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I was kind of disappointed that I did have to break out the measuring tape, just to check things – but if I hadn’t, the app’s measurements would have been within 2-4″ so I’d say they’re pretty reliable for general space planning purposes. The screenshot above is after I did a bit of adjusting – namely adding two windows and manually fixing some of the measurements. So I gave it another try, trying to be more more careful about dropping my cones precisely where two walls met the floor. You can see that it was, well, yeah…Īdmittedly I was a bit fast and loose with my corner marking since I wasn’t sure how much the app would compensate and adjust.

Here were the results of my first attempt. You can also mark doorways (not windows, though) and mark “through furniture.” The latter is a bit difficult because you have to judge for yourself where the corner sits behind the object. You’re supposed to line up each corner of the room along the green axis, where it will then drop a virtual cone.

Here’s a screen grab I managed to capture in the process. And yes, I’m regretting my decision to have Sherry snap photos of me doing this because I just look like a giant nerd. Its basic premise is that you stand in the middle of your room and spin around in that spot, using your phone’s camera to mark each corner and doorway as you go. There may be others out there like these, but they were the only two I found in my search of the iOS App Store. On that post about our new house’s layout, a few of you mentioned some new phone apps for making floor plans, so I thought I’d use this office conundrum to take a couple for a spin and see how well they work.īoth MagicPlan and RoomScan were free (well, to download… more on that later) and I chose to try them because unlike an app that just helped you enter wall measurements and then noodle around with furniture icons, these two actually promised to create the floor plan for me – no measuring tape required. As much as those 3-D versions were helpful for planning our last kitchen, we still usually plan in 2-D (like this floor plan that we made of this house’s “before” layout using ). We’ve talked about techniques and tools for planning a space back in 2010, and also did this post about software for planning in 3-D back in 2011.

Well, no less than a few dozen of you asked for more info on how our floor plans were made – and lo, this post was born. Let’s talk about Apps And Zerts, shall we? (Yes, that was a Tom Haverford reference, so you might want to grab your super water and sandoozles before we get into the nitty gritty)Īs I was trying out some new floor-planning apps to write last week’s post about our office floor plans, I took some screen shots and photos to share with you guys, and then that post felt full of enough graphics and words without them so I thought “eh, I’ll just skip that stuff.”

Build my own house free drawing house floor plan apps