Until recently, 3D kitchen design meant one of two things: pay a workshop to render it in KitchenDraw, or wrestle with IKEA's planner, which only knows layouts built from its own catalog. Now you enter your room dimensions in a browser and have a 3D kitchen layout in about ten minutes. If you'd rather not place every cabinet yourself, an algorithm does it for you.
Below: how an AI planner actually works, where it differs from IKEA and similar tools, and what the path looks like from an empty room to a layout you can take to a workshop for a quote. No cost, no account.
What an AI kitchen planner is, and how it differs from IKEA's
A classic kitchen planner (IKEA Kitchen Planner, DAN Kuhinje's planner, and similar tools) has worked the same way for about fifteen years: you manually drag cabinets onto a floor plan, choose from their catalog, and the tool shows you a 3D preview. Useful, but the actual layout work is still entirely on you — and if you don't know the work-triangle rule or standard cabinet dimensions, it's easy to build a layout that looks fine on screen and works poorly in practice.
An AI planner adds one step before manual placement: click "AI Fill" and an algorithm proposes a complete layout, respecting the work triangle, standard clearances, and your existing plumbing, gas, and electrical connections. You then adjust that proposal as much as you like — move a cabinet, swap a front, delete what you don't need. It's the difference between a blank sheet of paper and a sketch that already has something on it, where you just correct.
| Classic planner (IKEA, DAN) | AI planner (KuhinjaAI) | |
|---|---|---|
| Cabinet layout | Manual, unit by unit | AI suggestion or manual — your choice |
| Catalog | Only that brand's products | Modular catalog independent of one manufacturer |


