Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer 8 0
Sunday, March 15th, 2009Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer 8 0
Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer 8.0 can help you with the basics to design, remodel or add landscaping to your home. With the Design Planning Center’s expert design tips and a library of over 4,000 items you can create your perfect design. There are 500 sample plans all of which allow you to create a virtual walk-through of your home. The program enables you to easily visualize your project in 3D.
The basics for designing, remodeling or adding landscaping to your home. |
Home Designer makes it easy to see and visualize your design ideas on your next remodeling project. |
Create and take a Virtual Tour of your design. |
Fun & Easy Home Design Software
Home Design Software
- Floor and space planning–use to size and visualize rooms for remodeling or redecorating
- Quickly place and arrange walls, windows, doors, furniture, create decks and landscaping
- Easy to use automated building tools for roofs, stairs, framing, cabinets and more
- Generate various styles of Automatic roofs for your home
- Automatically generate a complete spreadsheet for your project costs, broken down by category. Calculate the amount of lumber for your deck or concrete required for your new patio.
- Use House Wizard to choose your rooms and then drag them to your design layout configuration to generate a floor plan
- Choose from over 500 sample floor plans to help generate ideas
Remodeling Software
- Move a wall, change a color, add a room, redesign a kitchen and estimate the costs–all before you build. Home Designer makes it easy to see and visualize your design ideas on your next remodeling project.
- Material Painter–point-and-click colors for walls, floors, countertops and more
- Use the Color Chooser to create the perfect color for your walls, floors and more
- Insert doors, windows and skylights with One-Click
- Design Planning Center–expert design tips from the editors of Better Homes and Gardens? magazines
- Create the Virtual Look and Feel Before You Remodel!
- Automatically generate a cost estimation and material list for your project
- Assign costs for materials: descriptions, quantities, unit costs and more
- Materials automatically update as you design
Interior Design Software
- Material Eyedropper–choose your own or manufacturer colors and textures
- Material Painter? lets you apply colors and materials quickly and easily
- Choose from thousands of colors and textures or create your own materials using a digital photograph
- Generate new floors automatically based on your current floor plan design
- Drag and drop thousands of items from the Library Browser. Choose great looking furnishings including tables, chairs, sofas and more. Easily change the size, color or material.
- Use the Better Homes and Gardens Design Planning Center to help guide your designs with guidelines, tips and expert advice
- Create and take a Virtual Tour of your design
- Cabinet Designer Tools–choose from over 1,000 cabinets–customize using unlimited styles and colors
Over 500 realistic landscaping plants in the library to choose from. |
Use House Wizard to choose your rooms and then drag them to your design layout configuration to generate a floor plan. |
Deck and Landscaping Software
- Create custom landscaping plans in 2D and 3D
- Over 500 realistic landscaping plants in the library to choose from
- Use the Deck Designer tools to quickly design the layout of your deck
- Design single or multi-level decks including free-standing, tiered and post-and-beam
- Create driveways, sidewalks and pathways
- Use the automatic tools for adding stairs, deck railings and roofs
- Define decking materials, place and arrange outdoor furniture to correctly size your deck or patio
Get Started Quickly and Easily
- The Quick Startup Options Guide will help you begin with “How-To” tutorials based on the type of your project
- Better Homes and Gardens Design Style Templates
- Exclusive Design Planning Center for up-to-date How-To and Design Tips from the experts to help in your design process
- Includes Step-by-Step Tutorial DVD Packed with over 25 easy “step-by-step” tutorial training videos that will quickly get you started on your next outdoor design project
Design Tools
- Advanced 3D camera tools: Glass House, Doll House and Final View for truly photo-realistic 3D images
- Choose from several home style of templates–Colonial, Arts & Crafts, Traditional and more to start your next home project
- Design in 2D and 3D. 3D Views are automatic–just point-and-click with the camera tool–you can even use Glass House view to see through surfaces.
- Create a Virtual Tour–by recording your camera movements
- Visualize designs with day and night views
- Generate shadows from the sun for realistic 3D views
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Great!!
This program was delivered directly to our daughter for her birthday. She was absolutely delighted to upgrade her home designs while retaining her previous ones. She was especially thrilled with some of the features she didn’t expect it to have. It arrived on her birthday, even though we ordered it on short notice. Thanks for making her birthday special!
4 Stars Easy To Use
I purchased this product as a replacement for my old, OLD 3D Home Architect. Having used software of this type before, it was very easy to use right out of the box.
It comes with a tutorial which may be helpful to someone who is not familiar with how to use different features, but I was more impressed with the online Home Talk user forums. If there is a question as to how to accomplish something, chances are it has been discussed there.
Overall, I find that Home Designer software is a much more stable program than my old 3D Home Architect; (it hasn’t ‘crashed’ yet) and gives me plenty of options to play with.
Although this version is nowhere close to the Pro version, it its ease of use and attractive pricing make this a good choice for anyone who wants to “play” with changes to a structure or landscape.
4 Stars its ok for a house design program
it not as nice as autocadd but the price is right
easy to use so far.
