Room survey
Each room's measurements and problems, and every door, window, vent, radiator and outlet located from a corner. Seeded from your setup; everything you type stays in this browser.
For a first pass, the rooms sheet is essential: one row for your first room, with its measurements, what happens there and its two or three worst problems. How a layout works starts it and Measure and draw the room fills in the numbers. The openings sheet is essential for the first room once you measure (Measure and draw the room), because doors, windows, radiators and outlets decide where furniture can go; rows for other rooms can wait until you plan them.
Rooms
One row per room. Lengths in feet, or meters if your setup uses metric; decimals are fine (11.5 for 11 ft 6 in). Square says whether the two diagonals agree closely enough to draw the corners square; Measure and draw the room explains the check. Status is your own judgment of whether the numbers are checked.
Openings and fixed features
One row per door, window, radiator, vent, outlet or other thing that stays put. Distance from corner is measured along the wall from the corner you name, to the near edge, trim included. Inches, or centimeters if your setup uses metric.
How to use these sheets
- One row per room, one row per opening or fixed feature. A door, a window, a radiator, a register, an outlet and a smoke alarm each get a row. Furniture does not: it goes on the furniture inventory.
- Measure in the order Measure and draw the room gives. Walls at the floor, corner to corner, then both diagonals, then each opening from the nearest corner. Write each number as you read it, in one unit.
- Record, do not conclude. Lengths, diagonals and distances are what you measured. Square and Status are your own judgment, and Problems is what you saw. Whether a room counts as a bedroom or meets a code is the building department's question, not this sheet's.
- Then draw. The floor plan or graph paper takes the numbers from here. When the drawing and the sheet disagree, measure again.
The example rows are Lena's living room: 15 ft 2 in by 11 ft 6 in, with diagonals of 19 ft 0 in and 19 ft 0¾ in. The ¾ in difference is small for a room this size, so she draws it square and notes the difference. Her openings sheet starts with the entry door (32 in, swinging into the room, 10 in from the corner), the window with the radiator under it, and the outlet that sits behind the sofa now. Lena and her room are invented for this manual.
This sheet holds what you measured. It cannot tell you whether a wall is load-bearing, whether an outlet is safe to use, or whether a room meets a code or a lease. A landlord, an electrician or the building department settles those. A phone app's number is an estimate until a tape confirms it (Measure and draw the room).