How To Measure & Photograph For Your Design Kit

Follow the instructions below to measure and photograph your room. It takes about 15 minutes per room, you’ll need a measuring tape, pencil, paper and your phone.

Step 1 - Drawing the Floorplan:

• Sketch the shape of the room using a pencil & paper. It doesn’t need to be to scale, but drawing on graph paper does make it pretty easy!

• If multiple connecting rooms are to be designed, please show how these rooms connect and measure on one sheet of paper.

• ​Measure the entire length of each wall, corner-to-corner (ignoring doors, openings and windows - we’ll get to those next) and mark this on the floor plan in either inches or feet/inches - just pick one and be consistent throughout.

Step 2 - Overall Measurements:

Once the entire length of each wall has been measured and recorded, measure each wall in detail.

• Start in the corner, measure the distance to the casing of the first window, door, opening and mark on the drawing. Include how high each window casing is from floor.

• Next, measure the width of the window (include casings) and mark on the drawing.

• Measure all items on entire length of each wall.

• Items of importance to include: Doors, windows, built-ins, fireplaces - anything that could impact the placement of furniture.

• Repeat steps for each wall in each room.

• Note the height of the floor to ceiling, and floor to any moldings.

  And Double Check:

• That you have total room width and lengths (ie 14’ x 15’4 across the middle of the room), not just the smaller measurements that total to the larger number.

Step 3 - Final Touches

• Add locations of anything on the wall and floor - light switches, electrical outlets, thermostats, electrical panels, air returns, etc.

• Label all rooms.

Step 4 - Photographs

• Take photos during the day.

• Remove clutter.

• Start in one corner and work your way around the room taking a photo while standing in each corner and middle of each wall (indicated by red “x”).

• Capture part of the floor and ceiling in each photo.

• Number each photo and label to the corresponding place on the flooplan from which it was taken.

• Take a photo of any furniture you want to keep in the room and submit that with full measurements of each piece.