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Jul 24, 2021 · Learn how to sketch a floor plan! This is a complete beginners guide helping you draw your very first floor plan. We will NOT be using a scale ruler or graph...
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- Unraveling Architecture
Apr 17, 2023 · Learn how to sketch a floor plan! This is a complete beginners guide helping you draw your very first floor plan. We will NOT be using a graphing paper - This is a great exercise just to...
This is a simple step-by-step guideline to help you draw a basic floor plan using SmartDraw. Choose an area or building to design or document. Take measurements. Start with a basic floor plan template. Input your dimensions to scale your walls (meters or feet). Easily add new walls, doors and windows.
- 5 min
- Overview
- Measuring & Sketching Room Dimensions
- Drafting to Scale with a Scale Ruler or Graph Paper
- Adding Doors, Windows, and Built-In Fixtures
- Drawing Movable Furniture to Scale
Floor plans drawn to scale are the perfect guides for when you’re remodeling or trying to find that one piece of furniture to fill up some empty space. If you’re having a hard time visualizing your design ideas, taking a bit of extra time to draw your room out to scale will provide you with a nifty blueprint. If you have a tape measure, a pencil, and some paper, you’re already well on your way to making an accurate drawing. We’ll walk you through everything there is to know about sketching out your floor plan so you can get started on your next project.
Take measurements of the room’s walls, windows, doors, and built-in features using a tape measure.
Convert your measurements to a smaller scale using a scale ruler or graph paper. For example, your scale could be ¼” = 1’ (¼ in. = 1 ft.)
Draw the room’s walls and built-in features on a sheet of graph paper or plain paper using your scale as a reference.
from corner to corner using a tape measure.
Run a tape measure from corner to corner on top of the baseboard (if there is one) or along the floor against the walls. If there’s a lot of furniture or other things in your way, use a stepladder and measure along the ceiling.
If you’re just trying to figure out if a new furniture layout will fit, measuring to the closest half-foot (or quarter-meter) might be sufficient. However, if your goal is to add new kitchen cabinets, be as precise as possible (to an eighth of an inch or millimeter, for example).
Draw a rough sketch of the room and write in the measurements.
Skip the ruler or graph paper and just use a pencil and blank paper. If you’re measuring a basic rectangular room, simply jot down your 4 measurements next to the corresponding walls. If the room has walls that jut out or sink in in certain places (such as for a closet) add those measurements as well in the appropriate spots.
Write down feet/inches measurements as 10’3¼” (10 feet 3¼ inches), and metric measurements as a decimal (i.e., 4.5m).
Convert your measurements with a
A scale ruler (or architect’s scale) looks like a triangular-shaped ruler and can adjust measurements to your preferred scale quickly. The different sides of the scale are marked with different common scale ratios—for instance, ¼” = 1’ (¼ inch = 1 foot), which is common for architectural drawings. Once you find the side with your preferred ratio, do the following steps:
Lay your chosen side of the ruler on your paper.
Draw a line on the paper from the zero mark on the ruler to the number mark on the ruler that matches the length of the wall you’re drawing.
For example, if the scale is ¼” = 1’, and the wall you measure is 11 feet, you would draw to the eleventh ¼” mark.
If you don’t have a scale ruler,
Measure all doors and windows in the room.
Measure the width of each door
and window opening (without frames), as well as the distance from each side of the door or window to the edge of the wall. Then, convert these measurements to your chosen scale.
A 3’-wide window will be represented by a ¾”-wide mark on your floor plan if you’re using a ¼” = 1’ scale.
Draw the walls, windows, and doors into your floor plan.
Draw each window as a set of double lines and each door as a single line with an arc. The single line represents the door, while the arc represents the path it takes when it swings open. Make sure you place each in the right position along the walls in your scale drawing.
Convert the length and width of each piece of room furniture to scale.
For instance, a 5’ x 2’ dresser would be represented by a 1 ¼” x ½” rectangle if using a ¼” = 1’ scale. Similarly, a 4’ x 4’ table would be a 1” x 1” square.
For furniture that isn’t square or rectangular, find the smallest square/rectangle into which the piece will fit and use those measurements.
For instance, if a wingback chair has a maximum width of 2’6” and a length of 2’, represent it with a 2 ½” x 2” rectangle (using the ¼” = 1’ scale). Then, sketch the general shape of the chair within the rectangle.
Draw the furniture on a blank sheet of graph paper.
Use a different sheet of graph paper to sketch your scale drawings of each furniture piece. Make sure all your sheets of graph paper use the same size blocks—typically 0.25 in (0.64 cm).
Jul 11, 2021 · Watch this video to find out how to draw a floor plan by hand. I'll be showing you how I do my interior design floor plans, in 2...very different ways. One is a rough plan drawing...
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- Dantier and Balogh Design Studio
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