Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application which helps you draw the plan of your house, arrange furniture on it and visit the results in 3D.

Sweet Home 3D is available in two versions, both bundled with a private copy of Java:

  • A free version available on this page (see download options on your right) is bundled with 100 pieces of furniture and 26 textures
  • A paid version available on the Microsoft Store, automatically updated and bundled with 1500 pieces of furniture and 418 textures.

Does Sweet Home 3D let you design in 2D?

Yes. Sweet Home 3D helps you place all your furniture and designs on a house 2D plan, but it previews a 3D render.

Is Sweet Home 3D free?

You can download and use Sweet Home 3D free of charge, for personal or commercial purposes. Nevertheless, if you want to, you can donate any amount to the Sweet Home 3D project.

Can you use Sweet Home 3D offline?

Yes. Sweet Home 3D runs offline on most operating systems, but you can also use it online from any browser supporting WebGL.

Does Sweet Home 3D work on Linux?

Yes. Sweet Home 3D runs on Windows, macOS, Linux and Solaris.

Which are the best Sweet Home 3D alternatives?

SketchUp and DreamPlan Home Design are great free alternatives that work on Windows and macOS, but neither works on Linux as Sweet Home does.

Features

Draw straight, round or sloping walls with precise dimensions using the mouse or the keyboard.

Insert doors and windows in walls by dragging them in the plan, and let Sweet Home 3D compute their holes in walls.

Add furniture to the plan from a searchable and extensible catalog organized by categories such as kitchen, living room, bedroom, bathroom...

Change color, texture, size, thickness, location and orientation of furniture, walls, floors and ceilings. While designing the home in 2D, simultaneously view it in 3D from an aerial point of view, or navigate into it from a virtual visitor point of view.

Annotate the plan with room areas, dimension lines, texts and show the North direction with a compass rose.

Create photorealistic images and videos with the ability to customize lights and control sunlight effect according to the time of day and geographic location.

Import home blueprint to draw walls upon it, 3D models to complete default catalog, and textures to customize surfaces.

Print and export PDFs, bitmap or vector graphics images, videos and 3D files in standard file formats.

Extend the features of Sweet Home 3D with plug-ins programmed in Java, or by developing a derived version based on its Model View Controller architecture.

What's New

  • Fixed wrong layout of the second step in Furniture import wizard for a few cases under Windows.
  • Filled rooms which have an invisible floor with a more transparent color in the plan.
  • Fixed transparency of rooms in SVG export.
  • Used a screenshot for the icon image created at the end of Furniture import wizard under Windows.
  • Kept the 3D view detached from the main window at reopening if it's partially visible.
  • Fixed wrong connections of a split wall when two walls are connected to each other.
  • Added YafaRay libraries in Mac OS X 10.4-10.9 installer.
  • Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

Previous release notes

  • Added YafaRay rendering engine with the ability to choose the rendering engine in photo and video creation tools at the two best quality levels (not available for Java Web Start and applets).
  • Added lightSourceMaterialName# property to define materials of a 3D model used as light sources (with light color deduced from material color and the ability to create an invisible light source when its material is invisible).
  • Allowed decimals in Light power spinner.
  • Made the dialog boxes of photo and video creation tools resizable.
  • Displayed the virtual visitor with a camera symbol at a fixed size when the virtual visitor gets too small in the plan.
  • Added a button in the toolbar to enable/disable magnetism.
  • Moved menu items handling levels in the Levels submenu to reduce Plan menu length.
  • Added the ability to select materials with the mouse in the 3D preview in Material modification dialog box.
  • Added diagonal editing in the room creation tool tip to draw rooms by triangulation.
  • Added Inch/Fraction unit which displays lengths in inches followed by the closest eighth inch fraction.
  • Added Foot/Decimals unit which displays lengths in feet followed by decimals of a foot.
  • Added Hide model edges option at second step of Furniture import wizard to hide easily edges of 3D models at DAE / Collada format (option displayed only when useful).
  • Handled more orientation and zoom capabilities on 3D models at last step of Furniture import wizard to get better icons.
  • Added new prefixes for shape names of a 3D model to specify the possible moves of shapes attached to other movable shapes.
  • Computed the front limit of the 3D view frustrum according to the point of view elevation to improve the rendering of very large scenes seen from a high point of view.
  • Added sky image mirror at bottom of background image to avoid possible line at the horizon in renderings at best quality levels.
  • Added Flat ceiling only check box to room modification pane to compute sloping ceilings when necessary.
  • Added com.eteks.sweethome3d.checkUpdates system property and /checkUpdatesDisabled argument to Windows installer to prevent following updates.
  • Increased the divider size of split panes under Windows.
  • Fixed room floors and ceilings drawing order.
  • Added the ability to display animated GIF icons in catalog tool tips.
  • Fixed nodes hierarchy in 3DS format management.
  • Fixed default color of effect in DAE format.
  • Added support for controller / skin elements in DAE format to be able to import 3D models exported from MakeHuman software.
  • Fixed too small fonts under Windows 11 with a HiDPI screen.
  • Handled the user interface of 3D model transformations in Sweet Home 3D JS Online.
  • Updated Italian translation including help by Vincenzo Reale.
  • Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.