How to create a furniture & accessories presentation

Define your design concept and use AI-recommendations to pull together an impactful furniture & accessories presentation quickly and efficiently - from moodboard inspiration to furniture specification

Creating a mood board is an effective way to inspire and convey your design ideas visually. Using the Canoa AI-recommendation, Canoa's infinite Canvas streamlines the design process and can help you organize your concept and ideas, so you can pull together an impactful visual presentation quickly and efficiently. Create data-rich mood boards, lay-out a scaled floor plan, and generate furniture schedules and budgets using a singular design tool.

How to create a digital furniture & accessories presentation

Our Canvas is infinite, so there's no limit to what you can create. You can browse through our robust & data-rich Product Catalog with everything from renowned contract furniture brands to design-focused products from small makers. You can design with sustainability and circularity in mind using second life and pre-owned products. Simply drag and drop products and import images and drawings into your Canvas. Our toolbar provides lightweight design tools so you can edit images and personalize your presentation. Our Canoa Homework Template can help you get started.

Designing with Canvas

Define your design concept:

• Consider your design intent and the elements you'll need to convey your concept.

• Gather inspiration images and resources.

Meet Canvas:

• Sign into Canoa and select + New Canvas and select create a Blank Canvas, Import Drawing, or Browse Templates.

• At the top is your toolbar, where you can access main functions quickly.

• At the bottom right corner is the My Catalog icon, where you can browse your own individual product library, the public catalogs, and bring in products to your Canvas.

• Every Canvas created is given an auto-generated name. Click on the name to personalize it.

Inside a Canvas

Search thousands of products:

• You can search through our Public Catalogs by clicking on the Tag icon in the bottom right corner.

  • You can enter a query in the search or filer by Category (such as Accessories, Seating, or Tables), Manufacturer or Vendor (we have over 100 unique brands!), or refine your search further by filtering by Price, Lead Time, Condition, and Tags.

• Double click into any product to see all the product details.

• Drag & drop the product image into you Canvas. Or, select multiple products at once to bring them into the Canvas all together.

• Play around with the different search, filter, views, and sort options to see what works for you.

Want to just browse the 2D vector drawings of the products? Click on the Image icon (seen below) and toggle to Drawing.

Access Products and Templates

• Navigate to brand catalogs to find products by specific brands, or select View All Products to see all products in one view.

• After dragging a product onto the Canvas, our products allow you to toggle between three different views:

  • A scaled 2d vector drawing

  • The product image

  • The detailed product card

• You can use whichever view you need. Need all three? Copy the image so you can space plan with the scaled drawing, create a rendering with the product image or use the detailed product card to show furniture specs.

Toggle to see the three views of a product on Canoa

• Want to see full product details? Right click on the product image and select View Product Details to open the product card.

View Product Details

Embrace the power of Canoa AI to help you design:

• Need help identifying a product from an inspiration image? Select the image or product to activate Canoa AI. Click on the AI Recommendations icon in the bottom left corner of the Canvas.

• Shuffle through pages of AI recommendations and filter your search with the Filters button.

• Drag and drop a recommended product into the Canvas to continue designing.

Canoa AI recommendation icon

Duplicate, Delete, Rename:

• To duplicate a Canvas, hover on the preferred Canvas in the Dashboard, click on the three-dot menu and select Duplicate.

• To delete a Canvas, hover on the preferred Canvas, click on the three-dot menu and select Delete.

• In your Canvas dashboard, you can rename all of your Canvases. Hover on the Canvas, click on the three-dot menu and select Rename. You can also edit your Canvas name, by clicking on the Canvas title to activate the edit mode.

Use one of our Templates to get you started!

Begin with a Template

Next Steps:

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