Each area has its own material. Click an area to select it, then drag its corners (every corner is editable) or pick its floor below.
Furniture
Add furniture
Visualization only — not priced.
Walls
Replace cabinet
Customer feedback
Customer photo
Print plan
Pick what prints. A room still prints the whole drawing, with everything outside that room greyed — so nobody prices a wall that was quietly left off.
Walls
Tap a wall to find it in the plan. “Hidden now” means see-through took it out of the way for this view.
Check the walls
Import a room scan
A RoomPlan scan from an iPhone or iPad Pro (.json). It builds the walls, doors, windows and ceiling. Scanned measurements are for the layout — check the walls before ordering.
Subcontractors & bids
Trades on this job
Selections
Job schedule
Set every remaining hinge:
Sign to accept this agreement
Sign here — draw with your finger or mouse
Counter-sign as authorized representative
Sign here as the authorized representative
Wall Elevation
Customer Projects
No projects yet. Click + New Project to start your first one.
Customer
Address
Stage
Modified
Cabinets
Settings
Cabinet vendor (current project)
Which company this job's cabinets come from. You can still place parts from the other company — Blue Valley carries no decorative hoods or hardware, so those come from KCD — and the order splits into one purchase order per company.
Data Management
Load the Blue Valley catalog, export your projects, or reset the current project.
Replaces your current catalog with prices from a new Excel file.
Hide all chrome — fullscreen canvas for showing the customer.
Save a backup of every project on this device.
Restore projects from a backup file.
B4Y Sync account
Sign in to sync your projects across your own devices through your B4Y server — with version history and a record of who changed what. Your work always stays on this device too; signing out never deletes anything.
Not signed in
Advanced — sync server address
Leave blank to use the B4Y-managed sync server. Only change this if you run your own.
Danger zone
Permanently deletes your account from your B4Y Sync server. Your local device keeps its files either way.
Recent activity
Every push, delete and restore across your team's projects — owners only.
Cloud Sync (Google Drive)
Sync your projects to Google Drive so they're available on every device — and survive if you reinstall the app.
Not connected
Advanced — Drive folder name + OAuth Client ID
Default: App Projects/B4Y Kitchen Designer/Saved Projects. Use / to nest folders — the app reuses these exact folders in your Drive (it no longer creates its own). If you rename or move them in Drive, update this field to match.
Only change this if you want to use your own Google Cloud project. Default is the B4Y-managed project.
Catalog list prices
Switch to your view to see this job's numbers and your defaults.
This job
Grand Total
Delivery is not charged yet: this job has no cabinets. It is added when the first cabinet is placed. A lumber-yard delivery goes in Exterior / addition materials or a line you type.
Doors & windows — this job (blank = your default)
Door type
Install
Hinged door
Double / French pair
Bifold
Bypass
Pocket door
Exterior door
Garage entry door
Prehung door, resized opening
Change work
Per opening
New header (bigger door / window)
Reframe the rough opening
Infill framing (smaller window)
Siding cut back (bigger opening)
Siding added (smaller opening)
Brick cut back, new lintel (bigger opening)
Brick added (smaller opening)
Stairs — this job (blank = your default)
Advanced — builder multipliers
Vendor sales tax
Vendor import tariff
Estimated profit
Your defaults
Business-wide defaults for new jobs. The job that is open keeps its own numbers (above) — "Use my defaults on this job" copies these onto it. Saved to this browser.
On subcontractor work — an awarded bid with no markup of its own bills at this.
Blue Valley's flat per-cabinet assembly charge.
The cabinet company's freight charge. Editable per project. A new job is charged it once it has a cabinet; a lumber-yard delivery goes in Exterior / addition materials or a line you type.
Billed when material the customer supplies is late, wrong or short. Editable per job.
New jobs figure this on what the vendor charges you (cabinets, parts and freight, at cost) and fold it into the cabinet line — never on your markup, and never shown to the customer. Labor is not taxed (capital improvement).
Catalog prices are already your Blue Valley Builder cost — leave at 1.0 unless you have a separate negotiated discount on top.
Same as above — default 1.0.
Custom paint colour (Blue Valley)
Once per job that has any cabinet in a custom paint colour.
Times the cabinets in a custom colour.
Of the custom-colour cabinets' Blue Valley cost.
Blue Valley's charge for painting cabinets a colour they don't stock. It is a cabinet cost: marked up and taxed like the cabinets, and inside the customer's Cabinets line. Blank = not set: not charged, and Design Health reminds you.
Countertop extras
Extra on every foot of countertop with a beveled edge. Eased is the standard edge — no extra.
Extra on every foot of countertop with a bullnose edge.
The stone panel that turns down to the floor at an open end — its depth × 36″ high.
