- Platform: Windows XP
- Media: DVD-ROM
- Item Quantity: 1
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With Your Custom Home on DVD-ROM, you get 11 complete products to help you build a new home, remodel, or refresh your tired decor!
Home Architect: Design and Tour Your Dream Home in Realistic and Stunning 3D
- 3D WalkAbout Technology allows you to walk through your creations, climb the stairs, and peer over balconies--all in stunning 3D.
- Choose from over 2 million combinations of furnishings, appliances, colors, materials, and styles.
- Get creative ideas and valuable advice from design professionals.
- Learn how to use and apply color, arrange furniture, achieve the best lighting, and much more.
- Import photos of your home's interior then discover all the exciting ways you can refresh and revitalize your rooms.
- Drag-and-drop 1,000+ objects, 3D furniture, and fixture models including wood, paint, wallpaper, and stone textures.
- Choose from hundreds of professional floor plans.
- Save time using professionally furnished and decorated rooms as a starting point.
- Use floor plans received digitally or scanned in.
- Easily trace layouts into the program.
- Get an estimate of how much your design will cost to implement.
- Use the Shopping List to keep track of materials, quantities, and subtotals.
- Learn how to complete 500+ projects from plumbing to pruning with full-color videos, photos, and illustrations.
- Create a personalized home maintenance schedule.
- Design a single or multi-level deck with railings, stairs, hot tubs, furniture, lighting, and more.
- Ensure that your deck meets building codes.
- Repair or completely redesign your home's electrical circuitry with step-by-step instructions.
- Create custom lighting, multi-room audio systems, Internet wiring, and more.
- Can't find what you want for your design? Create it yourself!
- Create and edit your own objects using the simple drag-and-drop interface.
- Input your criteria to find the perfect single or multi-family home.
- Easily order construction-ready blue prints to build the home of your dreams.
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Design & improve your home with 10 powerful tools: Home Design Guide - Learn from the pros how to plan & design your home Designer Rooms Library - Create from professional floorplans and designer rooms Cost Estimator - Stay on budget with this indispensable tool 3D Design Shop - Create your own 2D and 3D objects Design Trace & Import - Import and trace the layout of your design Windows 95/98/ME/XP compatible
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16 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Well worth the purchase price,
By FunkyFridge.com (La Crescenta, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Your Custom Home (DVD-Rom) (DVD-ROM)
I haven't compared this to other products on the market, and am new to home design software. But based on its purchase price, I was expecting far less than this product delivered. In terms of getting a better idea of how your designs will look, this set of programs is simple and very useful. With a highly intuitive PowerPoint-like interface, I was immediately building 3D architectural models, walking through them, and flying over them. Pretty cool. An included deck-design program is also easy to use and allows both 2D and 3D viewing. The program set also includes a bunch of information programs, like plant databases and how-to guides for home projects. Though so much of this is generally available on the internet now, these add-ons were useful and seemed pretty comprehensive. There's also a photo-based landscape design program, which lets you do things like take a photo of your house, import it, and then add plants and hardscape, either from included images or images you import.
So why is all this so cheap? My guess is that it's not recently developed. The copyright dates were in the 1999 to 2000 range. But this is a great basic package that blew away my expectations for what I would get at this price.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not worth it,
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This review is from: Your Custom Home (DVD-Rom) (DVD-ROM)
If you are serious about designing your own home, do yourself a favor and invest in a better package than this one.
The feature that drew my attention to this title was the plan tracer. You can load a plan graphic and draw walls over it - but the program isn't smart enough to recognize closed four-sided boxes as rooms. Additionally, the grid-snapping is arbitrary - sometimes you can move a wall at will, sometimes not. This is true when designing from scratch, too - the system is inflexible and awkward to use. Fortunately the 3D camera is self-intuitive. The other programs included in this package are equally weak. The interior photo designer is clever but unrealistic, and so on. A word of caution: if you're used to house-building in the Sims, you will definitely find this lacking. And if the construction engine in a computer game is better than in something you're supposed to use to design a REAL home, are you sure you want to spend the money on this product?
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Very limited,
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This review is from: Your Custom Home (DVD-Rom) (DVD-ROM)
I picked up this program because it was cheap and I wanted something to test out some ideas about features to put in a house.
The program has a fun little camera that lets you walk around the house and see the room from any perspective. You can play with furnishings and hang pictures on the wall. All in all, it felt a little like playing with a little girl's doll house. However I don't want to play with dolls, I want to design a house for me to live in so I went at it with this program. Lets play with some fancy rooms like octagons and circles... oops the program only has a set number of room shapes and they all have straight walls and 90 degree angles. OK, so I won't use their canned rooms, I'll put the walls together to make my own... oops the program won't let you draw a room inside a room: the walls refuse to close. The program also won't recognize your ring of walls and a floor as a 'room' so you cannot build anything around it and fit the roof over either. Hum well maybe I'll try a split level or a sunken den... ooops- you cannot define the elevation of the floors you get first floor and second floor and nothing inbetween. Funny, there default steps are 3 feet high, but stairs always take you one whole floor, not two or three steps. Oh well, I guess all just have to make do with a 2-story house with rectangular rooms... oops the closets have to be 'rooms' since the extra walls refuse to join inside a 'room' and what happened to that door I put there- oh its buried under 15 walls that spontaneously popped up right on top of each other. Hope you don't mind the roof in the middle of your stairwell from the wing of the house. And you just stretched that wall 1in too far now your room won't fit until you pull all of them apart and why is that exterior wall sticking out 6 inches when the rooms were sized identically why do I keep seeing daylight at the junction between these rooms even though they have 25 walls stacking up there and ARGGG!! I give up.
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