If you are planning to freshen up the interior of your home, you are renovating your apartment, or you are going to equip a new home, then this week's selection will be very useful to you. Or maybe you work as a designer or just like to dream of a beautiful home, in which case, pay attention to five applications for interior design planning.
Home Design 3D
An easy-to-use application that will help you visualize what your kitchen or room will look like. In just a few minutes, you can put everything in its place and give yourself an idea of how best to arrange everything. Will it be better when the countertop is near the sink or in a completely different place? Is the dining table in the center or near the window? Home Design 3D will help answer these questions. The 3D models look beautiful and their colors can be customized. The program has an intuitive interface, but can not boast of great functionality. Nevertheless, this is enough to understand how to arrange furniture in your apartment or in your house.
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Interior Design Ideas is designed to create interior design, but not only. Here are a lot of tips on design and placement that will help improve your skills and enrich your knowledge in this interesting business. The application also has a large number of interior photos from famous designers that will inspire the user. In addition, there are repair tips that will also be very useful to you. You can sketch the interior of the room in 2D from ready-made photos of objects and get a real picture of your idea.
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INMYROOM
You urgently need to make repairs, but you still do not have interesting ideas to turn into reality. Then the INMYROOM application will help you get inspired by design ideas and create something interesting, stylish and modern. The application asks to log in via mail, vk or Facebook.
The design of the application is impressive. Here, on the tabs, there are ideas for interiors, a store (where you can buy goods), photos, a catalog of pros. Also on the main page you will find many useful articles and tips for decorating your apartment or house in any style and for every taste.
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MagicPlan
MagicPlan is an application that will help you plan a room using a camera. The program provides detailed instructions for creating a room plan using a camera (all corners, walls, windows, etc. are taken into account), you can also draw a plan yourself or upload a photo of it. You can create rooms in the application of various shapes and sizes, and add objects (furniture, doors, steps, outdoor objects). Drawings and plans can be shared with friends and family.
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Planner 5D
Are you about to move to a new apartment or rearrange your house, but still don't have any idea how to arrange everything? Then Planner 5D is for you. The application will help you easily design your apartment design to the smallest detail and make all your dreams come true, while saving money on designers and architects. Here you can add rooms like in your home, adjust their area, choose materials for the floor, ceiling, walls, add the necessary furniture, etc. Also can design exterior design, backyard. Projects can be viewed in both 3D and 2D mode.
Have you started a renovation, have a client appeared, or is it just interesting to play with the interior? Programs for the interior designer will help. We have described more than 20 of them. Some you can work with on your computer, others are available as apps on your tablet or phone.
The era of drawing an interior sketch on paper paper has passed. And it was replaced by computer programs. The benefits of them are obvious both for the certified designers themselves and for their clients.
The first ones can “draw” and change the interior without traces of a pencil wiped off with an eraser, the second such visualization helps to imagine how the interior will look like.
Designers who have received this specialty in universities (we hope it was useful) need the help of computer programs. But how to figure out what programs are needed for an interior designer?
There are many of them. Some are paid, others are shareware, in others you can work without paying anything to the developer. There are those that show the project on a plane, and many programs are able to present a sketch in 3D format, remaining on the printout.
Consider the best programs for interior designers. Do you have a favorite program? Which? And is it easy for you to work in it?
3. IKEA Home Planner
A program from a well-known company offering everything for the home. To become even closer to customers, IKEA created it.
Even beginners can handle the program. There is a room, there is furniture, decor items (though from IKEA). So gradually, step by step, you can plan any room in the house: kitchen, living quarters, hallway, bathroom, regardless of their size.
The program is free.
Advantages: you can not only arrange everything as “live”, but also calculate the approximate cost of the situation.
Flaws: no freedom of choice. Everything that stands in a potential room can only be selected from the company's products.
4. Interior design 3D
A program for apartment design and renovation planning with wide functionality. In the catalog of objects there are more than 50 pieces of furniture, over 120 options for wall and floor decoration, a choice of colors, and apartment layouts.
Intuitive interface in Russian. You can install and remove partitions, move furniture.
After reviewing the demo version, you will need to buy a licensed version if you like the program.
