Designing your
dream home ensures you have all the features you want.
Designing your dream home can be an exciting process. It enables you to include all the features you want in the style you want. While an architect or draftsman will most likely end up adjusting your drawings at least a little to fit architectural needs or building codes, you can give her a good idea of what you want. And you can even go back and forth a couple of times to get it exactly how you want the final product to look.
Instructions
1. Choose the 1/4-inch rule on your triangle ruler (this is 1/4 inch for every foot.) Using your T-square to line up the horizontal walls, measure the wall's length with your triangle ruler and draw it. Using a 90º triangle, draw the two vertical walls of your room. Finish off with the other horizontal wall.
2. After you make the four walls, measure out the doors and windows and fireplace and anything else that interrupts the smooth wall lines. Erase the openings. Draw the windows and doors in. The window sections are drawn as rectangles, sticking out just a little bit from the wall lines on either side of them. Doorways should be left blank. If there's a door, find a circle template that fits by lining up the top and the side notches of the circle with the two sides of the door opening. Draw an arc, then a straight line for the door itself.
3. Now, on the inside walls, make another line around the outside of your shape. Ordinarily, the actual thickness of each interior wall with studs and drywall would be about 4 1/2 inches, so to be reasonably accurate in your drawing you would make the second line approximately 1/12 inch away from the first--equal to four inches for the finished walls (if 1/4 inch equals 1 foot in your plan). The door openings can now have a short line drawn at the either side to indicate the door frame.
4. Follow these guidelines for the rest of the house.