These apply to every job, now and new, unless This job has its own. Blank = not set: that extra is not charged, and Design Health reminds you.
Deck / porch tear-out
Times the sq ft of a deck, porch or patio marked Demolish or Rebuild. Offered as one tap beside Removal and Hauling — it adds to what is there, never replaces it. Blank = not set: nothing is offered.
Doors & windows
Every job uses these unless that door / window has its own price (typed in the door itself) or This job has its own rate. A box applies as soon as you leave it. Tagged "researched" = a Raleigh-area price researched 2026-10-13 — type your own to replace it; blank goes back to the estimate. Installed work is not taxed and has no markup.
Doors
Type
Unit price
Install
Hinged door, hollow core
Hinged door, solid core
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Double / French pair
Bifold
Bypass (with track)
Pocket door (frame kit)
Exterior — entry, patio slider, dutch
catalog
Garage entry, fire-rated / solid core
Storm door
catalog
Prehung door set in a resized opening
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Door unit price: a door normally uses the catalog price for its size. These fill that door's box when you buy it prehung (Replacing) or mark it a garage entry door. Barn, cased and overhead garage doors use the catalog.
Windows
Size
Unit price
Install, new
Install, replacement
Up to 24×36
Up to 36×48
Up to 36×60
Larger / twin
Windows: filled into a window when you switch Charge on (only into an empty box). A window already charged keeps its numbers — change one in the window itself.
Change work — replacing with a different size
Work
Per opening
New header (bigger door / window)
Reframe the rough opening
Infill framing (smaller window)
Siding cut back (bigger opening)
Siding added (smaller opening)
Brick cut back, new lintel (bigger opening)
Brick added (smaller opening)
This device only — not part of the company standard. A signed job keeps the numbers it was signed with.
Stairs
Exterior stairs on the drawing bill risers × (labor + material for the stair's type), the handrail per LF on each railed side, and a concrete landing pad when the stair lands on the ground. Interior stairs: "+ Add interior stair line" under Pricing detail ▸ Labor. Tagged "researched" = a Raleigh–Cary selling price researched 2026-10-15 — type your own to replace it. A signed job keeps the numbers it was signed with.
Rates
Every rate the app prices with.
Countertop (current project)
The countertop material is chosen in Design ▸ Countertop (all counters, a room, or one run). Its prices are set here.
Every countertop run in the main material bills its linear feet at this price. A lump-sum price for the whole countertop is in Pricing detail ▸ Countertop.
Other countertop materials on this job
Brand Customization
Customize your company logo, colors, and name. Saved to this browser.
Project state tools
Diagnostics and cleanup for this project. Use these if a wall, cabinet, or panel seems stuck or invisible.
List every wall in the project — including ones you can't see in the 2D plan. Find and delete ghost walls.
Scan and remove orphan placements, zombie walls, and other inconsistent state. Shows what will be removed before applying.
Display Preferences
Defaults for how the app looks when you launch it. (Saved to this browser.)
On a screen between 1025 and 1279 px wide — an iPad
held landscape, or a small laptop window — the catalog and pricing panels
start as rails and open over the drawing, so the kitchen keeps the room.
Tick this to keep them open beside it, the way a wide desktop does.
Ceiling height (current project)
How tall the walls render in 3D. Standard residential is 8' (96"). Modern builds often use 9' (108") or 10' (120"). Changing this doesn't move any cabinets — just adjusts the wall height in the 3D view.
Residential (one- and two-family dwellings) uses NEC 2017 + NC Residential Code. Commercial uses NEC 2020 + NC Building Code (Assembly A-2 for a restaurant / bar).
° clockwise from the top of the plan0 means north is straight up the screen, 90 means it points right, 180 down, 270 left. Only you see the arrow: it is not on printed plans or the customer's link.
Rules differ by town: tick only what your town counts. The app assumes nothing. Items that overlap are counted twice. The house footprint is measured to the outside of the walls.
Wall cabinet top line (current project)
Height of the TOP of your wall cabinets off the floor. Every wall cabinet aligns its top to this line, so shorter cabinets (over a range hood, fridge, or sink) automatically hang higher and stay flush on top. Standard is 84″ (36″ counter + 18″ backsplash + 30″ cabinet). Use 90″ for 36″ cabinets, 96″ for 42″ to the ceiling.
Common: 84″ (30″ cabs), 90″ (36″ cabs), 96″ (42″ cabs to 8' ceiling). A cabinet you've manually moved keeps its custom height until you tap "Align top".
Stacked upper cabinets (current project)
For tall walls. Turn this on and any wall cabinet gets a “Stack a cabinet on top” action, which places a second cabinet directly on its top. The app suggests the tallest one that fits and picks glass when there is a glass version — you can swap it for anything else afterwards.
