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The three comparison pages now have a front door. It shows, for ChatGPT, RoomSketcher and magicplan, the one-line result of each comparison, the date it was tested or checked, and when the other tool is the better pick.

See all comparisons

If the plan already exists on paper — a builder's drawing, an old blueprint, a sketch with the measurements written on it — and you are weighing FloorDrafter against magicplan, there is now a page that sets the two side by side: how each gets from your drawing or your room to a clean plan, what each costs, and when magicplan is the better choice.

Read the magicplan alternative comparison

If you have a scan, a sketch or an old plan and are weighing FloorDrafter against RoomSketcher, there is now a page that sets the two side by side: how each gets from your drawing to a clean plan, what each costs on monthly and yearly billing, and when RoomSketcher is the better choice.

Read the RoomSketcher alternative comparison

FloorDrafter is now available in French, Brazilian Portuguese and Italian. Each homepage was written natively for that language, and the about, contact, pricing and policy pages are available too.

French · Portuguese · Italian

Three new guides: where to look for an existing floor plan of a home by its address, how to draw a floor plan by hand step by step, and how to read the measurements on a floor plan, checked against 200 real listing plans.

Find a floor plan by address · Draw a floor plan by hand · Read floor plan dimensions

Turn your floor plan into a coloured one, with one flat colour per room type, and see what held and what slipped across our test runs.

Make a colored floor plan

A price guide to getting a floor plan: redrawing an existing plan, having a home measured, and hiring an architect, with every price sourced and dated.

See floor plan costs

We gave ChatGPT three hand-drawn sketches and asked for changes to each plan, and wrote up what it kept and what it didn't. FloorDrafter's homepage is also now available in Spanish, written natively rather than translated.

Read the ChatGPT floor plan test · Visit the Spanish version

Upload the plan you already have and ask for the change you are considering — a wall taken out, a garage turned into a bedroom, furniture added — and get the renovated layout back.

Plan a renovation

A guide to changing one part of a floor plan an AI drew: mark the spot, word the change so the rest stays put, and keep every version so you can go back.

Edit a generated floor plan

A step-by-step guide to measuring a room for a floor plan: walls, doors and windows, a diagonal check for square corners, and working out square footage. It comes with a printable measuring sheet.

Learn how to measure a room

Look up what the symbols on a floor plan mean: walls, doors, windows, stairs, kitchen, bathroom, furniture and electrical, plus the common abbreviations.

See the floor plan symbols

A new guide explains what a floor plan is and compares the four kinds people usually mean — black and white, coloured, rendered and 3D — drawn for the same house.

Read the floor plan guide

Enter the room size, choose open plan or closed, and tick what has to fit. The living room floor plan comes back with the furniture drawn to real size.

Plan a living room

Give the room sizes and how the rooms should relate to each other, and get an apartment floor plan back with the room count checked.

Make an apartment floor plan

Give the room size and say which wall the plumbing is on, and get a bathroom floor plan back with the clearances around each fixture kept.

Plan a bathroom

Give the floor area and the number of covers you need, and get a restaurant floor plan with front of house and back of house split and the seats counted.

Make a restaurant floor plan

Describe your kitchen or upload the plan you already have, and get a kitchen floor plan back with the work triangle and aisle widths checked.

Plan a kitchen

Type your headcount and the rooms you need, and get an office floor plan with workstations, meeting rooms and aisles laid out. Download it as PNG or DXF.

Make an office floor plan

Upload a photo, scan or PDF of a hand-drawn sketch or an old paper plan, and the AI redraws it as a clean digital floor plan you can check beside the original. Download it as PNG or DXF.

Turn a sketch into a floor plan

FloorDrafter now has a German version. The homepage, the floor plan to 3D page and the bedroom layout page were written for German readers from scratch rather than machine-translated.

Visit the German version

Describe your bedroom or upload a sketch of it, and get a 2D or 3D bedroom layout back, without placing furniture piece by piece.

Plan a bedroom layout

If you already have a 2D floor plan, a sketch or a blueprint, you can now upload it and get a 3D floor plan of the same layout, which is easier to read for anyone who doesn't look at plans every day.

Convert a floor plan to 3D

FloorDrafter went live on floordrafter.com with its core floor plan generator. You can describe a space in plain words and get a 2D floor plan back, or upload a sketch or an existing plan as a reference and have it redrawn as a clean plan. Every plan you generate is kept in your history, and you can download the result.

Open the floor plan generator