| Designing a home is fun, especially when you're | | | | would probably be arranged best. |
| starting from scratch. What's fun but not that easy, | | | | Another trick is to draw your old home on graph |
| though, is moving an interior design from one house | | | | paper where you can outline each room as well as |
| to another. How tough it must be to make things for | | | | mark areas for windows, doors, electrical outlets and |
| one floor plan work for another which could be | | | | other home staples. It's good to have a different |
| totally different. If you're moving to a smaller or | | | | graph paper for each room so it will be easier to sort |
| bigger house, the more you're going to need to plan | | | | through them. And don't forget to label your |
| things out very carefully if you want your new home | | | | drawings properly. |
| to look just as good as the one you left. | | | | Then, you can explore with the room arrangements |
| A good idea would be to take photos of where you | | | | in your new home. Use your graph paper and try to |
| used to live so it would be easier to make things fit | | | | play with it. Put markers for stuff like your tv set, |
| in your new place. Part of the preparation will also | | | | your piano, your chaise lounge and others that you |
| have a lot to do with measuring the rooms. Pay | | | | need to bring. On the day of your moving, you can |
| special attention to floor areas, closets, windows, and | | | | use these graphs to instruct your helpers as to |
| others that will be important as you try to make | | | | where things should go. This can be great help for |
| your old furniture ease into its new environment. | | | | both you and these people because with those |
| These snapshots should also work great in reminding | | | | graphs serving as a guide, you won't have to waste |
| you about colors you may want to stick to. Picture | | | | time figuring out where to put what. This way, you |
| how the new place will look like and how your stuff | | | | all get to save on time and energy. |