Advantages: you can choose the size of furniture, room. Expand, rotate the resulting sketch, print. Easy to use. Standard layouts available. There is a "virtual visit" option, when you can "walk" around the apartment or house. One of the few free programs for interior design in Russian, albeit conditionally.
Flaws: Only items already programmed can be used. And, as often happens, you want more, better and, of course, for free.
5. ArchiCAD
The program is suitable for professional designers and architects, as it has a whole range of all kinds of options - from the floor plan to construction documentation and specifications.
Shareware. Trial period is one month. Then you need to purchase a license to operate all the functionality. Now the rights to the programs belong to Grasshopper.
Advantages: all parts of the project are not isolated, but interconnected. If changes are made to one of them, it will immediately be displayed on the general plan, in section, on the views where this part is involved.
Flaws: no multi-pass. That is, the created project cannot be created in several versions at once. Complex geometry is also too tough for the program. You can use the help of other software - but is it necessary?
Website: http://www.graphisoft.ru/
6. Google Sketchup
The program is designed for beginner interior designers. There are two versions - paid (Google Sketchup Pro) and free. The first has more options, wider functionality.
But even in the free version, you can create a high-quality interior design in 3D format, changing the layout, color, arranging furniture, varying the size.
There is a free and paid version of the program. Designers, those who use it, how do you like the free version?
Advantages: You can add layout and dimensions to already made objects. In the program, you can design not only a dwelling, but also a car, furniture, landscape design, an airplane, a street - everything that exists in space in three dimensions. The created project can be sent to the Internet.
Flaws: There are few objects in the free version. However, they can be downloaded from the World Wide Web. Simple lines and shapes are available, but flat shapes are easily transformed into three-dimensional ones.
7 Floor Plan 3D
Professional program for interior design - suitable for planning any interior with the ability to move virtually through rooms, offices. Ability to rotate for a better view of the project. You can choose finishing materials for walls, floors, stairs, ceilings, choose doors, windows.
The new version adds interesting options: broken lines, terraces, gates, attics, paths, fences, railings, balconies, etc. You can do landscape design.
The program is shareware. A little time is given for familiarization, then it is offered to buy a license key.
Advantages: incredible realism of the sketch, ease of use, wide possibilities. Don't have time to plan? The library has ready-made layouts and typical interiors. They can be taken as a basis and brought to a presentable appearance.
Flaws: takes up a lot of space in the computer, the latter must have good RAM. Program for beginners. Professionals are unlikely to learn something new for themselves.
8. Astron Design
The Astron planning program allows you to set the parameters of the premises, choose the color of the finish for walls, ceilings, floors, select and place furniture, decor items, specify the location of windows and doors.
However, Astron Design can hardly be called a full-fledged program for interior design. This is more of a planner for arranging furniture in a room with given parameters.
The program is free.
Advantages: wide possibilities, realistic picture. Updated catalog of items and furniture in the new version.
Flaws: poor color range. The project is shown in 2D format, that is, flat, like a regular drawing.
You can download it by asking the name of the program in the search.
9.PRO100
Software from Russian developers. In it, you can not only create design projects for a house or apartment, but also design interiors and furniture. The service is easy to understand and can be used by both, and beginners.
But no one said that professionals should always be difficult, right? The main thing is to realize the idea, idea and present it in printed form or on a tablet to the client.
The program is shareware. The demo version has limited functionality, but it is enough for an amateur. The licensed version is not expensive.
Advantages: objects can be moved, the project can be rotated for an overview, options for layouts and objects can be found in the library. It is possible to apply dimensions to the room.
Flaws: the program sometimes "plays" with textures on its own. They suddenly stretch or shrink.
10.Home Plan Pro
The program for interior design Home Plan Pro allows you to quickly create a plan for a house, office or apartment, operating with modifications to doors, windows, furniture, decorative objects. I am glad that there are a lot of these objects, so you can create an attractive interior design.
The program is simple, and just this simplicity makes it unattractive for professional designers.
The program is shareware. You have to pay for a license.
Advantages: the finished project can be sent by e-mail or fax directly from the program, printed.
