Today I'm going to share how to do the 2D layout planning of a room - and this is gonna
be a rough sketch. So all you really need is a blank piece of paper or something or write on,
something to write with and a measuring tape. Now before I even start measuring I look at the room
around me and I draw kind of the basic shape. So I'm gonna do that. And once we have that drawn,
I also draw some obstacles, like I know that this is where I'm standing right now,
there's the door behind me and then I'm staring out a window, and there's a closet. And again,
this is all before I even measure anything. So I have the basic shape, any kind of my obstacles,
or whatever else is in the room that I need to include on my plan. Now from there,
I'm gonna grab my measuring tape and I'm going to do the measurements around the room and
then I'm going to input them wherever I have my walls. So let me show you how that looks!
Today I'm only concerned with the actual 2D floor plan of the room, so the length and width. If
you do have to measure heights for things, for example, if you're planning furniture,
if you wanted to know where your light switches are, if you're doing any sort of
wall treatments - then it is important to have the height. Especially height under windows,
whatever it is. But for now, I'm just doing a simple floor plan. So what I'm going to do,
is I'm going to take my measuring tape and keep it on the ground. And go from one wall
to another. Now obviously, the baseboards could affect your measurements - but I find
it a lot easier just to have my measuring tape on the floor. And that way I don't have to hold
it up in the air. And right now, with this first wall, we're at exactly 7 feet - so I'm just gonna
write that down on my piece of paper. And then staying along on this first wall. I'm going to
also measure the part to the door. So that's 4 inches, and then the door itself is 30 inches.
So I'm gonna write those two measurements down on my piece of paper as well. So now I'm gonna
go around the rest of the room - and measure all the other walls and input them on my paper.
Once I have all the rough outlines and all the measurements drawn up, I can then transfer this
to graph paper or maybe even a computer program to make a better graphic representation. As you
can see, you know I drew my window here and I wrote this as 11 inches and that's
52 inches - but it's not really to scale. So this is perfect for getting a rough idea of
what your room looks like and then we're going to transfer it over to make a better version.
Another thing you might wanna measure out is the furniture in the room. Especially if you
know that there's furniture that's going to be staying, or possibly that you're moving
it to a different location, or a different room. You still might need the dimension.
So it's similar to measuring a room, only you'll be measuring the furniture, making sure to get
the widest part. So this is about 16 inches by 36 inches. And I'm just gonna write down over
here. Make a little square 16x36 dresser. And if we were concerned about the height,
we could also measure the height. And we're about 37 and a half - and I just write that
down height thirty-seven and a half. So again, it's just going on a little square
that's outside of my room - and it's not to scale, but we'll be covering that next week!