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Hi there,
Can anyone recommend some free software to plan a new kitchen please? The easier to use the better. The primary requirement is to be able to play around with different layouts of kitchen and furniture to see what fits/works. However, a nice to have would be the ability to draw what the rear of the house would look like with the extension.
Any recommendations and advice would be great.
Cheers
Nick
Are you trying to draw a 2D floor plan, or make a 3D model of everything?
We used magic plan (small cost) initially, but in the end we used excel - resize all the rows and columns so that each cell is a square. Each square then represents 10cm vertically and horizontally. Colour the squares in to denote walls, cupboards, doors, windows etc.
The nice thing is that you can make copies of each sheet for different layouts etc.
Google sketchup would do it too surely
IKEA worked for us for initial planning
Then I let the kitchen designer earn their money and design the kitchen they thought I should have.
Combined my ideas with some of their good ones.
Was able to see what an extension would add in terms of internal space.
It's being built as we speak
Take a look at home styler. We planned out our full extension and used some of the plans as part of the planning application.
Best of all it’s gratis.
Thank you for the suggestions all. I'm going to use my lunch break to have a play around now. It's mainly just 2D layouts I'm interested in but I might try and sketch what the rear of the house will look like (still in 2D) just to see what window placement looks like and things.
Thanks
Nick
If it's just 2-D you're interested in, it might be worth using a decent vector drawing tool like Inkscape. You can be just as precise by drawing to the grid, and it's very flexible for minimal effort in learning to use it, unlike most 3-D CAD packages.
PS As an example I did this in Inkscape for a pre-application advice submission. It's a vector drawing so can be scaled up/printed large with no loss of quality.
