Floor plan guides

How to measure, draw, check and print a floor plan, and how to plan the rooms that need it most. Written for people who have never drawn one.

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  How to draw a floor plan to scale

  Measure the rooms, choose a scale, draw walls, doors and windows, add furniture at real size and print at true scale. A step-by-step guide, by hand or in a floor plan app.

  9 min read·Updated Oct 20, 2026

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  Floor plans for real estate listings

  Why a listing with a floor plan gets more enquiries, what buyers want on it, how to measure a house quickly, and how to make a clean black-and-white plan with room sizes.

  7 min read·Updated Oct 20, 2026

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  How to plan a kitchen layout

  The five kitchen layouts, the work triangle, the clearances that make a kitchen comfortable (36 to 42 inches around an island), and how to draw yours to scale before you buy anything.

  8 min read·Updated Oct 20, 2026

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  Export a floor plan to DXF for AutoCAD and other CAD programs

  How to turn a floor plan into a DXF file that opens in AutoCAD, DraftSight, LibreCAD, SketchUp and Revit, with layers, real units and nothing to redraw.

  5 min read·Updated Oct 20, 2026