How Free Room Planner Works

Draw your walls

Select the Walls tool (keyboard shortcut: W) and click to place wall points. Each click extends the wall chain. Double-click to finish, or connect back to your starting point to auto-close the room.

Walls snap to 15° angle increments — so 90° corners happen automatically without careful clicking. A faint degree indicator follows your cursor so you always know the angle you're drawing at.

Alignment guides appear as faint dashed lines when your cursor aligns horizontally or vertically with any existing wall endpoint — making it easy to keep walls parallel across the room.

Wall measurements appear automatically as you draw. When consecutive wall segments run in the same direction, their lengths combine into one measurement to keep the plan readable.

Add furniture and structure

Open the furniture library on the left and browse categories: Seating, Sleeping, Tables, Kitchen, Bathroom, Storage, and Structure. The Structure category includes doors and windows.

Drag items onto the canvas to place them. The tool automatically switches to Select mode when you drop a piece of furniture so you can move it immediately.

Select any item and use the properties panel on the right to resize it to exact dimensions, rotate it, or duplicate it. You can also drag the corner handles to resize freely.

Use the search box in the furniture panel to find items across all categories at once — useful when you know what you're looking for.

Navigate the canvas

Zoom in and out using your mouse wheel or trackpad pinch gesture. Zooming only affects the canvas — the toolbar and furniture panel stay fixed.

Pan the canvas using the Hand tool (keyboard shortcut: H) or by scrolling while in any mode. You can also pan while in the middle of drawing walls, so you never run out of space.

Switch between metric and imperial units with the m/ft toggle in the toolbar — all measurements update immediately.

Label your rooms

Use the Labels tool (keyboard shortcut: L) to click anywhere on the canvas and add a text label. Double-click an existing label to edit it inline.

Labels help whoever you share the plan with understand which room is which — especially useful on multi-room floor plans where you're showing a whole floor of a house.

Save and export your plan

Save as image: The camera icon in the toolbar downloads a PNG of your floor plan — watermarked with "Made with freeroomplanner.com". This is the main way to share your plan with others.

Save as JSON: The floppy disk icon saves your plan as a JSON file you can reload later using the folder icon. This preserves your plan for future editing.

Clear the canvas: The bin icon clears all walls, furniture, and labels. A confirmation dialog prevents accidental clearing.

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