Designaxiom: It’s AutoCAD for the masses basically.

http://designaxiom.blogspot.com/2007/08/virtual-floor-planner.html

A couple of weeks ago I went to a friend’s housewarming party on the Upper East Side, and as we all got a tour of her tiny apartment she jokingly showed us how her new bed frame doesn’t allow her to close her bedroom door anymore. We stood there pretty amused as we tried to think of any other possible way for her to fit her IKEA bed-frame in her tiny bedroom.

She said she’d measured it three times before heading over to IKEA-hell and was convinced it would fit… well… until the whole thing was assembled, and it almost did fit, but almost is not quite good enough in New York City apartments. Turns out she hadn’t taken the radiator into consideration, and she was now contemplating installing a sliding door.

A little while later I ran across this new site called Floor Planner (another great addition to the “Do it Yourself” movement in design) which is an interactive floor planner that allows you to organize a plethora of furniture, textures and appliances in a virtual space (you add the measurements yourself) not unlike most interior decorator software.

It’s AutoCAD for the masses basically.

You can get one try for free (it’s pretty fun) and otherwise I think it’s very reasonably priced. How neat, next move I might be decorating my apartment in the virtual world.