Room family

Entry floor plan templates

An entry does two jobs that fight each other: it is the circulation funnel from the front door into the house, and it is storage for everything people take off when they come in. The door swing is the constraint — it cannot sweep across the closet opening, and it cannot land someone in a wall. The templates here cover a foyer with a coat closet and a mudroom with bench, hooks and cubbies. Both are drawn with the door swing and the clear landing at the door as real zones, so the room can be stretched without the entry sequence quietly breaking.

The coat closet is drawn as a default rather than an option; buyers protect closet space more than almost any other feature.

2 templates, 48 sf. DXF R2018, drawn in inches. Free, no signup.

Entry Foyer 6'-0" x 8'-0", 48 sf
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DWG (R2000, converted from the DXF and round-trip verified). PNG is the plan-view render.

Entry Foyer

Entries - 6'-0" x 8'-0" interior, 48 sf - typical for this room type: 48 sf

Entry Foyer floor plan template, 6'-0" x 8'-0", 48 sf
Entry Foyer - plan view, 6'-0" x 8'-0"

The landing spot inside the front door: enough floor for the door to swing fully open with somebody standing clear of it, and a coat closet within reach. About 6 by 8 ft.

The sheet carries the fixture clearances as drawn geometry on their own layer, with the dimension strings and room notes outside the walls.

Size

Interior (W x D)6'-0" x 8'-0"
Floor area48 sf
Overall, outside face of wall6'-9" x 8'-10"
Workable range for this room type 24 to 120 sf
Unitsinches

What is in it

Every one is a block from the CADdillo library, inserted — not drawn for this sheet. Linked where the block has a library page.

Download

DXF (76 KB) DWG (26 KB) PNG (52 KB)

Codes cited on the sheet

  • unverified IRC 2021 R311.2 exit door required (unverified) — The required exit door shall provide for direct access from habitable portions of the dwelling to the exterior, and shall be side-hinged with a minimum clear width and height. The foyer has to leave that door usable, not merely present.
  • unverified IRC 2021 R311.3 floors and landings at exterior doors (unverified) — Landings at doors: a floor or landing on each side of an exterior door, not less than the door width and not less than 36 in in the direction of travel.
  • unverified IRC 2021 R311.6 hallway width 36 in minimum (unverified) — Hallways shall be not less than 36 in wide. Where the foyer narrows into a hall, that is the number it narrows to.
  • unverified IRC 2021 R314 smoke alarms (unverified) — Smoke alarms are required on each storey and in the vicinity of sleeping areas; the entry level carries one.
  • unverified typical practice — A 36 in door swings a 36 in arc, and a person needs about 18 in of standing room clear of it. Neither number is code; together they are what sets the foyer minimum.

"Verified" means the citation was checked against the source text we hold. "Unverified" means it has not been, and should be read as a pointer to look the section up rather than as a quotation of it.

How this was checked

21 of 76 checks graded, zero defects. This template is published because it graded clean.

55 checks had nothing to measure on this sheet
  • bath bands do not scale
  • bath fixture order and reach
  • bath one door
  • bath privacy
  • bath sink first
  • building inside the setbacks
  • circulation share of the floor plate
  • circulation zones
  • commercial seating rules
  • every requested item placed
  • declared minimum width
  • byte-identical rebuild
  • door count by kind
  • entry and garage reach the right rooms
  • entry reaches public and private
  • number of exits
  • exterior doors
  • exterior doors declared
  • flanker has a legitimate spot
  • flanking seats flank
  • garage bays
  • garage projection
  • garage room depth
  • daylight area for habitable rooms
  • heated vs programme
  • jog count
  • jog min dimension
  • laundry out of the public zone
  • lot record is consistent
  • master opposite garage
  • no ada in residential
  • no reentrant in room
  • outdoor equipment kept outdoors
  • plate in range
  • plumbing fixture count for the occupant load
  • porch exclusive
  • private rooms hang off the hall
  • public zone on the living level
  • room bands by ratio
  • room vs programme
  • rooms inside union
  • seat backs off glazing
  • seats face focus
  • seats face open floor
  • service room bands
  • sleeping level has a full bath
  • sofa anchor backs a wall
  • sofa only where commerce seats
  • spine serves every private room
  • rooms contained within their suite
  • tub before shower
  • walking route between rooms
  • walls trace outline
  • window geometry
  • zone assigned

A single room on its own sheet is not a whole building, so the checks that grade a floor plate — exit counts, circulation share, fixture counts against an occupant load — have no subject here. They are listed rather than counted as passes.

