BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS INTERIOR DESIGNER BUNDLE-IN (WIN 98,ME,NT,2000,XP,VISTA)

by Chief Architect

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds
• ASIN: B000AA87A0
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 8, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,257 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
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Product Description

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.

Product Description

INTERIOR HOME DESIGN SOFTWARE
Design and decorate your dream home today with Better Homes and Gardens Interior Designer. Based on the top-rated Home Designer, it provides even more tools for interior home design projects including: Interior Design, Remodeling, Decorating, Kitchens & Baths, and Floor & Space Planning. Quickly place and arrange walls, windows, doors, cabinets, choose colors, place furniture, create kitchens and baths. Design and visualize your home with 3D Models and Virtual Tours. – It’s Easy, and It’s Fun!

INTERIOR DESIGN

• Exclusive Design Planning Center for expert design advice from Better Homes and Gardens. magazine editors
• Choose from over 500 sample plans, use the House Wizard\231, or create your own custom design
• The Better Homes and Gardens. Design Inspiration Galley contains photos by room type for design and inspiration ideas
• Design and visualize with 3D Models and Virtual Tours
• Choose from pre-designed house style templates or create your own custom home interior designs

ROOM DECORATING

• Point-and-click to choose from thousands of colors and textures or create your own with Color Chooser\231
• Discover the secrets that architects and designers use to create beautiful homes
• Choose from a Library of more than 5,000 items for your designs including lighting fixtures, furniture, and window coverings
• Add all the accessories for your designs to create that perfect look and feel for your rooms
• Material Painter\231 lets you to apply paint, wallpaper, and more

KITCHENS & BATHS

• The Design Planning Center provides expert planning and design advice to help you with your well-planned kitchen or bath
• Choose from several pre-designed kitchen islands or create your own custom cabinet combinations with the Cabinet Designer\231 tools
• It's easy to draw walls, drop in cabinets, place appliances, fixtures, kitchens islands, add dimensions, place, and size furniture to create that perfect kitchen design
• Visualize your countertops\226 choose from Formica., Corian., Granite, or your own custom color
• Plan the layout of your bathroom with custom cabinets, sinks, showers, or garden tubs

FLOOR & SPACE PLANNING

• Design in a 2D Plan View\231 - quickly place and arrange walls, windows, and doors on Virtual Graph Paper\231 to create accurately scaled floor plans
• Place and resize furniture to help in space and room planning
• House Wizard\231 will help with the basic design layout with drag-and-drop simplicity
• Doll House\231 view will help you determine the flow of the room
• Over 30 Free How-To Tutorial Videos
  
  

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wasting time, January 9, 2007

By 

Hugo Bursztein "Retired Techno" (Sunny South Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS INTERIOR DESIGNER BUNDLE-IN (WIN 98,ME,NT,2000,XP,VISTA) (CD-ROM)

If you have lots of time to waste, this program will take it all. I did not find it friendly at all. I've yet to produced anything even close to the pictures they show in their box ! For under $70 bucks, it has a lot of features which I enjoyed, such as the true 3D modeling feature and the different camera's views. I would consider the output of this software to be more as 'sketches' than as a final presentation. I consider myself an average computer user, so may be it's all my fault, I don't know.
I coud not draw a spiral staircase, vaulted ceilings was hopeless, changing the roof peaks and valleys, forget it !
A better sofware is beyond my means, so at least I ended up with good 'sketches'.
Happy playing !