When we independently choose a design for a children's room and arrange it, sometimes we lack a clear idea of what it will all look like. It’s good when the design goes exactly as shown designer photos, and if you need to combine some interior details?
In this case, drawings of a children's room will come to the rescue. Graphic sketches can contain not only a schematic image of the interior, they can also reflect its correspondence to real parameters.
First you need to measure:
- ceiling height;
- length and width of the room;
- window opening parameters;
- distance from window to floor and ceiling;
- length of the wall from and to the window;
- length of the wall from and to the door;
- door parameters.
Next, you can begin to outline the lines of the walls, floor, and draw the window and door. It is better to make drawings in pencil, this way it is faster and easier to correct inaccuracies. The image can be in the form of a schematic plan - this will help to correctly zoning the space, determine the place of each piece of furniture, and provide for the location of a sports corner or play complex.
The sketch is made in pencil with the proportions maintained “by eye”. But the drawing can also be made taking into account scaling, using the real perimeter of the room, the real dimensions of the furniture and decorative elements. All these actions will allow you to properly arrange the territory for children, organize recreation, and allocate space for games.
Thinking through the interior in more detail and displaying it on paper will help you avoid mistakes when actually implementing your ideas and your child’s wishes.
As an example, we present drawings of a children's room made in pencil. Among them are sketches for boys and girls of younger age, for teenagers, among them there are also examples of rooms for two children. Ready project You can give it to your child and find out in this way what color scheme he sees in his bedroom.
With ready-made sketches, you can also contact consultants when purchasing furniture or professional designers. A visual representation will help them better understand your wishes and suggest the best and most suitable options for you.
photo: depositphotos.com/MrTwister-1 photo, further - irogova
From time to time there is a desire to change something, improve something in the interior of an apartment or room. Your imagination, as well as taking into account all the practical needs of your family members, will always tell you the best design solution.
However, it must be remembered that redevelopment, rearrangement, installation of new furniture - all these processes require clearly thought-out actions, the strategy of which will help develop a drawn plan of the room.
The plan can be drawn either manually on paper with a pencil or on a computer using a special program. First, draw a preliminary (draft) plan on a piece of paper. To do this, imagine the view of the room from above. It is important to consider the shape of the room at this stage.
Measure the dimensions of the room with a tape measure and plot them on your preliminary drawing. Be sure to mark doors, windows, radiators, places of electrical sockets, lamps, switches. It is customary to depict a door in a drawing as an arc.
Complete the preliminary drawing with the dimensions of windows and doors. When measuring them, you can limit yourself to only the length and width; their height is not so important when creating a room plan. But the height of the entire room may be needed, so measure and also write it down in the margins of the drawing.
You can begin the final version of the room plan. It must be smooth and neat, observing all proportions. It is recommended to choose a scale of 1:20. When calculating the size of objects in the drawing, divide it by 20 and convert it to millimeters.
The perimeter of the room should be drawn on graph paper. Include images of doors, windows, sockets and furniture in the drawing. You can draw an arc representing the door using a compass. All dimensional relationships in the drawing must be observed. When the drawing is finished, remove all unnecessary lines and irregularities with an eraser. Write down the scale and height of the room on the drawing.
The drawing of the room, of course, will be useful when planning repairs or rearrangements, not only on your own, but also if you decide to turn to professionals. With the help of the drawing you will easily come to an agreement, and all your requests will be satisfied.
Publication date: Dec 24, 2013
Do you have a good imagination? Wonderful. However, often, when planning a renovation, you want to not only imagine what you have planned, but also visualize it. In addition, sometimes situations arise when builders or other specialists need to explain your desires not “on your fingers”, but in a completely tangible picture.
How to draw the interior of a room correctly? Now we'll tell you. We will try to draw the interior of the room step by step in perspective, that is, with distorted visualization by the shape and size of the interior items. Not clear? Imagine two parallel roads... If we look at them in perspective, then on the horizon they will definitely converge at one point - the vanishing point, although in reality they will never intersect.
Well, we won’t look at the roads, but we’ll try to draw a living room with a fireplace together. 1. On sheet A4, draw one line parallel to the edge of the paper, and then draw a second one - the horizon line, in the center of which we define one vanishing point, and behind the edge of the line parallel to the edge of the sheet we define the second.
