Hi everyone! Continuing our video from last week, we drew a rough outline of a room and today we're
going to transfer that to graph paper so we can make a to-scale drawing. And we can do furniture
layouts, we can know exactly where things are gonna go. Basically, this is a good step if you
want a perfect drawing of your room. So all you need is graph paper, a pencil, a ruler,
and possibly a calculator - unless you want to do the calculations in your head. So the first
thing you're going to take your graph paper and you're gonna count the squares down and across.
And just be careful, like some are half squares and some are tight on the edges. I try and go in
one square just so I can make sure that my room outline is gonna be actually on my paper. So this
one is 33 squares across by 42 and they're about a quarter-inch if you measure them. So from there,
I'm going to look at my rough outline. And if you noticed in the video last week,
I kind of wrote different measurements whether I wrote feet or inches. So before I even start,
I'm going to use my calculator and write down the equivalent if they are feet, I'm gonna write
inches, if they're in inches, I'll write what the feet is. So my room is a 10 by 12 shape,
so I know that I want my long wall to be on the long side of the graph paper, and my short
wall to be on the short side. So I know that there are 33 squares this way and 42 this way,
and from there I can decide the scale that I want my drawing to be. So I know I have to have 10 feet
that can fit on the short way and 12 feet. So let's go with the 10 feet first and we have 33,
now that's a kind of an odd number so we'll switch it down to 32 and then divide by 10 so I would say
each square is going to be 1/3 of a foot which means each square is gonna be 4 inches. So that
works for this way, my 10-foot wall. Let's see if it works on my 12-foot wall before I even
start drawing things out. Because I want to make sure I have it right. So once I start drawing
the room it's going to be to-scale. And that way you don't have to erase things as much or start
over on a new paper. So 42 squares and we said that they are four inches each so 1/3 of a foot,
I could get a 14-foot wall. But I don't have 14 foot I have a 12-foot wall. That's just doing
42 divided by three. So what I'm going to do is start in one corner of my graph paper and
I'm going to go up so every three squares and put a little line. And that's where
my foot measurements are. And then it's a lot easier as I don't have to count each individual
square - I already did that. I kind of just go to where I think they end, and then I count.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, and twelve.
So same thing, I'm going to count three little squares as one foot and put a little line.
I can just count overall. So one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,
ten. And that's my ten-foot wall. So that gets my two walls. Now if we remember, my room shape was
a bit odd last time. So I drew my room this way but now I know that it's actually to scale the
other way. So what I'm gonna do is then put all of these measurements up with the other walls. So let
me go ahead and do that. My first three walls were really easy they were exact measurements but once
you get into walls that are not exact measurements - so this one I have is 41 and this one across is
101 - so that's when your calculator is going to come into play. So I wrote that it's 3.4
inches but if we want to do it properly and do it to-scale, we will do 41 and I know that three feet
is 36. So 41 minus 36 and we have five inches left. Now, if we remember that each of these
little squares is going to be four inches wide. So what I'm gonna do for this wall, is I'm going to
draw one, two, three, perfect ones, and then I'm just gonna go a little bit bigger into there. And
that'll be kind of where my one inch is. You can go as perfect as you want. And then I'm gonna do
the same thing across over here for the 101. Now I know it's eight feet so I think it's gonna be the
same thing. Actually, it's just over eight feet so eight feet is 96 so 101 minus 96 is five inches
left. So ya, the same thing five inches left. And my last wall was exactly three feet to that.
So for those two lines that worked out for me hopefully, it works out for you! So as we can see,
we have our basic shape outline and we just are missing our windows, doors, or if you had
any floor registers you needed to put in, because you're probably not going to be moving those! So
I'm gonna just gonna draw my doors. And I wrote four inches - I know that each of these little
squares is four inches and for a door, mine is 30 inches. So that's two and a half feet. So I'm
gonna go like that, one and a half squares. And then on this side, I'm going to measure the same
thing. But I won't... I'll just mark a little line and you can do a circle or you can just
go straight across. Basically, it shows where the door swing is. And then in my drawing, I also have
my closet doors which are on this wall. So we start here and meet make sure to count our feet
from our starting point and don't go to the outer limits here. So as you can see, there's a little
bit of a little foot so I kind of skipped that one first because you know this one isn't an exact
measurement. It's 56 inches, which is about 4 feet and a half. So we'll put my closet door kind
of like that. And it's about three feet wide, so one, two, and three feet wide. And it's just under
but I'll go like this. And for my closet door, I'm just gonna kind of colour a square in like
this. And that's my door - and I'm gonna make the same shape over here for this wall. For my window,
I know I'm 11 inches which is just under one foot. So this one will be easy - and I just draw from
here and it's 52 inches which is over 4 feet. So we can just use this 1 2 3 4 and it's just a bit
more and just a bit more this way. And again, I'm going to draw kind of that square shape. And you
can write down "window" if you want, and "closet". And you can also write your measurements back onto
the graph paper now that everything is to-scale. So now that we have our perfect room layout,
we're going to add the furniture! So I take this page aside and I start a whole new page.
And you're going to see, we're going to do a fun little thing, where we play around and move the
furniture. So you will need some scissors for this. So for my dresser, was the only thing I
had in the room last time. But I'm going to add some more furniture today to show you kind of what
it looks like. So using the exact same scale which is three squares for one foot - or one
little graph square is four inches. We're gonna write down our measurements for our furniture.
We're gonna make little furniture outlines. And it doesn't matter where you go. I kind of start using
one side of the paper so that when I cut around it I don't have to waste a whole graph paper.
So let's go ahead and make the little dresser. Now another thing when you're doing dressers,
is you might also want to measure the drawers when you pull them out. I didn't do that the first week
so if you need that measurement - if you're scared about putting other furniture in front,
if you don't have a lot of space, you'll want to write that down. And what I'll do is, let's just
pretend that the drawers come out a foot and use little dotted lines. In case I want to put another
piece of furniture next to it, I obviously want to be able to open the drawer fully. And let's
go put in some other furniture in our room. This is a nursery, so there's going to be a crib. I'm
gonna have a rocking chair, maybe an ottoman, and a rug. But I'm gonna skip the rug for now because
I just want to get my big furniture pieces. So I make sure where they are going to fit in. Once
you have all your little furniture pieces drawn up, you're going to take a pair of scissors and
you're gonna cut along the lines. You still want to see your pencil lines and that's just
giving you a buffer in case maybe you measured a half-inch off. Or you obviously don't want things,
you know completely touching walls - maybe there are baseboards you have to account for.
It's also easier to see what your measurements are. So I'm going to go ahead and cut them out
And then once we're done we're going to take our original room layout - our perfect room layout
and we're gonna have our perfect little furniture pieces. And we can play around with them in our
room and determine our layout. And you can make it fun and you can colour your little furniture
pieces, or colour a rug into the room - if you know exactly what rug size you want. Whatever
you want to do, it's up to you! This is how we make the perfect floor plan that's to-scale to
our room. I hope you have fun creating these floor plans and moving your little pieces of
furniture around. If you're having any issues, you can contact me. I do offer layout design services,
so if you have a rough outline I can take it and do it on the computer for you and
send you some options of what your floor plan can be. And you can reach out to me at
MadnessandMethod.com all the information should be there. And once again thanks for watching!