Customers say
Customers find the Home Quick Planner easy to use and fun to use. They appreciate the nice design and variety of stickers for appliances, furniture pieces, fixtures, and doors. However, some customers have reported issues with the stickiness not holding up over time, and the price being too high for what you get. Opinions are mixed on reusability.
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The Home Quick Planner includes 700 precut, reusable peel-and-stick, 1/4-inch scale furniture and architectural symbols, plus a 5,600 square-foot floor plan grid to help you design your own building, remodeling and decorating projects. (Also good for moving.) Symbols include everything you need from tables, chairs, couches, beds and pianos to every standard kitchen cabinet and appliance, an extensive assortment of bathroom fixtures and cabinets (for example, twelve sets of sink designs, six different showers, and a dozen various baths and whirlpools), plus windows, doors, walls, switches, outlets, lights and much more. Simply lift the symbols and arrange them on the floor plan grid to design floor plans, move furniture and make changes. Step-by-step instructions and Design Details: Critical Dimensions & Clearances are provided to help you improve your design and save money. The planner was featured in the Canadian Centre for Architecture, North America’s preeminent architecture museum, in an exhibit on design innovation over the past 100-years. This exhibit was also shown at the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami Beach. The planner is part of the three-part design series by Daniel Reif. Sketch your design with the Architect’s Drawing Kit, try out endless floor plan layouts with the Home Quick Planner, and once you have a design that you like, build a three-dimensional model with the 3-D Home Kit.
Publisher : Design Works (November 28, 1993)
Language : English
Paperback : 12 pages
ISBN-10 : 1880301032
ISBN-13 : 978-1880301036
Reading age : 7 years and up
Item Weight : 6.4 ounces
Dimensions : 9 x 0.25 x 12.25 inches
by The Real McCoy
Make planning your build easier
We used this product to lay out our home’s blue print. From doors to windows, walls and furniture down to the exact measuring we were able to do so with this product. Highly recommend
by D. Fields
Worked well for me.
Yes, these do lose their stickiness quickly but they have quite a few useful shapes and sizes. I didnât need the kitchen and bathroom sheets as my plans already had those drawn on. You may have to buy several sets to furnish anything more than a 3 or 4 bedroom home as only 1 king size bed, 2 queen and 2 twin beds are included. So depending on your layout you may want to buy at least 2 sets to have enough beds and end tables and such. Mine have now pretty much loss all stickiness but they are still very useful for moving around as I need to change my layout. When Iâm happy with my plan I will just use double sided tape to adhere them in place.
by Heidi the Homeschool Mom
A great item–but Amazon shouldn’t have had a “goes with…”
This is a wonderful item. It has “clingy”, reusable stickers so that you can reuse them over and over–like the old “Colorforms” we had as kids. They are also quite detailed, so that although they are only in black and white, they are fun to look at. You have so many options, and the scaled paper is roughly 16″ X 22″, and treated so that the “stickers” stay on well, but can be taken off just as easily. And both sides are that way. Not sure if you can actually do one side, and, without removing the stickers, flip it over and do the second side. Haven’t tried it, I guess. We purchased this as part of our homeschool curriculum for our 16 year old.My biggest gripe is that Amazon listed a “goes with” item–the “Room and Furniture Layout Kit” by Muncie Hendler. The trouble with that is that the “Home Quick Planner” is scaled at 1/4″=1′, but the “Room and Furniture Layout Kit” is scaled at 1/2″=1′. My suggestion would be not to get the “Room and Furniture Layout Kit” anyway if you are getting the “Home Quick Planner”, since it is just punch out cardstock shapes. It isn’t that bad, but after having the very detailed stickers of the “Home Quick Planner”, these are very boring.A really neat item.
by lisa schneider
Great idea, needs some adjusting
We have our plans, so I was using it more for furniture placement and room design.Pros: Sturdy stickers with lots of varietyCons: Not enough furniture pieces for beds, tables, dressers, etc. , I would have liked a set that was all furniture as I’m finished with doors, windows, etc. Stickers will peel the paper off even the laminated grid.Costly for a few sheets of stickers!Bonus:I had my floor plans laminated to make it easier to use and it holds up better to the sticker. Now, I just need more furniture!. If it wasn’t $35 I would just order another set, but most of the stickers have gone to waste already.
by Easton Logan
Accessible, approachable, hands’on – but mis-categorized in the “toy” category.
Not a child’s toy. I believe the rating, “ages 7 and up”, a regrettable and sloppy oversight. That factor alone nearly persuaded me to not purchase the item. Yes, it is great for teens, and young aspiring future architects – offering an inexpensive, practical tool in a setting where CAD would be an inappropriate expense.In my design business, yes, we have CAD. But when making presentations, I find it a most approachable and helpful tool. Out in the open, it allows discussion and quick changes. For my customers, it fosters a hands-on experience. It renders a sharp appearance, and is simple to copy as it can be turned over without the pieces shifting and falling off which often happens with the more expensive magnetic boards.My only criticism – it could be updated to include a wider range of furnishing, especially upholstery options that offer the various depths we are seeing in today’s more customizable furniture environment. And for that, I would gladly pay an upcharge, or, purchase supplements. I see no other supplements available. I am seriously considering the purchase of multiple sets however.
by Tamara Warren
LOVE, love, love this product!
It arrived last night and i couldn’t wait to get started. I already had a mock floor plan etched out on paper, so when it came in the hard work was done. This took my simple graph and made it so impressive. It also reveiled the major errors in my original plans. It explains things like stairs and such. I realize that I had too many steps and they took up much more space than necessary. Also things like the thickness of the walls, its hard to take that into account on paper. It also gives ideas for small bathrooms and closet space. It talks about the minimum width you need for hallways.I would recommend this to anyone who is ocd…lol. the only thing annoying is it has many kitchen tables, several are the same exact size which doesn’t make sense. Why would I have two kitchen table of the same size. But only one queen size bed when most people have at least 2 bedrooms with queen size beds. But this is a very minor detail. But like I already stated, I’m OCD!
by Georges
Cher et finalement inutile
by Shila Agnew
Very helpful for trying out room layouts without the heavy lifting!
by Andrea Studlik
Itâs great
by Peggy McNabb
As an amateur, for years I have tried to draw by hand house plans, but have only gotten frustrated. This planner made my planning so much easier: 1) gave me ideas that that created better traffic flow, 2) create room sizes that worked with furniture, 3) a tool that I was able to build and change easily as my ideas grew from these excellent visual aids.I highly recommend this product, I have had great fun with it.
by Alpo
Recently renovated our entire house and replaced all the furniture. This product was indispensable for planning and layout of cabinets in the kitchen and furniture in all the rooms.