Create Professional Residential Plans Without CAD Complexity

Professional builders and contractors use SmartDraw as a cost effective tool to design and build proposals for new home constructions and remodels. SmartDraw also empowers homeowners to create their own house plans and design every room in their home without training or CAD expertise.

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Easy to Design House Plans

SmartDraw lets anyone design accurate residential spaces with intuitive tools and none of the traditional CAD complexity. Whether you're designing a full home from the ground up or planning a remodel, SmartDraw makes it easy to add rooms, draw walls that snap into place, and resize any room or wall just by typing in new dimensions and angles.

Import Existing Floor Plans

If you want to start with an existing floor plan, SmartDraw lets you import a PDF to match your current drawing, and build a new design on top of it. Save time by only drawing what you need from scratch when creating bids, making proposals, planning for renovations, and documenting existing conditions.

Easy-to-Build Room Outlines

SmartDraw lets you drag and drop prebuilt room outlines as building blocks for any house plan. This is a simple way to get started when you want to sketch a layout quickly and then refine it. Rearranging the rooms is easy. Just drag and drop rooms around to test different configurations and compare layout options without redrawing every wall.

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Vast Collection of House and Furniture Symbols

Smartdraw includes a large collection of ready-made house planning and furniture symbols to help you quickly build a house plan and then design every room. You get symbols for walls, windows, and architectural features like stairs and fireplaces. Plus symbols for every kind of chair, sofa, cabinetry, lighting, tables, shelves, TV, desks, and more.

Collection of residential floor planning symbols

Make Kitchen Plans

Create kitchen plans that help visualize layout, appliance placement, cabinetry, storage, and workflow. SmartDraw makes it easy to arrange counters, islands, skins, refrigerators, ranges, and other kitchen elements so you can design a space that is both attractive and functional.

Create Bathroom Plans

SmartDraw helps you create bathroom plans for any modern remodel or build. Layout tubs, showers, vanities, toilets, sinks, and storage easily. You can redesign a powder room or renovate your primary bathroom and communicate accurate plans with ease.

Design Living Rooms

Use SmartDraw to help furniture placement and design focal points by arranging sofas, chairs, coffee tables, media centers, and rugs.

Plan Dining Rooms

Use SmartDraw to create dining room layouts that account for table size, seating capacity, clearance, and traffic flow. Whether you are designing a formal dining room, an open-plan dining area, or a combined kitchen and dining space, SmartDraw helps you visualize the room before anything is built or moved.

Build a Home Office

Many homes now need a dedicated office space or pocket offices to accommodate remote workers. SmartDraw can help design a dedicated workspace or show how to have a single room serve dual purposes by combining a guest room with an office or adding a desk nook. Make a precise plan that's to scale with accurate measurements for desks and storage.

Create Garage Plans

SmartDraw helps design garages that include standard space for parking vehicles as well as optional workbenches, storage systems, tools, utility areas, and workshops. Design a multi-use space easily.

Finish Your Basement

SmartDraw helps create basement plans that are functional and extend the usable space in a house. You can show how you would layout guest rooms, gyms, lounge areas, or add home bars, home theatres or wine cellars. Use SmartDraw to define the space and add furnishings.

Create a Home Gym

SmartDraw lets you lay out exercise machines, mats, benches, racks, and open workout zones so you can make the most of the available footprint.

Make Renovation Proposals Easier with Data-Backed Manifests

SmartDraw does more than help you draw a plan. You can add data to symbols and use that information to generate manifests that support renovation planning and proposals. For example, add product names, model numbers, finishes, pricing, dimensions, descriptions, vendor info, and other important manufacturing information to elements in your plan to display as a tool tip. Then generate a manifest to create a bill of materials that allows contractors to turn a visual plan into a working proposal.

Create Custom Symbols & Libraries

Every home project is different and sometimes you want something custom. SmartDraw lets you import images and scale them to create your own symbols so you can reflect specific furniture, products, fixtures, cabinetry, or other branded assets. Adding these symbols to custom libraries makes sure that future projects are even easier to work on with reusable assets at your fingertips.

Export as PDF and Share with a Link

Once your house plan or custom layout is complete, SmartDraw makes it easy to share it. Export plans as PDF for printing or approval. You can also share your drawing with a link so others can review it more easily. SmartDraw makes collaboration easy with clients or team members.

See Why Public Safety and Construction Teams Trust SmartDraw

"Before SmartDraw, our reports were created in a mix of Word, PowerPoint, Visio, and paper, leading to inconsistent formats and extra work. SmartDraw gave us a single, standardized platform for accident and incident documentation, making our reports clearer, more consistent, and easier to manage."

Michael Johnson
Battalion Chief, Loudoun Fire and Rescue

"Our design and construction company oversees custom home builds and remodels from initial design to completion. SmartDraw provided an affordable, user-friendly, and efficient tool for making rapid adjustments to floor plans without relying on architects or designers for every minor change. The fast setup and intuitive tools really helped us streamline our workflow."

Jake Goodew
Project Manager, Arete Construction Arete Construction logo

"The Crime Scene Unit sought to upgrade its diagramming software to enhance the quality of crime scene sketches used as discoverable documents in criminal investigations. After evaluating available options, we determined that SmartDraw best met our needs due to its ability to produce detailed, forensically accurate diagrams that integrate seamlessly with existing scene documentation tools, including photographs and 3D imaging."

Massi A. Martin, DPA
Commanding Officer, Office of Forensic Science, Crime Scene Unit, Philadelphia Police Department

"For pre-incident plans, we're able to create clear, easy-to-follow diagrams with directions and annotations that our firefighters can quickly understand on scene. For investigations, the software lets us produce accurate, professional drawings that support incident reconstruction. Overall, we've been very pleased with SmartDraw and plan to continue using it as part of our daily operations."

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Jonathan Shim
Captain, Office of the Fire Marshal, Howard County Department of Fire Rescue Services

"SMCFD needed a user-friendly way to create pre-fire plans. SmartDraw allows us to import a PDF and mark it up for utility shutoffs and access points quickly and easily."

Matthew Adelman
Battalion Chief Preparedness, South Montgomery County Fire Department

"As our design services grew, pen and paper simply couldn't keep up. SmartDraw gave us the modern tools we needed for creating space plans and floor plans. It's proven to be a great tool for our sellers to quickly provide customers with feedback on dimensions and fit."

Aaron Schulz
Director of Inside Sales Channels & Sales Operations, National Business Furniture

"SmartDraw has all the tools we need to create site and venue maps for our events. We can import a satellite view of an area and overlay our event layout as a scaled drawing. Not only is SmartDraw intuitive, but their support is excellent."

Emily Rivera
Director, Vendor of Production Services, National MS Society