Real Estate Floor plans

What is a floor plan?

Simply stated a floor plan is a drawing of your home if viewed from above. Imagine taking the roof of your home and looking straight down into all the joint rooms. This is the visual representation that a floor plan can give. Where each room joins with another, where the kitchen is in relation to the living room. Where the stairs are located and entry and exit points throughout the home. Some people looking for homes like to know where these areas are to satisfy their needs.

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Do I really need a floor plan to sell my house?

Including a floor plan in your Property Marketing campaign can greatly improve buyers' interests. The more information you supply a buyer the more likely serious buyers only will turn up. You do not need to supply a real estate floor plan but statistically speaking it will always yield more interested buyers for your home.

 

Will real estate floor plans attract more buyers?

Yes. Buyers often comment to real estate agents whether or not they can see the floor plan. The real estate floor plan allows the buyer to understand the architectural layout of the home. By better understanding, the placement of the bedrooms, kitchen, dining and living rooms the buyer is well-armed and well-informed on the property they are interested in.

Often, the buyer can see the real estate photos and understand the room in which the photo was taken, giving them a much better understanding of what is actually for sale.

 

Does a 3D floor plan attract more buyers?

It would be hard to predict whether 3D floor plans attract more buyers. 2D black and white floor plans are simple and easy to understand whilst a 3D floor plan with furniture will show the home and furniture placement within it. This might signal to the buyer where things were meant to go within the house.

If the buyer has a large corner lounge suite and cannot see a corner lounge suite within the floor plan they may assume there's no room for it. If the buyer has a round dining table but can only see a square one on the floor plan it might be fair to assume the buyer may think his/her furniture may not fit, but it would be a rare occurrence.
 

How is a floor plan measured?

When drawing up a property floor plan digital 1 team of experts uses a laser measurer to grab the exact distance wall-to-wall. Although we don't draw the floor plan to the exact measurement in millimetres, it does give us a very solid approximation for the distance of each room. Normally the rooms drawn up within a floor plan and a real estate floor plan will be within 1 cm of its true distance.

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Is a real estate floor plan to the exact scale of my home?

Your real estate or property floor plan scale is a miniature version of the actual home or commercial premises being measured. Depending on what size you're viewing the floor plan will depend on its scale. Sometimes 1 to 100 or even 1 to 80 is a reasonable scale again depending on where you view the floor plans from.

A real estate floor plan generally will be an approximate measurement of your home. A builder's floor plan for the architectural drawing will be a lot more precise.

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What can a floor plan be used for?

A property floor plan can have many different purposes and uses. Digital 1 creates many fire exit floor plans for commercial premises. A floor plan for fire exits is paramount and a must for any commercial premises and can affect their licensing. It can show the fastest way to the fire exits in case of emergency. Also known as emergency floor plans or fire exit floor plans. Other floor plans will generally be for Renovation possibilities which will show a builder where walls are placed and what he can do with modifications.

DA floor plans or council floor plans. Predominantly our floor plan draw-ups are for real estate marketing purposes. Showing new home buyers or used home buyers the current layout of the property they're looking to buy. This information can save them a ton of time if they have a specific layout in mind.

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How long does it take to draw a floor plan?

It is a relatively quick process to draw a medium-sized property. A three-bedroom home single story will generally take 15 to 20 minutes to draw or sketch. Whereas a double-story 5 bedroom home could take 35 to 40 minutes to draw or sketch. When we talk about large architectural custom-built homes you can look at anywhere from an hour to even 3 hours depending on the size of the home.

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Old floor plans vs new floor plans

The difference between old floor plan designs and new floor plan designs can easily be found when you visit an older home. A Few generations ago modern design and open-plan living were not thought of in everyday home designs.

It almost seems like singular boxes we're just stuck together to make one large box and we simply cut a hole between the boxes to walk through each of the rooms. A very simple layout indeed.

 

Nowadays, however, are much different. New modern home designs have wide-open spaces with open plan living designed into them. Both designs have advantages and disadvantages but it would seem that humans do prefer an open layout to spend their time.

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