But after you do it the first time, it’s pretty easy to continue modifying it. Labor intensive to start: When you make your first floorplan, it will take a good amount of work and elbow grease.Highly customizable: There’s a lot of ways to customize your diagrams in Excel.

Most people tend to have a copy of Excel on their work or home computers, even Mac users like me.

We often already have access to it: I researched interior design programs when I first started putting together my layout, and most of the good ones were pretty expensive, while the free ones didn’t give me enough customization.

Most reasonably tech savvy people know how to use it: A generalization yes, but you’re likely to find more people with Excel experience than with Google Sketchup.But there’s actually method to my madness in using Microsoft Excel: PROS Programs that might even be less labor intensive. Now I realize that there are probably better programs out there for creating floorplans. My first couple of layout designs came out pretty bad, but gradually I started getting the hang of creating floorplans using Microsoft Excel. Pretty soon, I decided that I NEEDED a spreadsheet of the floorplan of our space. The physical space of our library was horribly cluttered when I first got there, so I immediately started dreaming up ways of changing the space. So naturally, when I started working as a school librarian, I wanted to use spreadsheets in my work there. I got hooked in late high school/early college, creating spreadsheets for my budget, comparing prices at various grocery stores, etc. My dad worked for IBM and I remember seeing him working on spreadsheets on our home computer at a pretty young age. If you make a purchase using them, I get a small commission that helps support running this blog) How to Create a Floorplan in ExcelĬonfession time: I’m a slight spreadsheet nerd.

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