Online floor planning applets have tools for making bathroom blueprints.
Creating your own bathroom blueprints has several benefits, including the money saved that you would've paid to an architect. You don't have to have experience in drawing detailed graphical specifications to undertake this project. Bathroom blueprints, which essentially display the bird's eye view of your home with its roof removed, have relatively few graphical elements. However, since your drawing will directly influence the usability of the bathroom, be sure to learn from your local government what zoning laws pertain to residential bathroom design. Also, ask yourself if the design must meet special needs, like those of people with disabilities.
Instructions
1. Measure the space in the building or house the bathroom will occupy.
2. Write on the piece of graph paper the number of wet walls you'd like your bathroom blueprint to use. Wet walls are the bathroom walls that plumbing pipes for the sink, bathtub, and toilet run behind. The greater the number of wet walls, the more plumbing your completed bathroom will require and the more the bathroom will cost to construct. If you want to economize, pick a single wall layout. If you want maximum flexibility in choosing a layout, pick a three wall layout. Choose two walls to have some flexibility while saving some money.
3. Download from the Internet or copy from home magazines images of several existing bathrooms with the wet wall option you wrote down. Take notes on layouts you like.
4. Draw with a ruler on graph paper a rectangle whose proportions are the same as your bathroom measurement. Use a scale factor of one foot to one inch or one centimeter in drawing the rectangle. The rectangle represents the plan view, otherwise known as the top view, of your bathroom's walls.
5. Cut out the plan views of the toilet, sink, and bathtubs from existing blueprints. You can find existing blueprints in many websites on the Internet, including Eplans, House Plans, and House Plans and More. Or you could draw your own to scale and cut them out.
6. Align the cutouts along one wall, if you're using one wet wall. Align the sink and bathtub cutouts along one wall and the toilet cutout against any other wall, if you use two wet walls. Create a layout with each cutout aligned with any walls you want if you're using three wet walls.
7. Draw directly on the rectangle the plan view of the bathroom door as a quarter circle, which represents the path the door will need to sweep through.
8. Tape down the cutouts, and then take about 10 minutes to be away from the plan so you can come back and look at it objectively. Return to look at the design from a distance of at least 10 feet. Write your answer to the following question: "If the nation's top interior designer were to tour my home and use the bathroom, how would she describe it and rate its layout?"
9. Draw and arrange new layouts and evaluate them until you're satisfied with the self-critique.
10. Paste the cutout shapes onto the graph paper, and then photocopy or trace the blueprint and all its cutouts onto a new piece of paper.
11. Write the length of the edge next to each edge you've drawn.
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