subject: Simple Tips to Measure a Room for Decorating [print this page] If you are going to decorate your room, it is required for you to know the measurements of your room. If you only guess the measurements of your room, it can be possible for you to make a mistake so that you may end up with the furniture that is too small or too big. The possibilities that you may find if you make a mistake in measuring your room are the wrong length of window treatments and poorly planned room. Therefore, these are going to give you some easy tips to measure a room for decorating.
The first thing that you have to do is to measure the width and the length of your room. You can use laser measuring tape or retractable measuring tape for measuring your room from end to end in one direction, and in the other. After that, you can make a measurement record of the each wall on the paper. If the room is rectangle, then it is done. However, if the room comes in the odd shape, you need to measure the walls and the odd corners as well.
The second thing that you should do is to measure the each wall. By simply making floor measurement, you will automatically have the measurement of the length of each wall. In order to obtain the dimensions of each wall, you need to know the height of the ceiling in your room.
The third thing is to obtain the width and the length measurement of your window, and also the measurement from the floor to the top of the window. Besides, you will also require making a record of the measurement from the floor to the bottom part of your window. It should be done for each wall.
Lastly, you have to measure your doors. Measuring your doors is not only significant for ordering wall treatments, but it is also imperative for knowing if different items will fit into the room. When measuring the door, what you have to do is to measure the width and the height of the inside part of the door frame.
