I’m building my home
From a chat brief to a buildable plan: floor plans, 9 photoreal views, electrical & plumbing layouts, a bill-of-quantities cost estimate — and a registered architect’s stamp when you need it.
See how it worksKenyan house plans · reviewed by registered architects
Design your home. See it before you build it.
Tell Chimbuko what you want — bedrooms, plot, budget — and get a real architectural plan for a Kenyan home: dimensioned floor plans, photoreal views of the actual house, and an honest cost estimate. Reviewed and stamped by registered architects when you’re ready to build.
Free to start · Pay only to download · M-Pesa & card
Dimensioned working drawingsKenyan building-code checksBORAQS-registered architects for stamping
I’m an architect or professional
Your client designs in Chimbuko; you review, download the CAD file, and get paid per stamped set in our architect network — at a rate agreed with you.
For architectsWhy brief, not buy
Stop buying other people’s house plans.
Every plan sold on the internet was drawn once — for someone else’s plot, someone else’s family — then resold to anyone who pays. Yours can start from your own brief instead: the house you actually envision, on the plot you actually own. Usually for the same money.
Off the shelf
Drawn once for a plot that does not exist, sold to whoever pays.
From your brief
Drawn to your boundaries, your orientation, your gate — the plot facts come first.
Off the shelf
One design, take it or leave it — changes happen on site, in block and mortar.
From your brief
Two free revisions while you shape it. Every change is redrawn, recorded and yours.
Off the shelf
Pretty pictures with no dimensions, no author, and no one to stamp them.
From your brief
Dimensioned working drawings, checked against Kenyan code rules, ready for a registered architect’s stamp.
How it works
Four steps, one conversation.
You describe the home. Chimbuko draws it, checks it, and shows it to you — obscured, with dimensions held back — before you pay anything.
STEP 01
Tell us about your home.
Bedrooms, plot size, family, budget — by chat, or photograph a hand sketch.
STEP 02
See your plan.
A real dimensioned floor plan, drawn to Kenyan code checks — not a sketch. Two revisions are free while you shape it.
STEP 03
See your house.
Approve the plan and get nine photoreal views — front, rear, sides, roof, aerial, two interiors and a 3D cutaway — of your actual plan.
STEP 04
Download what you need.
From a KES 3,500 floor-plan pack to a KES 29,500 architect-stamped print set. Preview everything — renders as drawn, plans obscured — before you pay a shilling.
app.chimbuko.co · 3-bed bungalow · rev-007
Three bedrooms, master ensuite, open kitchen and dining. Plot is 20 by 30 metres in Kikuyu.
drafting kitchen…
145.6 m² on one level. Master ensuite off the hall, two bedrooms sharing Bathroom 1, guest WC by the entrance so visitors never cross the bedroom wing.
Widen the main corridor and shift the master bedroom east a little.
checking corridor widths against Kenyan 1.0 m minimum…
rev-007widened main corridor to 1.2 m, shifted master bedroom east 400 mm
What you get
Start free. Pay only for what you download.
Every package includes everything in the packages to its left.
Pack 01Floor-Plan PackKES 3,500Presentation floor plan, clean and to scale, as PNG + SVG + one-sheet PDF.Pack 02Plan + ViewsKES 6,500Full PDF drawing set with all 9 photoreal views of your house.Most popularPack 03Technical PackKES 9,500Electrical layout, water & drainage schematics, and a priced bill of quantities.Pack 04Stamped SetKES 29,500Reviewed, amended and stamped by a BORAQS-registered architect. Prints delivered, DXF included.
Change your plan after renders: KES 1,500 per revision, fresh views included. AutoCAD (DXF) add-on: KES 3,500.
Proof
Real plans, drawn the proper way.
Every set in the catalogue is unretouched Chimbuko engine output — the two flagships below in full. Renders are shown as drawn; the plan sheets are obscured — dimensions and scale arrive with the purchased file.
The Technical Pack is real engineering-grade schematics and a priced bill of quantities — not marketing PDFs.
Compliance
Code-aware, not code-blind.
Every plan is checked against Kenyan residential code rules — corridor and door widths, daylight and ventilation minima, plot coverage and setbacks — with the rule cited on the drawing when something needs fixing.
And every sheet says what it is: schematic pre-design until a registered architect reviews and stamps it.
- Corridor and door widths
- Daylight and ventilation minima
- Plot coverage and setbacks
Corridor 0.8 m · minimum 1.0 mCorridor narrower than the Kenyan residential minimum of 1.0 m. Widen to fix.
Corridor 1.2 m · passedrev-007 · widened main corridor to 1.2 m, shifted master bedroom east 400 mm
Code-pack coverage is Kenya only. Every sheet is marked schematic pre-design until a registered architect reviews and stamps it.
Diaspora
Building back home, from anywhere.
Price it in dollars, pay by card, and share a view-only link with family in Kenya — they see exactly the same obscured plan and renders you see. When you’re ready, the stamped print set is delivered to your architect or fundi on the ground.
Stamped Set$229
- Visa / Mastercard, charged in USD at the day's rate
- View-only share link — no account needed to look
- Printed sets delivered in Kenya, DXF for your architect
Indicative at KES 129 to $1 · updated 16 Aug 2026 · charged at the day's rate.
Your plan is one conversation away.
Free to start. Two revisions and two preview views before you pay anything.