Hi all.
Everyone wants different things in there homes. It is very simple to design you own house, no fancy CAD programs, just the good old XL spread sheet.
Its simple, like me, set the cells A to Z, .50 wide (that is point 50) and the cells 1 to whatever at 4.50, (four point five high). This will give you a square, or that close it does not matter.
Everyone has lived somewhere and something about your home was just not quite right, you wished that one room was slightly bigger, or the windows were to big or small, power points were in the wrong place for what you wanted or there were not enough of them. Work out what size rooms you want, and just use the outside border thingiiiiiiii in the top right hand side of the screen, instant house.
If you want to get really fancy, you can use the drawing part of XL and then you can move your rooms around and change them however you want. You can put furniture in to see how it fits your size rooms and place the power points and light switches in the correct place. Put the windows and doors in with the furniture you would like, it’s so easy. It’s all in XL.
I do it all the time; I cannot use the CAD programs at all, so I find this is very easy. The XL spread sheet is 256 columns wide, this gives you 25.6 metres, using each square as 100mm. The height or length is kilometers. I have had to joint 8 XL sheet together to do a drawing, but you need another program to do this.
I treat each square as 100mm, this gives you everything you need to design your home and take it to an architect to have it drawn, and you can even put all the measurements on it.
If you do not know how to do this and are interested, I am more than happy to show you an example, just email me and I will send it to you, with furniture, measurements and power points.
rgk-karts[at]bigpond.com
Maily/Fah/Ray
