Fülhaus vs. Havenly: Online Interior Design Compared (2026)
A side-by-side comparison of Fülhaus (Ludwig) and Havenly — cost, turnaround, what you actually receive, and who does the buying.
If you're comparing online interior design services, two names usually come up: Fülhaus — the company behind Ludwig — and Havenly. Both help you furnish a room without doing it alone, but they solve the job in genuinely different ways. The difference shows up at the moment you try to buy the furniture.
This comparison covers what each service delivers, what it costs, how long it takes, and where the work stops being theirs and starts being yours.
Quick comparison
**Fülhaus (Ludwig)** — AI interior designer. You describe the room or share inspiration from a Pinterest board, photos, or any reference; Ludwig also reads floor plans and room images to understand scale and layout. It designs against a live catalog from 500+ vendors and returns a photorealistic render where every item is a real, in-stock product with a price. Turnaround is minutes to 24 hours. You start with 20 free design credits (about 20 renders), then add $20 pay-as-you-go credits when you need more. You order everything in one place — no tracking orders across multiple suppliers — and Fulhaus handles warranty claims.
**Havenly** — human e-design. You're matched with a designer, fill out a style quiz, and receive concept boards, a floor plan, and a curated shopping list. Flat package pricing per room, typically in the low hundreds. Turnaround is usually one to three weeks with revision rounds. You place every order yourself, across every retailer on the list.
What you actually receive
This is the line that matters most, and it's the one package pages tend to blur.
A **shopping list** is a document. It names products at several retailers and leaves you to check stock, compare shipping, place five to eight separate orders, and track them individually. Every out-of-stock item sends you back to the designer or to a lookalike search.
A **shoppable room** is a design where the products are already verified against live inventory and priced, and where one checkout places all the orders. That's the shoppable room model, and it's the structural difference between Fülhaus and traditional e-design.
Cost, honestly compared
Havenly charges a design fee per room, then you pay retail for furniture. Fülhaus charges nothing to start a design — you begin with 20 free design credits (about 20 renders), then $20 pay-as-you-go credits from there. You pay for the furniture when you order, with live retail pricing from the Fulhaus vendor network.
The design fee is rarely the real cost, though. The real cost is the sourcing labour after the design lands: hours of cross-checking availability, reconciling lead times, chasing a damaged delivery through the retailer that shipped it. That's the part one-checkout fulfillment removes.
Speed
Human e-design runs on designer calendars: a brief, a wait, concepts, a revision round, another wait. One to three weeks is normal, and that's before delivery lead times.
Ludwig returns a first design in minutes and a refined, shoppable one within 24 hours, because the design step is AI and the catalog is already structured. Revisions happen in the same conversation instead of the next appointment.
Who each one is for
**Choose Havenly** if the relationship with a specific human designer is the point — you want taste, dialogue, and a person to react to your space over a few weeks.
**Choose Fülhaus (Ludwig)** if you want the finished room. It fits homeowners furnishing a space from scratch, interior designers using AI to accelerate sourcing, Airbnb hosts turning a unit around fast, and property managers furnishing at scale.
Where AI still needs a human
AI is excellent at style synthesis, layout logic, and sourcing across thousands of SKUs. It's not a substitute for a licensed trade or for judgment about a structurally unusual space. Fülhaus is a design and ordering platform — anything involving construction, electrical, or plumbing belongs with a professional on site.
The short version
Both services exist because furnishing a room by yourself is genuinely hard. Havenly answers it with a designer. Fülhaus answers it with a render that you can buy in one order.
If you want to compare the wider category first, read our roundup of the best AI interior design apps or the complete guide to AI interior design. Ready to see your room? Start a design with Ludwig — it's free to begin.