A floor plan is not only useful when renovating or moving. Even if you want to rearrange a room in your house, a drawing will give your insight into all the possibilities. You can see at a glance whether your favorite sofa fits against that one wall or whether you should go for a size smaller. There are many free online tools for creating a floor plan, but you can also get started with pencil and paper. The Floor Plan Creator is one of the most important assets here.

Map on paper

Do you enjoy drawing a map on paper? Then make sure you have these items at hand:

• Blank paper or graph paper
• Pencil
• Eraser
• Scale ruler
• Tape measure or laser distance meter

If you don’t have any drawings of the house, you’ll have to do it yourself. First, draw the shape of the room on paper, including all the corners, doors, pillars and other obstacles. This can be done freehand and serves as a basis for writing the correct measurements. Then you measure all the walls with a tape measure and those are handy.

Now you are going to draw the map to scale. This can be done on blank paper, but 5 mm squared paper is also possible. At the hardware store they sell handy scale rulers, a fine scale is that of 1 to 50. The 1 on the ruler then stands for 1 meter in real life. When you use graph paper, you can use 10 blocks for 1 meter. This will give your map a handy format.

Now you can start drawing in the furniture, of course on the same scale. So make sure you have the exact dimensions of each piece of furniture. You can also draw the furniture on a loose paper and cut it out. This way you can still slide and try out multiple setups in the floor plan. From Foyr Neo you can get the best here.

Create a Floor Plan

In addition to making a plan of action, making a floor plan is also important in home styling. When you get started on a design for your interior, you need a floor plan.

The Space

Often, floor plans of rooms already exist. Check whether the scale corresponds with the dimensions in reality. First, roughly draw the shape of the room with all the crazy corners, doors and windows. Then measure the room with a tape measure and add the measurements. Note, also mark where the sockets and the TV connection are. Then work out the data to scale. For example, work with the scale ruler and a scale of 1 to 50. The 1 on the scale ruler represents 1 meter in real life. You can also use 5mm graph paper.

The Furniture

Now it’s time for the furniture. You can do two things: draw the furniture to scale on another sheet of paper. Cut them out to slide them in space. What you can also do is copy the blank base map a few times and draw the different layout options in it. This way you can put them side by side later.

By making a floor plan you get a good idea of ​​how your furniture looks best in your room. In part 5 Paulette gives some tips for a spacious and quiet house. Click here if you want to return to the overview of the course.