Floor plan
One room at a time, drawn to scale: walls, doors with their swings, windows, radiators, vents and outlets, and your furniture with the space each piece needs in use. Try layouts as options and print the one you choose.
For a first pass, a scaled drawing of your first room is essential, on this plan or on graph paper at 1/4 in to 1 ft (Measure and draw the room). Draw the walls first, then the doors with their swings, the windows, and every radiator, vent and outlet; then add the furniture from your furniture inventory. Paper works for every chapter. On paper you lose the path warnings, the measured gaps that update as you move a piece, and the copy of an option; you keep everything else.
How to use the plan
- Measure first. The walls at floor height, corner to corner, then both diagonals, then each opening and fixed feature from the corner where its wall starts (Measure and draw the room). The drawing is only as good as these numbers; enter them as you measured them, not rounded to look tidy.
- Walls go in order from corner A. Each wall is a direction on the drawing and a length along the inside face. "Make a rectangle" fills four walls from a width and a length; an L-shaped room has six. If the outline does not close, the plan says by how much: measure again rather than forcing it.
- Pieces come from your inventory. "From your Pieces sheet" brings a piece in with its width, depth and in-use depth. The heavier edge is the front; the dashed area in front is the space it needs in use. Move a piece by dragging it, or Tab to it and use the arrow keys (Shift for 1 ft or 10 cm steps); R turns it 90 degrees; Enter jumps to its number fields.
- Mark the paths. Add a measurement between two things people walk between, such as the door and the sofa, and tick "On a walking path". The plan flags any marked gap under the path width: 36 in by default, the figure Paths and clearances explains. Change the width on the page if your walk test says otherwise.
- Try options, then tape the one you choose. "Copy this option" makes an independent copy to change (Arrange and test). Print the chosen option at scale and check the scale bar with a ruler; then mark it full size on the floor with painter's tape and walk it.
- Keep a copy. The plan lives in this browser with your sheets. The layout binder exports it with everything else; the share link carries your setup only, so on another device the plan starts from your setup until you import the file.
"Load the example" draws Lena's living room, 15 ft 2 in by 11 ft 6 in: the entry door 10 in from the corner, swinging in; the window with its radiator on the opposite long wall; the balcony's sliding door across most of one short wall; outlets on three walls. Option A is the room as it is now, with the door hitting the armchair and the path to the balcony running around the coffee table. Option B moves the sofa to the window wall, the TV console to the entry wall and the armchair beside the door's hinge side, leaving a 38 in path between the coffee table and the console; it puts the sofa about 6 in from the radiator, under the 3 ft heat guidance, so that side needs a check before Lena chooses. Lena and her room are invented for this manual.
The plan draws what you entered. It cannot tell you that a measurement is right, that a path is wide enough for a particular person, or that a layout is safe: your tape, a walk test with the people who live there, and the safety checklist settle those. A gap above the path width is not a guarantee, and a gap below it may work for one adult carrying nothing. The plan does not show heights, so a window sill, a radiator top or a low ceiling needs a note or an elevation sketch.