SketchUp is excellent and the learning curve is low. Search on this site and you should find posts from me and others on how to make it more convenient to use.
The nice thing about SU is that not only is it free, but there are thousands of free components out there in the Warehouse for furniture, cabinets, light fixtures, etc. that can be used to play with your house design.
The only real issue will be printing to scale unless you buy the pro version, which comes with an additional program called LayOut. But if you draw a graphic scale with lines of known length on the ground near your plan, you can use that to adjust your print size percentage until it's pretty accurately to scale.