The main advantages of resources for interior design: automation and simplification of work with interior projects of any complexity; the possibility of a comprehensive assessment of the layout of future rooms in two-dimensional and three-dimensional form.
An effective editor for creating room arrangement projects should support working with two-dimensional and three-dimensional room plans. 3D format is convenient for viewing three-dimensional panoramas of the living room, corridor, kitchen or bathroom, which allows you to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of the location of individual elements and comprehensively assess the interior of the entire room.
Another important factor is a wide range of ready-made templates for a quick start of a new project and support for working with the maximum number of design options. A large selection of modifications of finishes, doors, windows and other interior elements will allow you to comfortably create a detailed room plan for your new apartment without visiting any third-party sites.
An important point is the functionality for remote ordering of finishing and building materials after the project is completed. Most such resources provide the means to search and purchase the necessary accessories for the house through an application or directly from the developer’s website, and also give the opportunity to calculate the final cost of renovation in real time.
Modsy
- Program website: mods.com;
- Price: from C$159 per room, Luxe package for C$499;
- Platform: web.
Modsy is a professional service for creating a virtual interior design, which will help to decorate your apartment or house, choose furniture and decor with ease. In addition, furniture and accessories in the virtual creation can be purchased directly through the service from a number of brands with which the platform cooperates.
The entire work process takes place in collaboration with designers, who are responsible for the successful portrayal of users’ ideas. Before a personal designer can get to work, a scan of the house they will be working with must be uploaded. This is done with Modsy software for iOS, which converts the panorama into a 3d model.
In fact, the service is a web-based alternative to expensive in-person design for rooms. The possibilities of Modsy room builder are not limited to accompanying a designer: you can independently determine what textures, colors, layout a room will have, and create an interior from them.
The quality of the projects directly depends on the money invested, however, the service has several tariff plans that allow you to save money. For example, the “Luxe” package offers additional discounts on furniture, as well as unlimited support from professionals.
HomeStyler
- Program website: homestyler.com;
- Price: from 4.9 CAD per month, there is a free version;
- Platform: web, iOS, Android.
Homestyler is an interior design service that will help design any room and customize everything in it as needed.
The app can work with 2D and 3D plans, exterior and interior. A resource library of thousands of real furniture, paintings and floor coverings will diversify boring layouts – all for free. You can also download models from other sources or purchase them from the built-in Homestyler app store.
Unlike most projects, Homestyler supports HD rendering, which is great for your overall design experience. It is a good choice for medium and small projects.
Sweet Home 3D Online
- Program website: sweethome3d.com;
- Price: free;
- Platform: web.
Sweet Home 3D Online is an easy to learn interior design service that will help you draw a plan of your home in 2D, arrange the furniture on it and view the results in 3D. The walls and rooms of the house can be drawn from scratch or from the image and the existing plan.
Changing the color or texture of walls, floors and ceilings is also available by importing images of your own patterns. The catalog of organized objects is more than 1500 names, but if that’s not enough – you can always upload your own or found on the Internet patterns.
The settings of the objects are quite flexible: change of position and size, color, texture, pattern. You can view changes in the layout at the same time in 3D view, where different perspectives are prepared or from the point of view of a virtual visitor. Sweet Home’s software supports 28 types of languages, making it easy to work with.
Designers can also comment on their plans and make changes to lighting settings. There are features to create photorealistic images of the arrangement depending on the time of day and the light sources placed on the plan.
Among the disadvantages: the low speed of the editor, the low quality of the renders and redundancy of functionality. The service will work best as an online apartment planner or a tool for “quick” sketches.
Planoplan
- The program’s website: planoplan.com;
- Price: free plan with restrictions, paid plans from 20 CAD per month;
- Platform: web, Windows, macOS.
Planoplan is a free program for interior design online. The service’s three-dimensional editor allows you to create floor plans, arrange furniture, change texture and choose the right color in real time.
When using the service there is no need for complex, expensive and resource-intensive computer programs, or special professional knowledge in the field of fine arts or design.
Users can simulate the layout. Pluses also include high rendering quality and real-time viewing of the scene.
A distinctive and innovative feature of Planoplan is the ability to view the project in VR through panoramic rendering. A function to upload your own models is available.
Planoplan is a tool for professional tasks with no weighty constraints. The availability of “offline” completes the picture and makes the service a worthwhile option for use in the field of 3D visualizations.
Planner 5D
- Program website: planner5d.com;
- Price: conditionally free;
- Platform: web, iOS, Android, Windows, Mac.
Set of applications to create your own 3d interior designs online in 3 steps: layout, furniture arrangement and visualization. More than 5 thousand items from the platform’s catalog will help in creating your own unique style not only for the interior design of the house, but also for the exterior.
You can apply your own colors, patterns, and materials to each model to match the original idea and style of the design. Using the snapshot feature, users can place shadows and lighting effects to create a realistic image.
Planner 5D allows professionals and novices alike to qualitatively change the look of building and interior objects to give a precise look to the elements. For example, apply patterns, colors, textures. This allows you to simplify the work and skip one of the stages of post-processing.
