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Amazon.com Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Suite 7.0 is software developed by Chief Architect for home enthusiast remodeling and home design projects. This software helps you design the home of your dreams with 3D models, virtual tours, even more library items, easy to use building templates, a new Plant Encyclopedia and landscaping features with over 1,000 plant terrain and outdoor items. Combining the leading-edge home design software with the consumer design editorial expertise of Better Homes and Gardens, Home Designer Suite 7.0 is the best software tool you will find anywhere for home and remodeling design.
No matter your level of design expertise, Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Suite 7.0 will get you moving toward a stunning visualized design of your dream home. The Getting Started Tutorial will guide you through basic design projects. Watch more than 30 videos for step-by-step instructions. Select from over 1,500 sample home plans or use the House Wizard to design your house. You can create your dream home today with the look and feel before it is built with styles, colors, wallpaper, flooring, and materials. Plus, you can quickly place and arrange walls, windows, doors, cabinets, and architectural objects from a library of over 4,300 items to create a 3D Model in minutes. Use the Library content to size your rooms, evaluate traffic flow, and create a visual model of your design.
Create your Dream Home Design your dream home today with Home Designer. Quickly place and arrange walls, windows, doors, cabinets, choose colors, place furniture, create decks and landscaping. Design and visualize your home with 3D Models and Virtual Tours.
Choose from Design Templates With Home Designer, you can quickly place and arrange walls, windows, doors, cabinets, choose colors, place furniture, create decks and landscaping.
Powerful Home Design Software Enjoy the same building and design tools the professionals use--Home Designer is made for the home enthusiasts. Powerful building tools like automatic roof generation, stairs, decks, framing, CAD, dimensioning, realistic 3D models, and Plan Check makes it easy for anyone to use.
Create Floor Plans Select from over 1,500 sample home plans or use the House Wizard to design your house.
Design Tools With the program's Planning Center, you can use Material Painter to create a virtual look and feel of the design before it is built. You can test your design with actual colors, wallpaper, flooring, furniture, windows, and even window treatments.
Building Tools You'll have complete automatic building tools for roof generation, framing, dimensioning, foundations, and more at your fingertips. You can even automatically generate a materials list for project cost estimating. The software includes a complete set of CAD (Computer Aided Design) tools to detail designs and Plan Check, which automatically validates the design against the most current building standards.
Product Description Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Suite 7.0 is software developed by Chief Architect for home enthusiast remodeling and home design projects. This software helps you design the home of your dreams with 3D models, virtual tours, even more library items, easy to use building templates, a new Plant Encyclopedia and landscaping features with over 1,000 plant terrain and outdoor items. Combining the leading-edge home design software with the consumer design editorial expertise of Better Homes and Gardens, we have produced the best software tool for home and remodeling design.
Fantastic for amateur home designersSeptember 14, 2007 Stephen Howard(USA) 37 out of 37 found this review helpful
I bought Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Suite 7.0 because we were planning to remodel our house.
When I installed the software, the first thing I did was run around for ten minutes with a tape measure and sketchpad so I could set up the initial floor plan in the software. After another ten minutes I had the floor plan in the computer.
Over the next three evenings, my wife and I experimented with tearing out walls, moving walls, adding walls, extending the size of the house, adding rooms etc etc. The software allowed us to put in all fixtures and fittings - showers, tub, kitchen sink, fridge, stove and more. There are several camera view options too, so you can explore how the home will look with the changes you make. Fantastic!
The software cost less than $100, but we think it saved us thousands by allowing us to experiment with design decisions without having to go build them to discover they would not work - from positioning the toilet and shower in one bathroom, to the need to add an extra 5 feet to the laundry room.
Once the builders started the work, we were able to tweak the design as we went to take into account necessary changes - supporting walls we missed in our ignorance, changind door widths, locations, new colours for the walls, different floor coverings etc. Changes never took more than a few minutes.
Soon we plan to build a whole new house from the ground up. We will be able to use this software to make our own plans and designs before handing them over to an architect or draftsman to create a blueprint and fix the rough edges.
If you are experienced using any sort of design or drawing software, this package will be easy for you to use. For the inexperienced, there are helpful tutorials and videos. With a little patience, anyone should be able to use this software.
My best software purchase in YEARS!
So Much FunJanuary 2, 2007 Megan Whitmer(Roy, Utah Usa) 25 out of 26 found this review helpful
I got this for my husband for Christmas. We are in the beginning stages of planning our perfect home. This is so easy to use for the novice home designer. The tutorials were easy to watch and understand. I love all the sample homes and plans that give us tons of ideas. I would recommend this to anyone who is trying to plan their perfect home. It is completely enjoyable
Great Design Program!!February 1, 2007 BAH(Long Island, NY USA) 18 out of 21 found this review helpful
I really enjoy using this program ever since I caught this type of program being used on those television designing shows. I was shocked how user friendly it was and was impressed by the features. I learned so quickly from the book and user tutorial. This would really help anyone who is trying to find ways to decorate their rooms. I'm sure the more expensive Designer Professional is far better but at the Suite's price, it can't be beat.
Stunning!October 6, 2006 Valeri Morgan 70 out of 91 found this review helpful
Wow, this software is unbelievable! You can completely remodel a room with just a few click of a mouse. It is affordable especially when you consider the paycheck of an interior architect and the suggestions are excellent. It is easier to do and decide everything while sitting at your computer instead of feeling frustrated during the process. It is quite difficult to come up with exactly your dream house but this software makes it possible quickly and easily. Highly recommended.
awesome product for the price!October 22, 2007 B. Solbrig(Huntsville, AL) 9 out of 10 found this review helpful
this is a great product for the price! very easy to use, and they have a great web site where other users answer questions and give you great advice and tips/tricks. unless you want to spend $400 or more for more sophisticated software, i would completely recommend this.
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