Draw Room And Furniture To Scale

If your room scale was half a foot for each square your furniture pieces will be drawn the same.

Draw room and furniture to scale. Put it all away in one place. Rather than drawing your furniture out by hand I have a handy tool that will save you time and frustration. Print our ½ scale furniture templates or create your own by measuring your furniture and drawing the different pieces to scale from an overhead view.

And your printed scale doesnt have to match your drawings scale. Measure the length and width of the room in with a tape measure feet or metres will do whatever is best for you. It helps you determine the amount and cost of materials you will need.

If you dont have a scale rule then use some graph paper and set a scale like the one below. Drawing your rooms to scale help you decide furniture placement. For example if a drawing has a scale of 110 anything drawn with the size of 1 would have a real size of 10 in the real world so a measurement of 150mm on the drawing would be 1500mm in the room.

On each wall elevation. Much easier than moving that. To draw your own use the same scale of 1 box equals 1 foot to cut out shapes for your furniture pieces.

When you have a design you like trace or tape the furniture in place and share your ideas with an adult. Use your measurements to make it proportional. Draw a floor plan add furniture and fixtures and then print and download to scale its that easy.

Next measure the pieces of furniture including area rugs and cut out the furniture shapes from the graph paper using the same scale as you did for your room-12 equals one square. A pair of scissors. When you want to create the ideal room arrangement without breaking your back plot your room to scale on graph paper first.