Can I plan several rooms in one project?

Yes. Draw as many rooms as the job has, one by one or as one outline split by walls. Rooms that share a wall can be joined by doorways, split by a divider, or opened into one floor.

Should flooring run continuously through doorways?

It often looks best when it does, but large floating floors may need an expansion break at doors. The planner lets you choose per doorway: the floor runs through, or stops at a divider with a transition strip.

Can each room have its own boards or direction?

Not yet. One project uses one board, one pattern and one direction across every room, which is how a floor that runs through doorways is laid. For a different floor in one room, plan it as its own project.

Does it work for open-plan spaces?

Yes. Draw the areas as rooms and set the walls between them to no wall, and they are planned as one continuous floor.

Is the pack count for all rooms together?

Yes. Packs are counted for the whole job at once, which usually needs fewer packs than adding up each room separately, because offcuts can travel between rooms.

Plan flooring across several rooms and through doorways

When the same floor runs from a hallway into a living room and a kitchen, planning each room on its own causes trouble. The starting line in one room decides the last row in the next, and boards that run through a doorway have to line up on both sides.

Floor Optimizer plans connected rooms as one job. Rooms that touch share a wall, and for each shared wall you decide what happens there: a wall with doorways the floor runs through, a divider with a transition strip, or no wall at all.

Plan several rooms

Free to try. No account needed to start.

In short: Floor Optimizer is a flooring layout planner that plans flooring across several rooms, through doorways and open-plan spaces. It lays every board in your real room and gives you the waste, the packs to buy and a board-by-board cut list.

How it works in Floor Optimizer

Draw the rooms

Draw the rooms side by side, or draw the whole outline and split it into rooms with the Wall tool. Rooms that touch share one wall automatically.

Choose what each shared wall is

Click the wall. Wall: the floor stops on both sides, and you add doorways where the floor runs through. Divider: a transition strip with no wall. No wall: one open floor across both rooms.

Get one plan for the job

One layout across all the rooms, with a single cut list, a single pack count, and the length of transition strip to buy.

What it handles

Rows line up through doorways

Set the door width and position on the wall. Where the floor runs through, the boards are planned as one run, so the rows on the other side are already where they need to be. A doorway can also get a divider instead.

Transition strips counted

Each divider is added to the shopping list as a length of threshold or transition profile, so you remember to buy it.

Open plan as one floor

Mark a shared wall as no wall and the two rooms become one continuous floor, which is how an open-plan space is laid.

One order for the whole job

Packs are counted across every room together, with offcuts from one room reused in another where they fit.

What is Floor Optimizer?

Floor Optimizer is an online flooring layout planner for DIYers and flooring fitters. You draw your room or whole floor plan to your measurements, enter the boards you plan to buy and pick a laying pattern, and it places every board in your actual room shape. From that layout it works out the waste, the exact packs to buy and a board-by-board cut list, so the floor is planned before anything is bought or cut. It runs in the browser on a computer, tablet or phone.

What it is: A browser-based flooring layout planner, cut list generator and pack calculator in one.
Who it is for: Homeowners laying their own floor, and flooring fitters quoting and planning jobs.
Materials: Laminate, vinyl plank (LVT), engineered and solid wood, and other boards or tiles laid in rows or patterns.
Rooms: Any shape: rectangles, L-shapes, angled walls, bays, curves and obstacles, typed to the millimetre or 1/16 inch. A whole floor plan can be split into rooms by walls, joined by doorways.
Patterns: Straight lay, running bond, random stagger, strip plank, herringbone, chevron, basketweave and windmill.
What you get: The full layout, waste percentage, exact pack count and cost, a board-by-board cut list, and a printable PDF install pack (the full plan comes with an unlock or Pro).
Price: Free to try without an account, with the layout preview and a sample of the cut list. A one-time payment unlocks the full plan for a room; Floor Optimizer Pro is a monthly subscription for every room.

Frequently asked questions

Can I plan several rooms in one project?: Yes. Draw as many rooms as the job has, one by one or as one outline split by walls. Rooms that share a wall can be joined by doorways, split by a divider, or opened into one floor.
Should flooring run continuously through doorways?: It often looks best when it does, but large floating floors may need an expansion break at doors. The planner lets you choose per doorway: the floor runs through, or stops at a divider with a transition strip.
Can each room have its own boards or direction?: Not yet. One project uses one board, one pattern and one direction across every room, which is how a floor that runs through doorways is laid. For a different floor in one room, plan it as its own project.
Does it work for open-plan spaces?: Yes. Draw the areas as rooms and set the walls between them to no wall, and they are planned as one continuous floor.
Is the pack count for all rooms together?: Yes. Packs are counted for the whole job at once, which usually needs fewer packs than adding up each room separately, because offcuts can travel between rooms.