Appliance finish (current project)
Default color for all appliances (fridge, range, dishwasher, hood, oven, microwave). You can override any single appliance in the 3D view: tap it and pick a color from the bottom toolbar.
Dimension rows
Moved. The four dimension rows now live in one place — the Measure & Annotate tab on the layout toolbar — so a toggle can no longer disagree with itself. The device-wide override is still below in Advanced ▸ "Always show cabinet dimensions".
Advanced
Power-user actions and diagnostics.
Run this if the app seems stuck on an old version. Your projects, brand settings, and preferences are preserved.
Like Force Update, but ALSO clears UI preferences (collapsed panels, last filter, last zoom, display checkboxes). Your projects + brand settings are still preserved.
Wall corners
Inside measurements
Rooms
Shows a small overlay (bottom-left) with pointer-event rate, handler time, frame time, and active pointer types — for diagnosing input lag on a specific device. Also available by adding ?debug=input to the URL.
Keeps the cabinet width dimension rows (base & wall) on the plan even when the Dimensions toggle is OFF. The window/door openings and overall wall-length rows still follow the toggle. Saved to this browser (applies to every project).
Ordering rulesHow the Order review decides a line is incomplete. These describe the cabinet line you buy from, not the kitchen you're drawing, so they're saved to this browser and apply to every project.Anything at or under this width is treated as a single door and needs a Left/Right hinge side before the order can be exported. Blue Valley's 24" boxes ship single-door, so 24 is the default — raise or lower it if your line differs.
Kitchen build defaultsYour standards for the Auto layout builder. These shape what auto-layout generates; you can still move or resize anything by hand afterward. Saved to this browser (applies to every project).Sets the fridge and its over-fridge wall cabinet width. (30" is not in the Blue Valley catalog.)Builds the over-fridge cabinet as a 24"-deep (pantry-depth) tall cabinet reaching the upper-cab top line, so the fridge reads built-in.Cabinets start this far from a door casing; move closer by hand anytime.
Sharing & hosting
How this device publishes customer links.
The upload key lets this device publish share links (AR / design / 360°). Stored only in this browser. Enter a new key only if publishing fails — leaving it blank keeps your current key.
Privacy & data
What leaves this device, and what protects it.
Device lock password
Recovery code
Price PINRequired on this device: returning from Customer view to the Designer (cost/margin) view asks for it — so a customer holding the iPad can't see your prices. Each person makes their own. Stored only in this browser (as a hash).
Auto-lock when idle
If the iPad sits untouched this long, the app switches itself to Customer view —
pricing hidden, cost settings locked — so an unattended screen never shows your margin.
Returning needs your PIN. Needs a PIN to be set; off when set to “Never”.
Where your projects are stored
Projects live in this browser on this device. They are not on a server
unless you turn on Google Drive sync, which copies them to your own
Drive account — B4Y never holds them. Clearing this browser's data, or a device
failure, loses anything not synced or exported, so keep a backup either way.
Takes you to the Data tab, where those controls live.
Team
Invite people to your B4Y Sync account, choose what they can do, and manage their access. Owner-only.
About B4Y Designer
Version:v37.1220
Catalog: Blue Valley Cabinets 2026 (523 items) — used with written authorization
Every wall in the project, including ones not visible in the 2D plan.
Each row shows its dimensions, position, type, and how many cabinets
are attached. Click Delete to remove a wall and all
cabinets attached to it (reversible with Ctrl+Z).
Auto layout
Auto-fill your walls following standard kitchen rules — corners first, sink
under the window, dishwasher beside it, range and fridge zoned, then base and
wall runs filled with real catalog cabinets.
Walls
Tap a wall to flash it on the plan. Tip: select walls on the plan first, then use “ Selected”.
Style
Wall cabinets
Appliances
Appliance walls
Auto lets the rules decide. Pick a wall per appliance, or pin an exact spot on the plan.
Existing cabinets
Fills your walls with real priced cabinets — one ↶ undoes it all.
Brand Settings
Logo
App icon (square, ~256px)
Proposal PDF logo (wide, ~600×200px)
PNG/SVG with transparent background recommended. JPG works too — gray backgrounds will be auto-removed. Leave PDF logo blank to use the icon in proposals.
Colors
Changes are saved to this browser. Click "Export JSON" to copy your branding to other devices.
Company name
Catalog exceptions
Design health
Import survey points
Paste the surveyor's points, or choose the file (.csv, .txt). Each line is a point: easting, northing, elevation — usually with a point number first.
Match two points
Pick two survey points that are also places on your plan — house corners are best. The app turns and shifts the survey to fit.
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Revisions
Rename project
Move into customer
Possible typos
These words don't match the kitchen/cabinet dictionary or anything in your live
catalog. Fix the ones that are really typos — a name, a place or a SKU is fine
to leave alone.
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