Amazon.com 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.
What's in the box: Design software on CD-ROM, instruction booklet.
Should be called CAD for Dummies....November 22, 2005 B. Hartford(Massachusetts - United States) 95 out of 99 found this review helpful
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 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.
Interior Design EvalJanuary 15, 2007 L. Thompson 18 out of 18 found this review helpful
I used this application to design an addition to our house. It was very easy to use;it has an extensive library of furniture, window styles, flooring, etc. You can change the dimensions of whats in the library as well as colors, finishes, materials. It made it possible to view what the room would look like with our existing furniture and helped determine what size the room would have to be. I took my laptop and printouts to the architect and builder, and the room looks great!
Easy to use!January 13, 2008 D. C Frezza(Belle Mead, NJ United States) 9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I designed a bathroom and a kitchen remodel using this software. The bathroom is completely done and the images from this software really helped. There were no surprises. We did change around the plan many times before construction, but after looking at the images we were very sure of what we were getting. The kitchen will be started soon. I have been trying to imagine the kitchen layout (not a big change) for about 8 years. This software allowed me to move things around easy, then see a picture of it from any angle. One big help is the web site has a forum. If you need to find out how to... show a 5' square skylight, with a beam in the middle, and a ceiling fan hanging from that beam... some one on the forum has already done it. Just search for what you need and a step buy step description is right there.
Interir DesignerOctober 11, 2007 debbiedodecorating(Coto De Caza, CA) 8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I am an interior designer of 25 years and have always drawn things by hand.Finally I was tired of it and wanted something that looked more professional and that I could draw in a flash.I purchased this hoping it would be really simple.I spent a few hours on it and got the hang of it. Actually it's more than I need. My 9 year old daughter saw what I was doing and wanyet to make a floorplan of her bedroom herself. She got the hang of it in 5 minutes.
Perfect for what I needed and such a great price.
VERY Useful!May 18, 2007 B. Design(WA State, USA) 9 out of 10 found this review helpful
I own an interior design firm and this has been a very fun tool for us to use. It's a quick way to share ideas with a client and so easy to electronically send. Worth the minimal investment for this software!
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