The blueprint package for your home should contain layouts for floor plans, exterior and interior elevations, details, cross-section diagrams and general notes explaining how your home is going to be constructed and needed to get the job done properly and accurately.

The blueprint package contains around six sheets:

1. Cover Sheet: Shows a perspective sketch of your finished home.

2. Exterior Elevation: Shows the front, rear and sides of your house drawn in a 1/4" or 1/8" scale.

3. Foundation Plans: Shows the complete foundation layout including support walls, excavated and unexcavated areas and foundation details.

4. Detailed Floor Plans: Shows the layout of individual floors of your home in 1/4" scale. Dimensioned rooms and interior spaces and keys are provided for cross-sectioned details given in the later plans. Also included in this sheet are electrical outlets and switches positioning.

5. House Sections: Shows sections or cutaways of the foundation, interior walls, exterior walls, floors and roof areas in a large-scale cut-a-away view, normally scaled to 3/8" or 1/2" equals 1'.
Additional cross-sections are given to show important changes in floors, ceiling or roof heights in the relationship of one level to another. Extremely valuable for construction, these sections show how the various parts of the house fit together.

6. Interior Elevation: Shows the design, details and layout of kitchen and bathroom cabinets, laundry areas, fireplaces, bookcases and other features.