Squares = ? Sqaure foot

[Kristalrose]

Since I want to try out those house plans, I need to know how many squares are equal to feet. For example, one room is 14X10. So, Is it 14 squares by 10 squares? More or less? I ran a search and didn't see this addressed, but if it's old information that I've missed I'm sorry. :confused:

[Mirelly]

A square seems to be about 1 yard or so ... unless the doors where you live are only a foot wide, Kristal. ;)

[Angelyne]

I saw that somewhere once, but don't remember where it is.

What I do is I just size a house around sims dimensions. Like fir example, I'll make corridors 3 square large (or 4 if you want double doors), I'll put a bed in a room to evaluate how big the room is, put in a couch in the living room and a table in the dinner room.

For the first time it might be useful to just lay down the walls (without a foundation) to get an idea of the size of the house. Then count how many squares the total house is, remove the walls and then build your foundation.

[ChaosShade]

1 square = ~2.5 square feeti'm basing this on the fact that a standard door that takes up about one square is 2.5 feet wide.

[Mirelly]

Yes but a "standard" entrance doorway is usually at least 2'9" (2.75 feet) and when you add in the door frame wood and architrave mouldings the whole assembly generally exceeds 3 feet. The interanl doorways in my Victorian house measure 36.25" across the architrave mouldings and front door is even wider.

[JohnEZ]

If it helps any, I know that in TS1, one square = 9 sq. ft... so one side = 3 ft. Though I don't know if they kept the same measurement in TS2, especially considering that they didn't keep the square footage meter...