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Floor plan

Meaning in interior design, with examples

/ˈflɔː plæn/nounCore term

In interior design, floor plan means: A scaled drawing of a room or building seen from directly above, showing walls, doors, windows and often furniture, as if the building were cut horizontally.

In Turkish: kat planı, plan, yerleşim planı

How it is used

The starting point of almost every interior project and the drawing clients look at first. You draw, mark up, revise or share a floor plan; metric plans are usually at 1:50 or 1:100. In everyday speech it also means the general arrangement of rooms, as in a flat with a good floor plan.

Example sentences

  1. I've attached the revised floor plan with the sofa moved closer to the window.

  2. Before we talk about colours, let's agree on the floor plan.

Common collocations

  • draw a floor plan
  • revised floor plan
  • furnished floor plan
  • floor plan layout
  • layoutThe way rooms, furniture and fittings are arranged within a space, including where things are placed and how people move between them.
  • elevationA flat, straight-on drawing of one wall or side of a room or object, showing heights and vertical details without perspective.
  • sectionA drawing that shows a building or object as if it had been sliced vertically, revealing heights, floor and ceiling levels, and how the parts fit together.
  • to scaleDrawn so that every measurement keeps the same fixed ratio to the real size, for example 1:50, so that sizes can be measured from the drawing.

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