How To: Measure a Room and Draw a Floor plan

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Without proper measurements you will likely purchase pieces that are wrong for the room because of their size or scale. Measurements allow designer to make informed decisions and plans for you. We cannot start planning your room without an analysis of the space and a layout.

Drawing a simple floor plan is the easiest way to get a handle on how much space you have. 

Here is what you will need to get together before you start: plain or grid paper, pencil, measuring tape.

STEP 1

Start from the any corner of your room and draw an outline of your room until you arrive back at your starting point. At this point do not worry about doors and windows, you will add them later.


Take measurements at a point above skirting board level but no higher than 1.5 metres above the floor level.

STEP 2

Measure all doors or archways and make a note which way each door opens. Then include windows measuring them from outside edge.


Low ceiling heights: if less than 1.5 metres should be drawn using a dotted line and labelled with a note.

STEP 3

Return to the first wall that you drew, measure from the corner to the first change in the wall such as a built-in bookcase, fireplace, or any feature that should be noted in the plan. Indicate where a general placement of the electrical outlets and heat radiators are located. 

These factors all influence furniture placement.

STEP 4

Make a rough sketch of each wall in the room as you face it. Measure the walls from the floor to the ceiling. Determine the distance from the floor to the bottom of the window frame, from the ceiling to the top of the window moulding. It helps to figure out art arrangement or window treatment.


Take measurements of any pieces of furniture, art, etc. 

that you would like to keep in the space.


Check if the image quality of the scan or photograph is good enough and 

Simply email them to us!

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