Family House
160 m²
A spacious multi-room family house with bedrooms, living areas, kitchen and utility spaces.
Use TemplateDraw your plot, then lay the house out inside it. Set room sizes in feet or metres, add doors and windows, and plan the ground floor and upper floor separately.
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A house map is decided by the plot before it is decided by the rooms. Draw the plot outline to its real dimensions and mark which edge faces the road, because that sets the entry, the parking and which rooms can take windows. Only then place the built footprint inside it. Working the other way round, arranging rooms first and fitting them to the plot afterwards, is what produces a layout that has to be redrawn once the setbacks are applied.
On the ground floor the entry, drawing room and any guest space form the public half, while bedrooms, kitchen and service areas form the private half. Keeping a visitor from walking through the private half to reach the drawing room is most of what makes a house map feel right to live in. A short entry passage, or simply turning the drawing room to face the entry, usually solves it without adding area.
Once the staircase is placed, the upper floor is largely determined: the landing arrives somewhere, and every bedroom has to hang off it. Draw the upper floor as a second level over the same plot so the stair, the load-bearing walls and the shafts line up between the two. Bathrooms and kitchens stacked above one another keep the plumbing runs short, which is easier to arrange while it is still a drawing.
Press O for the Lot tool and enter the plot size, for example 30 x 40 ft. Note which side faces the road, because it decides where the main door and parking go.
Press R and drag each room, or type its exact size. Keep the drawing room near the entrance and the kitchen next to dining. Room areas show as you go.
Click a wall to place a door or window. Put the staircase in early: in a 30 ft wide house a straight stair takes about 12 to 13 ft of length on both floors.
With a free account, add a floor above that starts from the outer walls below. Check the house in 3D, then export the house map as a PDF to scale or as an image.
Most house maps start from a standard plot. These are the sizes people most often draw, with the conversions you need when a plot is sold in one unit and the builder works in another. One gaj is one square yard, or 9 sq ft. Setbacks and how much of the plot you may build on depend on your local authority, so check them before you fix the footprint.
| Measure | Imperial | Metric | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 x 30 ft plot | 600 sq ft (66.7 gaj) | 6.1 x 9.1 m, 55.7 m² | A narrow plot. Rooms usually run front to back in a line. |
| 25 x 40 ft plot | 1000 sq ft (111 gaj) | 7.6 x 12.2 m, 92.9 m² | Room for two rooms side by side across the width. |
| 30 x 40 ft plot | 1200 sq ft (133 gaj) | 9.1 x 12.2 m, 111.5 m² | One of the most common plot sizes for a family house. |
| 30 x 50 ft plot | 1500 sq ft (167 gaj) | 9.1 x 15.2 m, 139.4 m² | The extra depth often goes to parking at the front. |
| 40 x 60 ft plot | 2400 sq ft (267 gaj) | 12.2 x 18.3 m, 223.0 m² | Wide enough for a central hall or courtyard plan. |
| Bedroom, comfortable size | 10 x 12 ft | 3.0 x 3.7 m | Fits a double bed with a wardrobe and walking space. |
| Main door width | 3 to 3.5 ft | 0.9 to 1.05 m | Inner room doors are usually around 2.5 to 3 ft (75 to 90 cm). |
| Staircase width inside a house | 3 ft or more | 0.9 m or more | Narrower stairs make it hard to move furniture upstairs. |
Click to place walls with live dimensions and smart snapping. Everything stays to scale.
Drop doors and windows onto walls and see the openings update live as you move them.
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Plan gardens, patios, pools and outdoor kitchens on the same canvas as your interior rooms.
Switch between cm, meters and feet/inches any time. Areas update automatically.
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Yes. Choose feet and inches, or metres and centimetres, and switch whenever you like. Wall lengths, room sizes and areas convert with the drawing, so a 30 x 40 ft plot stays exactly 30 x 40 ft.
Yes. Draw the ground floor first. With a free account you can then add a floor above that starts from the same outer walls, place the staircase between them, and see both floors together in 3D.
Yes, with a free account. Export a PDF at a true scale such as 1:100 on A4 to A0, or download a PNG or SVG image to share with your family, builder or architect.
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