Drawing a House with Word – Easy and Simple

Easy guide to drawing a house with Word suitable for you and your child. For those of you who are planning to build a house, You may need an initial design of the shape of the house you want to build. You may be able to hire someone but that will add to the cost.

You can use the application that you often use to create a simple drawing of a house, that is Microsoft Word. Microsoft Word or Word provides a tool called Shapes. This tool is located on the tab Insert.

Click the menu Insert then click Shapes, we can see various shapes that we can use to create images. Available shapes include lines, basic geometric shapes, arrow, equation form, flowchart form, bintang, banner, and info.

With Shapes, we can add a shape to the document Word  or combine several shapes to create a more complex picture or shape, for example a picture of a house, building, mobil, location plans and so on according to our creations and imagination.

In this tutorial we will practice making a picture of a house with Microsoft Word 2010. Even using Microsoft Word 2010, perhaps not much different from the next generation of Microsoft Word.

The picture of the house we will make consists of 3 main part, that is Foundation, Wall and roof.

How to Draw a House Using Microsoft Word

1. Make a picture of the house foundation

We will start by creating a foundation drawing. The foundation we want to make is a trapezoidal shape, then click on the section Basic Shapes then click Trapezoid.

After selecting Trapezoid, then click anywhere on the document Word, then the results will look like the image below

A trapezoidal shape was successfully created, but the length and width are not as desired, for that we need to change the size.

2. Changing The Size And Position Of Shapes

Select a shape you want to change, take note, When a shape is selected, eight dots will appear on its sides, let's just say his name Resize Dot

Move the pointer to one Resize Dot the, until the pointer turns into a double arrow (Resize Pointer active). Resize Pointer showing 2 (two) serious direction. The direction of the arrow can be vertical, horizontal or diagonal depending Resize Dot which one is chosen.

When Resize Pointer active,  Click and hold and drag the pointer in the desired direction, if you head inside, the size of the shape will decrease and vice versa if it goes outside the size of the shape will increase. After changing, Now the trapezoidal shape has a length of ±10cm and a width of ±0.8cm,  roughly like the picture below

To change position, move the pointer to the center so that the pointer changes to a four-way arrow (Move Pointer active) then click and hold and drag in the desired direction.

If the trapezoidal shape has been successfully changed like a foundation, means now we have a shape Foundation.

3. Making Home Wall Pictures

The wall we will make is a rectangular shape. Click the menu Insert then click Shapes, in section Rectangles click Rectangle

Notes: When a shape is selected, the pointer changes to + (add), meaning a shape will immediately be added at the position where we will click (putting) the pointer.

We can immediately create the starting point for the wall shape by directing the pointer exactly at the top of the foundation (Red circle).

Click and hold and drag the pointer upwards ± 5cm, then to the right along the foundation a little less. If it succeed, will look like the image below, if not then need to change the size and position like steps number 2.

If the rectangular shape is suitable, means we already have a shape Wall. Next is to create the roof shape.

4. Make a picture of a house roof

The roof we will make is a triangular shape. let's do it again. Click the menu Insert and click Shapes, in section Basic Shapes select Isosceles Triangle

Next, direct the pointer to the position at the top of the wall, then click hold and drag along the wall a little more. If needed, do like step no 2 so that the size and position match your wishes. The result is more or less like the image below.

Now we have the shapes of the main parts of the house, that is Foundation, Wall, and roof. Next is to change the color of each part so that it looks more like the picture of the parts of the house.

5. Changing Shape Color

Basically a shape consists of 2 part is the content (Fill) and outline (Outline), Now we will change the color of each shape part.

Select a shape, (We start from the shape of the foundation, When finished, continue with the other parts), right click on the shape and click Format Shapes.

Window Format Shape will open, In Format Shape there are settings for several parts, including Fill, Line Color, Line Style, Shadow and others. Here we will only set the part Fill, Line Color as well as LIne Style from a shape.

In section Fill, because we are working on the foundation, then we fill it with patterns/patterns. Click Pattern fill, then choose the appropriate pattern/pattern, to make it look like a foundation stone then choose Shingle,  then change the color on Foreground Color and Background Color according to taste.

In section Line Color, select Solid Line, on Color choose black.

Part pad Line Style, change Width to 0.25pt

If it is already, close the window Format Shape, the results will look like below. The shape of the foundation already resembles the foundation drawing

Next is to set the color and pattern for the walls and roof. Repeat the steps number 5 on. Customize Pattern Fill for each section, Pattern Fill part of the wall use Horizontal Brick, You can use it for the roof Zig Zag or others, color can customize. If it is finished, the result will be approximately as below.

The drawings for the three main parts have been completed, next is to make pictures of small parts such as doors, windows and so on.

6. Make a picture of the doors and windows of the house

To make the shape of doors and windows, can use shapes in parts Flowchart then select Predefined Process.

Then, adjust the size and color of the shape Predefined Process by repeating the steps number 2 and number 5, until it becomes like below.

Copy and paste several window shapes then change the size and color to create door and ventilation shapes, then put it in the right position. More or less like the picture below.

Besides Copy-Paste, New shapes can be created by rotating (Rotate) original form and grouping (Group) several forms.

Drawing a house with Word is almost complete, You may want to add other parts, for example, plants to make the picture of the house more beautiful.

7. Rotating Shapes

To make a shape, we can use the standard form provided by the tool Shapes, but we can also create other shapes by rotating the direction of an existing shape so that it becomes a new shape. Now we will create a plant image, for that we just choose a shape Explosion 1 which is located in the section Star and Banners to make the shape of plant leaves, make to be 2 (two) fruit.

Select one, when a form is selected other than displaying Resize Dot, also displays Rotate Dot. Move the pointer to Rotate Dot until the pointer changes to Rotate Pointer,  Click and hold then drag right or left to rotate the direction.

Make another trapezoid shape then rotate it so it looks like a plant pot

Now we have three new shapes, two leaf shapes and one pot shape, we will merge it in Group

8. Grouping (Group) Form

Bring the leaf shapes and pots closer together (click and drag) so it resembles a plant form, Select all three at once by pressing the button Ctrl on keyboard, then click to select the shapes.

Right-click on the selected shape and click Group then select Group.

If it succeed, the shape of the leaves and pot into one group resembles the shape of the plant. With in-Group-able to, several shapes can be treated as one shape, Of-Copy-Paste, Of-Group-right again or play.

Copy-Paste shape the plant into several fruits, then put it down (click and drag) close to the house image to beautify the house image. Also add other accessories to make it look more real.

Final Result of House Drawing

Finally, drawing a house with Word is complete. You have succeeded in making a house design drawing without the help of an architect. You can add or remove other sections, happy creativity.

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Hope it is useful.