Furnish your floor plan

Furniture makes your floor plan look like your house.

Furnish it

Pick the Furniture tool (or press F) for the catalogue: about 125 pieces, shown by type (sofas, tables, lighting…) or by room with Show by, from sofas and beds to a whole kitchen (base, corner, wall and tall cabinets, hoods, a coffee maker, toaster, kettle, tap and bin) and bathroom, shelves and a car, plus a plain box and cylinder you name yourself (a piano, a cat tree). They come from three free 3D model kits, each its own section with who made it, its licence and a link to where it comes from: Kenney’s Furniture Kit, KayKit’s Furniture Bits and Quaternius’ Furniture Pack, all free for anyone to use (CC0). The pieces Tiledash draws itself, like the table of any shape and your own shape, come first. Each piece shows as a small 3D picture in your theme’s colours. The catalogue has tabs: Library for all of the above, In this plan for the pieces already on the level (to add another), and My models and Community for models. The search finds across them and counts its finds per tab. Drag the divider between the plan and the side panel to make the panel wider. After the furniture come Lights: ceiling lights, spots and lamps, for lights that aren’t smart (smart ones come with their device from the Devices tool). Drag a piece onto the plan, or pick it and click where it goes. On the plan, pieces are drawn as their 3D models look from above, part by part with a soft shadow, so the plan and the 3D view match.

Near a wall, a new piece turns its back to the wall and lines up against it; away from walls it lines up with the furniture around it. Hold Shift to place it freely (or to line it up, with snapping off), and press R to turn it 15°.
Select a piece to drag it (it lines up as under Line things up), turn it by its round handle, or size it by its corners. Its panel has three tabs: Details (its name, device, width, depth and height, colour, and How it looks, such as green velvet with a buttoned back, which a picture of your plan draws), Place (standing or on a wall, how far it is turned, its height and distances to the walls) and Shape (which piece it looks like). A device’s panel has the same tabs.
A TV, a shelf, a radiator or a wall cabinet hangs on a wall at its own height, set in its panel. Sits puts any piece Standing or On a wall, at the height under Above the floor: a floating TV cabinet, or a TV standing on its cabinet (set to Standing, it moves onto the piece under it).
A TV’s Screen size slider sizes it by its diagonal in inches, from 32″ to 100″.
The Lowboard is a long, low TV cabinet with flat doors, on the wall or on the floor. Set how many doors it has under Doors.
Put small things on others with Put it on it: a toaster or coffee maker on the counter, a lamp on a table. The tall cabinet has a Doors setting like the lowboard.
A Picture is a painting or poster: pick a usual Size (A4 to 70 × 100 cm) or type your own, portrait or landscape, a Frame (thin, thick, canvas or poster) and the Picture colour beside the frame’s colour. It hangs on a wall, or set Sits to standing to lean it on the floor or a shelf.
The Table takes any shape: pick its Top (rectangle, rounded, oval, or natural, a gently irregular edge like a slab of a tree), size it, and set how many Chairs stand around it.
Your own shape is for anything else that takes up room, like a boxed-in corner or a chimney breast. Pick it, then click its corners on the plan; click the first corner or press Enter to finish (Backspace takes back a corner). Name it, give it a height, and raise it with Above the floor for a box under the ceiling.
Under Shape, a piece can become another: the shapes that fit come first, and Every shape finds any piece of the catalogue by name.
The furniture button in the top bar hides furniture while you draw walls.

A separate Dryer snaps onto a Washing machine when you place or drag it over one. Each keeps its own connected device and colour. Drag the dryer away to put it back on the floor, or hold Shift to place freely. In the Place tab, Above the floor lets you set any standing piece’s height yourself.

The kitchen also has an American fridge with two side-by-side doors. Turn Ice dispenser on in its details to add one to the left door.

Colours and finishes

Models built from parts can offer named appearance groups, such as Cabinet and Doors. In a model’s Edit → Appearance, its author creates the groups, assigns parts and sets the default colour and finish. Every group offers painted matte, satin or gloss, wood grain, woven fabric, brushed metal and clear glass. Wood and fabric have visible patterns; the advanced controls set their direction and scale in centimetres.

