Bungalows and craftsman cottages run about 900–1,800 sq ft on a single compact story. Small footprints make percentage errors expensive, and original hardwood makes refinish-vs-replace a common split in the quote.
A typical plan puts the living room across the front behind a porch, the kitchen at the back and two or three bedrooms to one side. Built-ins — window seats, bookcases, china cabinets — eat into both floor area and baseboard runs, and enclosed porches may or may not be in scope.
The reliable way to measure any bungalow plan is off the drawing itself: calibrate against a printed dimension line, then trace each room along the inside face of the walls. Decide the porch explicitly in or out of scope and keep it as its own polygon. Trace around built-ins rather than through them: baseboard stops at a built-in, and perimeter mode counts the run correctly when the outline does.
PlanTape does the tracing for you. It detects every labelled room and the scale line in under two minutes, you fine-tune the corners, and the per-room areas and baseboard perimeters export as a CSV — in square feet and feet.
Typically 900–1,800 sq ft (84–167 m²) of internal floor area, with 2–3 bedrooms, single story. Exact size varies by year and builder; the floor plan for your specific unit is the only reliable source.
Upload the floor plan PDF to PlanTape: it traces each room along the inside face of the walls and calibrates scale from a printed dimension — feet-and-inches dimensions like 24′-6″ are read natively. Decide the porch explicitly in or out of scope and keep it as its own polygon. Trace around built-ins rather than through them: baseboard stops at a built-in, and perimeter mode counts the run correctly when the outline does. Then export per-room areas and perimeters as CSV, in sq ft and feet.
A typical plan puts the living room across the front behind a porch, the kitchen at the back and two or three bedrooms to one side. Built-ins — window seats, bookcases, china cabinets — eat into both floor area and baseboard runs, and enclosed porches may or may not be in scope.
