A closet design project requires a floor-plan drawing. A floor plan shows the arrangement and orientation of the walls, the doors, the light and the wire shelves. The floor plan is drawn to scale, meaning the size of the drawing when multiplied by a certain number equals the size of the real-life closet. There are many online programs that would let you draw these two designs, but the one that has the most applicable tools is Queeky's free Paint program.
Instructions
1. Visit Queeky's home page in the References Section. Click on the Tools button in the navigation menu at the top of the window and allow the new page to load the painting application.
2. Note the canvas upon which you can illustrate at the center of the window, the tool bar to the left of the window, the color palette to the left of the window, and the ruler bars at the edge of the window. All of these panels and tools are needed to make your closet.
3. Begin by drawing the floor plan of your closet. Click in the horizontal rule bar at the top of the canvas window and drag a new horizontal rule into the canvas and let go of the cursor. Repeat this process for the vertical rule bar. Note how you've now created two blue lines that intersect at an angle.
4. Make the design to scale by having 5 tic marks of the ruler bar equal 1 foot in real life. So, if you want a closet with a wall 6-feet long, you need a line with a length of 30 tic marks. Continue inserting the blue lines until you've made a square of blue lines that equal to scale the closet you wish to have. Now trace the blue lines using the Square tool. Click on the square tool in the tool bar. Change the width of the sides of the square to 5 pixels by clicking on the width button at the menu above the canvas. Click on one of the intersecting points, and line up the sides of the square with the blue lines.
5. Use the eraser tool to erase a segment of one of the walls where the door is to go. Erase a segment that is 15 tic marks long, because a door's width in real life is normally about 3 feet.
6. To make the wire shelves in the floor plan, click the rectangle tool again, and change the width to 1 or 2 pixels, to indicate that the shelves are thinner than the wall. Now click on one of the walls and draw a rectangle that is equal in scale to the length and width of your shelves from a top down perspective. Repeat this process for each wall that has a wire shelf.
7. To create the bars of the wire shelf that make up the rack upon which clothes and other items rest, use the line tool to make horizontal lines in the wire-thin rectangle. Use the blue ruler guides with the tic marks as a guide if you need something to trace in order to make placing the lines easier. Continue this process until all the wire-shelf rectangles have bars.
8. Click the circle tool and change the width to 3 pixels. The circle represents the light in the room. Place the light near the entrance to the closet.
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