Find the next step for your home idea
Start a brief, shape a room, or learn what to do with a design you already like. Choose the guide that answers the question in front of you.
Start a design
Write a useful home design brief
Turn your plot, room list, and household priorities into a clear starting request.
Describe your plot and entrance
Describe plot dimensions, entrance direction, neighbouring boundaries, slopes, and views in a useful home design brief, with a tea-estate example to adapt.
Draw your first room
Draw a room in ChatHome.ai with exact box dimensions, add walls, doors, and windows, then check your first layout in both the 2D plan and 3D view.
Room sizes, measurements, and snapping
Understand room area, width and depth, typed dimensions, snapping, and temporary measurements so you can review and adjust a ChatHome.ai floor plan.
Work in metres or feet
Choose familiar units, type feet and inches, save your preference with a design, and see which downloads follow your choice.
Develop a compact-home idea
Develop a compact-home brief in ChatHome.ai with a simple room list, a practical review sequence, and one focused revision based on the result you receive.
Shape rooms and interiors
Place and arrange furniture
Learn the draw-and-convert furniture workflow in ChatHome.ai, then move, rotate, and resize pieces to explore a room and keep its everyday routes clear.
Try wall finishes and lighting
Explore paint, plaster, wood, and brick finishes in ChatHome.ai, then compare lamp tone, brightness, and day or night views in the same room.
Compare kitchen counter layouts
Compare L-shaped, U-shaped, galley, and island kitchen counters in ChatHome.ai, with practical examples for room sizes, openings, and everyday routes.
Explore the whole home
Plan floors and stairs
Organize a home floor by floor, understand generated stairs, and learn the manual workflow for levels, flooring, stair placement, and openings in ChatHome.ai.
Balconies and terraces explained
Explore room balconies, roof terraces, and terraces formed by upper floors stepping back. Learn what to describe and review in a ChatHome.ai design.
Explore a courtyard home
Write a clear courtyard-home brief, understand the space for surrounding galleries, and review the courtyard, rooms, roof, and outdoor connections together.
Sloping plots and walk-out basements
Describe a sloping plot, locate the upper entrance, and understand how the fall across the house affects a walk-out basement concept in ChatHome.ai.
Review and refine
Refine a generated home
Choose when to ask a question, request a revision, or make a change by hand.
Understanding your generated design
Learn to read your ChatHome.ai design results, compare requested and delivered room sizes, and choose a useful question or revision for your next step.
Improve a brief that does not fit
Improve a home design brief by separating essentials from flexible choices, checking room sizes, and turning result notes into a focused next request.
Keep and compare design alternatives
Compare ChatHome.ai design alternatives using separate saves, clear names, and matching views. Learn when to update a design and when to save a new version.
Review your layout in 3D
Review a ChatHome.ai layout from arrival to bedrooms and outdoor space. Use Walk, Fly, plan views, and matching captures to record useful design questions.
Explore the structural frame
Show columns and beams in Explore, compare them with the finished view, and connect a specific question with the preliminary report.
Save and share
Save, back up, and share
Get oriented with browser saves, cloud designs, downloads, and ways to bring others in.
Back up and restore a design
Back up a ChatHome.ai design as an editable JSON file, restore it carefully, and understand how browser autosave, cloud saves, and import notices work.
Choose and manage design access
Choose a viewing link, named viewer, or editor in ChatHome.ai. Learn how to add people, change permissions, stop sharing, and work on a design together.
Share a model with your designer
Prepare a ChatHome.ai model for your designer with the right export, matching views, a concise brief, and clear notes about the choices you want to develop.
Download a dimensioned floor plan
Read an A3 PDF in metres or feet, with room measurements, openings, a shared scale, and a north arrow. Choose the plan that helps your next design conversation.
Save a clear design image
Choose a useful viewpoint, save a screen-size or higher-resolution PNG, and keep matching views for an alternative.
Understand reports and usage
Read the preliminary structure report
Read the assumptions, gravity loads, support notes, and totals in a ChatHome.ai preliminary structure report, and prepare questions for your designer.
Read the bill of quantities
Understand measured items, assumptions, regional practices, and the changes between stored generated revisions.
Read the preliminary RC design
Understand the member design report for an RC-frame plan: its inputs and their sources, the stated method, the members it would resize, and how the bill's steel follows it.
How your generation allowance works
Understand ChatHome.ai usage with a rolling 24-hour example. See how new designs, revisions, questions, failed attempts, and manual edits are counted.
Find a quick answer
Visit the FAQ for common questions, explore design tools and options, or compare plans and allowances.