Small House Plans

Small Plans At Architecture Designs, we define small house plans as homes up to 1,500 square feet in size. The most common home designs represented in this category include cottage house plans, vacation home plans and beach house plans. Step 1. Select a Room Outline Open Floor Plans - Residential from the diagrams list along the left-hand side of the screen. You'll see a number of subcategories listed. Rather than choosing a kitchen template, we'll start with a basic room shape. It's highlighted as shown here: Room (Rectangle - 1). Step 2. Input Room Dimensions SmartDraw will open a work area for you with a rectangular room having default dimensions of 15'0 by 20'0. You can change these dimensions in one of two ways. Either click on a wall and slide it to its desired length, or click on the dimension and type in the measurement you want to use. When you do this, you'll note that the opposite wall will resize to the same dimension automatically. We want to re-size this room to 13'8 by 20'6. To resize just one wall, click at the corner and drag to resize the wall. Clicking in the middle of the wall will keep both opposing walls the same size. Step 3. Add Doors, Windows, and Wall Openings You don't need to create openings in walls for your windows and doors; SmartDraw will do it for you automatically. Our kitchen plan has two wall openings into adjacent rooms, plus a garden window over the sink and a bay window viewing into the back yard. Click Add Wall Opening in the SmartPanel. As you move your cursor onto the page, you'll see the wall opening shape. Position it anywhere on the appropriate wall and you'll see the icon change from a stamp to an anchor, indicating you can click to attach it to the wall. You can now resize the opening and move it around on the wall until it's positioned where you want. Add windows in the same way. From the SmartPanel, you'll see a variety of door and window options. We'll add a garden window and a bay window, as shown below. Because the default size of the bay window is 12' across and ours measures only 6' we had to adjust the size by clicking on the measurement and typing in the new figure.