How Do You Draw Floor Plans For A New Home?
Building additions is a popular way for homeowners to increase their home’s value or simply to create more space. Drawing plans for an extra bedroom or family room can be a daunting undertaking, especially for first-timers who want to make sure they get exactly what they envision. With the right tools, such as task can be relatively simple. Create a rough overhead sketch of the room you plan to build. Add in the desired locations of walled lighting fixtures, window size and placement, doors and electrical outlets. If possible, measure an existing room that matches the dimensions of the room you’d like to have built, and write those measurements on the sketch. Cut out rough shapes from construction paper of the furniture that will be in the room and arrange the paper furniture the way you’d like. This helps give you a rough estimation of how much extra space you’ll have once the furniture is in the room. Label where you place the furniture. Draw your sketch on the graph paper, using the
