Floor plan software for planning a real home
Good floor plan software for a homeowner has to do three things well: take real measurements without fuss, show whether the furniture you want will actually fit, and produce a drawing a contractor or landlord can read. Floor Plan is built around those three jobs and runs as a desktop program on your PC.
You draw on the left and the 3D model builds itself on the right. Walls you click out become rooms automatically, each labeled with its own area, while the header keeps a running total of floor area and the number of bedrooms. Add another level and the house grows upward; each storey has its own ceiling height.
Units are your choice. Work in Imperial feet and inches or Metric, switch at any point, and let Snap to the grid hold walls and furniture to 6-inch or 10-centimeter steps. Hold Alt to place something freely between steps.
How to draw a floor plan to scale
Measure each wall with a tape first, corner to corner. Then:
- Pick Draw walls and click each corner in turn. Instead of eyeballing it, type the length as you go, such as 12'6" or 3.8 m, and the wall is drawn to exactly that.
- For a simple rectangle, Draw a room drags out all four walls in one move.
- Add doors and windows from the catalog. Swing a door into the other room or move its hinge to the opposite jamb with one click.
- Use the Dimension and Text tools to mark up whatever a reader needs, and turn on Show outside dimensions for running measurements along the outer walls.
- Press Ctrl+P to print to scale, or export a PDF to scale with one page per level.
A furniture layout planner that tells you what fits
Drag furniture in from a catalog of 50 pieces covering living rooms, bedrooms, kitchens, bathrooms, lighting, doors and windows. Type exact sizes to match a product page, press R to rotate 90 degrees or F to flip, and use Back against the nearest wall to square a sofa or dresser up in one click. If the piece you want is not there, import a 3D model of it as .glb, .gltf or .obj.
Select anything and Clearance draws the gap to the closest wall or neighboring piece. When that walkway drops below 3 feet it is highlighted in amber, which is exactly the moment to rethink a kitchen island or a bed against the window.
3D floor plan views, rendered photos and paint estimates
The 3D panel has two modes. The aerial view orbits over the house with the nearest walls cut down to 32 inches so you can see into every room; Walk through puts you at eye level, moving with W, A, S and D. Render a photo turns the current view into a sunlit image for a time of day you choose.
Each room can take one of seven floor finishes, and each wall any paint color you pick. The app then estimates materials per room: flooring area with an allowance for waste, and paint in whole gallons or liters, which makes it a quick way to budget a refresh before you visit the store.
