How Do You Draw For Interior Decorators?
If you’re an interior decorator who doesn’t have architectural drawing skills, you’re missing out an opportunity to increase the value of your business. Being able to draw helps with furniture arrangement, space planning and remodeling. Scale drawings are often what sells the client on your ideas. Only 5 percent of people can imagine a finished room; for the other 95 percent, a picture is worth a thousand words. Being able to not only draw an overhead view but also elevations can clinch a sale. Take your T-square and place it on top of the drawing board with the handle lined up with the left side of the board so the T-square can slide up and down the side; place a sheet of paper on the board and line its bottom up with the T-square. Hold the paper in place with one hand and place a piece of tape on each corner of the paper. Choose your ratio. Most commonly used ratios are 1/4 and 1/2. For a normal room size, 1/4 will fit on the page no problem, even with the side elevations. A 1/2 rati
