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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.

Video3 min read

Adding and positioning windows

Place and size windows on walls; they appear in 2D and 3D.

Video

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.

Video5 min read

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.

Video6 min read

Adding columns, radiators, and other obstacles

Add columns, radiators, and other fixed obstacles your layout has to work around.

Video

Setting wall and ceiling heights

Per-wall and per-vertex heights for vaulted ceilings and sloped roofs.

Video

Adding fireplaces and wall openings

Add fireplaces and doorless wall openings (cased openings, passthroughs).

Video

Editing room size, walls, and vertices

Resize the room, drag walls and corners, and set exact dimensions in the inspector.

Video

Adding pocket and barn doors

Place pocket and barn doors — zero swing arc.

Video3 min read

Adding bay and corner bay windows

Bay and corner bay windows — placement and sizing.

Video3 min read

Adding balconies

Balcony placement — rectangular and L-shape.

Video2 min read

Sloped and vaulted ceilings

Per-vertex ceiling heights for sloped roofs.

Video2 min read

Setting per-room flooring

Tile, hardwood, or carpet — set the floor per room and tune it in 3D.

2 min read

Building a multi-story floor plan

Two-story homes, lofts, basements — stacked floors connected by stairs.

3 min read

Put it into practice

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Open Room Sketch 3D

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