Pick a placed model to change its Appearance, or choose it in a Model widget’s settings. Each copy keeps its own choices. Explicit colours remain when you switch themes; Follow theme uses the theme’s colour. Reset colour, finish or pattern separately, reset a whole group, or reset everything to the author’s defaults. Later author changes affect only properties you inherit. Paper draws a monochrome top view and keeps your saved choices. Imported models can offer the same named groups. In Edit → Appearance, assign whole materials from the file to groups; selecting a group highlights its surfaces. A material shared by several parts changes all of them. You cannot separate colours baked into one texture here.

Each imported group offers Original, Tint and Replace. Original keeps the file’s colours and texture detail. Tint colours the imported material while preserving its detail; the original colour affects the result, so a dark texture cannot become an exact light colour. Replace uses the colour and one of the seven surface finishes instead. Reset the treatment, colour or finish separately, or reset the group to its author’s defaults. Replacing a model file clears its material assignments for review rather than matching surfaces by name. Appearance edits keep the model’s shape and fitted size.

Your own models

Want to make one with an assistant? Build a model with your AI walks through a desk, a live change, and placing it in your floor plan.

Your own sofa, a scanned armchair, a model you downloaded: Add a model at the top of the furniture adds it. Choose a GLB or glTF, OBJ or USDZ file (an iPhone scan, Polycam, Scaniverse). Tiledash checks and compresses it; models are worked on one after another, so a busy moment can add a short wait (Wait its turn). You can close the window meanwhile: the model is added to My models when it’s ready. Then you fit it:

Turn and tip it until it stands upright with its front toward you.
Type its real size; Keep its proportions sizes it evenly.
Say whether it stands on the floor, hangs on a wall or on the ceiling, and its name.
Give it a Type, what it is (sofas and armchairs, audio and video, vehicles…), and a Suggested room when it belongs in one; a soundbar or a lamp goes in any room. Nothing fits? Propose a new one…: you can use it at once, and others see it once an admin has approved it.
If it is a real product, fill in Real product: its brand (the Community’s brands are suggested, so everyone spells it the same), the product’s name, what it is, and How it looks. Pictures of your floor plan draw it from that.
Draw it in your theme’s colours, or with its own textures (best for scans).

Show one of your devices as your model and the model remembers which product that device is, so everyone with the same product is offered it once you share it. Its Edit lists them under Fits these products; take a wrong one off there.

It is drawn on the plan from above as its model looks, like the built-in pieces. It is listed under My models in the furniture, and in the Workshop with where it’s used: on how many plans, and on how many tiles. Edit fits it again, and Delete leaves a plain piece on the plans that had it, and tiles that showed it say it is gone. Keep as many models of your own as you like, on any plan. A file can be up to 25 MB with up to 500,000 triangles, and has to fit in 5 MB once compressed. A model that needs more memory or time than that to read is refused with what to do: export it with fewer parts or smaller textures.

A model can also stand on its own on a dashboard, without a floor plan: the Model widget shows any piece of the furniture, your own models and the Community’s, in 2.5D or turned any way in 3D, and lights up with a device. The tutorial Show a 3D model on a tile goes through it.

No file? With Pro, the AI assistant you connect to Tiledash can design one for you: describe the piece and its size, and it builds it from simple shapes, shows you drawings and a live 3D preview, and saves it to your models. A new file or a new shape for a model you shared also says Changed since.

You can share one with everyone: Publish on its card in the Workshop publishes it, with a licence. A model of a real product has its listing filled in from it, and you see when others already shared the same product. Change a shared model later, its size or its name, and it says Changed since the version others have; Publish update sends them a new version. Models other people shared from the community are in the furniture too: those you installed under From the Community, the rest under More from the Community, the most used first, found by the furniture’s search. Pick one to see it turn, with who shared it; placing it on the plan installs it.