Drawing up a plan for the layout of the apartment is an integral part of the work on the design project of the premises. Before starting to make repairs, it is necessary to draw up this plan in order to know where the sockets, switches, and subsequently put furniture and household appliances. This step is especially important when buying an apartment in a newly built house. The layout of the apartment (no matter how many rooms are in it) allows the owners to clearly plan the necessary number of building materials such as wires, pipes to the bathroom, sockets, etc. Details on the layout options are described below.
What is a circuit
The plan or layout of the apartment is one of the most important documents drawn up by the owner or contractor. It may be:
- transfer of electrical wiring to a horizontal surface (that is, to paper);
- projection of the arrangement of furniture in the apartment.
In both cases, it turns out, as it were, a top view of the entire area of the living space. Thanks to this plan, you can determine the place, for example, for a desk (taking into account that sunlight falls on the left side or in front, for left-handed people - on the right). The compilation of this document should correspond to the area of the apartment, therefore, it is necessary to strictly observe the scale. A ratio of 1:20 is recommended. This scale is suitable for almost any apartment.
When drawing household items (furniture, appliances), it is imperative to take into account their real sizes. It is also necessary to transfer this data to the document with a scale of 1:20. For a sample, you can take a look at the layout of apartments. Sometimes, if ideas do not come to your mind how to arrange wiring and furniture, it is better to use a ready-made option or contact a contractor (designer). It’s in the hands of the owner, who decided to independently draw up a layout plan, that you can easily find a similar or even identical layout of the living space and just use the ready-made solution.
Carrying out the necessary measurements
Before planning where to put household items, you need to make the appropriate measurements. You can use the range finder for this. This unit will measure the exact distance (for example, from one wall to another). This option will significantly save time and effort.
There is only one clarification. Suppose a room is not difficult to measure in this way, but what about the utility rooms and pantries, or with rooms where there are a lot of corners and vertically arranged pipes? Here, ordinary roulette will come to the rescue. It will also serve well when measuring wall thickness and the width of door or window openings.
All data, in order to avoid their loss, should immediately be transferred to paper, on which then the apartment diagram with all the specifications will be built. Although you can use the appropriate computer programs to build a floor plan.
Programs for drawing diagrams online
Technology steps forward, and a person can already draw up the drawings he needs through various programs. You do not even need to download this software - just follow the link, enter the necessary data, and then the program will complete everything itself.
Today, there are an impressive number of online planners. These include MyFloorplanner. With its help, even the most ignorant person will cope with the desired task. Standard library sets have the necessary tools to quickly draw walls and surfaces. There you can even apply lighting. Household items can also be arranged very quickly and see how it all will look. The help of such a program will greatly facilitate the life of any person who acquires new housing and is thinking about drawing up a planning scheme.
If you wish, by the way, before drawing up your plan, you can look for other people's apartment schemes, photos of rooms or drawings. Several schemes are presented in this article. Ready-made plans will help you navigate your thoughts on the arrangement of furniture and household appliances.
Offline drawing software
Instead of using the online service, you can just buy an installation disc with programs like CorelDraw or AdobeIllustrator. Their help is also invaluable. Of course, many have small difficulties in working with these programs, but over time you can learn how to build schemes in them.
In the case when the user is fluent in the computer, he can use a very good AutoCAD engineering program. This professional software is indispensable for the advanced user. This program is recognized as the best in its field.
A simpler option is the software from the MSOffice package (the name of the MSVisio program). Even for the average user, this tool will be ideal. The simplicity of building a plan conquers any person.
Electricity plan in the apartment
Power supply is carried out in the living room first of all, before finishing and especially the delivery of furniture. The drawing up of the posting plan comes in two versions - standard and individual.
The first option is as follows: the organization that provides this type of service independently draws up a posting plan, and the customer then adjusts to their decision. This is a cheaper method, so it is still in demand by a fairly impressive number of people. An individual option will cost the owner of the room more. Where to place switches and sockets, he will be able to decide for himself, and then provide his decision to the organization.
The electrical circuits of apartments in prefabricated houses are usually enclosed inside the frame of the building. This is the fundamental difference from the brick house, in which electrical panels are installed on the walls themselves.
