Are you all set to give shape to your tiny house design? If yes, then drawing your house’s floor plan by hand is a smart idea. It is also a creative process that I enjoyed for Shellmate Island. It is a stage where you get to work with your thoughts, dreams, concepts, and translate them into reality. As I wrote in a previous article (click here to read it) stating the importance of blueprints, it’s always a good idea to have a floor plan of where things are in your home. However, in the beginning, the task might seem daunting! But when you divide the task into baby steps, your tiny house planning can feel a bit less stressful.
Don’t discard your imagination
Your imagination is the first step to create the tiny house floor plan and what I think makes micro-homes so unique! I suggest you resort to the technique of the “bubble diagram.” It is a clever technique to represent each room and area of the tiny house visually, I myself am a visual person I feel. Make a list of all the house rooms you want and organize the items in a group. For instance, you can group the living room and dining table to use the same tables for standard functions. Once you complete the grouping you can cut them into square or circle pieces. I like square since more than likely your trailer is square. Here it would help if you used your imagination. Start to play around with the location of the rooms and the connection each has with the other in the tiny house! For instance, think whether you would want the living room and the dining space close to one another? If yes, why would you like this arrangement? How is this arrangement going to benefit you? Think about the kitchen and bathroom space? Where do you want them to get located in the tiny home?
