Who is this plan for?
This plan matches the terraced and mid-terrace houses you find all over the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands and northern France: a 6.5 m frontage on the street, party walls on both sides, and a plot 40 m deep. If you live in a house like this, it does most of the drawing for you: all that's left is to correct the dimensions.
What's in the plan
The house is 6.5 × 10 m. On the ground floor (59 m²): a 15 m² hall with the stairs, a 27 m² living room at the front and a 17 m² kitchen across the full width at the back, joined to the living room by a wide 1.80 m opening. A 2.40 m sliding door leads out to the patio.
Upstairs (58 m²): two 19 m² bedrooms, a bathroom, a landing and a small study at the front. Together with the ground floor, that's 117 m² of living space.
The garden follows the classic pattern: a small front garden with a flower bed, a 22 m² paved patio against the house, a 119 m² lawn, a gravel path along the fence, a 10 m² vegetable patch and a 2.5 × 2.8 m garden shed at the far end. A 5,000-litre tank collects rainwater from the roof.
What works well
- The party walls are labelled: you can see straight away which walls won't move, which helps when you talk about a renovation.
- A through living space: light comes from both the street and the garden, which matters in a narrow house.
- The garden is drawn to scale, patio, lawn and shed included. You can see at a glance what 25 m of garden gives you.
Ideas to adapt it
- Move the stairs if yours run down the middle or at the back of the house.
- Turn the upstairs study into a third, child's bedroom or a walk-in wardrobe.
- Try a rear extension over the patio: draw the new walls in red to tell them apart from the existing ones.
- Make the patio bigger, or move the vegetable patch closer to the house, where the sun is.
Going further
To take your house's measurements, follow the guide Draw a floor plan of your house. For the outdoor layout, read Draw a garden plan to scale and, before putting a shed at the bottom of the garden, check the rules in Shed, carport and pergola.