I’m moving soon and I’ve 0 instinct for that, so looking for help and ideas :)

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    Sometimes you’ll see a piece that just says “hey, I want that”

    That’s the difficult part :) I’ve never experienced that, despite having visited those stores.

    A chair is a chair is a chair, to me.

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      A chair might be a chair, but you might find you want an end table, or a slightly more stable table with more space. I’m a substance over style kind of person, and sometimes you just need a place for stuff, bonus points if it looks good to your eyes.

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          Don’t assume you know what I like or don’t like!!

          Jk ;) I think I can already decently do function and comfort, it’s theming and aesthetics that’s difficult to me. As I’m one of these people.

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            I took up learning some sketchup when we moved into our place. Just basic top down 2d drawings.

            I went around the house with some grid paper and tape measurer and made a outline of all the rooms then recreated it in sketchup, then drew a box for each furniture and moved them around the area until we found something we liked. And gave the most open space

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              That’s a fine idea. I was going to make a floorplan, might as well do a simplified 3d model.

              Did you also use it to test out colors? Or is sketchup not a great tool for that?

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                Yeah it gets deep, I eventually made it 3d as I learned more but to start i just wanted to be able to use the line too, click and point it towards a direction and type in the measurement.

                Later I got fancy raising the walls up and adding textures like wood floor and windows etc in the downloads someone even created the network switch and router I use so I started planning my server rack.

                I used the free 2017 version since I could use my PC resources and not rely on the cloud or subscription

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      Take videos and pics of your room, spend 20$ on fiverr to have your room designed, buy the suggestions. Best way imho if you have 0 clue imho

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        Sounds like the easiest way indeed. Thinking of measuring the place, creating a floorplan, and handing it over to someone who knows.

        Danke