plans and import them into a program like Microsoft Publisher. We can use the "banners" section of Publisher and insert the blueprints into a 2x3 foot page.
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We just need to save this file on a jump drive or a cd and take it to a printing store that prints large formats. If you can find a printing store that has a blueprint plotter, then that's even better.
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