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Write down what the floor has to hold — 1,800 sq ft, 20 people, two private offices, a meeting room for eight — and get a scaled office floor plan back in about a minute. Already have the base building plan from your landlord? Upload it and have the desks laid into it instead.
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An office floor plan maker turns a written space program — headcount, workstations, private offices, meeting rooms, support spaces — into a scaled office floor plan. FloorDrafter draws it from your brief, or lays it into a base building plan you upload, and labels every room.
A base building plan or shell drawing from the landlord, the marketing plan from a letting brochure, an old fit-out drawing, a scanned lease-pack PDF, or a phone photo of the plan pinned up in the office. JPG, PNG, WEBP or PDF. Not a photo of the room itself — this redraws drawings, it does not survey spaces.
Examples
The input never changes: the same empty 1,800 sq ft floor plate, with its columns, core and window wall. What changes is the sentence underneath — and that sentence is what decides which office layout comes back.
What FloorDrafter returns, depending on what you ask
Give the total area and the rooms you need — with their areas if you have them — or the headcount and how many of each space. Say where the entrance and the windows are. FloorDrafter plans the office from scratch.
Three steps, about a minute of waiting, no CAD skills.
Give the floor area or its outside dimensions, the headcount, and how many of each space you need: open-plan workstations, private offices, meeting rooms and their seats, reception, break room, storage, server room and restrooms. Say where the entrance is and which walls have windows.
A furnished colour plan to show the team, a black-and-white technical drawing to send to a contractor, or a colour-blocked presentation plan for a board deck. Upload the landlord's base building plan first if you have one, and the shell is kept exactly as drawn.
Count the workstations, check the meeting rooms and walk the main aisle with your eye. Change a number or a sentence, generate again, and compare the two. Download the PNG, or export a DXF of the walls to carry on in CAD.
The usual planning allowances, and how to turn each one into a line in your brief. They are rules of thumb from workplace practice, not code — use them to sanity-check the floor area before you sign anything.
| Space | Common allowance | What to write in the brief |
|---|---|---|
| Open-plan workstation | 60–110 sq ft (5.5–10 m²) per desk | "16 open-plan workstations in benches of 4" |
| Cubicle | 125–175 sq ft (12–16 m²) per person, partitions included | "12 cubicles, 8 x 8 ft each" |
| Private office | 90–150 sq ft (8–14 m²); 150–250 sq ft for a senior office | "Two private offices of 120 sq ft on the north wall" |
| Meeting or conference room | 20–25 sq ft (about 2 m²) per seat — a 10-seat room runs 200–250 sq ft | "One meeting room seating 8, one boardroom seating 14" |
| Whole floor, all-in | 150–175 sq ft (14–16 m²) per employee across North American offices | "4,000 sq ft office floor for a headcount of 40" |
| Circulation | About 5 ft (1.5 m) for the primary aisle, 3 ft (0.9 m) between desk runs | "Keep a 5 ft main aisle from the entrance to the back wall" |
The first four rows size the spaces; the fifth is what they add up to, and that gap is where lease decisions go wrong. Desks at 90 sq ft each do not mean 30 people fit in 2,700 sq ft — the meeting rooms, the main aisle and the break room are not in that number. A dense open plan lands near 100 sq ft per person once everything is counted; a floor with private offices and several meeting rooms lands nearer 200. Write the total you are working to and the plan is drawn to it.
Name the layout in your brief and it shapes everything else — how many square feet per person, how many enclosed rooms, and where the noise ends up. These figures are all-in: each one already carries that person's share of circulation, meeting rooms and break space.
90–110 sq ft per person
Desks in benches across one room, with meeting rooms and offices pushed to the core. Cheapest per head and easiest to reconfigure; hardest for focused work, so budget for two or three enclosed huddle rooms.
150–250 sq ft per person
Enclosed rooms along the walls or the corridor. The choice for law, finance, medical and anyone on confidential calls all day. Costs the most floor area, and takes the daylight unless the offices sit against the core.
125–175 sq ft per person
Partitioned workstations, usually 6 x 6 ft or 8 x 8 ft, in rows. A middle path: some acoustic and visual privacy without building walls. Say the cubicle size in your brief, because that number drives the whole grid.
80–120 sq ft per desk in use
Fewer permanent desks than people, plus focus booths, project rooms and touchdown seats. Plan it by how many people are in on the busiest day, not by headcount, and say that number explicitly.
50–80 sq ft per member
Hot desks, a few private pods and shared meeting rooms and kitchen. Density is the point, so circulation and the break room carry more load than in a single-tenant floor. Plan the shared rooms first.
The difference between a plan you can use and a plan you throw away is almost always in the brief. Six habits, in the order they matter.
Area or outside dimensions first — "1,800 sq ft, 60 x 30 ft". Without it every count is drawn to an invented floor plate and nothing is to scale.
"16 workstations, two private offices, one meeting room seating 8" is checkable. "A modern collaborative workspace" is not, and it is what comes back.
Say which wall the entrance is on and which walls have glass. That one sentence decides where reception goes and which side the open plan takes.
If the lifts, stairs and restrooms sit in the middle of the plate, say so. Otherwise they get drawn against a wall and the whole circulation changes.
"Keep a 5 ft main aisle from the entrance to the back wall." Circulation is what an office layout lives or dies on, and it is the first thing squeezed.
"Label every enclosed room with its name and floor area in square feet." That is what makes the plan readable to a landlord, a contractor or your own team.
Every plan comes back as a high-resolution PNG; downloads made before you pick a plan carry a small watermark.
Drop it into a board slide, a lease negotiation, or a message to your fit-out contractor. To hand someone a PDF, print the PNG to PDF from your browser.
Export the walls, doors and windows as lines, in metres, and carry on in CAD. Room names and dimension figures stay on the PNG.
Change one number — 16 workstations to 24, one meeting room to three — and generate again. Every version is kept, so you can put two layouts next to each other before committing.
Three ways to get an office floor plan, and what each one asks of you.
| FloorDrafter | Drag-and-drop editors | Space planner or architect | |
|---|---|---|---|
| You supply | A sentence: area, headcount, room counts | Your time: draw every wall, drag every desk from a symbol library | A brief and a site visit, then you wait |
| Time to a first layout | About a minute | Two to six hours for a floor of any size | A few days to two weeks |
| Cost | 3 credits per plan; Pro at $19 a month covers about 50 plans | Free tiers save one plan; paid from about $10 a month | Quoted per project; often folded into an agency or fit-out fee |
| Does the planning | Yes — spaces and counts come from your brief; you verify the desk count | No — you place each desk and count them yourself | Yes, and validated against code and the lease |
| Best for | Sizing a space before you sign, and comparing layout options | A drawing you will keep revising in software | The drawing set you actually build and permit from |
Before signing, check that 20 people, two meeting rooms and a break room really fit in the unit the agent is showing you — and see what has to give if they do not.
The team grew from 12 to 18 and nobody can hear themselves think. Upload the current plan, ask for benching and two huddle rooms, and take three options to the meeting.
An empty floor plate is hard to sell. Show a prospective tenant a furnished layout at their headcount, on their floor, in the time it takes to answer their email.
Put three test fits in front of a client at the first meeting instead of the third, then take the option they pick into CAD through the DXF export.
Straight answers about space standards, accuracy, formats and cost.
Give the area, the headcount and the rooms you need — or upload the base building plan — and get a scaled office floor plan back in about a minute.
