Building the duplex: from an authored sample to an editable home

Explore two floors and a roof terrace, compare four styles from one viewpoint, and see how layout, openings, furniture and saved alternatives fit together.

INK TO BRICKUpdated October 6, 20263 min read

The finished authored sample, shown in the Mediterranean style. This is a capture of the editable model.

The duplex is an authored sample: a deliberately composed home that lets you explore the product before bringing your own drawing. It was not automatically reconstructed from an uploaded floorplan. Explore the finished duplex, then return here to follow the decisions behind it.

One home, two floors and a roof terrace

The ground floor connects arrival, study, kitchen, dining and living spaces to the garden. Upstairs, bedrooms and quieter rooms sit around the gallery and the opening above the living room. The roof terrace is a separate outdoor destination. Inspecting the stack makes those relationships easier to understand than an exterior image alone.

Open the separated-floor view. Use the floor controls to isolate a level, then return to the whole building. Follow the stair and the double-height opening before evaluating furniture or finishes.

The duplex floors separated in 3D beside the Scene panel — Editing demonstration: the ground floor, first floor and roof terrace, separated to show their connections.

Layout first: walls, doors and the route through a room

The sample starts with authored walls and openings. In Expert, select a wall or choose Wall in the Build tab to draw its shape; place a door or window on its host wall. Check the opening in plan and 3D, including the space a door needs to swing. A convincing image is not evidence that every clearance works.

Drawing a measured wall beside the sample duplex — Editing demonstration: drawing a wall with its running length visible. This is not footage of the original build.

Follow the drawing tools guide and check doors and windows. The AI-led workspace and Expert controls use the same canvas. Switching tool visibility does not create a second version of the home.

Furniture and materials make the layout testable

The duplex living room with its seating arrangement — A model capture: furniture gives the living room scale and makes circulation visible.

Place a sofa from the catalog, move or rotate it, and check the route past it. Inspect the dimensions of the actual item you intend to buy; a similar-looking library object is only a planning aid. Apply wall and floor materials after the layout makes sense, then compare the same room from the same camera.

Open the living room in the sample. Try moving one item, changing one finish and undoing the change. A small edit makes the relationship between the plan and the model easier to follow.

Placing a chair in the duplex living room with clearance guides — Editing demonstration: a catalog chair follows the cursor, with placement and clearance feedback.

Selecting Soft White in Paint and targeting a duplex kitchen wall — Editing demonstration: choose a material, then the surface to paint.

Four styles, one consistent viewpoint

The four views below keep the living-room camera fixed. Mediterranean uses warm surfaces, Scandinavian a lighter palette, industrial stronger contrasts, and tropical green accents. They are styles of the same authored home, not four independent reconstructions. Compare the furniture, surface choices and feel of the room without losing its layout.

Mediterranean style at the fixed living-room camera — Mediterranean · model capture

Scandinavian style at the same living-room camera — Scandinavian · same camera, model capture

Industrial style at the same living-room camera — Industrial · same camera, model capture

Tropical style at the same living-room camera — Tropical · same camera, model capture

Keep an alternative, then walk through it

The sample editor displaying a saved Mediterranean alternative after comparing styles — Editing demonstration: Save and Compare in the sample editor. Both alternatives stay in this browser; this is not a cloud save or footage of the original build.

Use Design options to keep an alternative you can return to, then change the arrangement or finishes. Check which option is active before continuing. A saved alternative is useful when the next idea is worse: return to the usable version instead of trying to undo a long sequence from memory.

Switch to Walk to inspect the route at eye level. Start in the living room, pass through the kitchen and compare the garden connection with the overview. The walkthrough communicates spatial relationships; it does not certify accessibility, structural safety or construction compliance.

From exploration to a shareable presentation

A personal project can be saved and presented through the available sharing controls. Check the intended audience and the saved version before sharing. Public publication is a separate choice from private sharing. The sample is a place to experiment, not a saved personal reconstruction or a private client deliverable.

Try the sample, or start your own home

Try the authored sample to learn the controls without uploading anything. To build your own home, start with your floorplan: choose the relevant floors, provide a known dimension and review the result against the source drawing. Eligible new accounts can explore an initial one-floor build before paying to save; other builds require available floor capacity. Saving starts at $4.99 per floor.