Can anyone recommend an app or website to help with furniture layout?
We are doing a big first floor renovation, and our "playroom" will now be more open into the rest of our living space. With the new layout, this room will become more of an entertaining area and not just a place for my son's xbox, so I need to figure out a better set up.
Normally I would steal the layout from a neighbor, but I've seen 4-5 houses in our neighborhood with this same room design, and honestly no one has come up with a great solution for it that includes a tv (and we need a TV, because the other option is to put my son's xbox in his room, and I'm not OK with that). There is only one unbroken wall, the other three walls have large openings into other rooms, and a large row of windows.
Are there apps or websites that would design the space for you? Or only ones that make it easier for you to design it yourself? Because I do not think I have a good eye for doing this myself.
We used Modsy. It's my favorite room in the house. We ended up with furniture and a layout that I never would have picked on my own.
I had a love/hate relationship with the experience. Actually mostly hate, but loved the results. We also used one of their mini packages when we were trying to figure out how to get a bed into our office and determining how big we could comfortably go. That was like a $20 package and totally worth it.
I've used Modsy too. It was cheap enough that I felt like it accomplished what I needed, although not perfect. I used it once for just figuring out style and finishes and loved it. Another time I was mostly just interested in layout, although the room wasn't super complicated. I'm not sure if the packages have changed, but they did have unlimited revisions so it should eventually work for you.
With one of our rooms, a layout was suggested (that I wasn't a fan of and didn't pursue anyway), that had furniture placed too close to a closet door, so in that respect you have to be careful since it seems like those kinds of details could be easily overlooked.