If you are planning to hire a designer to remodel your current space or design a new office space, maybe you should think again! SweetHome3D, as the name suggests, is useful freeware and a great interior design resource for designing small/medium-sized homes or workplaces.
Free Interior Design Software for Windows PC
Sweet Home 3D is an open-source, multi-platform interior design Java application for quickly choosing and placing furniture on a house 2D plan with a 3D preview. To create your project, you just need to create your rooms, drag and drop objects into the tool’s grid view, and see them build up in a 3D view.
How to install Sweet Home 3D
Sweet Home 3D is functional on both Windows OS and Mac. Moreover, to make the software’s use much easier, it is translated into 21 different languages. Windows users just need to download the 33.3 MB file, run the program by clicking on the .exe file, and follow the instructions from the setup wizard.
How to use Sweet Home 3D
First, you need to create rooms. To do this, click ‘Create Rooms’ button from the toolbar under the Menu bar and then click the four corners for your room in the working pane. Drag the wall and define the overall dimensions of the house. By default, measurements are provided in inches but the metric system is also available.
The user interface of the program is divided into four resizable panes namely:
- The furniture catalog – Contains all the furniture and objects you would like to add to your home/office design. You can display the furniture in a category by clicking on the triangle beside its name.
- The home furniture list – It contains home furniture that can be sorted by clicking on each column title.
- The home plan – The pane displays a view of your created home from the top. Here, you can draw walls using a mouse and layout your furniture upon it.
- The home 3D view – This pane displays your home in a 3D view. You can view your project either from the top or from a virtual visitor point of view
In the library section of the official website, you can find more than 250 objects developed by third-party producers.
Hardware Requirements:
- Minimum processor of 400 MHz
- Minimum 256 MB RAM
Software requirements:
- Java Runtime Environment
You can download it from SourceForge. For more information, you can check out the complete user’s guide and even view Sweet Home 3D video tutorial or use Sweet Home 3D help, by accessing the Help button found in the toolbar of Sweet Home 3D windows.
Also read: Best free Architecture software for Architects to run on Windows PC.
Requires Java….two big thumbs down!
Similar software, Room Arranger, is not freeware, but can be used for free for 30 days. Quite intuitive interface.