Mudroom

Entries - 6'-0" x 8'-0" interior, 48 sf - typical for this room type: 48 sf

Mudroom floor plan template, 6'-0" x 8'-0", 48 sf
Mudroom - plan view, 6'-0" x 8'-0"

The working entry: a bench to sit on, hooks above it, and enough floor in front to bend over and pull a boot off. About 6 by 8 ft, usually between the garage and the kitchen.

The sheet carries the fixture clearances as drawn geometry on their own layer, with the dimension strings and room notes outside the walls.

Size

Interior (W x D)6'-0" x 8'-0"
Floor area48 sf
Overall, outside face of wall6'-10" x 8'-10"
Workable range for this room type 30 to 120 sf
Unitsinches

What is in it

Every one is a block from the CADdillo library, inserted — not drawn for this sheet. Linked where the block has a library page.

Download

DXF (76 KB) DWG (25 KB) PNG (52 KB)

Codes cited on the sheet

  • verified IRC 2021 R305.1 — Ceiling height of not less than 7 feet in habitable spaces. A mudroom is service space rather than a habitable room, but the 7 ft figure is what it is built to in practice.
  • unverified IRC 2021 M1502 clothes dryer exhaust (unverified) — A clothes dryer located here shall exhaust to the outdoors, and the permitted duct length is what decides whether the laundry can live in this room.
  • unverified IRC 2021 R302.5.1 opening protection between garage and dwelling (unverified) — The door between an attached garage and the dwelling shall be a solid wood, solid or honeycomb core steel, or 20-minute fire-rated door, self-closing and self-latching, and shall not open into a sleeping room.
  • unverified IRC 2021 R311.6 hallway width 36 in minimum (unverified) — Hallways shall be not less than 36 in wide. Where the mudroom is a through-route rather than a room, that is the width it has to keep clear past the bench.
  • unverified typical practice — 36 in in front of the bench to sit down and reach a boot, and 30 in of through-route past it where the bench is on the traffic side.

"Verified" means the citation was checked against the source text we hold. "Unverified" means it has not been, and should be read as a pointer to look the section up rather than as a quotation of it.

How this was checked

22 of 76 checks graded, zero defects. This template is published because it graded clean.

54 checks had nothing to measure on this sheet
  • bath bands do not scale
  • bath fixture order and reach
  • bath one door
  • bath privacy
  • bath sink first
  • building inside the setbacks
  • circulation share of the floor plate
  • circulation zones
  • commercial seating rules
  • every requested item placed
  • declared minimum width
  • byte-identical rebuild
  • door count by kind
  • entry and garage reach the right rooms
  • entry reaches public and private
  • number of exits
  • exterior doors
  • exterior doors declared
  • flanker has a legitimate spot
  • flanking seats flank
  • garage bays
  • garage projection
  • garage room depth
  • daylight area for habitable rooms
  • heated vs programme
  • jog count
  • jog min dimension
  • laundry out of the public zone
  • lot record is consistent
  • master opposite garage
  • no ada in residential
  • no reentrant in room
  • outdoor equipment kept outdoors
  • plate in range
  • plumbing fixture count for the occupant load
  • porch exclusive
  • private rooms hang off the hall
  • public zone on the living level
  • room bands by ratio
  • room vs programme
  • rooms inside union
  • seat backs off glazing
  • seats face focus
  • seats face open floor
  • service room bands
  • sleeping level has a full bath
  • sofa anchor backs a wall
  • sofa only where commerce seats
  • spine serves every private room
  • rooms contained within their suite
  • tub before shower
  • walking route between rooms
  • walls trace outline
  • zone assigned

A single room on its own sheet is not a whole building, so the checks that grade a floor plate — exit counts, circulation share, fixture counts against an occupant load — have no subject here. They are listed rather than counted as passes.

Code sections are cited for drafting context only. A room drawn to a dimension in a model code is not a compliance determination: adoption, amendment and interpretation are local, and the governing edition in your jurisdiction may differ from the one cited. Nothing here is stamped or sealed. Verify against the code your project is permitted under and the actual specified products. See the license and terms.

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