Floor plan

Rowdy is the real designer in this family, & he says the color of the next decade is BLUE!

Floor plan You are all familiar with the floor plan - it is on here that you put in your little furniture templates & move them around until you are happy & satisfied. You can get your templates at an art supply store - just make sure that the scale you choose matches the scale of your floor plan, it is as if you were looking down into the house with the roof cut off and only 4' of the height of the house is left.

A decorator's plan is usually larger than a floor plan that a builder would use. They go with ¼ inch scale (although the hotel Jeff is building now was done in 1/16 inch. That is SMALL). Usually your floor plan for furnishings is ¼" or ½" inch and larger. Of course you can get a computer program for making plans and then viewing it all in 3D, but I have 72 mgs of RAM and the things still run very slow. I would much rather just make copies of my floor plan and then draw my furniture on. If you are really earnest about drawing out your floor plan get a book so you can learn the different ways to portray texture, like tile or wood, or carpet. It is lots of fun to do and later - you can frame it!

How about an side view...that is referred to as a SECTION. It is as if someone just cut off a slice of the house and you were peering into the building from there. It is flat.

An ELEVATION is where you view the building from the outside. It is also flat.

When you want to start looking at a plan with some depth too it, then you use the PLAN OBLIQUE wherein the building or room is projected at an angle from one point of the ground or floor. An ELEVATION OBLIQUE is similar but projected from an elevation.

There is another view - the ISOMETRIC which portrays the building on an axis. And a PARALINE view. But we are getting deep now - mostly we are concerned with the PLAN. Because as I said in the beginning - it all begins with a plan!

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