Essential Design Tools

How to Site Measure and Survey

As a designer we have numerous processes that we have to go through, or routines you may call them. The site measure and survey is one of the most important routines for you to memorise.

It is crutial for the design process to be able to progress acurately. We need to have correct blocks for us to build on, meaning we have to have all the data in front of us so that we can accurately design and decorate the space.

So the first place to start on a project is with a site measure, so you can gather your information and be familiar with the space you have to work with.

You will need a good sturdy retractable metal tape measure, paper (graph paper if you feel you can't sketch straight!) a clipboard and 2 or 3 different coloured pens.

Here is what you do next:

1. Walk around the room (or rooms) and familiarize yourself with the environment.

 

2. Take your pen and paper (on the clipboard) and start to draw the outline of the room (rooms). Show every opening i.e. windows and doors, and positions of any fixtures i.e. fireplaces, kitchen benches, WC's.

Show the relationship between the rooms, and label each. Make sure you have enough space around the outside to show your measurements.

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