Wiring diagram: what to do with it?
This type of plan is used directly to represent the location of electrical networks in a residential area. The wiring diagram of the apartment acts simply as a drawing of the necessary installations. It is included in the list of mandatory documentation, as well as the definition of a plan with the placement of furniture and household appliances. It is according to this plan that communications (i.e. electricity) will be carried out, and the sockets and switches themselves will also be installed directly.
Before you create a wiring diagram, you must refer to its predecessor - a circuit diagram. It, in turn, shows how electric networks will operate, that is, the logic of the devices. The existence of one type of circuit without another is impossible. This must be taken into account when developing a grid plan.
Plan diagram: what is it?
In fact, an apartment plan is a combination of a wiring diagram and a plan for arranging household items. In addition, changes can be made here on partitions or, conversely, to remove part or all of the wall as a whole. In other words, this is a ready-made document for the start of all construction and finishing work in a residential building.
Only when all changes and permutations have been completed in the plan, is the document a direct indication of action. If preparations are still in progress, repair is not recommended.
Single room apartment layout
When developing a plan for a one-room apartment, the need for zoning of living space should be taken into account. It is very problematic, having only one room, to plan a berth, a zone for receiving guests and so on. In this case, partitions may be useful. If the area of the room allows, it will be enough to partially partition the space. Another option is to simply highlight the corresponding areas with decoration: various wallpapers, floor coverings, decor items.
Saving space plays a huge role when drawing up a one-room apartment. This problem is especially worrying for residents of the Russian Federation and the CIS. On the territory of the former Soviet republics, housing with the following layout prevails: a tiny kitchen and an irregularly shaped room - usually narrow and long with a single small window. The correct arrangement of furniture can slightly correct this situation, you just need to approach the solution of the problem with the mind.
The layout of a one-room apartment should be aimed at a visual increase in free space and functionality. When drawing up such a plan, one must not forget about the necessary compactness of all elements of the decor. If it is possible to use two-story furniture, this will help to significantly save space.
You can turn your attention to the free layout, that is, turn the delimited rooms into a studio (the bathroom, of course, remains separate). This method has a huge number of advantages, which include free space and a sense of spaciousness. But there are also disadvantages, they are especially clearly visible during cooking. If there is a nuisance in the kitchen and the food is burnt, there is no escape from the smell.
One bedroom apartment: scheme
It often happens that even in an apartment with two rooms there is nowhere to turn around. Before changing the layout (for example, breaking walls or demolishing unnecessary ledges), you need to coordinate your desires with BTI. After issuing permission, you can begin to realize your dreams.
The layout of a two-room apartment can be adjacent and separate. The first option is access to one of the rooms exclusively from another room. This layout is already leaving the number of construction decisions because of its irrationality. Separate layout is recognized as more convenient.
The main criterion for functional housing recognized a large area of the kitchen. In addition, the presence of utility rooms (dressing room, pantry) can also significantly affect the success of the layout.
Three-room apartment and its scheme
Even the smallest three-room apartment can successfully replace an impressive two-room apartment. The only problem is that the old-style living quarters in the Russian Federation have a very small kitchen. For this reason, it is recommended to combine one of the rooms with the dining room. The layout of a 3-room apartment in this case will undergo very useful changes.
On the territory of such a living space, almost any design decisions can be implemented. Most often, in such apartments there is a pantry, which is good news.
If the owner’s family consists of two people, then you can equip the rooms as follows: in one, make a bedroom, in the other a living room, and in the third - an office. If there are children, then the plan remains the same with one exception: instead of an office, a children's room is made. In large rooms you can give scope for imagination.
Finally
Modern new buildings have stepped far ahead in the planning of buildings in general and apartments in particular. But sometimes you still have to make changes to the plan of the premises. Only in this case you need to know which of the walls are load-bearing, otherwise you can simply destroy the building.
The layout of the apartment should still be created if not by the owner himself, then with his direct participation. After all, it was for him to live there later. And the arrangement of furniture and household appliances depends on the location of the same electrical networks. Therefore, owners are advised not to let everything go by its own accord, but to be regularly interested in what the workers plan to do and to control the processes of communications and decoration.