How to use Home Room Planner

This guide covers everything the planner can do, in the order you'll usually need it. If you just want to jump in, open the planner — you can come back here when you get stuck.

1. The screen layout

The planner has three parts:

• Top bar — switch between 3D and Floor Plan view, change storey, undo, open saved projects, export, and clear the room.
• Sidebar — five tabs: Furniture, Room, HousePlan, 2D Plan and Samples. On a phone, open it with the menu button at the top left.
• The scene — your room in 3D. Drag with the mouse to orbit, scroll to zoom, and right-drag to pan.

2. Setting up your room

Open the Room tab. Either pick a preset (living room, bedroom, kitchen, bathroom and more) or set the width, depth and ceiling height yourself in metres. Below the dimensions you can choose a wall colour (or enter a custom one), a floor material — timber, tile, carpet, concrete or grass — and a scene theme. The show ceiling toggle adds a ceiling for a more realistic view.

For accurate results, measure your room first; our measuring guide walks through it.

3. Adding and arranging furniture

1. Open the Furniture tab and choose a category — seating, tables, storage, beds, lighting, decor, kitchen, bathroom, garage, outdoor or detailed 3D models.
2. Drag an item onto the floor of the room. On touch screens, tap the item, then tap where it should go.
3. Click a placed item to select it. A panel shows its size and actions.
4. Move it by dragging, or nudge it precisely with the arrow keys (0.1 m per press, 0.5 m with Shift).
5. Rotate it 90° with R or the rotate button.
6. Resize it with the width, height and depth steppers — useful for matching the exact product you're looking at.
7. Delete it with Delete, or undo any change with Ctrl+Z.

Wall art snaps to the nearest wall at hanging height, and ceiling lights, fans and chandeliers attach to the ceiling and light the room.

4. 3D view and Floor Plan view

3D lets you orbit around the room to judge how it looks and feels. Floor Plan view looks straight down, like a floor plan — it's the best view for checking that walkways and clearances are wide enough. The front wall is see-through in 3D so you can always see inside.

5. Drawing a floor plan

For anything other than a simple rectangle — an L-shaped room, an apartment, a whole house — use the 2D Plan tab:

• In Draw mode, click the grid to drop wall corners. Walls snap to 15° angles and to existing corners. Close the loop to make a room.
• Double-click or press Esc to start a new, separate run of walls.
• In Delete mode, click a wall to remove it.
• Scroll to zoom the plan.

Switch back to 3D and your plan is extruded to full height, ready for furniture.

6. Partition walls, floor zones and stairs

The HousePlan tab holds the structural pieces:

• Partition walls in several lengths, plus walls with a door or window opening. Drag them into the room like furniture.
• Floor zones — drag a timber, tile, carpet, concrete or grass patch onto the floor, then drag its edges to resize it. Great for marking a tiled kitchen in an open-plan room, or a backyard.
• Stairs — straight, floating, spiral and quarter-turn. They automatically scale to reach the floor above and cut a stairwell opening with a guard rail.

7. Two-storey homes

In the HousePlan tab's Storeys section, add an upper floor. Each storey has its own dimensions, wall colour and floor. Use the storey switcher in the top bar to choose which floor you're editing — the other floor fades out. The stacked / split toggle shows the floors either on top of each other, like the real building, or side by side so you can see both at once.

8. Sample layouts

The Samples tab has ready-made rooms and whole homes: living room, bedrooms, kitchen, bathroom, dining room, a one-bedroom apartment, an open-plan studio, a double-storey house and more. Load one to explore what the planner can do, or as a starting point that you resize to fit your space. Loading a sample can be undone with Ctrl+Z.

9. Saving, photos and exporting

Projects in the top bar lets you save up to three designs in your browser, name them, and load them again later. Projects are stored only on your device, so they won't follow you to another browser or computer, and clearing site data deletes them.

Photo saves a picture of the room exactly as you're viewing it, as a high-resolution PNG image. Orbit and zoom to the angle you want first — the selection outline is left out of the shot. It's handy for sending a layout to a partner, a builder or a furniture store.

Export 3D downloads your whole design as a .glb 3D file at true scale. You can open it in a 3D viewer on your computer, or walk through it in VR on a Meta Quest 3.

10. Keyboard shortcuts

11. Troubleshooting

• The 3D view is blank or very slow. The planner needs WebGL. Make sure hardware acceleration is turned on in your browser settings and your browser is up to date. Closing other heavy tabs helps on older machines.
• An item won't go where I want. Items are kept inside the walls automatically. Make the room bigger, or resize the item.
• My saved project disappeared. Projects live in your browser's storage. Private/incognito windows and clearing site data remove them — export a .glb as a permanent backup.

Ready to try it? Open the planner