On your floor plan, use a scale big enough to plan properly.
A good floor plan is indispensable if you are looking at renovations or major redecorating. It will help you visualize your building plans, "see" your rooms and make solid preliminary decisions about where things will go. If your measurements and plans are accurate enough, you can even create scale models of furniture and other items based on catalog information so you can see if things will fit. This can be a useful tool in your purchasing decisions.
Instructions
1. Make a quick working sketch of the floor you are drawing. This is just to log your measurements.
2. Measure the length and width of the first room and mark the measurements on your sketch. If there are alcoves or other oddities, measure them and draw them into your sketch in their approximate position.
3. Also in the first room, measure windows and doorways as well as the distances between them and the distances from the corners, so they can be placed accurately in your final drawing.
4. Repeat Steps 2 and 3 for all the rooms on the floor. Then do the hallways.
5. Figure out the scale of your floor plan. Add the distances for the length and width of the floor to get an idea of overall size, then pick a suitable scale that will fit on your paper and be large enough to be workable. For a floor that is 50 feet by 80 feet, a scale of 1/4 inch to the foot would yield a floor plan that is 12.5 by 20 inches, big enough to work with and small enough to fit on an 18 inch by 24 inch piece of standard drawing paper.
6. Begin in one of the corners of the paper and draw the exterior edges of the floor, using the overall measurements from Step 5. Measure the length according to your scale. In this case, that is 1/4 inch for each foot, but your drawing can be any scale you choose.
7. Fill in the rooms, hallways and doorways according to the measurements on your sketch. If you have measured carefully, the rooms and architectural elements in them should come out in proper proportion and placement.
