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.
Instructions
Measuring the Room
1. 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.
2. Measure the lengths of the walls with your measuring tape, and note them on the corresponding walls in your diagram.
3. Measure the width and location of all windows and doors in the room and note on your scrap sheet.
4. 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
5. 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.
6. Translate the walls and built-in fixtures to the graph paper using your pencil and straight edge, being sure to maintain a consistent scale.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
