The building: built-in cupboards, radiators, fixed lights, windows and doors. Everything freestanding — furniture, rugs, art, curtains-as-decor — goes.

Why do this before a makeover?

Makeovers of a cleared room read the architecture more accurately, and you often learn the layout problem was never the furniture at all.

Room-by-room design

Empty a Room

Everything out; the room itself, revealed.

Open in the Studio

BeforeAfter

What it does

Furniture is opinion, and sometimes you need the room without anyone's opinion in it — before a redesign, before a move, before deciding whether the problem is the sofa or the room. This clears the photo down to architecture: floor rebuilt where the rug was, wall continued behind the bookcase, fixed features kept. The empty version is also the ideal input for every furnishing tool here, which is why the two chain so naturally.

How to use it

1Upload the room as it currently stands.
2Run it — there is nothing to configure.
3Inspect the bones: this is what you actually have to work with.
4Chain the empty room into Furnish an Empty Room or Room Makeover.

Questions

What stays behind?: The building: built-in cupboards, radiators, fixed lights, windows and doors. Everything freestanding — furniture, rugs, art, curtains-as-decor — goes.
Why do this before a makeover?: Makeovers of a cleared room read the architecture more accurately, and you often learn the layout problem was never the furniture at all.