Comments on: Simple, Inexpensive Ways To Provide Floor Plans

By: HDshowings

HDshowings — Sat, 21 May 2011 12:46:31 +0000

Is anyone using actual photography for their floorplans? Ive always wanted to do this (along with all my other “great” ideas) but havent had time/motivation. It seems a well camera placed in the same upper corner of every room pointed downward with a nice wide lens should be able capture the room for a nice 3d view of a floorplan. (a spherical panorama would do this nicely too, and allow the floorplan to be turned by the viewer, but soo much woork) Putting all the actual rooms in the floor plan would look so cool! You could take it up a notch by shooting an aerial outside and use that to build a model of the home with its roof off. It would be a lot of work but what an eye catcher it would be if the process could be streamlined.

By: Marion Higgins

Marion Higgins — Thu, 19 May 2011 05:33:30 +0000

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By: Trent

Trent — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 23:06:56 +0000

I’ve been trying to contact floorplanet.com but they don’t seem to be in business any more. Does anyone still use them?

By: Adam Stelmaszynski

Adam Stelmaszynski — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:11:31 +0000

In the USA there is a web site called http://www.floorplanonline.com and I hear that they are coming to Canada in March, 2010 under http://www.floorplanonline.ca with either a professional photographer and measurer or do-it-yourself capablitites creating a “template that includes both plans and pics. Have a look at either web site for clarifications and examples. Looks great and fairly priced.

Adam

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:14:18 +0000

Recently RTV presented to me floor plans provided and hosted by Icovia http://www.icovia.com/realestate/ . I think they have one of the best floor plan software – easy to operate/create yet very detailed as far as measurements and symbols. Another great feature allowing the viewer to add different furniture, appliences even plants. I will actually work on 2 different flr plans tmro. so I will post links etc. if anyone would be interested.

By: larry

larry — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:02:34 +0000

Mallory- Several people have told me that the use VISIO to draw floorplans. I’ve never used VISIO but from what I know about it I think it would be a great tool for this use.

Do you use the standard version or the professional version? Standard version is only $149 but the professional version is pricey… too pricey.

By: Mallory

Mallory — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:47:34 +0000

I’ve done hundreds of floorplans (from crudely sketched drawings & dimensions done by maintenance men) for the company I work for. In our searching, Microsoft Visio is an incredible program to create floorplans for apartments/homes that have no existing ones if it’s a need. If someone draws out a basic floorplan of their home and does the measurements I can normally get one done in 30-40 minutes from scratch easily. Haven’t checked out these other sites, but Visio is incredible at creating them and it does have quite a range of options in saving the document and also adding some frills.

Great post, though.

By: Jay Neely, EasyImpress Founder

Jay Neely, EasyImpress Founder — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:34:32 +0000

Larry,

I’d second Ryan’s recommendation. Have you taken a look at http://www.floorplanner.com? They’re easily the best designed floorplans I’ve seen. You mention that you hate doing floorplans without blueprints because inaccurate dimensions are such a trigger for lawsuits — one of the things I like about Floorplanner is you can turn off display of the dimensions, and instead rely on furniture objects placed in the plan (interactive, so a visitor can move them around and start to imaging what the home would be like if it were theirs) to give a sense of scale.

It’s a great differentiator, and often results in calls to ask about specific dimensions, at which point you can lead the conversation where you like (e.g. to scheduling a showing of the home).

By: Joanna

Joanna — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:20:26 +0000

Back in the mid-70s, I solicited homebuilders accounts and provided brochures, newpaper ads, entrance and model signs, etc. But my design skills fell short of floor plans and I had to hire technical artists who could draw these up for me. Today, that would have been a lot simpler and I’m pleased to have this information at our disposal in the event it ever comes up. Thanks for providing the links!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:58:07 +0000

also try http://www.floorplanner.com they offer a great designer for free!!!