Flaws: English interface. According to professionals, it is not worth the money - it is too simple.
11. Apartama
This is not a program, but an online service for creating interior design in 3D modeling. It also has ready-made projects so that you can get an idea, and a decent amount of various objects, finishing materials.
You can create a project specification, print it, send it to an email address. Upon completion of the design, you can take a virtual walk around the object.
Advantages: furniture, finishing materials, decor items are scooped from online stores, so they are always relevant and the choice is constantly expanding. Here, you can immediately calculate the cost of redevelopment with the situation, and change something if necessary.
Flaws: This is an online service and requires an internet connection to function. Therefore, sitting in the country, in the forest and doing creative work without a network will not work.
12 Planoplan
Another online service for interior design. The catalog contains real furniture, not created by programmers. A drawing of an apartment can be created as a background and images can already be dragged onto it. The layout can be your own or standard.
In objects, you can change the texture, color, add dullness or gloss, change the scale, and some spatial parameters. There is a PRO account, the possibilities of which are wider.
You don't have to pay to use it.
Advantages: the program is full of real objects, and the quality of the picture pleases. And its demo version can be downloaded for free.
Flaws: The service works only online.
13. KitchenDraw
This is a narrow service. However, ease of use deserves to be mentioned. From the name it is clear that only the design of kitchens is possible. But her options are not limited to this.
In the program, you can make a 3D kitchen, as well as prepare estimates, reports, calculate the cost, taking into account VAT, discounts, currency fluctuations.
14.AutoCad
This program is for those who like to draw the old fashioned way - on whatman paper, using a ruler, pencil and compass. This is now possible in AutoCad.
Create vector plans, images using simple lines: arcs, straight lines, curves, hatching, etc.
15. 3D Max
This program is for professional designers. The picture is clear and realistic. Therefore, the customer will be able to see how his home will look like in the end. The designer is given complete freedom of action.
But keep in mind that the sketch is created for a long time, so you need to be patient. If the result is worth the wait, you can endure, agree?
Advice for designers: it would be nice to accompany the picture with drawings, estimates or just a description of the sketch on paper. This will be useful to both the customer and the one who will manage the repair.
16 VisiCon
In this program, not only changes in the layout of an apartment, room, but also its very creation are available. In tasks, you can enter the number of rooms, the plan of the dwelling, the purpose of the room.
The plan is created in a three-dimensional image, variations of textures (including your own) and colors, selection and placement of furniture, decorative items are available.
The program is shareware. In a simplified, it is also a demo version, limited functionality is possible. VisiCon Pro is a licensed, more complete version of the program.
17. Room Arranger
With this program, you can create a project of the entire office, dwelling or its separate room, furnish it with furniture, add accessories, choose the color of the finish. You can move walls, build partitions.
The possibilities of the service also allow you to design landscape design or a garden.
The program is shareware. 30 days free
Advantages: the program is Russified, 3D format, virtual walk.
Flaws: The graphics are far from realistic. For a virtual review, one more program is needed - the so-called 3D viewer. The Room Arranger developers recommend Cortona3D Viewer.
A beautiful, functional online service for creating a layout of a house, office, apartment, residential and non-residential premises with realistic graphics. Objects that exist in reality are offered for furnishing rooms. You can buy them later.
The created project can be sent by e-mail, published in one of the social networks or on the website.
Advantages: furniture arrangement in 2D and 3D, virtual walk. You can build walls yourself, giving the room any shape, so the service is also suitable for those who are building their own house or cottage.
Flaws: You can only work if you have an internet connection.
To work, you need to log in through your FB account or register in the usual way.
Advantages: Real picture, 3D picture.
Flaws: there is no Russian version, but artists must understand each other without words, do you agree?
Another clear and exciting online service for creating interior design. You can enter your layout plan and already operate with it. You need to register to work.
The smallest details down to the heating system, stairs, flooring and room for partitions.
Advantages: three-dimensional format, virtual viewing of the apartment from the inside. The dimensions of partitions and walls are immediately visible on the monitor.
Flaws: visualization picture suffers. English speaking service. But even without knowledge of the language, the functioning of the resource can be understood.
