Room layout software?

[Zonda_]

Anyone know of any free software that will let us play around with furniture layout? We are having a wall taken down to open up 2 rooms and want to be able to try layouts before it all starts.

[mik]

Don't know the answer to your question, but I've done the same just using Powerpoint and scaling from m to cm.

Insert a rectangle (or whatever) and it should flip to the "shape format" menu, at which point you can use the sizing in the top right corner to make a 2.0 x 0.8 m table 2.0 x 0.8cm instead.

L-shaped sofa is just 2 rectangles suitable sized and then "group" so you can move the whole thing around etc etc etc

[Matty]

The Ikea one is pretty decent

[V8Granite]

Squared paper and scaled furniture cutouts ?

It’s what we do and it’s incredibly fast once you’ve cut them out.

Dave!

[Jobbo]

The Ikea one is pretty decent

Exactly what I was going to suggest. Very easy to use.

[Rich B]

Squared paper and scaled furniture cutouts ?

It’s what we do and it’s incredibly fast once you’ve cut them out.

Dave!

Yep, despite starting my career as a CAD draughtman space planning offices, on my own projects i still do this when needing some inspiration. That way you can get the wife involved too and everyone gets buy in before you start anything drastic.

[Swervin_Mervin]

Squared paper and scaled furniture cutouts ?

It’s what we do and it’s incredibly fast once you’ve cut them out.

Dave!

Yep, despite starting my career as a CAD draughtman space planning offices, on my own projects i still do this when needing some inspiration. That way you can get the wife involved too and everyone gets buy in before you start anything drastic.

This. I use CAD in my work most days yet when it comes to figuring out best use of a room give me graph paper and some furniture cut outs. It's very quick and intuitive