3D Home Interiors Deluxe 2 (Jewel Case)

by Riverdeep

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006IS86
• Item model number: 381158
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 13, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,426 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Picture a brand-new look for every room in your home. With 3D Home Interiors Deluxe it's easy. Draw your room's dimensions or customize one of over 30 professionally decorated Designer Rooms. These professionally designed interiors will inspire you!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

178 of 180 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Too Limited to be Useful, February 19, 2003

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The Feisty Curmudgeon (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 3D Home Interiors Deluxe 2 (Jewel Case) (CD-ROM)

3D Home Interiors is supposed to allow the user to "Imagine and Create Beautiful Interiors," but unfortunately, there isn't enough here to allow would-be decorators to use much imagination, and the whole thing is rather complicated to use.

I found it easy enough to get started, drawing a floor plan for my living room, but adding objects was a sometimes painful process. For example, in trying to place a lamp on a small table--several times I moved my cursor too far from the table and the lamp fell to the floor. I could not figure out how to get the lamp off the floor and back onto the table. Simply moving it up onto the table wouldn't work. I'd have to delete the lamp and retry until I got it positioned correctly.

The decorating choices available (furniture, cabinets, carpet, etc.) are mostly American Traditional, so if you're hoping to try out more exotic options, like a South American rec room or an Asian dining room, you won't find enough here to be able experiment with different looks. The software is also buggy. Several times, while trying to pick out the finish I wanted on a piece of wood furniture, I was given dozens of inappropriate choices, including pictures of Charlie Chaplin and clock faces. I was also dismayed that I was unable to add crown moulding or any other type of woodwork or architectural detail to a room, nor was I able to add bed curtains or a canopy mist to any of the beds.

There are several "Designer Rooms" available to view, which are supposed to provide the user with inspiration, but which are so bland and uninteresting that it's embarrassing.

The biggest lack by far though is the inability to add your own custom colors, finishes, window treatments, fabrics, and so on. If you're wanting to see how a particular color of paint or wallpaper will look in your room and it isn't available in the "catalog", you're out of luck. I saw a gorgeous window treatment in a decorating magazine and was unable to recreate it here, since it used unusual fabrics and more than one valance. I fail to understand why a game like "The Sims" allows users to create or download thousands of custom objects, but a program like this, which is supposed to be for decorating purposes only, does not.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Somewhat diasppointing, September 9, 2005

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D. K. Rus "Lost Fanatic" (Maryland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 3D Home Interiors Deluxe 2 (Jewel Case) (CD-ROM)

I found this product dificult to use properly. I wanted to recreate my own oddly shaped family room with its overly large fireplace. I was finally able to get the dimensions I wanted, but the only choice for fireplace was the standard one. I also don't feel that the furniture choices reflected actual sizes and styles available out there--I think the choices the designer used were quite limited. I have to admit, I used this once and found it easier to just do the thing myself on graph paper.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Complex and slow for simple tasks, April 27, 2005

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conocimiento (DC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 3D Home Interiors Deluxe 2 (Jewel Case) (CD-ROM)

I bought this program hoping to use it to lay out furniture in a new apartment. I found the software extremely difficult and inflexible, with bloated whistles and bells that took preference over basis features that would have been more useful. For example, there are numerous fabric types that can be selected for different furniture designs, but there is no simple way to create an accurate 2D floorplan with accurately-sized furniture. Frankly, a cardboard and plastic kit works much better than this product.