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Small footprint, plenty of beds
Try a sleeping loft, bunk beds and a garden annexe and see how many people fit.
Holiday cottage
Design your holiday cottage
Plan a holiday cottage on the coast, in the countryside or by a lake. A sheltered terrace, beds for guests, storage and room to extend later – all to real dimensions.
Start drawing my cottage
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Terrace and evening sun
Draw the terrace, pergola and patio and follow the sun across the plot.
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Extend in stages
Plan the cottage so an extension or annexe can be added later.
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See it in 3D
Walk through the cottage in 3D, furnish it to scale and export dimensioned A3 drawings with the paid version.
SAMPLE DRAWING
See what your permit drawings look like
Download a complete A3 drawing set made with MyRoomCraft – the same vector PDF you export from your own project.
- · Site plan with boundary distances
- · Dimensioned floor plan
- · Four elevations with ground line
- · Section with heights and roof pitch
- · Title block, scale bar and north arrow
Example house. Requirements vary between authorities.
Building a holiday cottage – rules, layout and mistakes
Planning a holiday cottage? How to think about the plot, planning permission, drainage, damp, the terrace and guest beds – and what to check first.
Design your holiday cottage or mountain lodge
Plan a coastal holiday cottage or a timber lodge in the Highlands – Aviemore, the Cairngorms or Glencoe. Sleeping lofts, a drying room, wood-burner and big windows towards the hills.