Drag and drop pre-made room layouts. Then drag and drop symbols to design your room. Need to make an adjustment? Select a wall and just type in a new dimension or grab a wall end and stretch or shrink it to the correct spot.
Drag and drop from a large collection of room planning related symbols including furniture, chairs, beds, tables, TVs, dressers, shelves, and more. Rotate and flip objects in just a few clicks. Then add photo-realistic textures like hardwood floors, carpeting, and more.
SmartDraw works hand in glove with your existing AI workflow whether you prefer ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, or something else. Use AI to generate ideas for layouts, provide inspiration for interior design styles, and create mood boards. Next, easily add any generated images to SmartDraw to enhance your room design.
Export your room layout and ask AI to offer suggestions for improved space utilization and flow you can easily implement in SmartDraw.
SmartDraw is easy to work with no matter what other apps you use. You can add room plans to:
SmartDraw works hand in glove with most file storage systems. You can save your room plan directly to:
There is no need to create a parallel set of common folders and permissions, SmartDraw can just save files directly into your existing set up.
Share your room plan with anyone, even if they don't own a copy of SmartDraw, with a link.
You can also easily export any diagram as a PDF or common image formats like PNG or SVG.
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Get those creative juices flowing with your design team. You can all work on the same room plan in real time or have the team leave comments and suggestions.
SmartDraw makes it easy to share plans with clients, work together, and make sure everyone stays on the same page.
SmartDraw also works where you already communicate with your team. You can collaborate on designs in Microsoft Teams®, Slack or Confluence.
You can also always start by editing one of the included room layout templates.
SmartDraw has templates for all kinds of rooms. You can choose from Bedroom Floor Plan, Living Room Layout, Bathroom Layout, or just choose a generic Residential Floor Plan.
Measure the walls, doors, windows, and your existing furniture and fixtures in a room so that the floor plan will be accurate.
Drag and drop a room outline that most closely match the space you're trying to illustrate from the library docked to the left of your drawing area. You can always adjust it later.
You can easily change the length of any wall in your outline by simply typing in the desired length of the wall in the dimension label. You can also use your mouse to adjust a wall either vertically or horizontally using the grow handles.
If you need to add more walls, choose the Add Wall tool in the upper left part of the SmartPanel to the left of your drawing area. Click once in your work area to begin drawing a wall segment, drag your mouse, and click again to complete your wall segment.
Drag and drop the doors and windows. Add furniture like beds, desks, chairs and so on. To rearrange furniture, just drag them around your space with your mouse or use the arrow keys on your keyboard for more precise adjustments. Resize items by typing in the exact dimensions into the dimension labels of the objects.
Enhance your room design by adding realistic textures and colors. Select a symbol and choose a color or texture in the Fill menu. To add flooring, select your entire room outline and choose from various realistic wood flooring and carpet options.
Invite clients or team members to give you feedback and work on your room plan in real-time. Once your room plan is complete, you can add it directly to any Microsoft Office app like Microsoft Word® or PowerPoint®, or add it to Google Docs™ or Google Slides™.
You can also easily export your room plan as a PDF ready for printing.
AI tools and LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude are great for generating designs in the early stages of planning for inspiration. However, the images they produce are not editable and not to scale. We recommend using LLMs alongside a tool like SmartDraw's room planner. This gives you the best of both worlds. You can translate a text prompt into an inspirational image and use SmartDraw to create a precise scaled drawing.
Group objects in odd numbers like 3, 5, and 7 to create a visually balanced arrangement of items.
This is the Pareto Principle of design that suggests using a dominant style for 80% of your room to create cohesion and use 20% to create constract and give your room design a unique personality.
With SmartDraw, you can change the scale of any drawing at any time. You can flip between standard and metric scales at will. You can also define your own scale if it is not among the standard scales offered.
This is the golden ratio of design. Fill 60% of your room with furniture and leave 40% empty to let your design breathe and reduce clutter and overcrowding.
You can easily import photos to create texture or add more detail to any design. You can even import an image of an existing floor plan if you want to draw over it in more detail or make notes to share with your team.
Sometimes you don't need create a floor plan for an entire house, but just want to design a plan for a single room for a quick and easy reorganization, a home styling update, or design refresher. Want to see if your sofa will fit under the window and the table and bookcases can go against the opposite wall? Use SmartDraw to get your room plan right.
SmartDraw makes room planning a breeze with very little learning curve. It comes with dozens of built-in templates to help you get started quickly. Select a template, adjust room or wall dimensions as needed, and drag-and-drop from a large set of symbols of doors, windows, furnishings, and many other elements.
Plan your room with easy-to-use tools and drag-and-drop symbols. SmartDraw is the best online room planner and designer.