4 Designing the Room

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Contents

What Are Layouts and Elevations?

How to Do Layouts

Planning Grids

Dry-Side Cutouts

Wet-Side Cutouts

Light-Trap Cutouts

Light-Trap and Drying Rack Cutouts

Preparing Elevations

What are Layouts and Elevations?

Designing a Darkroom

A well-designed darkroom requires the completion of a number of planning steps to ensure that the darkroom will function as well after it is built as you had hoped when you first conceived it. The major steps and the order in which they should be completed are:

  • Determine the size and type of equipment to be used in the darkroom and the size of prints that will be made.
  • Prepare a layout (floor ...

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