Plan your space smarter.
Calculators, planners, and guides for every room and project. Sketch a room, estimate a budget, schedule your maintenance, and learn what every renovation really costs — all in one place, free, with no accounts.
Calculators and planners for every room.
Every tool saves your inputs to a shareable URL and works without an account. Measure once, plan everywhere.
Paint Calculator
Estimate gallons of paint needed for any room, accounting for doors, windows, coats, and coverage.
Renovation Budget Estimator
Per-sqft baselines for common room remodels, with contingency built in. Get a realistic range before you call contractors.
Maintenance Scheduler
Build a 12-month home maintenance schedule in 30 seconds. Export to your calendar as .ics, save the URL to update it later.
Flooring Estimator
Calculate the number of flooring boxes to buy, including the waste factor for your install pattern, and total material plus labor cost.
Room Planner
2D top-down room layout with drag-to-scale furniture. Save layouts to a sharable URL and hand the room dimensions straight to the Paint and Flooring tools.
HVAC Sizing Tool
A quick cooling-load estimate based on square footage, climate, ceiling height, sun exposure, insulation, and occupancy.
Save your room once. Use it everywhere.
Sketch your room in the Room Planner, and your dimensions, ceiling height, and window count are ready for the Paint Calculator, the Flooring Estimator, and the Renovation Budget tool — no retyping, no re-measuring.
Start with the Room PlannerHonest answers with the math to back them up.
Real costs, decision trees, and the calculators that go with them — written for homeowners who want a defensible answer, not a listicle.
Kitchen remodel budget — what actually costs what (2026 line-by-line)
A 180 sqft kitchen remodel costs $42k–$92k installed in 2026. Here's every line item with realistic 2026 numbers, what blows up budgets, and how to cut 30% without cheapening the result.
The home maintenance checklist no one writes down (year-round, by frequency)
The complete year-round home maintenance checklist organized by frequency — monthly, quarterly, semi-annually, annually — with the cost of skipping each task. Load it once into your scheduler and stop redrafting it.
Hidden renovation costs — the 14 line items contractors don't quote
The bid is not the budget. Here are the 14 line items most contractors don't put on the quote and the percentages to add for an honest all-in number — before you sign.
Humid climate home maintenance — the 14 tasks that prevent mold and material failure
Humid climates (Gulf Coast, Southeast, Pacific Northwest, parts of the Midwest in summer) need 14 specific maintenance tasks beyond the standard checklist. Skip them and homes age 2× faster than the same homes in dry climates.
Real rooms with the materials, dimensions, and cost behind them.
Every inspiration entry has a real palette, a real material list, a realistic cost range, and the calculators that turn the look into a plan you can actually build.
Start with a real room.
Sketch your room in the Room Planner. Save the URL. Hand the dimensions to the Paint and Flooring tools without retyping anything.