GUIDE TO OPEN CONCEPT FLOOR PLANS

By CLARICE SMYTH

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GUIDE TO OPEN CONCEPT FLOOR PLANS

HOW TO DEFINE THE INVISIBLE WALLS

HOW TO PLAN AN OPEN CONCEPT FLOOR PLAN

6 Steps that work is all open concept floor plans.

BEGINNERS GUIDE TO OPEN CONCEPT FLOOR PLANS HOW TO DEFINE THE INVISIBLE WALLS How to avoid major design mistakes when planning your Open Concept Rooms. If you struggle with your Open Concept space and furniture layout YOU MUST WATCH THIS VIDEO

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It can be overwhelming and confusing to design an open concept space UNLESS you are armed with the right information. I share 6 Easy Steps and 3 Example To Define Your Invisible Walls and Design Your Home for the Life Your Want To Experience.

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EXAMPLE PLAN ONE

Example 0ne of three Open Concept Floor Plans

STEP 1 DRAW THE FLOOR PLAN

The first thing you are going to do, even if you don’t have floorpan, is measure your room as accurately as possible. Define where the doors, windows, and any builtins are located. You are not drawing furnishings at this point.

Draw the measured lines on the plan or in whatever method you are capturing the space. If using software, roughly sketch out the accurate measurements and transfer data to software afterward

STEP TWO MARK CENTER LINES

Create Center Lines: Simply mark, on the floor plan, the center point of every interior and entry door within the space. Dot a reference spot every couple of yard or so straight ahead. Note on plan any closet and storage doors as well. Label dot CL for Center Line. The Center Line (CL) is the point of measurement from which you will determine final width of the Traffic Flow (TF).

STEP 2 MARK CENTER LINES WITH INTERSECTIONS

Show intersections where direction options are available.

STEP THREE MARK TRIMMED WIDTH OF OPENINGS

Draw a line from the outside edge of the door trim/molding, on each side of every interior and entry door opening, extending the lines straight ahead to the farthest wall. Label TF. This will represent the minimum or less than minimum width of the preferred run of Traffic Flow.

STEP FOUR DEFINE INVISIBLE WALLS

Draw a dotted line that indicates where an actual wall would have been in a closed Concept plan. There may be enclosed support beams above or wall extensions along and otherwise, straight wall run to indicate their potential locations. You don’t need to translate this to the floor with tape. This step is just to make you aware of the architecture.

DEFINE TRAFFIC FLOW CORRIDOR WITH INTERSECTIONS

Add a X anywhere the centerlines cross one another.

Erase extended center lines that go beyond where two center lines cross. This will reveal the Traffic Flow Corridor (TRC). Erase any lines that continue randomly and don’t connect to another room/entry door nor intersect with a straight line that does. (This will become more clear in example/Illustration.

DEFINE TRAFFIC FLOW CORRIDOR

DEFINE TRAFFIC FLOW CORRIDOR MAIN CORRIDOR

DEFINE TRAFFIC FLOW CORRIDOR OPTION 2 WITH INTERSECTIONS

DEFINE TRAFFIC FLOW MAIN CORRIDOR OPTION 2

DEFINE TRAFFIC FLOW CORRIDOR

SPACE PLAN OPTION 1

To apply this to the physical room translate all the dotted and solid lines on your floor plan to the floor. You do not need to transfer the non existent walls.

Drawing a floor plan before this step is helpful because using only the Painters Tape method can be a challenge since you don’t have a birds-eye-view of the space. (Unless you have stairs that allow you to look down on the space.)

When complete, this should reveal large areas for your rooms within a room and your Traffic Flow paths or corridors.

SPACE PLAN OPTION 2

CONCLUSION

SEE EXAMPLES 2 AND 3 IN THE YOUTUBE VIDEO

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