Floor Plan continued
Continuing with the floor plan. If you’ve been doing the homework, you should now have a floor plan with the appropriate ‘seats’ in place. This very simple exercise shows you where people will sit in the room and what type of furniture you need in that room. Now you need to look balance and traffic flow. In design school, we worked on floor-plans that we divided into 4 quadrants and we really looked at how they related to each other. Doorways have ‘weight’, they occupy space equal to the door swing and if the door opens out, at least 36 inches inside the room is considered door space. Get your floor plan with the seats placed on it and draw a line through the center horizontally and vertically. This creates your 4 quadrants. Look at the placement of the seats. Are they all smushed into one half of the READ MORE