Alejandra Vazquez The kitchen is one of the most important parts of a house and planning and designing one is super fun if you love interior design… and it should stay fun even if you don’t have the knowledge in software to make the layout of your dreams.
If that is your case then keep reading as we have put together 10 free online tools for kitchen design (which you can upgrade to paid subscriptions if you really want to take your design further… but since they’re free, you don’t have to).
1.Cabinets Create Kitchen Tool
Recommended !
Cabinets.com has a very complete kitchen creator tool that allows you to customize room measurements, add doors, windows, objects like columns or partitions. First you choose the door style for the cabinets, countertop material, wall coverings, wall colors and flooring material, after that you can choose the appliances location as well as cabinet layout.
You can choose from 2D and 3D views, and you can customize the shadows as well as interior and exterior lighting of your kitchen. To save your project you have to create an account. This app is easy to use and it offers a quick introduction to the tools as well as an introduction video tutorial.
DIFFICULTY: Easy
2. Homestyler
Editor’s favorite!
Homestyler is a very cool online interior design tool, it’s free and super easy to use. It offers a lot of customization options as well as a big library of objects to design your kitchen as well as other rooms. It offers a 2D floor plan and 3D orbit view. We recommend this tool because it’s easy to learn to use and the results you get are quite good, besides it’s also fun since it has so many customization options.
You can save many projects and create as many renders as you like, the quality of the renders is that good but it helps you to visualize your kitchen design. It also has a mobile version.
DIFFICULTY: Easy!
3. Principal Kitchen 3D Planner
Principal Kitchen 3D Planner offers an intuitive experience for kitchen planning and accesoring. It’s library has many options for you to choose from and just have fun creating the kitchen of your dreams. You can start your room from scratch or modify a pre-existing room which is helpful if you need a little inspiration for your own design.
You can choose from 2D and 3D front and top views as well as to choose the quality of your image. To change your projects you need to create an account.
DIFFICULTY: Easy.
4. Floor Planner
Floor planner is an amazing online designing tool that allows you to accurately create 2D and 3D floor plans easily. You can create a free account which gives you access to standard quality downloads of your projects, you can design the kitchen of your dreams as well as different types of rooms, not only kitchens. The free account offers a good amount of objects to choose from for your projects.
This site is super fun to use since you have so many customization options and you can easily spend hours choosing from materials, objects and decorations. And if you feel like this is the right tool for you, you can upgrade your account to get high quality saves for your projects.
This design tool is definitely worth a try!
DIFFICULTY: Easy
5. Kitcheplanner.net
Recommended!
Kitchenplanner.net is a very easy-to-use online app that can help you to design your kitchen. You can really get creative with this tool since it allows you to customize your room shape and measurements. It is a very intuitive tool which makes object placement very easy, it has a well organized library with many types of kitchen furniture which you can also customize, there is an extensive selection of colors, designs and kitchen materials. You can choose from a 2D (top) view or 3D view. If you want to save your room you just have to submit your email and you will receive a link with your design.
DIFFICULTY: Very easy!
6. Ikea Kitchen Planner
Ikea Kitchen Planner is a very useful tool for designing and visualizing your kitchen, it’s very intuitive and super simple to use, it has a library with all of Ikea products to choose from. First you have to select the shape of your room and you can customize the measurements as well, you can add windows and doors from a variety of options.
This is a super fun tool to use because you can customize a lot of details from your kitchen, and it offers a lot of options for you to choose from. You can choose from 2D plan and front view as well as 360° view, you can also choose to show or hide measurements which can be pretty helpful depending on what you want to generate your views for.
DIFFICULTY: Very easy.
7. Kozi Kaza
One of our favorites!
Kozi kaza’s is a very complete online tool that allows you to design not only kitchens but an entire house as well. It gives you a quick introduction so you get familiarized with the tools, you can customize every part of your kitchen, from room measurements to floor materials and wall coverings, its library also has a variety of objects to choose from.
You can choose from 2D, 3D and 360° views and also choose from other useful tools like wall transparency in order to make the design process easier. This is a very good option if you already have images of what you want to design since it allows you to import your own plans or images, to be able to save your plans you have to register.
This is also a very cool and fun to use website to find inspiration and other ideas from designs of other users and participate in contests.
DIFFICULTY: Easy
8. Tile Planner
Recommended!
Tileplanner is an online interior design tool that you can use on your PC, tablet, mobile or other device that you can use to design bathrooms as well as other rooms. It allows you to design your kitchen in a simple, fast and intuitive manner. It has a great library with beautiful and modern objects to use in your designs. It offers a floor plan, 2D, 3D and 360° view. This tool offers a variety of customizable options such as tile covering patterns as well as tile direction.
This tool is available in many languages and has a library with a lot of objects for you to choose from including kitchen accessories, lighting, faucets and appliances. You can design without registering but in order to save your projects you have to create an account.
DIFFICULTY: Easy
9. Planner 5D
Planner 5D is a great designing tool that you can use to design your bathroom. It’s very easy to design rooms from architectural details including doors, windows and partitions, to choosing objects for your space. With this tool you can also design other rooms and not only interior but landscape too! This is a very good tool to find inspiration for your designs as you can explore creations of other users.
You can use this tool for free with limited options, but it’s enough if you want to get an idea for your bathroom layout and also choose materials for your floor, ceiling and walls, if you want to take it further you can pay a subscription to get access to all of its features.
DIFFICULTY: Very easy
10. PlanningWiz
Planningwiz is an online app that you can use to create 2D floor plans easily, the tools are pretty straight forward and the objects are easy to move and rotate. The library has many kitchen objects for you to choose from as well as furniture for other rooms which is cool if you one to design other spaces besides the kitchen. If you are not sure where to start, you can check out their tutorials on their website.
The free account offers basic options which can be helpful if you want to get an idea of the layout of your kitchen, with its 3D view tool you can have a simple idea of how your design would look like. With the free version you can create many designs but printing, exporting and emailing are restricted.
DIFFICULTY: Very easy
We hope you found this list useful. Let us know if these help you to design the kitchen of your dreams!
Do you know other useful kitchen design tools? Let us know in the comments!
