How to read a blueprint
First, nobody calls them that anymore It’s drawings or plans.
A floor plan is a bird’s-eye (view showing the width of walls and the placement of windows, fixtures, even light switches and outlets. (There are also roof plans and basement plans.) Elevations show the front, side or rear of a house from dead-on and include finishes and roof pitches; cross-sections are just that: a slice right down the middle. To make sure what you see is what you really want, take put a tape measure and actually plot the size of that stove or bay window. Or think in terms of rugs, offers Winifred Gallagher, author of house Thinking. “If I am looking at a plan for an 8-by-10-foot porch, I think of a rug that size so I can visualize it.”
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