Landing areas
24″ and 18″ beside the sink, 15″ and 12″ beside the cooktop, 15″ by the refrigerator handle.
Plan · Layout suggestions
Good layouts in one click. Mistakes caught as you draw.
Ask Modula for layouts that fit the room you drew. Every option already keeps the clearances, door swings and windows in mind. Then a live design check watches your own layout for the things that fail inspections and annoy clients.
- Minimum work aisle, one cook
- 42″
- Work triangle total
- 13–26 ft
- Toilet side / front clearance
- 15″ / 24″
- Rules-based, repeatable
- Same plan, same options
How it works
Suggest, compare, apply, keep checking.
- 01
Draw the room
Walls, the door and the windows are enough. When the plan shows existing plumbing, the suggested sink stays on that wall.
- 02
Ask for layouts
Modula offers the layouts that really fit: one-wall, galley, L or U kitchens, with or without an island, and the bathroom arrangements the room allows.
- 03
Compare and apply
Each option lists its counter run, wall cabinets and work triangle. Apply one in a single, undoable step, then edit freely.
- 04
Live design check
As you move things, the check flags landing areas, aisles, hood heights, door clearances and objects under a soffit or inside a column.
Kitchens
Seven kitchen layouts, filtered to the ones that fit.
One-wall, galley, L-shape and U-shape, plus one-wall, L and U with an island. Options that would block a door, cover a window with tall cabinets or squeeze an aisle are never offered.
- Work aisles of 42″ or more in front of counters
- Sink centered under a window or on the existing plumbing wall
- No tall or wall cabinets over windows
- Work triangle reported for every option
Bathrooms
Tub or shower, every arrangement the room allows.
Tub, toilet and vanity on one wall, on two walls, or opposite each other, and the shower versions of each. Primary baths and powder rooms get their own options.
- Toilet: 15″ to each side, 24″ clear in front
- 24″ clear in front of the tub or shower
- 21″ or more in front of the vanity
- Fronts always face into the room
The design check
The rules a good designer checks by habit.
Aisles and door swings
42″ for one cook, 48″ for two, and open appliance doors that do not hit each other.
Work triangle
Each leg 4–9 ft and a 13–26 ft total between sink, cooktop and refrigerator.
Hood height
Hood bottom 24″–36″ above the cooking surface and centered on it.
Bathroom clearances
Toilet, vanity and shower clearances from the California Plumbing Code and the IRC, with NKBA recommendations.
Structure
Upper cabinets and hoods that run into a soffit or beam, and objects standing in a column.
The details
Where the suggestions work
- Kitchens, with and without islands
- Bathrooms, primary baths and powder rooms
- Bedrooms, living and dining rooms
- Home offices, laundry rooms, closets and entries
- One room of a multi-room plan, or each room of an ADU
- ADU starting layouts from the square footage
Suggestions and checks follow published guidelines (NKBA, California Plumbing Code, IRC, NEC). Your local building department has the final word.
FAQ
Common questions
Works with
Connected on the same project
- PlanFloor plansUpload the plan you have, or draw it in 2D. Everything else is built on it.Learn more
- PlanElectrical plansKitchen and bath electrical laid out to the 2025 California code.Learn more
- DesignElevations & cabinet sheetsWall elevations, top view and cabinet schedule, regenerated as you design.Learn more
Let the rules do the first pass
Draw the room, ask for layouts, and keep every change checked.