Drawing the horizon line and vanishing points
2. Then we draw the features of a rectangle onto the image, most of which is located below the horizon line. From the main vanishing point we draw rays to the edges of parallel lines - this is where the outlines of the walls, ceiling and floor appear.
Creating Perspective
3. Delete the lines inside the rectangle and begin to draw the outlines of the furniture: floor lamp stand, door, back of the sofa, etc.
Drawing the basic elements of the interior
4. We draw a few more lines from the vanishing point, draw the oval outline of the floor lamp, and outline the fireplace a little.
We continue to draw furniture
5. Delete the lines that have become unnecessary and continue drawing the outlines of the furniture.
We apply the main elements of furniture
6. Draw a few more lines from the main vanishing point - in the future they will become a sofa, window, floor lamp, paintings or any other item you need.
Draw a few more rays from the vanishing point
7. Draw the outlines of the pillows, coffee table, other items - this way you will understand how these items should look on a sheet of paper.
Let's use the second vanishing point
8. Remember we still have a second vanishing point? It is needed in order to correctly place the furniture on the other side of the picture. We carry out the right lines and outline the outlines of the chair and pouf.
Almost finished sketch of the interior of the room
If you wish, you can refine the details of the drawing, although it is already clear that the sketch shows all the most important elements interior You can depict any room in the same way, but do not forget to draw, for example, a place for studying in the interior of a children's room, and in the kitchen - a work wall and the location of the kitchen table.
How to draw the interior of a room on a computer
I would also like to dwell on ways to depict interiors in perspective using a computer, because modern technologies make it possible to do this even with minimal knowledge of the relevant software. Quite common programs such as Paint, Adobe Photoshop or Corel will help us in drawing on a computer, which are available both in a paid version and in shareware demo versions, the validity of which is quite enough to create many drawings throughout the entire repair process. In the next article we will dwell in more detail on drawing programs, and now we will give a few visual lessons on step-by-step drawing of an interior using the Paint.net program.
Screenshot of the main page of the Paint.net program
Here is a screenshot (screen image) of the initial page of the Paint.net program. As you can see, the interface is intuitive, the version is Russian, there are a lot of drawing tools, the color range includes at least 24 shades.
We begin to draw the interior of the room step by step
And now in the photo - we draw an image of the vanishing point and the edge of the paper using the “Line” tool with a thickness of 5 px (pixels), images of links with inserted text. For ease of perception, color highlighting is used - lines and inscriptions are made in blue and red tones.
Drawing the outlines of the furniture
Using the “Basic” - “Rectangle” tool, add the back of the sofa and the fireplace wall, using the “Line” tool we draw the lines of the walls, doors and floor. In addition, there are options to draw jagged lines, ellipses, circles, links and arrows; you can choose different colors, fonts, sizes and text placement; layering; smoothing and clarity; dotted lines and rows of small dots - the program's possibilities are almost limitless.
Drawing the outlines of the furniture
In the same simple way, you can draw the rest of the interior, which will be clearer and smoother than in a hand sketch, but first practice on light images.
How to draw a room interior online
When planning your interior, you can seek help from professional designers who will be able to realize your wishes online regarding the arrangement of a house or apartment. However, this pleasure costs money, so it directly depends on your financial capabilities.
Home page of the website for online interior planning
Another screenshot of the online planner page, which, in addition to arranging furniture and decor, provides for choosing the exact size of the room area, which is necessary when planning repairs and design, offers several options for windows, doors, ceilings and other structural elements. Read our tips, take a pencil and a piece of paper, download a computer program and start learning, because graphics, including computer graphics, is a very exciting and interesting activity. And if she also helps you make a beautiful, stylish renovation, then this is exactly what we were counting on.
Last updated on August 22, 2018
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If you become the owner of a new building or old apartment you no longer have enough space, or you don’t like the way everything is arranged in it, then redevelopment may be the only option for you. First of all, we draw a plan of a room or apartment, and then, starting from it, change our home to our liking.
