A kitchen is the hardest room in the house to plan and the easiest to get wrong. Get the spacing between the units off by a few centimetres and a dishwasher door fouls a drawer, or the fridge can't open against the wall. A measured floor plan settles those arguments before anyone orders a worktop. This guide shows how to draw a clear, to-scale kitchen plan on your iPhone or iPad - the walls, the units, the appliances, and a tidy export to share with a fitter or client.
Start with an accurate shell
Everything downstream depends on the room being the right size, so capture the walls first. On a Pro device, scan the kitchen with LiDAR and RoomPlot detects the walls, doors, and windows automatically. On any other device, pick a room-shape template - Square, Rectangle, or one of the four L-shape orientations - and drag the walls to your measured lengths. Snapping and the 20 pt grid keep corners square, and you can type an exact length for any wall so the plan matches your tape.
Tip. Note the position of the soil stack, the gas point, and the consumer unit before you start placing units. Moving plumbing and electrics is the expensive part of a kitchen, so a plan that respects what's already there tends to be the plan that gets built.
Place the units and appliances
Open the object library and switch to the Kitchen category. RoomPlot draws each item as real vector geometry, so a base unit, a sink, a hob, an oven, a fridge, and a dishwasher all read the way they would on an architect's drawing. Drop each one against its wall, then fine-tune:
- Resize to the real unit width with the sliders or by typing exact dimensions.
- Rotate a corner unit to sit into the angle.
- Mirror an appliance so its hinge or handle faces the right way.
- Recolour the fill and outline to separate, say, existing units from proposed ones.
Check the dimensions and walkways
Turn on dimensions and read the gaps. A galley needs enough clearance for two people to pass and for appliance doors to open fully; an island needs walkway on every side it's used from. RoomPlot shows on-plan dimensions and a scale bar in metric or imperial, so you can confirm the runs and the gangways add up rather than discovering it on fitting day. Add a zone label and the room's area is calculated automatically from the wall centrelines.
Export and share the plan
When the layout reads right, export it. Save a single-page PDF or PNG for a quick share, or build a multi-page Report PDF with your logo, an automatic area summary and a symbol legend for a client-ready proposal. Need it in CAD? Export DXF and the geometry opens in any CAD package or viewer at real-world size, ready for the fitter to work from.
A measured kitchen plan replaces a back-of-envelope sketch with something a fitter can quote from and a client can sign off. Open RoomPlot, capture the room, and lay out your units - find more room-by-room guides on the guides index.
