Building Your Floor Plan
Build your whole floor plan — walls, doors, windows, stairs, fireplaces, and balconies; set wall and ceiling heights; lay per-room flooring; and stack multiple floors into a complete home.
Adding doors: hinged, sliding, and French
Place hinged, French, or sliding doors on any wall — width, position, hinge side, and swing direction.
Adding and positioning windows
Place and size windows on walls; they appear in 2D and 3D.
Adding interior walls — and laying out a real apartment
The full set of interior-wall techniques — perpendicular, free-angle, extend, move — applied to a real 1BR apartment.
Adding stairs: anatomy, shapes, and setup
The full breakdown: rise, riser, tread, width — and the three shapes (straight, L-left/L-right, U). Walk it in 3D.
Adding columns, radiators, and other obstacles
Add columns, radiators, and other fixed obstacles your layout has to work around.
Setting wall and ceiling heights
Per-wall and per-vertex heights for vaulted ceilings and sloped roofs.
Adding fireplaces and wall openings
Add fireplaces and doorless wall openings (cased openings, passthroughs).
Editing room size, walls, and vertices
Resize the room, drag walls and corners, and set exact dimensions in the inspector.
Modifying exterior walls and your plan outline
Split walls, add extensions, remove walls, switch styles like glass or pony walls, and set exact wall dimensions.
Adding pocket and barn doors
Place pocket and barn doors — zero swing arc.
Adding bay and corner bay windows
Bay and corner bay windows — placement and sizing.
Adding balconies
Balcony placement — rectangular and L-shape.
Sloped and vaulted ceilings
Per-vertex ceiling heights for sloped roofs.
Setting per-room flooring
Tile, hardwood, or carpet — set the floor per room and tune it in 3D.
Building a multi-story floor plan
Two-story homes, lofts, basements — stacked floors connected by stairs.
Exterior wall placement (Outside, Center, Inside)
Outside, Center, Inside — where walls sit vs your outline, and how it changes Gross & Usable area.
Painting your walls — colors for every wall face
Real brand paint colors on any wall — per wall, per room, or whole floor.
Adding an elevator that travels between floors
A real elevator across your floors — placed in a couple of taps.
Murphy beds — a bedroom that folds away
Fold-down wall beds with real open/closed footprints.
Bulkheads and soffits — the boxes above your cabinets
Ceiling-hung boxes over cabinets and ductwork.
Wrap a yard around your home — property lines and fences
Property lines, per-edge fence styles, gates.
Wall-mounted air conditioning — mini-splits and PTAC units
Mini-splits, floor consoles, and PTAC — at real heights.
Flooring options — every material, tone, and plank size
Every material and tone: 12 hardwoods with plank sizing, tile, carpet, and outdoor ground covers.
Put it into practice
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