FLOOR PLAN

This is the cross- sectional view of the house, it shows the arrangement of the rooms; the sizes and locations of the stairs, door and window openings. And partitions and walls; and sometimes the kind of furnishings in each room.

The common scale used is 1: 100; that is, every meter in the actual house is equal to one centimeter in the drawing.

Guidelines in arranging the rooms:

1. The front porch must be accessible to the living room, and the latter must be close to the dinning room. 2. The bath and toilet must be near the bedrooms, accessible to the living room ( without passing through other rooms, and as much as possible away from the dining room and kitchen.)

3. The dinning room must be near the kitchen, and latter should be accessible to the back prch, backyard. Patio, or service area of the house where most of the washing of clothes, dressing of poultry, and similar tasks are done.
4. Built- in cabinets or closets are usually found in the bedrooms, kitchen, and dinning room. Open shelves maybe constructed in the kitchen and dinning room.

5. In some one- story houses, the bedrooms, toilet, and bath are elevated from the other rooms. In case, the stairs leading to these rooms must be indicated on the floor plan. Two or three steps, each 18 or 19 cm high from each other and 25 cm wide, may be shown in the plan. All these measurements must be drawn to scale.
6. In a two- story residential house, the bedrooms. toilet., and bath are often located on the second floor. In this case, the stairs must go up from the living room or hall if there is any. The stair is generally L- or U- shaped and has landing.

7. The living room should face a pleasant view and not necessarily the street.
8. Since most of the time is spent by the mebers of the family in the bedrooms when at home, these rooms must be be located far from noise, dust, and polluted air coming from garbage pits ot from the kitchens and toilets of the neighboring houses. 9. If furniture and house appliances are to be shown in each room, these furnishings should be drawn on the same scale as the floor plan.

10. If the floor plan will be traced on the tracing paper in order to indicate the electrical or water connections, these furnishings should not be shown on the tracing. 11. In presentation drawings, the landscaping around the floor plan may be added.