Prepare a furniture placement mock-up from room measurements and product images
A top-down placement sketch from your room and product measurements, with open questions marked.
Choose one of three approaches. The steps for that option appear below.
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Claude: turns measurements into a placement table
Claude places items in a coordinate table and text drawing from your sizes. You check the arithmetic and decide.
You
Measure room, products
Claude
Draft placement table
You
Check the arithmetic
Claude
Draft alternative layout
You
Choose and decide
Measure the room and product sizes
Use:You
Have ready: room width and length, door and window positions and swing, fixed items, and each product's width, depth and height.
Check
Re-measure anything you are unsure of. Use one unit throughout. Write down your minimum gaps. Mark missing measurements 'not stated'.
Draft the placement table and drawing
Use:Claude
Ask Claude for a placement table, a simple text top-down drawing and a gap list from your measurements.
Details
What to paste into the tool
Task: A placement plan for a room, as a table and a simple text top-down drawing. Using only the sizes below, place each item so it fits inside the room, clears the door and window swings, and keeps the minimum gaps I set. Give each item's position from the top-left corner of the room, and list the gap between each pair of neighbouring items. If something does not fit, say so. Do not guess a missing size. Do not buy or order anything. Room and items: [paste your measurement sheet]. Minimum gaps: [paste your minimum gaps].
Check the arithmetic and the fit
Use:You
Correct the plan against your measurements.
Check
Add up each row of items and gaps yourself. Mark the plan on the floor with tape if you can.
Draft one alternative layout
Use:Claude
Ask Claude for one alternative layout with its gap list, using the corrected plan.
Details
What to paste into the tool
Task: One alternative room layout as a table and a simple text top-down drawing. Use only the room and item measurements below. Clear door and window swings and keep the minimum gaps I set. Give positions from the top-left corner and list the gaps between neighbours. Use a different layout from the checked plan below. Say if an alternative is not possible. Do not guess a missing size or minimum gap. Room and item measurements, including door and window swings: [paste your checked measurement sheet]. Minimum gaps: [paste your minimum gaps]. Checked plan: [paste the corrected plan].
Choose a layout and decide
Use:You
Choose between the layouts and decide what to buy or move; nothing is bought or moved yet.
Check
Check the chosen layout on the floor, the seller's returns policy and that each item fits through your doors.
Gemini: reads sizes from images, then plans
Gemini pulls the sizes shown on product images, then drafts the placement. You check each size before deciding.
You
Collect images, measurements
Gemini
List image sizes
You
Check each size
Gemini
Draft placement table
You
Check on floor, decide
Collect images and room measurements
Use:You
Have ready: screenshots of the product size diagrams or pages, and your room measurements in one unit.
List the sizes on the images
Use:Gemini
Ask Gemini to list the width, depth, height and clearance each image states, copied as written.
Details
What to paste into the tool
Task: A list of the sizes shown in the product images. Read the images I attach. List only the width, depth, height and any clearance the images state, with the unit, copied as written. If a size is not shown, write 'not stated in the files'. Do not estimate a size from the look of the product. Product images: [attach the product size diagrams or screenshots with personal details removed].
Verify each size against the product page
Use:You
Compare each size with the seller's own specification text and correct the list.
Check
Correct or delete any size that differs from the seller's text.
Draft the placement table
Use:Gemini
Ask Gemini for a placement table, text drawing and gap list from the checked sizes, room sheet and your minimum gaps.
Details
What to paste into the tool
Task: A placement plan as a table and simple text top-down drawing. Using only the sizes below, place each item inside the room, clear of door and window swings and keeping my minimum gaps. Give positions from the top-left corner and the gaps between neighbours. If something does not fit, say so. Do not guess a size. Sizes and room: [paste the checked sizes and room sheet]. Minimum gaps: [paste your minimum gaps].
Check the plan on the floor and decide
Use:You
Check the arithmetic, mark the plan on the floor and decide.
Check
Check each item fits through your doors and the seller's returns. Nothing has been bought or moved.
Julius AI: builds the placement table and gap sums
Julius AI builds the position table, text drawing and gap sums from your measurements. You recheck every figure, then decide.
You
Gather your measurements
Julius AI
Build the mock-up
You
Check every figure
You
Decide what to buy
Gather your measurements
Use:You
Have ready: your room measurements, the product sizes from the product page and the minimum gaps you want.
Check
Use only measurements you took and sizes shown on the product page; mark missing sizes as missing.
Build the placement mock-up
Use:Julius AI
Ask Julius AI for a table of corner positions, a simple top-down text drawing and the gap sums between items and walls.
Details
What to paste into the tool
Task: A furniture placement mock-up as a table of positions plus a simple top-down text drawing. Use only the room measurements, product sizes and minimum gaps below. Place each item and give its corner positions. List the gap between every pair of items and between each item and the walls, and show the sum behind each gap. Flag any overlap, any item that sticks out of the room, any item that blocks a door or window swing and any gap under my minimum. Do not choose my minimum gaps. Do not estimate a size from a photo and do not invent a size; mark a missing size as missing. Room and items: [paste your measurements and product sizes]. Minimum gaps: [paste your minimum gaps].
Check every figure and gap
Use:You
Redo each sum yourself with a tape measure and compare each product size against the product page.
Check
Ignore any flag you cannot reproduce.
Decide what to buy or move
Use:You
Mark the layout on the floor and decide.
Check
Check weight, fit through doors and stairs and the seller's returns yourself. A mock-up is a planning sketch, not a design approval.
Compare the three approaches
Option A: Claude: turns measurements into a placement table
Best when: You have all the sizes as numbers
What it does: Claude drafts layouts; you check the arithmetic and choose
Strong at: A second layout shows an alternative without more measuring
Limit: A text drawing is rough and not to scale
Free plan: Yes, limited (5-hour and weekly caps)
Option B: Gemini: reads sizes from images, then plans
Best when: Product sizes are only on images or product pages
What it does: Gemini reads sizes and drafts; you check each figure
Strong at: Saves typing sizes by hand when it reads images correctly
Limit: Image reading is not checked; compare every size with the seller's text
Free plan: Yes, limited
Option C: Julius AI: builds the placement table and gap sums
Best when: You want the mock-up built while you keep measuring and the decision
What it does: Julius AI builds tables and sums; you measure, check and decide
Strong at: Every gap comes with its sum shown for like-for-like checks
Limit: The assistant can make arithmetic mistakes; recheck with a tape measure
Free plan: Yes, limited (7-day file storage)
Before you paste into any AI tool, remove any confidential information. Put it back at the end.
You remove your address and photos before the first assistant step.
You confirm every size and gap with a tape measure before you buy or move anything.
Every assistant step is followed by your check of the output against your own material.
Nothing is sent, signed, paid, published, deployed, diagnosed or decided by the assistant. You decide and act.
Check the result against your original inputs. Approve it before sharing or acting.
Availability notes
The source idea is about visualising furniture before purchase. This workflow requests a measurement-based table and text sketch, not a photo-real image or placement of items in a room photo.
What still needs checking
How the selected tools store or use pasted text was not checked.
Whether each selected tool obeys each rule in the prompts is not yet checked. Each tool step is followed by your check for this reason.
The primary option is a judgement for a general user.
Text tables and drawings are requested outputs, not to-scale design approvals. Geometry and arithmetic must be checked by you.