The issue of redevelopment primarily concerns owners of new buildings. After all, apartments in such houses often have a large area, and at the same time, most of the space is allocated to the corridor, but this area could be used to implement other tasks.
I would like to note that remodeling an apartment is not as simple a task as it might seem at the beginning. This will require a lot of effort, time and certain knowledge from you. You need to start changing your space by drawing up a plan. It is very important to approach this stage responsibly and consciously. Of course, it is necessary to preserve all the external walls of the apartment and be sure to preserve the load-bearing walls.
Load-bearing walls are so called precisely because they bear the entire load of the floors between floors, other walls and the roof. They seem to “bear” the weight of the entire building structure, so they must remain on the apartment plan. All load-bearing walls of the house are interconnected, they are thought out and built in such a way as to ensure the stability of the building, and therefore the safety of living in it.
If someone, through ignorance or negligence, when drawing up an apartment plan, allows weakening (for example, by widening doorways) and, even more so, demolition of load-bearing partitions, this can affect the stability of the entire building and lead it to an emergency condition.
How to determine load-bearing walls
There are two ways to determine whether certain structures in your home are load-bearing:
- Using the technical passport of the apartment and the floor plan of the house. Usually on such plans, load-bearing partitions are drawn thicker, and non-load-bearing partitions are drawn thinner. But this method cannot be considered 100% reliable, since such a rule in drawing up plans is not always applied. It should be taken into account that in modern multi-storey buildings most of the internal partitions are load-bearing. In brick houses (for example, Khrushchev-era buildings, although such technologies are still used today), most of the internal partitions will not be load-bearing.
- By conducting a practical study of the walls. Before drawing up an apartment plan, you can determine whether a wall is load-bearing or non-load-bearing using simple measurements. For brick house the load-bearing wall must have a thickness of at least 25 cm; accordingly, all partitions with a thickness less than the specified size can be safely classified as non-load-bearing. If you don’t want to take risks and limit yourself to just measuring the thickness of the wall, pay attention to two more signs. Firstly, a non-load-bearing wall is usually heterogeneous in its structure, it contains both brick and ridge. Secondly, if you look closely at such a wall near the ceiling, you will be able to see that it does not reach it by a couple of centimeters. Of course, there is no gap there, but only because it is usually sealed with tow or filled polyurethane foam. Such “spaces” are used in order not to put a large load on rather weak partitions. At the same time, if you look at the load-bearing wall in a similar way, you will see that it seems to go into the ceiling, because it actually supports it. This is why load-bearing walls are thick.
So, when you have identified and drawn on the apartment plan the walls that need to be left, all the rest can be safely destroyed. But don't rush through this step. Rather, just keep this in mind, because perhaps you decide to leave some of them.
Drawing up a modified apartment plan
Next, following the general rules regarding the sequence of repairs, you need to make another apartment plan - a plan that will reflect the new space of your apartment with all the new partitions.
To draw up such a plan, you should decide on a list of all the functional areas you need (kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, living room, dressing room, office or work area, corridor - choose what you need). Next, you need to find a place in the apartment for all these zones and place them on the drawing. At the same time, listen to the advice, do not stop at the first option that comes to your mind. Draw different options plans for your apartment are like a child's game of jigsaw puzzles, think about them and only then choose the one that appeals to you the most.
How to correctly zoning an apartment on a plan
- When drawing up a corridor plan, keep in mind that its most convenient width is about 140 cm. With a narrower corridor, a person will feel cramped, and carrying various things will be problematic.
- The size of the bathroom should match the size of the bathroom you want to install.
- When planning the placement of a toilet (both with a separate and a combined bathroom), it is necessary to provide for the availability of space on all sides (at least 35 cm in each direction from its center). In addition, there must be at least 40 cm from the toilet to the door, otherwise you run the risk of experiencing an original experience every time you use it, resting your knees on the door.
- If you want to separate a room for a bedroom, you need to take into account that its minimum size is defined as the size of the bed plus 70 cm in each direction. If this rule is not followed, you risk getting not a bedroom, but a room-bed.
- When planning space for a dressing room, you need to determine how many things you will store there and how to most functionally place the necessary sections.
- When planning the size of your kitchen, consider the size of the appliances and kitchen cabinets you will need.
