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Small footprint, plenty of beds
Try a sleeping loft, bunk room and guest cabin and see how many people fit.
Vacation home & lake house
Design your vacation home or lake house
Plan a lake house, a beach cottage or a weekend place in the woods. A screened porch, bunk rooms for guests, storage and room to add on later – all to real dimensions.
Start drawing my vacation home
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Porch and evening sun
Draw the deck, screened porch and patio and follow the sun across the lot.
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Build in phases
Plan the house so an addition or guest cabin can come later.
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See it in 3D
Walk through the house in 3D, furnish it to scale and export dimensioned 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 in feet and inches. Requirements vary between jurisdictions.
Building a vacation home – permits, layout and mistakes
Planning a lake house or beach cottage? How to think about the lot, permits, septic, moisture, the porch and guest beds – and what to check first.
Design your vacation home or mountain cabin
Plan a lake cabin or a mountain cabin in Colorado, Montana or Vermont. Sleeping lofts, a mudroom for skis and boots, a fireplace and big windows toward the peaks.