Floorplans

Getting the floor plan of your dreamhome right is like 90% of the making of the house. Everything relies on the efficient and feel-good use of space. Walls and plumbing don't easily adjust for experimentation, so it's important to get them right from the start.

Although ever-evolving, here are 2 of the 3 levels of my dreamhouse. These are just the walls... you'll have to use your imagination to know what all the rooms are for. Or you can write to me and I'll sell you the details for a few million dollars.

Left, Google SketchUp 1st floor (entry level / street level).
Right, PowerPoint 2nd floor (1st if you're in the UK I think).

The floorplan on the left (and below) was made using Google SketchUp. I didn't take the tutorial, and I gotta say that getting used to the program was hard. Progress was slow. At present I barely know how to use the functions that create 3-D spaces out of my 2-D one. It's also hard to edit and follow the sizes of the boxes and lines you are drawing. The floorplan on the right is made of boxes I laid over a picture of the first floor plan in PowerPoint. I know Powerpoint like the back of my hand.

In SketchUp you can spin around the property like a bird and turn this into 3-D.