Design tools: floor plans & the pool studio

Mood boards answer “does it feel right.” Floor plans answer the harder question: “does it fit.” Tailor’s floor plan tool works from your actual plan and your actual products, so an 84-inch sofa occupies exactly 84 inches on the drawing. When the layout works, render the room straight from the plan without rebuilding anything. This guide covers the floor plan workflow end to end, plus a quick tour of the pool design studio.

Upload a plan, Tailor reads the dimensions

Start with the plan you already have. Upload a floor plan PDF (an architect’s drawing, a builder’s plan, a measured sketch) and Tailor reads the dimensions from it. Walls and room sizes come through as real measurements, not a background image you eyeball against. That is what makes everything downstream trustworthy: once the plan carries true dimensions, every product you place is judged against them.

This matters most early in a project, before anything is ordered. The plan is where you find out that the client’s dream sectional leaves a 24-inch walkway, or that the dining room takes a 72-inch table but not the 96, while the fix is still a different selection, not a return shipment.

Place real products, true to scale

The furniture tray holds products from your library: the same records that drive your schedule and your renders, each carrying its manufacturer dimensions. Drag a piece onto the plan and it lands at its actual size. There are no generic sofa symbols to resize by feel; if the sectional is 112 inches, that is its footprint on the drawing. Fit questions stop being a debate and become something you can see.

From layout to render, one click

The render button inside the floor plan tool is the payoff for placing real products. Because the plan already knows what every piece is and where it sits, the render starts from your exact layout: no re-selecting products in the Visualizer, no describing the arrangement in a prompt. You resolve fit on the plan, then show the client what that resolved room looks like, usually within the same working session. If the render surfaces a change, adjust the plan and render again; the two views stay in step because they draw from the same selections.

It also keeps the client conversation honest. When the render comes from the plan, “can we make the sofa bigger” has a real answer: you size it up on the drawing, watch the walkway shrink from 38 inches to 29, and decide together with the numbers on screen. The plan supplies the constraint, the render supplies the conviction, and neither one is guessing.

The pool design studio

Pool projects get their own dedicated workspace, separate from the interior tools, because the work is genuinely different: hardscape and materials rather than furniture, construction detail rather than styling, and an estimate that has to hold up on site. The studio keeps the whole job in one place, from design through construction views, materials, and costs.