Colonials run about 1,500–3,000 sq ft over two full stories: living spaces down, bedrooms up. Two drawings per house means double the measuring, and a stair opening to keep out of the upstairs total.
The first floor typically holds a foyer, living room, dining room and kitchen, often with a half bath; three to four bedrooms sit upstairs around a central hall. The stairwell and its void must stay out of the second-floor area, and a tiled foyer meeting hardwood adds threshold lines a lump-sum quote misses.
The reliable way to measure any colonial plan is off the drawing itself: calibrate against a printed dimension line, then trace each room along the inside face of the walls. Measure each story as its own plan and keep the stair opening out of the upstairs polygons. Price the foyer separately when it takes a different finish; the CSV gives each room its own line either way.
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 1,500–3,000 sq ft (139–279 m²) of internal floor area, with 3–4 bedrooms over 2 stories. 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. Measure each story as its own plan and keep the stair opening out of the upstairs polygons. Price the foyer separately when it takes a different finish; the CSV gives each room its own line either way. Then export per-room areas and perimeters as CSV, in sq ft and feet.
The first floor typically holds a foyer, living room, dining room and kitchen, often with a half bath; three to four bedrooms sit upstairs around a central hall. The stairwell and its void must stay out of the second-floor area, and a tiled foyer meeting hardwood adds threshold lines a lump-sum quote misses.
