Room design apps?

February 1, 2019 9:13 AM

We are moving and I want to plan out where furniture will go before we move. I've traditionally done this with Excel and using shapes to represent furniture. But maybe there is an easy to use website for this that I don't know about?
posted by k8t to Home & Garden (9 answers total)

I've used Plan Your Room before and liked it because you can change the space and add furniture so easily, it's mostly just click and drag.
posted by barchan at 9:23 AM on February 1, 2019 [2 favorites]

I use floorplanner.com on the free tier. Sometimes you have to look up their help to figure out how to do something, but it's met my needs for this exact purpose as well as fantasizing about remodels.
posted by matildaben at 10:23 AM on February 1, 2019 [1 favorite]

My favorite one is this nice room planner on Slumberland Furniture's website. Reminds me of the old-internet, and very useful!
posted by sweetjane at 10:30 AM on February 1, 2019

I use floorplanner.com. I think it only allows 1 room for free.
posted by terrapin at 1:05 PM on February 1, 2019

If you have free access to it, maybe on a work computer?, Visio is great for this. If you don't have free access to it, don't bother. It's ridiculously expensive.
posted by bluejayway at 1:07 PM on February 1, 2019

Sweet Home 3D.

There are lots of freely available models, and you can do a fly-/ walk- throughs in 3D.
posted by porpoise at 2:03 PM on February 1, 2019 [1 favorite]

I used the Live Home 3D apps for planning our basement build out.
posted by msbutah at 3:34 PM on February 1, 2019

My SO likes Google Sketch up.

pros: free, a lot of furniture models made by other users (including most Ikea brands)

cons: not that intuitive an interface, though if you've been modeling in Excel, you're probably good.
posted by jb at 3:57 PM on February 1, 2019 [1 favorite]

I'm moving soon and I've really liked Home Design 3D. I really like that you get a 3D view of the room -- it makes it much easier for me to visualize what it will look like.

It's $10-$20. I have their iPad app but they have Android and PC versions too.
posted by oranger at 6:23 AM on February 2, 2019