Room designer website? program?

Not really photography related. I have a fireplace wall I want to redesign. It is all brick and I want to build shelves and put cabinets on it. I am having problems visualizing it. I have measured it out. I have taken pictures. I have thought about putting pics in photoshop. Pasting the pics of cabinets and shelves and trying to get to the correct dimensions and all that.

I have seen on home improvement shows they use cad or those type programs. Anybody have recommendations for free websites or stuff like that that will take and do everything to scale?

I know this is pretty random, thanks for any help.

Use sketchup (free).You can use your images as textures for the 3d model. When installing, choose the template for architecture, not basic models.

I built and installed our kitchen cabinets, and sketchup was very valuable. I was able to make animations of what it would be like for my wife to walk into the kitchen and see different areas. I even took pictures of specific granite slabs before purchase, and put them as textures on the counters to see how it looked.

FWIW: a P&S shot of the finished kitchen. This was before I had a DSLR... I need to re-shoot the kitchen!

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Thanks. I will check it out.

seems complicated. I will go through tutorial. I am trying to just import the picture I have into program, then copy in cabinets and such

It's much simpler than it seems. The tutorial will go well for you. I've struggled with a lot of 3d design software, and SketchUp is very intuitive after you get the basics.

I do this kinda stuff for a living, if you think sketchup is hard then dont look any further. Watch a few videos on youtube its a very simple program. Its the best one for what your looking to do.

I have watched tutorial. Pretty cool program! Being a typical man, I figured I could just figure it out by my self. Bad idea lol.

No if you wanna do it on a computer and do it right it takes programs like sketchup. Before sketchup was around 4 years ago I think. You had to use programs like AutoCAD and a few youtube videos would not have begun to cut it

Heck if you are buying pre made shelving chances are they are already in the sketchup library and you can plop them right in