App to design house, rooms and floor plan

To avoid these unpleasant situations we can make use of our faithful phone or tablet, taking advantage of some powerful ones app to create the virtual floor plan of our room or the entire houseso as to be able to obtain precise measurements of each wall and wall and proceed with the purchase of custom-made furniture.

In this guide, we will show you the best apps to use to design your home, rooms, and garden, recreating the 3D model in a faithful and accurate way (complete with measurements in centimeters), so as to be able to virtually fill our home with the chosen furniture or appliances even before buying them.

Some of the apps that we will point out below will allow you to reconstruct the plan of a room or of the entire house using the rear camera of your smartphone or tablet to collect data on the wall and the distances between one point and another, thus recreating the 3D model of the room in its fullness (respecting proportions and reduction scales). At the end, we will have a PDF file with all the useful data we need to renovate the house or add the furniture we want.

Before starting, we advise you to equip yourself with a laser rangefinderso as to be able to measure the size of the rooms with surgical precision.

1) Redecorate

Among the best apps to design the house, rooms and garden we find Redecorateavailable free for android and for iPhones. This furniture simulation app is fun as well as useful for those who have to furnish a new home.

In fact, with this app, we can recreate the rooms of the house and furnish them with different styles of furniture, trying out different solutions and decorations. In fact, it is the reference app for those looking for something realistic and beautiful to look at, being able to count on many different furnishings and solutions based on the type of room.

2) House Designers

A good home design app for iPhone and iPad is House Designer, available for free fromApple App Store.

Thanks to its simple commands, we can design a home on the iPad (where the app does its best) but also on the iPhone. The app’s interface is essential, but it is possible to build every room of the house of our dreams in just a few steps, also using realistic measurements.

For each room, we can add furniture, appliances, and other elements to decorate the house, so that we can have a complete plan of how we want to make the house.

3) magic plan

Another app that we can use to draw the house with photos is MagicPlan, which is available for free on android and for iPhones/iPads.

This app uses the gyroscope of mobile devices and the rear camera to capture every corner and side of the room, creating the complete floor plan of the house in augmented reality.

At the end of the acquisition, the classic floor plan of the room or house will be generated, with the measurements already perfectly converted to scale.

The app also offers 3D floor plan viewing, quick addition of objects like doors and furniture, and easy project export to PDF or DXF (the format compatible with AutoCAD).

4) 5D Planners

Another app that we can try to draw the floor plan of our home is 5D Planners, also available for free on android and for iPhones/iPads.

With this app, we will be able to both draw all the rooms freehand and acquire the measurements with the camera in augmented reality, so as to be able to create a beautiful floor plan in which to add all the personal details such as the colors of the floor and the walls and the position of all the objects we want to be present in the house or in individual rooms.

At the end of the work, we can visit the virtual house in 3D within the app, moving through the various rooms and checking if everything is in the right place.

5) Keyplan 3D Lite

If you are looking for a complete app to draw a house and get spectacular floor plans on the iPhone and iPad, we advise you to download the app Keyplan 3D Liteavailable exclusively for iOS and iPadOS.

With this app, we’ll be able to transform an empty room or house into a 3D project on which we can add furniture, appliances, and all kinds of objects, so we can see what the house looks like with all the furniture.

The acquisition is based on surveying through photography and augmented reality, with the precise measurements of each wall or wall present, so as to know exactly the measurements of the house. In addition to the classic 2D mode, it is possible to activate the 3D mode at any time and explore the house virtually, room by room.

6) 3D home interior decor

Among the new apps for home design and furnishing, we find 3D home interior decor available for android and iPhones.

Even if the app is among the most recent on the list, it is already one of the best in the genre today since it allows you to decorate photorealistic rooms with real furniture brands, place the furniture at the right distance, and switch from floor plan view to the 3D visualization of each designed room.

Every corner of the house can be customized, from the colors of the walls to the arrangement of the furniture, to design our new home in a realistic way.

7) PlanGrid Build

If instead we are looking for an app to capture floor plans like a true architect, the only app we recommend you try is PlanGrid, available for free on android and for iPhones/iPads.

The app is really very complete and, in some ways, difficult to use, given that many functions closely refer to the typical design techniques of architects.

Once you have learned at least the basic operation it will be possible to recreate every room of the house in 3D, including the columns and half walls, if necessary changing the measurements manually with the indicators (which will appear in each element added to the planimetry).

Once the house project is complete, we will be able to export it in PDF or DXF so as to be able to view or subsequently modify the project in AutoCAD.

8) Floor Plan Creator

Floor Plan Creator Free for androidis a floor plan maker app that lets you create homes, rooms, and hallways with precise measurements.

You can recreate your own home or create a whole new one. Some other features of the app include cloud sync, export as a PDF or image file, support for metric and imperial units, and support for the Samsung S Pen and USB mice. With a good floor plan, one can then plan the decor of each room.

9) Design Home

Another interesting home decorating app for Android and iPhones is Design Homeavailable for android and iPhones.

Design Home is an interior decorator for aspiring interior designers that works like a game, where you win the challenges like renovating houses, furnishing rooms, choosing floors, decorating gardens, and buying all the furniture from real brands.

10) Home Design 3D

Another very convenient app to be able to draw the floor plan with our mobile devices is Home Design 3D, available for free on android and for iPhones/iPads.

The app allows you to acquire the measurements of the whole house in just a few steps and thus recreate the 3D environment of the house, which we can embellish with any type of object.

In addition to the house, it also allows you to customize the surrounding environment, thus adding details on gardens, swimming pools, nearby buildings, and entire neighborhoods, so as to be able to simulate every detail of the house in which we have decided to live.

11) Online sites for home design

In addition to the apps seen so far, we can also use valid online sites to design the house, rooms, and garden. These sites work quite well in the most popular mobile web browsers, even more so if we use a tablet screen for viewing.

IKEA Home Planner

The first site that we recommend you try to furnish the rooms of the house is IKEA Home Plannermade, the leader in the sale of home furniture.

By accessing the planner directly from the browser of your tablet or phone, you can design each room by adding the desired appliances and changing the size of the furniture.

With the IKEA online app we can start from ready-made projects (and modify them according to our needs) or create the room or house from scratch, by inserting customized measurements.

12) Floor planner

Another online site that we can use to design homes and furnishings is Flower planneraccessible from any web browser.

From the site, it is possible to modify every aspect of the house already present as a demo project, but we can very well “break down the virtual walls” and build each room from scratch, adding elements from the list on the left side of the window.

In addition to the top view (2D), we can activate the 3D view at any time, so we can see the dream home in three dimensions, navigating room by room with a first-person view.

Conclusions

Designing the house of your dreams is possible, and we can do it even if the house is already ready (we have recently bought or rented it): just arm yourself with smartphones and tablets and acquire the precise measurements of each wall and each room so as to be able to virtually embellish it with the objects and furniture that we have decided to buy.

Taking the project to IKEA or other similar places will make it much easier to choose the right furniture and be sure that it fits smoothly into the chosen room or location.

If we love designing houses virtually, we can also try other web applications for designing rooms, furnishing a house in 3D, and designing apartments.

Still on the subject of measurements, we advise you to add distance measurement apps to the apps seen above, such as those seen in the guide for measuring distances with your Android phone camera.