Renovate with Figma (and AI)

"Take some measurements of the room, decide that 1 pixel in Figma equals 1 cm (or inch) in real life, and draw it out. Suddenly, you've got a custom floor plan, and a powerful tool for testing whether things actually fit. As long as both the room and the furniture are drawn to scale (1px = 1cm or inch), you can play around with layouts and instantly see what fits into your room."

"A search for "floor plan" on iStock or Creative Market will give you thousands of results, from useful building blocks (chairs, tables) to inspiring examples of how things can look. Or check out Dimensions.com. It's a massive collection of architectural objects: from iconic design chairs to... Jon Snow in vector format? Either way, ready-made assets are incredibly useful here and slot nicely into your Figma floor plan."

"There's also a Figma-inspired service called Rayon that's specifically geared toward architecture and interior design. My first impression, after playing around with it for about two minutes, is very positive. Definitely worth checking out if you want to take your floor plans to the next level and have room for one more (niche) tool in your toolbox."

"A good interior design process requires you to set a direction, typically through reference images gathered into a moodboard. And Figma is great for that as well. Throw your reference images into a nice mosaic and set the image mode to Fill (not Crop) by"

Renovations benefit from starting with a plan rather than immediate demolition. Figma can be used to create custom floor plans by taking room measurements and setting a scale such as 1 pixel equaling 1 cm or 1 inch. When both the room and furniture are drawn to scale, layouts can be tested quickly to see what fits. Online asset libraries provide building blocks like chairs and tables, and architectural object collections can supply additional elements. A Figma-oriented service for architecture and interior design can extend floor-planning workflows. Figma also supports moodboards by arranging reference images into a mosaic and using Fill image mode for consistent presentation.

Read at Shapes by Gjermund Gustavsen