User blog comment:Soosieloo/Community decorating Tips, Advice, and Commiserations/@comment-5321233-20130213223720

what i did is make a blueprint in excel. opened up a blank spread sheet. formatted the cells to make squares ... ie press Ctrl + A to select all cells then Format Cells with Row Height of 8 and Column Width of 0.83

mark the boundaries of 70 squares by 70 squares. now you can design your village (even in earlier levels) via this blueprint first before the actually decorating your village. just be sure to label/color code the blocks you have marked ... ie the top left 9x9 block, i colored black for the Magic Rock space etc etc. ... use your imagination :-)

hope this helps