How to Find Furniture from a Picture and Try It in Your Room

Home PlannerApp Team · October 17, 2026

Find furniture from a picture with Home Planner: take a photo, get similar 3D models from the catalog, see them in your room in 3D and find them in stores.

You saw an armchair in a café, or on a shop website, and now you want to know one thing: how would it look next to your own sofa?

Here is how to find furniture from a picture. Take a photo of it or choose a screenshot from your gallery. Home Planner finds 3D models that look like it in its catalog. You place one in your room plan and see in 3D how a piece like it fits with your own furniture.

Home Planner has a second photo search too: it looks for the same or a similar product in online stores. This guide shows both. It works on iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac and Windows.

Is there an app to find furniture from a picture?

Yes. Home Planner does it in three steps, inside your project:

1. Open the search and select Search by Photo.
2. Choose a photo: take a new one or use one you have, for example a screenshot from a shop website. Crop it to one item.
3. Open a match and select Add to room, then look at it in 3D.

What do you need to search furniture by photo?

Four things: Home Planner, an internet connection, a project with a room and a photo of one item. Search by photo needs no subscription. A result with a lock needs one, as in the rest of the catalog.

Button names are shown in English. If Home Planner is in another language, look for the same buttons in the same places.

How do you find similar furniture from a photo?

Search the Home Planner catalog with your photo. It shows 3D models that look like your item. Open the photo search from the editor, choose a photo and crop it to one item.

Open the photo search

1. Open your project in Home Planner.
2. Select an empty spot in the plan, so that nothing is selected.
3. Select Search in the lower-right corner of the editor. The Search Furniture window opens with Search and Search by Photo.
4. Select Search by Photo.

Common mistake: select an empty spot in the plan first. If a sofa is still selected when you choose a sofa from the results, Home Planner replaces it at once instead of opening its card.

No Search button? Finish drawing walls or leave measuring mode.

The Search Furniture window: the photo search sits next to the text search.

Choose and crop the photo

1. Choose where the picture comes from. On a phone or tablet, select Photo Gallery, Camera or Files. On a Mac or a Windows computer, choose an image file.
2. If the app asks for access to the camera or photos, allow it. Denied it before? Turn it on for Home Planner in your device settings.
3. The Adjust photo screen opens. To keep only one item, select Crop, move the frame around it and select Apply. Then select Continue.
4. Wait while Home Planner compares the photo with the catalog. On a slow connection this takes longer. Keep the app open until the results appear on the Search by Photo screen.

Crop to one armchair. Only the part inside the frame goes to the search.

No results, or nothing like your photo? Check your internet connection and search again. The tips at the end of this guide help you get better matches.

Can you see how furniture looks in your room before you buy it?

Yes. Add a result to your room plan and look at it in the 3D view. The results on the Search by Photo screen are normal catalog items. You add them to your room like any other furniture.

Results for one cropped armchair: items that look like it, not always the same product.

Add it to the plan

1. Look through the results. Use the filters above them, for example the colour dots, to narrow them.
2. Select the item that looks most like your photo. Its card opens.
3. Select Add to room. A floor item such as a sofa is added in the current view. For some wall or ceiling items, Home Planner asks Switch to 3D view to add item?: select Switch to 3D.

Place it in your room

1. Drag the item to where it will stand. To turn it, drag the round rotate button next to the selected item.
2. Not in the 3D view yet? Switch to it, for example with Open 3D plan in the editor toolbar. Now you see the item with your walls, floor and other furniture.
3. Not quite right? Choose another result from the search. To change the colour or material of the item you added, select it, then the colour swatch in its toolbar.

Check the size and colour of the item next to your walls, floor and other furniture.

Find where to buy furniture from a picture

Use Lens Local Product search. It searches online stores, not the 3D catalog, and shows similar products, with prices where the store shows them. It needs no project. To plan and price the whole room, see how to visualize furniture in your room before you buy.

1. Go back to the Home Planner home screen, outside a project. Select More, the last button in the row with Create and My Designs. On a narrow screen, scroll that row. The Helpful tools window opens.
2. Select Lens Local Product search.
3. Choose a photo and select Continue on the Adjust photo screen, as in the catalog search.
4. In the Similar Items list, compare the products and prices.
5. Select a product to open its store page, in an in-app browser or in your browser.

For this search, Home Planner sends a reduced copy of the photo to its server, which passes it to an image search service.

Found an item in the catalog? Open its card and select Find in Stores. Each result shows the store and its price.

Tips for better matches

Use a sharp photo of one item, taken from the front or at a slight angle.

• Crop out everything else. Use Crop on the Adjust photo screen to remove other furniture, people and pets.
• A whole room in one photo? Search once per item: crop to the sofa and search, then crop the same photo to the lamp and search again.
• Light matters. Use daylight or a bright room. Dark photos lose colour and shape.
• Shoot from eye height, as you see the item in a shop.
• Screenshots work well. A product page from a shop website usually shows the item on a plain background.
• Still nothing? Try a second photo from another angle, or type the item name in the Search Furniture window and select Search.

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