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Moving and swapping rooms

Rearrange your layout by dragging rooms around. Maket reshapes the walls, doors and circulation to match.

Move rooms lets you rearrange a floor plan by dragging rooms around, without redrawing a single wall. Maket reshapes the walls, doors and circulation to match.

Entering move mode

Two ways:

  • Click Move in the bottom toolbar

  • Or just start dragging a room

Your plan switches to a simplified view: each room becomes a labelled block, so you can see the layout as a set of spaces rather than a set of walls. Click Select in the toolbar to go back to normal editing.

Moving a room

Drag a room where you want it. The rooms around it make space — they compress and reshape to absorb the change, and Maket keeps the exterior walls intact.

If you drop a room inside a much larger one, it carves out a pocket for itself against the nearest wall.

Swapping two rooms

Drag one room on top of another until it mostly covers it, then release. The two trade places.

This is the quickest way to fix a layout that's nearly right — the bedroom that should have been the office, the bathroom on the wrong side of the hall. Maket keeps each room close to its original size, so a small office swapped with a large bedroom stays small.

Adding a room

Open Rooms in the bottom toolbar, pick a category and drag the room onto your plan.

Ensuites and built-in spaces

A bedroom with a built-in closet or ensuite bathroom moves as one unit — drag the bedroom and its built-ins come along.

Built-in spaces are tied to their parent room. You can't pull an ensuite bathroom out into the middle of the house and leave the bedroom behind.

When a move won't happen

Sometimes you'll drag a room and it snaps back. That's Maket protecting the plan:

  • It would break circulation. If the swap would leave a room with no way to reach it, it won't complete.

  • A built-in can't move outside. Closets and bathrooms built into a bedroom stay with it.

Undo

Every move is undoable. Use Undo in the top toolbar, or Cmd/Ctrl + Z.

Good to know

  • Move rooms changes the layout, not the finishes. Flooring, walls and style settings stay as they were.

  • Switch to 3D once the layout is right to see it properly.

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