Making a floor plan is
the most important step in home decoration. It is very
important to decide how you will arrange your
furniture in the room, what are the limitations and
other space constraints that you might face before
placing out things and have an idea of how they would
look beforehand.
Since, moving furniture and rebuilding closets
and making new windows cost a lot and is quite tiresome to
accomplish, your pocket and other people involved with you in
the home decoration project will appreciate minimizing any
unnecessary efforts and a clear plan to look forward to. Here
are some tips to make a floor plan of your home:
Things You Will Need:
Architects' ruler with 6 sides giving
different scale measurements,
Paper,
Triangle, and
T-square.
Tips:
A hand-sketched draft drawn with a pencil
helps you to have the view of the whole home at once using a
scale of 1/4" = 1'.
For furniture, scaled cutout silhouette
pieces with most common dimensions are best, for you can
easily rearrange them, as you like, without much ado.
Have accurate dimensions of each of your
rooms, your total living space, your furniture pieces and
closets and storage areas.
Here are the two formulas that are most
commonly needed while doing home decoration for laying tiles,
buying wall paper, calculating how much paint to use on wall
and ceilings and other such things:
Floor Area = Length x Width (of the room)
Floor Area = Length x Width (of the room)
Wall Area = Height x Length (of the wall)
While buying large furniture pieces and other
accessories, make sure that they fit in through the staircases
or elevator doors and doors of your home, so that transferring
them to the room doesn't become a problem. If you are hiring
carpenter, it will be better that he does his work inside the
room.
While measuring the space, be sure to know
the dimension of your windows, doors, closets, furniture of
each room, electronic items and other appliances, telephones
and electrical outlets. Knowing these dimension will prove to
be helpful while window treatments or ordering for new
furniture too.
You may like to get the photocopies, once you
finalize the plan so that you do not have to do it all over
again, once you have finished it.
