Homestyler - Interior design ideas

With the Homestyler app, you can effortlessly design and decorate your living space, arrange furniture, and revamp your house or apartment. Utilizing our user-friendly 3D floor planning tool, you can simply select furniture pieces, move them around, rotate as needed, and create your ideal space design with just a few taps. Interior decoration becomes a breeze, akin to an engaging home decorating game where crafting your dream home is simple and enjoyable!

Key Features:

- Comprehensive features for spatial layout, home design, room renovation, and decoration all within one convenient app.

- Realistic 3D rendering for visualizing your indoor spaces in detail.

- Extensive library of 3D models, ranging from furniture to decor items like fireplaces, walls, floors, and plants.

- Easy access to furniture from popular stores such as IKEA, Target, Crate, etc., to incorporate into your designs.

- Opportunity to upload photos of empty rooms and create personalized room templates.

- Innovative AR (Augmented Reality) design mode for scanning your environment and experimenting with different decor ideas in-app.

Preferred by countless interior designers and design enthusiasts worldwide, our platform allows you to redesign various spaces including living rooms, bedrooms, kitchens, bathrooms, studies, villas, apartments, or even outdoor gardens. Fulfill your home décor aspirations effortlessly, without the need for complex 3D modeling skills or drawing floor plans. Simply select, adjust, and position furniture items to bring your vision to life easily – creating stunning interiors is now as engaging and straightforward as playing a simulation game!

New to the Homestyler app? Dive into our weekly home design challenges that offer themed tasks like designing rooms in unique styles or situations. Show off your skills, compete fairly, and garner votes, likes, and comments to feature prominently within our community – celebrating your design prowess!

For advanced interior design projects, visit our official website at www.homestyler.com, where you can access our professional online floor planner software for in-depth design endeavors and realistic renders on your personal computer.

Getting started

When you start a project for the first time, you’ll be asked some basic settings, like how you use the mouse to interact with your virtual environment for instance (these settings can be accessed at any time via the interface’s Preferences, located in the File drop down menu).

Once that’s done, you get to create a new space, or draw inspiration from a handful of available templates.

If you’re more of a keyboard person, you have full keyboard control as well: the WASD keys let your move forward, left, back and right respectively, with Q and E allowing you to alter the elevation.

As you design your home, guides and measures appear to ease the creation process (Image credit: Homestyler)

The design process is simple enough. Add a rectangular room, or draw walls individually. As you build your space you’ll notice guides appear which are useful to help you connect all walls together, particularly when some aren’t at right angles.

Click on a wall to reveal options just as converting that straight line to an arc, or splitting the wall (you cannot split an arced wall). Drag a wall to extend or contract it, drag an edge to alter the angle of the walls. It’s nothing we haven’t seen before, but it’s done really well, and so effortless, you’ll be making great progress in minutes. The same applies to doors and windows.

Some features are clearly still in Beta, others aren’t but are nonetheless glitchy (Image credit: Homestyler)

You’re not limited to a single floor either, and are able to create additional levels, including a basement, although be aware this feature is currently only available as a beta.

Customization

Altering your walls, floors and ceilings feels like a work in progress. For instance, you can add various mouldings along the edge of a wall, but don’t seem to be able to just add a skirting. Various cornices are available if you want them.

Altering the floor is interesting, as not only do you have a good selection of patterns, but you can modify its position on the ground, the type of materials used, and you can even select a brand of your choice from the available list.

View your room in 3D, as you’d expect (Image credit: Homestyler)

Weirdly though, those changes aren't even reflected in the model, either in 2D or 3D. The same happened to us when we tried the ‘customise floor’ option. We are hoping to create different levels in the floor as the tool’s icon illustrated. Instead though, we were sent back to the ‘Molding’ options. 

There does appear to be a few lingering glitches about.

Browse through a large list of items and add your favourites to your design (Image credit: Homestyler)

Furniture

When you’re ready to add some furniture to your model, you’ll find what’s available in the Media Library. You’re able to browse by collection (where various complementary items are grouped together if you wish to keep to a specific style - most of these collections are free), look through various structures (such as different types of doors and windows, columns, stairs, etc), and check the entire catalog, or narrow it down by finish, or brands. Thankfully there’s also a search field to help find what you’re looking for fast.

Adding an item is as easy as choosing it, and dropping it in a room. Once there, large coloured arrows allow you to position it perfectly, and even allow you to rotate the object, or change its elevation. We quite liked that you were also free to resize the item (as long as you click on ‘Unlock Resizing’ first).

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Homestyler isn't just a design tool; it's also a valuable resource bank for interior design knowledge and inspiration.