The editor has three activities across the top of the toolbox: Layout, Furnish and Finishes. Finishes is where you choose what the rooms are made of: a floor in oak boards, a wall in plaster with one accent wall, a sofa’s upholstery in linen. You can switch between the activities at any time; nothing is locked in order, and switching never changes the drawing.
Choosing finishes one surface at a time is free and needs no account.
Pick what to finish
Switch to Finishes. A click now picks a surface, not an object to move:
- A room’s floor: click inside the room.
- One wall face: click close to a wall on the side you want. The face facing that room is picked, not the whole wall, so the other side keeps its own finish.
- All walls of a room: pick the floor, click the room’s name at the start of the panel’s breadcrumb, then choose All walls.
- A part of a piece of furniture: click the item to pick the whole item, click it again to pick one part, such as a chair’s seat or a cabinet’s fronts. Not every item has every part; the inspector lists the ones it has.
Moving is off while you are in Finishes, so a click cannot nudge a wall or a sofa by accident. Esc steps back out, from a part to its item, from a face to its room, then to nothing.
The panel names what you picked (“Living ▸ Floor”, “Wall to Bedroom 1”) and every material choice is headed Applies to …, so you can see where a click will land before you make it.
Choose a material
With a surface picked, choose from the Materials shelves: Floors, Walls and Furniture. The shelf follows what you picked, and a material that cannot go on it is dimmed with the reason. Some materials come in several colours, shown on the card.
Browse materials… opens the full material browser: the built-in materials together with the Gridsnap texture library, with search and categories. Select a card and click Apply to put it on what you picked. Library textures go on floors and walls in this release, not on furniture.
Used in this project lists every material already in the plan and where it is, so a second room can reuse the first room’s floor in one click.
Each choice is one undo step.
Paint several surfaces with one material
With nothing selected, choosing a material loads it for Paint. Click Paint, then click floors, wall faces or furniture parts one after another; the pointer says what each click will do before you click (“Microcement → Bedroom 2 ▸ Floor”). Esc stops painting.
Floors: direction and finish areas
A directional floor such as boards or herringbone has a Direction in the floor’s inspector.
To finish part of a room differently (a tiled strip by the kitchen units, a rug area), use Draw finish area in this room and draw its outline. A finish area belongs to its room and moves with it.
Bathrooms have a Bathroom preset that sets the floor and walls together.
Defaults for the whole project
Default finishes… sets the interior wall and floor finish every room uses until you choose something else for it. New blank projects start with light plaster walls, oak board floors and a large grey tile for bathrooms. A room you finished yourself keeps its own choice.
Exterior walls… reviews the outside faces of the building and lets you give them one material in a single step. It shows the faces it will change first.
Where finishes show
A finish is part of the drawing, so it is the same everywhere:
- in the plan’s Textured style (the Technical style keeps the plain line drawing),
- in 3D, textured in the Realistic style,
- in a PDF or PNG export when you choose the Textured plan style, with an optional finish legend,
- in Tables → Finishes and the printed finish schedule (see schedules).
Finishes describe how the rooms look. They do not change areas, quantities or the plan check, and they are not prices or product specifications.
Coordinate several rooms at once
Choosing room by room is free. Two Pro tools do the coordination for you:
- Room kits apply a matching set of floor, wall, joinery and furniture finishes to the rooms you choose, after showing you exactly what changes. Browsing the kits is free.
- Finish schemes save the project’s finishes under a name so you can try an alternative, compare the two side by side and put either back.