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First step is to draw up accurate floor plan

THIS WEEK, a look at the art of drawing up -— and sticking to — a floor plan.

Question: We have just bought a 37-year-old two- storey home in North Vancouver and want to do a complete renovation. The house needs new floors and some new doors, the walls need (o be painted, and we want to buy new furniture for the living room. The planning wiil be mostly in my hands, and I dan’t really know where to start. [It seems that we need a floor plan before we make any

Edith Saatkamp

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decisions. Unfortunately there are no plans of the house and | have never drawn one. Could you give me an idea of how to go about it? And what should the next -step be? * Answer: This is an exciting project, and I'm glad you have decided to start with

drawing a floor. plan,

a step that will cer- tainly make your work much easier, especially when you go on to buy furni-. ture and decide on window treatments and color schemes. Your first step should be to draw 2 rough layout of each level in the house © (without measuring).

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| ABOVE: A floor plan is a secti ton view cut through the bullding 4’ above the floor tine.

RIGHT: ‘This hand-drawn floor plenenabias | :.- the renovator to accurately ectimate iiings

Atke the amount of paint and the measure of ~.carper:needed.te redecorate this ‘iiving ”. room. By’ adding in furniture.to the scaie drawing, one can also determine the per-

an fect sizes for the couch, table and chairs.

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‘ This will give you

an idea of how the. rooms relate to one another.

Then make a'sec- ond rough drawing of the room you : want to measure -

first. Leave enough ...

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space ull around your drawing to write in measurements, Draw the shape of the room and and mark in the door open- ing, the location of the win- dows, built-in elements like closets.and heating outlets.

Now measure the room from wall to wall in both direc- tions. Measure the width and location of windows, doors, closets etc. (for example, the measurement from the corner” of the room to the window, the width of the window, and the distance to the corner). Write the measurements on your rough drawing.

To establish a scale, use a ruler to transfer your drawing to graph paper. One quarter

inch on graph paper, and on the P

rulez, represents 12 inches or: one foot in your room. In other : words, if the room is 18 feet by 15 feet, count 18 squares in’

one direction and fifteen in the -

other. Do the same for the indi- 5

vidual measurements.”

Transfer all measurements. to your plan. Add the thickness. of the wall, usually four to five: inches,:i.e. a little less than half. a square. ©.

Gnce you have finished”

individual rooms, you can ia 2 out your drawings side by side,

add the width of corridors, and :

get the Gverail view of an...

__ entire ficor. ‘You can now draw’ a » individual pieces of furniture to” the same scale, cutout the):

shapes and move them arot d

‘on your planuntil you ha’

achieved 2 functional layou , “Your. logical next, step :

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