31st Jan 2010
How to Draw a Floor Plan to Scale
How to Draw a Floor Plan to Scale
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Draw a floor plan to scale for any room. Use cut out pieces of furniture at the same scale to plan various furniture layouts for the room. Decide on a layout before moving heavy pieces of furniture. Take the plan when shopping. The store design associate will help you decide on a new arrangement for furniture or counters.
Steps
- Purchase a graph pad where each square on the paper equals one quarter of an inch precisely (four squares equal one inch) or create your own grid of equal squares on a blank sheet of paper
- Imagine each square represents one foot (12 inches)
- Measure the length of one wall with the tape measure
- Draw a line on the graph paper to represent this length of wall by counting the squares. For example: The wall is eight feet six inches long. Count out eight and a half squares.
- Measure the length of each wall around the room
- Measure the length of each door and window opening (without frames) from the corner of the closest wall and add to the drawing
- Draw windows as double lines and doors with a line and an arc
- Measure the length and widths of all built in fixtures such as counters and add to your plan
- Measure the length and width of each piece of furniture for this room with the tape measure
- Draw the furniture on another sheet of graph paper – the squares represent 12 inches
- Cut out the individual pieces of furniture with scissors
- Glue or tape the cut outs onto a piece of cardboard for weight
- Move the cut out furniture around on your plan to decide on a suitable arrangement
Tips
- Always list it by cm
Things You’ll Need
- Paper – graph pad – 4 squares to an inch
- Tape measure 16 ft. or longer
- Sharp pencil
- Scissors
- Cardboard
- Glue stick or scotch tape
Related wikiHows
- How to Avoid Pitfalls when Building or Buying a Home
- How to Navigate the Home Building Process
- How to Choose a Home Improvement Contractor
- How to Hire a Contractor for a Kitchen Remodeling
- How to Draw Furniture in 3D
- How to Plan and Draw Your Dream Home
Sources and Citations
Article provided by wikiHow, a wiki how-to manual. Please edit this article and find author credits at the original wikiHow article on How to Draw a Floor Plan to Scale. All content on wikiHow can be shared under a Creative Commons license.
How to Draw a Floor Plan to Scale
from wikiHow – The How to Manual That You Can Edit
Draw a floor plan to scale for any room. Use cut out pieces of furniture at the same scale to plan various furniture layouts for the room. Decide on a layout before moving heavy pieces of furniture. Take the plan when shopping. The store design associate will help you decide on a new arrangement for furniture or counters.
Steps
- Purchase a graph pad where each square on the paper equals one quarter of an inch precisely (four squares equal one inch) or create your own grid of equal squares on a blank sheet of paper
- Imagine each square represents one foot (12 inches)
- Measure the length of one wall with the tape measure
- Draw a line on the graph paper to represent this length of wall by counting the squares. For example: The wall is eight feet six inches long. Count out eight and a half squares.
- Measure the length of each wall around the room
- Measure the length of each door and window opening (without frames) from the corner of the closest wall and add to the drawing
- Draw windows as double lines and doors with a line and an arc
- Measure the length and widths of all built in fixtures such as counters and add to your plan
- Measure the length and width of each piece of furniture for this room with the tape measure
- Draw the furniture on another sheet of graph paper – the squares represent 12 inches
- Cut out the individual pieces of furniture with scissors
- Glue or tape the cut outs onto a piece of cardboard for weight
- Move the cut out furniture around on your plan to decide on a suitable arrangement
Tips
- Always list it by cm
Things You’ll Need
- Paper – graph pad – 4 squares to an inch
- Tape measure 16 ft. or longer
- Sharp pencil
- Scissors
- Cardboard
- Glue stick or scotch tape
Related wikiHows
- How to Avoid Pitfalls when Building or Buying a Home
- How to Navigate the Home Building Process
- How to Choose a Home Improvement Contractor
- How to Hire a Contractor for a Kitchen Remodeling
- How to Draw Furniture in 3D
- How to Plan and Draw Your Dream Home
Sources and Citations
Article provided by wikiHow, a wiki how-to manual. Please edit this article and find author credits at the original wikiHow article on How to Draw a Floor Plan to Scale. All content on wikiHow can be shared under a Creative Commons license.
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