Room planning tools are essential to use if you’re thinking about redesigning a room in your home or apartment and want to alter the layout. Interior design room planning tools help you figure out whether your ideas will really work and if everything will fit in well, something that many people find hard to do just by looking at a room in person. Space planning in interior design is particularly important with rooms such as bathrooms or kitchens, when you’re considering totally re-arranging the existing layout.
One of the best ways of seeing whether or not your space planning ideas are actually viable, and to get an idea of how they might look, is to put together a proposed new layout of your room. If you don’t fancy drawing this all out on paper, then there are a wide variety of very useful free online room planning tools online, many of which are simple and easy to use. In fact, many interior design students and practitioners use these room designer tools in their work.
Some of the interior design room planning tools are useful for an initial play, to see how you could move key items around in a room and re-organize your space more effectively. But if you want to get a more accurate idea of how things could work in your particular room, you will need to take measurements and input these into the room planners. Don’t forget to also take into consideration where windows or doors are located and which way they open!
There are online room planning tools run by individual brands, which use examples of their own products to help you plan a room, plus generic room planner tools that guide you as to what size bath or sink you’ll require to meet your plans.
We successfully used one of the generic room planner tools to re-design our bathroom, completely altering the original layout. Using our measurements, it was very useful to see the maximum size of bath and shower unit that could fit in, whilst still giving enough space in the rest of the room. If you are altering a home and looking to add value to it for selling, then you also need a good estate agent. They can advise you on what would be best to do to a home and how to sell it. For example, Sheldon Bosley Knight offers estate agents in Kenilworth and the surrounding areas.
Once you’ve produced your perfect room plan, you can usually save it, download it or print it out. If you’re employing a builder or contractor to do the work, then the room plan will be useful for them to get a better idea of what you’re looking for and find products that match the required sizes.
Online room planning design tools are ideal for those who have smaller spaces, or perhaps too much space, and need help bringing it all together. Using the dimensions of your home can help you to plan everything from the position of the chairs to the shutters for your windows. It is also a great way to work out if you can really fit that beautiful refurbed fireplace or not. Whatever tool you use to plan out a room, remember to save your creations!
10 free online room planning tools
Update: There’s more than 10 now, as we’ve found more useful room planning tools and added to our list!
RoomSketcher – The free floor planner and home design tool from RoomSketcher makes it easy to draw out and plan your room layouts, as well as get a more visual idea of how things could fit.
Floor Planner – Floor Planner offers a useful tool (the basic option is free) to create new floor plans and room layouts.
Plan Your Room – An easy-to-use online tool that will help you plan out the space you have available.
SketchUp – SketchUp is an interior design room planner that has both a free and paid version. It’s not the easiest option for beginners to start with, but they do have some free tutorials available and it’s useful for space planning in 3D.
Roomstyler 3D Home Planner – A free online room design tool that helps plan out different rooms in your home.
Sweet Home 3D – Free online interior design tool that allows you to create 2D plans and see previews in 3D. It’s available in a range of languages.
Autodesk Homestyler – Useful free drag and drop room planner tool that allows you to easily create floor plans, plus add decorating ideas too.
3Dream – A useful 3D room planner for all aspects of interior design and space planning.
BHG Arrange a Room – A useful tool that allows you to arrange a room and see how different configurations work. Great for helping you with effective space planning.
Bathstore – Free online 2D bathroom planning tool.
Ikea – Room planning tools from Ikea, including a kitchen planner.
Villeroy & Boch – A useful online 3d room planner tool, plus professional templates that you can use to inspire you.
B&Q – B&Q have several free room planning tools on their website, including a bathroom planner, kitchen planner and room designer tool.
Homebase – Homebase have a free room planner tool, plus various useful tools to help you calculate how much paint, wallpaper, tiles or flooring you’ll need to create an interior design project.
Magnet – Online kitchen planner tool that helps you create a 3D model of a kitchen.
Useful mobile room planning apps
If you’d prefer to have a go at room and space planning using an app on your phone or tablet, then here are some tools to try.
iOS:
Roomle 3D and AR room planner app
Android:
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Planoplan is a new 3d planning tool for interior design. Please test it! You really will enjoy Planoplan.
This website was… how do I sayy it? Relevant!!
Fnally I’ve founnd something which helped me. Thanks a lot!
I like this site
I want a simple basic app. to plan layout of furniture in a small apartment I’m moving to. Do you have something suitable. I’ve tried with cut-outs on graph paper but I’d prefer to work directly onto my computer screen even if the scale has to be smaller.
Hi Brian, you could possibly try HomeByMe, which we wrote about recently – https://www.freshdesignblog.com/2014/11/design-your-ideal-house-with-homebyme/
Hello Brian, I’d recommend Blophome. It’s very easy to manage and it has a large amount of furniture. It produces stunning results with little effort and quickly.
i want to make my home lay out
I make this site as a room deign application. More rooms to be added shortly.
trying to design a kitchen
I would add one more – Roomtodo. New and good enough.
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Are there any free online tools that allow you to:
1 – use inches (instead of feet or meters)
2- plot the actual measurements on the diagram
I have an old house, and I’m attempting to build/plan shelving… there are all kinds of nuances I need to plan for (e.g. an oddly shaped wall that is probably the closet in another room). I need to use inches and accurate (not rounded off) measurements. It would be helpful to have them written on the page (e.g. technical drawing). It seems that I’ll just have to go back to graph paper and a pencil.
I stopped looking at number 4, which is Sweet Home 3D. This is a magnificent free program that lets you lay out just one room or a whole house, transferring your real world measurements into walls, windows, and furniture that is precisely to scale. You can move and rotate furniture easily with mouse or keyboard (measurements). Your floor plan is always also shown in 3D, and you can take “photos” of the 3D rooms. My wife and I love this program. It is much better than the description here on this website. I recommend it and am planning to give them some money when we are done with our two-room project.
Just wanna say thank you for the information that you have been shared on your site. Well, it is better.It really an important of having professionals in building a new house. We are also providing the same kind of softwares with easy CAD Design and Drawing & 3D tools that provide quick modification and many aspects to meet specific floor plan requirements.
hey guys, for my entrepreneurship class my team and I are working on an interior design website that will allow the customer to sign up and get expertise on how to best design and decorate their homes. this website is called “designsmart.” designsmart is a customizable, efficient, transparent, and on-demand interior design service for the tasteful and busy individual. I would appreciate if I could get some input and responses on this business model. thanks guys!
Infurnia- Kitchen design software is one such software revolutionizing the way we are designing the rooms we live in. Worth a check! Reviews are most welcomed! Also if you can add it up in the article that would be great!
nice tool Thank you for this great blog.
Many dealers also provide plans when you request a quote. For example this dealer of office furniture provide 2D 3D plan. https://www.ugoburo.ca/
This is a really great list and something everyone should use when furnishing their home.
The first two did not work at all, Not intuitive, not easy. Impossible to use. Going through the rest if ANY of them work.
Planer great, I really needed something like that, it’s great that there is such a post 🙂
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Useful tools, by using these we can re-design or design rooms. Thank you for share this post.
Thank you for this great blog.
Many dealers also provide plans when you request a quote. you can contact one of our advisor at https://www.conceptbureau.ca