Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Suite 6.0 Bundle

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Product 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 4,300 items for your designs
• Generate an Automatic Material List for project cost estimating

Product Details

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• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00068JR9G
• Item model number: 045-501L-BNDL-IN-CAN
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 12, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #9,583 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Suite 6.0 Bundle features all the capabilites of Home Designer Suite, plus a copy of The New Decorating Book by Better Homes & Gardens.

The Getting Started Tutorial will guide you through basic design projects. Watch more than 30 videos for step-by-step instructions. Select from over 1,500 sample home plans or use the House Wizard to design your house. This is The complete home design solution. You can create your dream home today with the look and feel before it is built with styles, colors, wallpaper, flooring, and materials. Plus, you can quickly place and arrange walls, windows, doors, cabinets, and architectural objects from a library of over 4,300 items to create a 3D Model in minutes. Use the Library content to size your rooms, evaluate traffic flow, and create a visual model of your design.

Create your Dream Home Design your dream home today with Home Designer. Quickly place and arrange walls, windows, doors, cabinets, choose colors, place furniture, create decks and landscaping. Design and visualize your home with 3D Models and Virtual Tours.	Choose from Design Templates Begin your design by choosing from one of six Better Homes and Gardens home style templates that range from traditional to contemporary, complete with colors, cabinets, and moldings.

Powerful Home Design Software Enjoy the same building and design tools the professionals use – Home Designer is made for the home enthusiasts. Powerful building tools like automatic roof generation, stairs, decks, framing, CAD, dimensioning, realistic 3D models, and Plan Check makes it easy for anyone.	Create Floor Plans Select from over 1,500 sample home plans or use the House Wizard to design your house. Open sample plans and customize to your specific needs.

Design Tools Enhance your designs with the Better Homes and Gardens Design Planning Center. Use Material Painter to create a virtual look and feel of the design before it is built with actual colors, wallpaper, flooring, furniture, windows, and window treatments.	Building Tools Complete automatic building tools for roof generation, framing, dimensioning, foundations, and more. Automatically generate a materials list for project cost estimating. Includes a complete set of CAD (Computer Aided Design) tools to detail designs and Plan Check, which automatically validates the design against standard building principles.

What's in the box:
Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Suite 6.0 Bundle on CD, with a guide to getting started, and a copy of The New Decorating Book by Better Homes & Gardens.

Product Description

Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Suite 6.0 is software developed by Chief Architect® for home enthusiast remodeling and home design projects. Combining the leading-edge home design software from Chief Architect® with the consumer home design editorial expertise of Better Homes and Gardens® magazine editors, we have produced the highest quality software for home design, remodeling and landscaping. Includes the New Decorating Book Featuring more than five hundred full-color photographs, this thorough manual of home decorating and design discusses style, budgeting, color schemes, furniture, fabrics and patterns, window treatments, accessories, and more for each room of the house. 12 whole-house tours from coast to coast 8 before-and-after room makeovers Two distinctly different decorating solutions for five different rooms 8 pages of quick solutions to common dilemmas of decor A decorating taste test to define personal style 18 pages of decorating projects, complete with instructions Offers special tips on maximizing storage in bedrooms, baths, kitchens, dining rooms, and family rooms Multiple window treatments for typical window types Buymanship tips and charts URLs direct readers to additional decorating information and photos Bonus Room Arranging Kit with templates and graph paper

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not for the serious home designer, May 19, 2005

By	C H "Hartland Construction" (New York) - See all my reviews

After several weeks exploring Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Suite 6.0 Bundle and coming from a construction back ground with AutoCAD experience, I am very disappointed in the purposeful exclusion of what should be basic abilities of the program. While most of these are available in the Pro version for an additional cost of several hundred dollars, they should have included them in this version. If you are designing a very basic ranch or split level home with out complicated roof lines or roof pitches, or you desire to undertake a modern minimalist idea with haft height divider walls or large glass exterior planes, this software is not for you. To their credit however, Chief architects (the software's creators) have made tremendous strides forward in the software's ease of use to create what would be complicated 3D images from basic layouts and designs. If you want to play with interiors designs that do not have complicated wall surface treatments, or multi level cathedral ceilings, this might be the best product on the market to realize your ideas. It is not however for the professional who would require the ability to edit walls and objects to customize the design. Over all, it is a good tool, but I would not recommend it for a design professional or experienced builder.