Having dealt with what programs interior designers use, let's move on to applications.
Interior design software isn't just for Macs, computers, and laptops. Owners of tablets, smartphones, iPads can now download one of the applications listed below to their gadget.
And immerse yourself in the delightful world of concrete, wallpaper, paint and furniture. Next, we will focus on applications.
21. Photo Measure Lite
In this application, you do not need to draw a room plan. Enter its dimensions and insert furniture, decor.
The originality of the application is that you can come to the store with a tablet or smartphone, take pictures of objects of interest: furniture, plumbing, kitchen sink or stove, washing machine, and so on. Write parameters. And then add a picture, indicating the parameters, to the plan of the room.
It will be visually visible whether the one you like is suitable or not. Of course, you can draw everything by hand. But progress is exciting.
The application may be of some interest to designers as well. Arriving at the client’s house, you can “transfer” what you see into your pocket equipment and bring the project to mind at home or in the office.
22. HomeStyler Interior Design
An application that will be interesting for both amateurs and professionals. Its beauty is that it already contains many projects created by other users. When inspired by ideas, it is easier to generate a new design masterpiece.
An application is almost indistinguishable from a computer program. There is a plan of the apartment, you can upload your photo and work with it. The arrangement of furniture is carried out not on a plane, but in a three-dimensional image.
23. Master-Design Interior
This application was created by programmers to help designers. Wherever you are, dear professionals, you can manage your project by creating kitchens, bedrooms, nurseries, living rooms. Choose the layout, dimensions, furniture from the catalog and arrange.
There are not as many options in the free version as we would like. But to create a draft version of the design, they are enough. And if you want to work in the application all the time, you can buy unlimited.
24. Interior design
This application provides a wide creative flight for designers and owners of houses, apartments. But this is rather a piggy bank of ideas than an algorithm for creating your own interior.
But it presents bedrooms and kitchens, children's and living rooms, balconies, hallways, bathrooms. As a source of inspiration, the application has a right to exist.
25.Home Design 3D
But in this application you can already create interior projects. Moreover, the choice of both two-dimensional and three-dimensional format. And you can switch from one format to another without losing what you created with overwork.
In the free version, you can create a design, and save it only as screenshots. But by purchasing the full version, the user has the opportunity to enjoy all the options, a wide selection of objects and functionality.
Pleasant surprise from the app developers- high detail of the interior and objects located in it, colorful graphics, accurate textures, realistic lighting with shadows.
26 Planner 5D
This application almost completely repeats the full-fledged program. There is a function to create a detailed plan of a room or a site design, you can design a pool, a house facade and functional elements such as windows, stairs, partitions, curtain design.
To help the user, a rich catalog of various objects: from furniture and objects to textures and shades.
The 3D graphics are mesmerizing. The resulting interior looks very realistic. You can even recreate the interior of an apartment or house from a movie. Interesting feature, don't you think?
Conclusion
Of course, we have not talked about all the programs. It's possible that some didn't even mention it.
What do you think of the programs and apps we reviewed? What programs do you use as a professional designer or homeowner? Please have your say in the comments.
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The 21st century with its advanced technologies greatly simplifies life, both in everyday affairs and in professional activities. Architects have long ceased to use paper, pencil or ruler to create plans. Moreover, this process itself has become much simpler, more productive and more interesting, resembling a game rather than painstaking work. Now everyone can design their dream home with free interior design and apartment planning software. Don't know where to start? We will advise you!
1. Astron Design
You can start with the Astron program, which allows you to arrange objects in a room with the desired parameters. This is not a multidisciplinary design tool, but the installed functionality is quite enough for thinking through projects.
You can choose your own finish for the key partitions, after specifying their dimensions. With a little fantasizing or calculating everything to the smallest detail, you can place furniture, decor in the created space, as well as determine the location of doors and windows. A relatively large catalog is enough for this.
2. Sketch Up
There are two versions of the program: paid, with advanced functionality for professionals, and free. But this does not mean that the second option provides limited opportunities for creating renders.
