The space planner is a free online tool for working out how a room or open-plan space will be used before you buy or move anything. Draw the walls to scale, drop in furniture, check that walkways and door swings stay clear, and export the layout — free, with no sign-up or download.
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Draw the walls or type in the dimensions, in metres or feet, for an accurate to-scale outline of the room or open-plan area.
Drag sofas, tables, beds, desks and storage from the library into the space.
Move, rotate and resize until every zone works and the walkways between them stay clear. Snap to walls for precision.
Download the plan or share a link with your household, a builder or a furniture supplier.
No steep learning curve and no account. A fast, accurate space planning tool that lets you test ideas in minutes.
Place sofas, tables, beds, desks and storage with a click. Items snap to walls and to each other.
Set your exact room size in metres or feet and every item is drawn to scale. See what fits before you buy anything.
Open the planner and start drawing straight away. Nothing to install, no account to create, no card needed.
Download your layout as an image to share with your household, a builder or a supplier.
Sofas, beds, tables, desks, kitchen units, bathroom fittings and storage, sized to real-world footprints.
Every item can be rotated, resized and labelled. Test a dozen layouts in minutes without lifting a single piece of furniture.
Good space planning is mostly about the gaps between things. The planner has a metres and feet toggle, so you can work in whichever you use.
A room that fits the furniture on paper can still feel cramped if the routes through it are blocked. Main walkways need around 90 cm (36 in), a coffee table sits best 40 to 45 cm (16 to 18 in) from the sofa, dining chairs need about 90 cm behind the table to pull out, and every door needs its full swing kept clear. Plan those gaps first and place the furniture around them.
The routes between pieces decide how a room feels to use.
| Main walkway | ~90 cm (36") |
| Sofa to coffee table | 40–45 cm |
| Behind dining chairs | ~90 cm |
| Sofa to TV (HD) | ~1.5× screen size |
The gaps that catch people out are beside the bed and in front of doors.
| Beside a bed | 60–70 cm |
| In front of a wardrobe | ~90 cm |
| Behind a desk chair | ~90 cm |
| Internal door width | ~76–83 cm |
Whatever the room, the same three checks decide whether a layout works once you live in it.
Mark the paths people actually walk, from each door to the window, the kitchen and the sofa, and keep about 90 cm clear along them. Furniture goes either side of a route, never across it.
A door needs its full arc of floor. Draw each one, including wardrobe and cupboard doors, before you place furniture near it. It is the most common thing people forget.
Give each area one job: sitting, eating, working or sleeping. A rug, a sofa back or a change of floor can mark the edge. Open-plan spaces work when the zones are clear and the walkway runs between them.
Space planning means deciding what each part of a room is for before deciding what goes in it. Start with the things you can’t move (doors, windows, radiators and sockets), then the routes between them, then the largest piece of furniture, and fill in from there.
Draw the walls, doors, windows, radiators and sockets first. They decide where a sofa can go, where a bed head fits and where a desk gets daylight. Getting them right on the plan saves moving furniture twice.
Put the sofa, bed or dining table in first, because everything else is arranged around it. Try it on two or three walls; in the planner that takes seconds, and the best spot is often not the obvious one.
In a kitchen-diner or living-dining room, split the space into zones and run the main walkway between them, not through the middle of one. The back of a sofa or a rug often makes a better divider than a wall.
In a small room every 10 cm counts. Measure the furniture you own as well as the room, check it will fit through the door and up the stairs, and choose pieces that leave the walkway clear rather than the biggest that will squeeze in.
Planning a different space? Use the planner built for it — same canvas, same free export.
Draw any room to scale and arrange furniture before you move a thing.
Draw whole-floor plans with multiple rooms, walls, doors, and windows.
Plan units, appliances and the work triangle to scale.
Design a room in 2D and 3D, with real furniture drawn to size.