<p>I like to play with furniture placement on paper so I can see how the room will look. I use to draw out the room on graft paper to scale and make little furniture cuts out to make sure my new furniture ideas would fit in the room. Now I am trying to buy furniture for the home my son is moving to out of town. I can not keep driving there to measure and make sure a piece of furniture will fit.</p>
<p>Is there an easy computer program that will work for a Mac, or even a website that will allow me to play around with furniture placement? I do not want an elaborate program, just something simple to use for the den and bedroom. I would like to be able to draw the room where I can place doors and windows and then be able to add furniture templates to see if it all will fit.</p>
<p>See if this is what you are looking for. It is from the Home and Garden website.</p>
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<p>Have you tried google’s sketchup? It might seem a little complex at first, but play around with it for a while and its fun for 3-D drawing of buildings, interiors, etc. And it does work on a mac.</p>
<p>The one on the Home and Garden website does not work on a Mac, but I will try it on one of the kids laptops.</p>
<p>Sketchup looks way more involved than I need! I don’t care about 3D, although if would be cool. I just need to see how crowded the room will be when my son insists on this huge chair and a half recliner along with his big screen TV he has been saving for forever! The bedroom is a bit tight, so I want to make sure we can fit a dresser in without it sticking out in front of a door. I have all the measurements for the rooms along with the location of all windows and doors. I could just draw it out on paper like in the past, but thought it might be more fun to try on the computer.</p>
<p>Oooh, I would love to have one that worked on a Mac.</p>
<p>My folks are moving from their home to a small two bedroom apartment in a retirement community. Trust me, it is even harder to convince your parents that a beloved piece of furniture won’t fit than your college kid!!</p>
<p>I’ve done the free 8 hours on Sketch-up (Is the google thing new?) and still don’t feel comfortable. There are lots of Home Architect type programs. I use 3-D Home Architect and hate it. The old version was fine, but the new one is much less intuitive and has too many bells and whistles. I just want to be able to draw a floor plan and then move a camera around to get a simple 3-D picture. I can’t remember if you can change sofa and chair dimensions. It’s been a couple of years since I’ve used the program. I really think graph paper and cut-outs are just as easy most of the time. Or a big roll of architectural tracing paper.</p>
<p>I found one online that is pretty basic but did allow me to change the size of a piece of furniture. I still might hand draw like in the olden days, but this site worked also. I liked that I could save my work.</p>
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