TENON FOLD
Measured plan of a room, fourteen feet by eleven feet An architectural floor plan drawing. Two windows and a door are each dimensioned back to a corner rather than only sized, which is the difference between a measurement and a location. 3′-0″3′-0″2′-8″3′-0″2′-4″14′-0″11′-0″ PLAN · 14′-0″ × 11′-0″

Made to belong.

Tools, stories and studies for understanding, shaping, recording and keeping home.

TF / 001 New York, NY 40.7128° N

Explore Tenonfold

01

OBSERVE

Look closer.

02

SHAPE

Design with intention.

03

RECORD

Document what matters.

04

KEEP

Preserve for tomorrow.

Room Measure cover, a quarter inch to the foot drafting grid on paper stock.

Tools · TL / 001

Room Measure

Measure once. Test the layout on a real scaled grid. Then buy.

  • Two plan grids at 1/4 inch to the foot, at real drafting scale.
  • 32 furniture cut-outs at matching scale, to cut out and move around.
  • The clearance numbers that decide whether a room feels right.
  • A room record laid out to fill in on site rather than from memory.

$27 See the workbook

Home Measure cover, a printable field checklist on paper stock.

Field notes · FN / 001

Home Measure

Everything to capture before you plan a room.

  • Four pages you take to the room, work down, and tick as you go.
  • Dimensions, openings, fixed elements, services, nine photographs.
  • A before-you-leave check, so you find the gap while you are still standing there.

Free Get the checklist

From The Fold

All of The Fold
Measure / 002

Your phone can measure a room. Here is what it still cannot do.

What a scan gets right, what it misses, and the ten minutes of tape work that makes it trustworthy.

 Plan Study / 001

The island isn’t too large. The clearance is too small.

The clearance numbers that decide a kitchen, and the arithmetic that rules an island out before it is chosen.

 House Studies / 001

The Cape Cod

A modest regional house that became an American idea, and turns out to be what a low-energy house wants.