Simple technical drawing on macbook pro

I need a simple program for laying out floorplans, landscape design, and furniture drawing. I used to use corel draw on windows and became reasonably proficient. I liked the fact I could print out to scale so we could build cabinets and home improvement from the printed material. I hesitate to buy something because it seems like the programs all do too much. I tried easydraw but just can't master the scaling. I have I have Adobe illustrator but its way beyond me and the help section didn't come with the borrowed program. I have spent hours pecking away and still cant draw a box!.
Understand I am an old lady and use simple computer terms. I know there must be something out there.

Try the Drawing section of the free LibreOffice, what's good about it is it's cross platform, so the files can be opened on Linux or Windows machines as well as Mac's. Also opens Office files and makes PDF's for printing at office copy shops.
And the software is free, well they ask for donations.
https://www.libreoffice.org/

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