Thanks to the service’s learning platform, you can easily learn how to design functional and ergonomic 3d interior designs. During the lessons, it becomes clear not only how to become an interior designer, but also how to apply skills in practice, improving existing designs or designing your dream home.
The platform is conditionally free. A limited functionality and a set of basic solutions are available for free.
Roomstyler
- Program site: roomstyler.com;
- Price: free;
- Platform: web.
This is an easy to use service with a large library. Roomstyler is a tool for 3D visualization of room layouts, which can also be used to create plans and design. Contains in its catalog more than 120 thousand different models for use in the design.
Roomstyler allows you to use “prefabricated” walls, apply not only prefabricated objects, but also change their appearance with textures and lighting solutions.
The service is suitable for those who want to create a “live” sketch of the interior in 3D with individual design, without much effort. Trying to cover all the variety of items for interior design, the developers could not take into account all the nuances and features inherent in each of them. In addition, a lot of necessary features are missing. For example, there is no full 3D view and the ability to import your own items.
Roomtodo
- Program website: roomtodo.com;
- Price: free, PRO-subscription for C$30 a year, presented, also monthly and semi annual subscriptions for 10 CAD and 20 CAD respectively;
- Platform: web.
Online service for 3d-modeling Roomtodo allows you to develop interior design projects of any complexity. The functionality of the designer includes tools for creating 2D and 3D plans of the rooms in the apartment or country house, offices or outbuildings on the garden plot.
The user can sketch a future room using a set of drawing tools that allow you to detail the contours of the walls located at an angle and with different thicknesses, add ready-made templates of door and window openings, columns, arches and other decorative elements to the project.
The range of ready-made surface finishes in Roomtodo helps to visualize the layout of the future interior by adding mosaic panels, wood, laminate, tile or stones.
The user has complete freedom of action – a variety of combinations of elements of decoration and furniture can develop a unique project arrangement of the living room, kitchen and recreation area in an apartment or private home.
Anyone can design an apartment online for free – to do this, just visit the official portal Roomtodo and create a new account, which allows you to save projects and share with other people on social networks, such as Facebook.
To expand the functionality of the service, you can buy a PRO-subscription. After you purchase a PRO subscription, you can add personal paintings, rugs and textures to your project, as well as use the skirting board editor and wall decorations by combining several materials.
HomeByMe
- Website of the program: home.by.me;
- Price: free, additional functionality – for a fee;
- Platform: Web, Android, iOS.
Design software for creating interiors online HomeByMe allows you to develop projects of rooms for various purposes in 2D and 3D-format. One of the main features of the service is the functionality to add pictures of actual rooms, living rooms and kitchens in high resolution, which allows you to visualize the final result of the layout in a panoramic view.
These images are provided free of charge by the HomeByMe user community, where everyone can share their personalized renovation and home improvement ideas with other members.
The functionality of the service for the development of interior design online in 3D includes: tools for importing sketches of the kitchen or living room plan from external devices, blanks of room templates of different architecture.
The site provides free tools to supplement the layout of the future rooms with furniture of customizable texture, size and shade, stairs, windows and doors according to user-defined dimensions.
HomeByMi gives you the opportunity not only to create a detailed project of the apartment or private house layout, but also to choose furniture and accessories from world brands for furnishing without visiting third-party sites – Magnolia, WayFair, Farrow Ball are represented.
The service is designed for home and corporate use. Solutions for businesses include tools to create VR tours, allowing the client to offer a virtual journey through the future apartment or private home.
There are tools to create several modifications of the project and then send the best one by e-mail or directly to the customer’s social network page. The cost of corporate subscription is determined individually on request to the administration of the portal HomeByMe.
Online IKEA planners
- Program website: www.ikea.com;
- Price: free of charge;
- Platform: web.
IKEA Online Planners is a package of free interior design software developed by the international retailer specializing in the sale of home improvement and holiday home furnishings.
Users have an advanced toolkit for creating detailed plans of future rooms grouped according to purpose – there are separate sections for selecting office furniture, sofas and beds, kitchen and bathroom design, window and wall decoration, etc.
You can prepare a project yourself from scratch or using ready-made templates, as well as by engaging a specialist – to do this at the initial stage of the work it is necessary to tick the appropriate item in the dialog form.
IKEA services offer users to view interior design sketches of future rooms in two- and three-dimensional representations, with the possibility of adding necessary accessories and displaying the final cost of the project. For example, the bathroom planner allows you to choose floor and wall tiles, add a mirrored or wall cabinet, a floor mat, stools and shelves, and other accessories.
Separately worth noting the “smart” calculator for purchasing windows, which allows a couple of clicks to calculate the final cost of installation, as well as two varieties of kitchen planners – with quick and detailed selection of interior elements.
The undoubted advantage of IKEA online apartment planners is the free use and quick ordering of the interior variants you like, directly from the store. The design created on the portal can be printed directly from the site, saved on your computer for later viewing, or sent by email.
