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Room Planner & Best Room Layout Designer [Free & Paid]
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Room Planner & Best Room Layout Designer [Free & Paid]

Easy-to-use room planner software. Design a room layout in minutes. Create professional floor plans and stunning 3D visuals – perfect for home design projects.

Room planner software
Ferry H testimonial

“We use RoomSketcher to draw all the things we want to (re)build in our new home. We really like it, and RoomSketcher gives us a very good insight into how our new home is going to look like.”

Ferry Heitkönig

Home owner

Plan Your Room Design Online

Using the RoomSketcher App, you can create your room design on your computer or tablet. Your projects are stored in the cloud and they sync across devices,

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Lauren Kay Sims’s Texas Lakehouse
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Lauren Kay Sims’s Texas Lakehouse

Texas is famous for its unparalleled barbecue, its gargantuan size, and—arguably our favorite reason—the collection of castle-like homes scattered across its hills, mountains, and plains. One such property, a seven-bedroom lakehouse in east Texas, belongs to lifestyle influencer Lauren Kay Sims, who is known for her fashion and style blogging, and her musings on building what she calls “a radiant life.”

As part of her pursuit of radiance, she enlisted Urbanology Designs’ principal designer and owner, Ginger Curtis, to help ensure their new vacation house would reflect her family’s style, without doing an entire remodel. She asked Curtis to outfit

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Floor-to-ceiling kitchen storage ideas: 10 stylish looks |
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Floor-to-ceiling kitchen storage ideas: 10 stylish looks |

Floor-to-ceiling kitchen storage has become more popular over the last five years, have we all grown taller? No, but you will need steps or a ladder to reach that uppermost shelf! So why, the change in cabinet design?

As modern kitchens began to flourish in the 20th century, the concept of cupboard storage, multi-purpose shelves and units became more popular. Eventually, contemporary kitchen storage evolved to boast fitted cabinets and designer appliances as our kitchens became the central space for living inside the home.

Floor-to-ceiling kitchen storage

This evolution continues, as we seek to create as much storage in our

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Ten modern homes with interiors informed by biophilic design
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Ten modern homes with interiors informed by biophilic design

Biophilic design, which aims to create spaces in which humans are more connected to nature, is becoming increasingly popular. In this lookbook, we’ve gathered 10 interiors with soothing biophilic designs.

The design principle can be used in architecture and interior design through the use of natural materials, as well as the integration of more natural light and green plants.

The 10 projects in this lookbook, which range from a Japanese home with decorative scaffolding to an Italian house with an indoor Ficus tree, show how biophilic design has been used in projects all over the globe.

This is the latest

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9 ways to transform a single kitchen wall |
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9 ways to transform a single kitchen wall |

A one-wall kitchen or single-line kitchen aligns every piece of the kitchen cabinetry, appliances, and often workspace along one single wall to create a cohesive streamlined kitchen.

This type of kitchen layout follows a clear and clean design script to ensure the arrangement of a working kitchen across one wall in a room is both efficient and chic.

We explore the clarity of design used to create this contemporary kitchen design. Not just for studios, apartments, or smaller homes, the one-wall kitchen is often used by designers for much larger spaces and as a fresh new way to lay out

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Plan Drawing – Pacific Homes
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Plan Drawing – Pacific Homes

You are serious about building a new home and going through the steps to find the house design that works for you. Perhaps you have found yourself looking online or through plan books, and like many people, found plans that are appealing “but” you would like to make some changes or tweaks. Do I order the plans online or from a plan book? Shall I use a designer to draw my plans? Or perhaps you have a very good understanding of your new house design and are able to do some drawing yourself and then have a designer finish the

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Peek Inside Sarah Paulson’s Cozy Malibu Hideaway
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Peek Inside Sarah Paulson’s Cozy Malibu Hideaway

Sarah Paulson didn’t discover her talent for creating homes with what interior designer Amy Kehoe calls “sophisticated whimsy” until she was in her 40s. As a former New Yorker and an actress who has spent much of her adult life on set, buying and decorating a house wasn’t on her long to-do list. “It felt like too much responsibility. Only grown-ups did that, not me,” says the Emmy Award–winning actress, who stars in the upcoming horror thriller Dust. “I always wanted Manhattan life, an apartment with a doorman, if you were lucky. Owning a home has never held that allure.”

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