With its help, it will be possible to design high-quality three-dimensional design models, “playing” with the layout, colors, and furniture. The only negative is a small variety of objects, but they are easy to find on the Internet.
By downloading SketchUp, you can immediately get to work, since the interface is very simple and straightforward. An important tool is the ability to sign the dimensions of individual elements.
The finished render is posted on the Web or vice versa - they are looking for inspiration there, studying other people's work.
Curiously, this program is suitable not only for designing houses and apartments - with its help you can create three-dimensional models of a site, road, car or other objects.
3. Sweet Home 3D
This program may not satisfy serious designers, but ordinary users may find it very useful and, most importantly, simple. Sweet Home 3D will not help you in creating complex projects, but small experiments with this application are easy to implement. For example, if you want to see how the closet will look next to the sofa, and also whether it is worth putting the TV against this wall. In just five minutes, you can easily sketch out a floor plan.
Unfortunately, the installed catalog of objects is not large enough to offer variations in shapes, sizes or fittings. This could be a significant disadvantage if the missing items could not be downloaded from the official website, but this issue is easily resolved. Sweet Home 3D is a foreign program, but for users who do not understand English well, there is good news: there is a Russian version.
4. IKEA Home Planner
If you are thinking about buying Ikea furniture, then this free program will definitely come in handy for you. It is very simple and understandable, it allows you to think over the interior of the rooms using furniture from the Dutch manufacturer. You can choose the necessary item from the catalog by choosing the size, style, fittings or color scheme.
The Ikea catalog is quite extensive - from large sets to various trifles, which allows you to create a full-fledged interior by calculating its cost. IKEA Home Planner provides the ability to save the result of work and complete the purchase of all selected items. A high-quality 3D image will help you evaluate the chosen design in detail.
Ikea also has a separate kitchen design program called IKEA Kitchen Planner. The principle of operation is the same, but the choice of furniture specifically for these spaces is much wider, so we recommend downloading this application separately.
5.Homestyler
An excellent program for interior design and apartment planning from the creators of 3ds Max and AutoCAD.
When launching Homestyler, you need to choose one of the three proposed functions: interior from scratch, using a ready-made scheme or a ready-made project from an extensive gallery. At the same time, you will have at your disposal a variety of finishes, colors and real pieces of furniture that are included in the catalogs of famous brands.
6 Planoplan
Another tool for creating interiors with real furniture from stores, instead of fictional models. There are three ways to work with the program: an online service, a free demo version, or a paid one for professionals. At the same time, Planoplan continues to develop and update itself constantly. Another advantage is the presence of the Russian interface.
Working on the interior of the apartment, you can independently come up with a layout or choose standard options. There is a function of a virtual tour of the finished project with the ability to view it on a smartphone.
Planoplan is suitable not only for thinking over the general layout, but also for more detailed moments. For example, to track how the shadow moves during the day, you can adjust the sunlight depending on the time of day. Many of the materials you use for interiors have specifications. To understand all the functions, the site has video instructions that will clearly demonstrate the program management system.
7. PRO100
Unlike other online services and programs with a simple interface, you will have to spend a little time mastering PRO100. This is a more professional application that allows you to transform every detail of the selected element, from texture to transparency. The demo version has limited functionality, but it is enough for planning or sketching.
A curious property that is rarely found in free programs for interior design and apartment planning: the ability to independently draw any object, adjusting its shape, size or texture, especially if you have goods from the store in mind. Before starting work, you need to specify the parameters of the premises, after which you can design the house of your dreams.
8. Interior Design 3D
This program offers a voluminous catalog of furniture, finishes and colors. Of course, the trial version limits the real properties, but they are enough to create a quality render.
Create your own layout by specifying the exact parameters or choosing typical ones that are constantly added to the program database.
A simple interface in Russian, which is important. According to the finished project of the apartment, you can "walk" using the virtual tour function. The 3D planner offers to save the finished plan, edit it or print it.
In general, the product is not much different from others like it, but it is suitable for those who do not want to spend a lot of time learning a new planner.
