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Space Planning

Plan the rooms before the walls: write a brief, list rooms and connections, arrange spaces by hand or generate layouts, then build walls and place doors.

How do I start space planning in Gridsnap?
Free manual planning · Pro layouts

Plan the rooms before the walls. Arrange spaces by hand for free, or generate layouts to compare with Pro, then Build plan turns the spaces into ordinary editable walls.

How do I write and update my planning brief?
Free · optional Pro help

Describe the home on the Brief stage, add needs, constraints and preferences, and turn open questions into decisions. Writing the brief is free; Help refine my brief is an optional Pro request.

How do I set rooms, connections and size limits?
Free · Update layouts is Pro

Rooms & requirements holds the room list, how rooms connect, the entrance, what to do when a room has no way in, and the footprint limits. Editing it is free; Update layouts, which arranges them again, is Pro.

How do I generate and choose a layout?
Pro

With Gridsnap Pro, Layouts arranges your rooms into checked plans to compare. Arranging uses no credits but is not on the free plan; reading a description into rooms uses 5 AI credits. Nothing changes until you press Use this layout.

How do I draw and adjust spaces by hand?

Draw each room as a Space to an exact size, move and reshape it, share area across a boundary, draw an envelope for a fixed footprint and decide which boundaries become walls. All free.

How do I keep some rooms and rework the rest?
Pro · Keep rooms is free

Mark the rooms you like with Keep, then let Gridsnap Pro search for other arrangements of the rest. Kept room outlines stay fixed; their doors may move. Compare Current and Proposed, then Apply changes in one undo step.

How do I build walls from spaces and keep editing?
Free · design option is Pro

Build plan turns a Space Plan into ordinary walls and rooms in one undo step. A generated layout's doors are placed afterwards with Finish door placement, and Create variation brings the Spaces back. Free; building as a design option is Pro.

Start with your rooms, or describe the home.

Listing rooms, drawing spaces and building walls are free. Generating layouts to compare is part of Gridsnap Pro.

List your rooms — free → Or describe your home →