Trading Spaces

by AcTiVision

Product Features

• Design software for re-designing your living space
• View real hints and tips from the TV series, Trading Spaces
• Choose from 1000s of fabrics, colors, furniture styles, and fixtures
• 3D virtual tour for each step of the creation
• Print out plans, materials lists, and get money-saving advice

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0001KJOIS
• Item model number: 31909
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 1, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,526 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Are you like the millions of Americans who have come to love Trading Spaces and have jumped on the do-it-yourself bandwagon? Or are you in the process of re-doing a room in your home, but are having a hard time visualizing the end results? Either way, Trading Spaces Design Companion is right for you. Simply start by entering the dimensions of the room you would like to re-do, then start designing. Choose from 1000s of textures fabrics, colors, furniture styles, and fixtures. Out of ideas? Then simply choose the hints and tips section to view rooms shown on past Trading Spaces TV shows. Once your room is complete, take a 3D virtual tour. From here you can print out your design, estimate materials needs and costs, or share your designs with other DIY-ers online.

Features:

• Choose from two different modes: free-design mode, where you create a room from the ground up, or challenge mode, where you redesign an actual Trading Spaces room from the hit TV series
• View real hints and tips from the TV series
• Start with your own room dimensions or from a sample room
• Add distinctive design details such as staircases, fireplaces, plus hundreds of other architectural elements, like crown moldings
• Position electrical and plumbing fixtures, just point and click
• Choose from 1000s of textures, fabrics, colors, furniture styles, and fixtures
• Share and compare your newly designed room with others online or with actual rooms from the TV series
• Print out plans, materials lists, and get money-saving advice
• Very user-friendly--simple-to-use, point-and-click interfaces, so jump right in and start designing
• View your new home or room during each step of the creation, in a 3D virtual tour

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very powerful for the price, July 13, 2005

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R. Gallaher "man_rob" (Baltimore, MD, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Trading Spaces (CD-ROM)

I was very pleasantly surprised at just how good this software turned out to be. It's easy to use, but still very functional for coming up with home interior designs. Although it is distributed by Activion, it is really based on the same software as the "Better Homes & Gardens Home Design" program.

Having the ablity to see a decorating idea on the computer does make a difference when designing your home. The software enabled me to adjust my designs based on the difference of what I thought something would look like in my minds eye, and how it will actually look in my home, via the 3D recreation. Best $20 I spent in a long time.

I have not gotten to the "Design Challenge" game part of the program. I've been having too much fun re-doing my own house.

40 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT way to virtually re-do a room in your home!, November 7, 2004

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Christine M. - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trading Spaces (CD-ROM)

Has anyone tried the Trading Spaces Design Companion by Activision? I bought it to help me with decorating my new home. I've only just begun to play with the program, but so far so good! It really does help to put things into perspective. I love the fact that I am able to lay out the floor plan to my home, place our funiture and fixtures into the floor plan, and then play with the colour / texture options to see whether we would like the transformation or not. It sure beats experimenting with our real home - it's less costly this way, and we get to try out all sorts of things to see what our home would look like if we changed things this way and that.

3.0 out of 5 stars Not Too Professional, December 19, 2011

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Sandra J. Long "BoomerBabe" (Raleigh, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Trading Spaces (CD-ROM)

I wanted to use this with my work in interior design but was disappointed. It would be fine for someone who enjoys designing as a hobby or just learning.