Better Homes and Gardens Interior Designer

Better Homes and Gardens Interior Designer Price: $42.99    Features Powerful, easy-to-use interior home design software Includes interior design, remodeling, decorating, and floor/space planning Quickly place and arrange walls, windows, doors, and cabinets Choose colors, place furniture, and create kitchens and baths Design and visualize with realistic 3D models and virtual tours Product Description Interior Designer is loaded with tools for decorating, remodeling, interior design, kitchens & baths, space planning and more. You can quickly place and arrange walls, windows, doors, cabinets, choose colors, place furniture, create kitchens and baths. The exclusive Design Planning Center offers expert "how-to" Design Advice. Change colors and textures for walls, floors, countertops, and more with Material Painter. Point-and-click to choose from thousands of colors and textures or create your own with Color Chooser. Design and visualize your home with 3D Models and Virtual Tours. Overview of features: Inspire your designs with the Better Homes and Gardens Design Planning Center Create a Virtual Walk-Through of your home design Design and visualize in 3D Choose from a Library of more than 3,000 items for your designs Generate an Automatic Material List for project cost estimating Includes over 30 How-To training videos 3D Models and Virtual Tours: See dramatic 3D Dollhouse Views of your designs. Produce realistic images of your designs and remodeling projects The Glass House View provides a full translucent view of the interior and exterior, simulatenously Doll House View, a 3D view without the roof,provides a very effective overview tool for space planning to determine room size, furniture placement and traffic flow Create and take a Virtual Walk-Through of your house Take individual pictures (renders) of your design that can be saved in any image format Visualize your home with day and night views Print and assemble a scale model of your design with Model Maker Generate shadows from the sun for realistic 3D views Design Tools: Use the Better Homes and Gardens Design Planning Center to help guide your designs with decorating guidelines, tips and advice Over 500 sample plans to inspire your design Create a virtual look and feel of the design before it is built with actual colors, wallpaper, flooring, furniture, windows and window treatments Material Painter allows you to apply materials to individual items. For example, change the counter top to Granite, change the cabinets to Cherry Wood, or paint the walls with your favorite color Define your own lighting and electrical plan Advanced, precise, and easy enough for anyone to use. Building Tools: Choose from 6 Better Homes and Gardens style templates The Build House Wizard provides a quick way to layout adjoining rooms to help create your design or remodeling project Quickly place and arrange walls, windows, doors, cabinets and architectural objects from a library of over 3,000 items to create a 3D model in minutes Automatically generate a Materials List into a spreadsheet for complete project estimating Complete automatic building tools for roof generation, framing, dimensioning, and foundations Easily design kitchens with plans and 3D layouts Create complete customized cabinets with drag-and-drop Detail cabinets with color, wood type, countertop material, door/drawer styles, open shelving, backsplash, crown molding, millwork, and cabinet hardware including hinges, handles and pulls Plan Check - automatically validates the design against standard building principles Tools to take you from conception to reality.

Plan it, see it, make it happen.

Included with this Product
Design software on CD-ROM, instruction booklet.

Product Description
Better Homes&Gardens Interior Designer is your all-in-one solution for interior home design projects. Start designing all-new interiors for your home, redecorate rooms and create the kitchens and bathrooms of your dreams. Whether you need architectural tools to build or remodel a complete room, or just want to do some interior design -- even just floor and space planning -- you have all the tools you need right here. Decorate with wall coverings, add molding or create curved and angled walls Generate roofs, dimensioning, foundations, and custom floor&ceiling heights Create split-entry, curved and multi-level staircase creation One-click automatic dimensions -- automatically calculate square footage by room, for the entire plan



Reader Reviews
I was a little skeptical about this program - until I tried it last evening for the first time. I am really impressed..... I did not even use the tutorial before I dove in and tried to play a bit. I created a single room in less than 3 minutes, using simple walls, doors, windows, and a fireplace. Adding flooring and coloured walls was so easy it was almost sinful! LOL I am most anxious to do more with the program and learn about all its capabilities. Today I watched the tutorial and was really surprised at how much this program can do! I am entering into an interior design program in January 06 and wanted to "play" with the CAD software in advance. I was really happy and impressed with the simplicity of the Better Homes and Gardens version as the idea of CAD seemed intimidating. Not any more.... I whole-heartedly recommend this program to everyone who is considering designing their interiors or for students of interior design who have not yet attempted any CAD programs. Comment | Permalink | (Report this)