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Today, the choice of software for interior design is quite large, and the thing is that there is no exact definition of this term. For some, an interior design program can be a constructor, with the help of which a finished position is assembled from individual ready-made elements, and for others, primitive photo editors that allow you to change color tones or powerful products with many functions and tools for modeling and realistic visualization of created projects.
We have already talked about many programs for interior design on a computer. Now it's the turn of mobile devices, namely interior design software for Android. Of course, such design programs cannot compete with computer options, but they can become some help for those who want to update the situation.
Design apps for Android can help you arrange furniture, take a look at your interior from the outside, and simply suggest ideas for your home. There are not very many such applications for Android, but there are quite interesting options, which we will discuss below.
Interior Design Ideas.
The program Interior Design Ideas for Android contains thousands of photos of the interiors of apartments and houses. Looking through which, you can adopt some idea, or maybe, based on what you see, draw up your own design project. You can find in the catalog examples of the interior of a bathroom, living room, bedroom, office and choose the option you need.
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All photos in the catalog are sorted into semantic categories.
Homestyler Interior Design.
Homestyler Interior Design is a free android mobile app that is clearly designed to bring your interior design projects to life. In addition to arranging furniture in a three-dimensional apartment based on a finished or created photo of the room, the application has a huge amount of interior design from other users of the application that you can comment on.
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Finished projects can only be saved by registered users, registration is free.
Master Design Interior.
Master-Design Interior will allow you to plan and create the interior of a room anywhere: on a bus, in a traffic jam, on a walk and anywhere else, if you have an Android smartphone or tablet at hand. In the application, you can create a design for any room - be it a kitchen or a nursery.
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As usual, the free version of the application is truncated in terms of features, but still allows you to use it to implement your design ideas.
Home Design 3D.
With the Home Design 3D application, you can create design projects for apartments or houses in two- and three-dimensional views with the ability to arrange furniture and decor elements. The creation of projects takes place in 2D, when in 3D the application creates a visual sketch of the created interior design on Android.
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This free application can be used as a trial version. If you like this application, we recommend that you buy it in order to evaluate the functionality and the full range of features.
In addition to design options, you will learn the possibilities of creating modern rooms with various furniture and accessories.
If you know of any worthy interior design apps for Android, then let us know and we'll review them and add them to the review!
The world's largest manufacturer of software for architects, designers and engineers Autodesk finally got serious about creating mobile design applications based on its core software products. The main goal of the company is to provide its customers with the opportunity to perform their daily work anywhere and anytime. One of the latest mobile developments that has been published has been, which allows you to model full-fledged three-dimensional objects and structures with a minimum set of tools.
Advantages
Undoubtedly, in terms of its functionality, it is in many ways inferior to its relatives from the PC generation. However, one cannot but recognize the obvious advantages of this application, which allows you to create three-dimensional models of buildings and other objects with just a few taps on the touchscreen.
The workspace of the application provides the user with complete freedom of action, from creating a number of different 3D models and ending with the possibility of their free movement, scaling and rotation in different planes.
An important feature is the binding of the application to the service Google Maps, thanks to which the user can select any fragment of the terrain of the globe and import it into the workspace, and then design the future building directly on it. This function will help match your future object with the potential terrain on which it could be located.
The application has a gallery of shapes and template models, which will greatly facilitate the process of designing your own objects. All your projects are saved in a separate gallery and, accordingly, in the application's memory, however, there is the possibility of integration into cloud services, which will allow you to share your developments with colleagues and employers.
The model is controlled through the context menu at the top of the screen or by directly pressing and holding the model on the touchscreen - you will see the main options for changing, copying and deleting an object.
Flaws
- due to the fact that the application toolbar takes up a lot of screen real estate, it is recommended to use the application primarily on tablet devices.
- the ability to use map fragments Google Maps may not be available outside the US.
- thanks to the presence of clear and simple tools, the application can be used not only by specialists in the field of architecture and construction, but also by amateur designers. However, for serious professional design, the available functionality may not be enough.
Other features of Autodesk FormIt:
- the ability to import application project files on a computer into other programs from Autodesk, including Revit And Fusion
- function Shadow Study Tool, which allows you to create lighting and shadow effects for your models
- a building computer-aided design system that provides the actual physical components of a building.
