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| List Price: $59.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 25 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1034
Category: Software
Publisher: Chief Architect
Studio: Chief Architect
Brand: Chief Architect
Label: Chief Architect
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows Nt, Windows 2000, Windows Xp, Windows Vista
Media: CD-ROM
Batteries Included: 0
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 12 x 10.5 x 3
MPN: 045100L
Model: 045-100L
UPC: 750839031248
EAN: 0750839031316
ASIN: B000AA879Q
Release Date: August 31, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Powerful, easy-to-use interior home design software | | • | Includes interior design, remodeling, decorating, and floor/space planning | | • | Quickly place and arrange walls, windows, doors, and cabinets | | • | Choose colors, place furniture, and create kitchens and baths | | • | Design and visualize with realistic 3D models and virtual tours |
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Product Description
Better Homes&Gardens Interior Designer is your all-in-one solution for interior home design projects. Start designing all-new interiors for your home, redecorate rooms and create the kitchens and bathrooms of your dreams. Whether you need architectural tools to build or remodel a complete room, or just want to do some interior design -- even just floor and space planning -- you have all the tools you need right here. Decorate with wall coverings, add molding or create curved and angled walls Generate roofs, dimensioning, foundations, and custom floor&ceiling heights Create split-entry, curved and multi-level staircase creation One-click automatic dimensions -- automatically calculate square footage by room, for the entire plan
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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 20 more reviews...
 NEVER ABLE TO USE IT - GETTING A REFUND August 23, 2008
Better Homes and Gardens Interior Designer [OLD VERSION] I was excited to get this product because I am going to be doing some painting, floors, furniture, etc., in a bedroom. I was anxious to get an idea of room layout and furniture placement to get a visual of the project before I begin. It never brought up the registration page or let me indicate the CD Key. Consequently, I couldn't get the updates, etc. Amazon is very good about letting me return this product for a refund, but I am VERY disappointed.
 Good for general layout purposes but limiting May 13, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The product is very easy to use. You don't need to read the manual or do the tutorials to figure it out. There are a lot of things you can do. However, it is also very limiting. Things that should be very simple are difficult. For example, you put an area rug in a room, and then you want to put furniture on top of it. That sounds like something simple but it is not easy. The program will not let you put any piece of furniture on top of something else. Instead you have to place the furniture off to the side, and then either edit its properties, or go into 3D view and lift the furniture off the ground a little, then slide it over the rug. Copying and pasting has a really stupid implemention. It is unconventional and clunky. Also, there is no way to copy multiple items and past them. For example, if you made a room layout you like, and you wanted to move all the stuff from one room to another, or from one floor to another, you cannot select all, copy, then paste. In fact, there is no easy way at all to do it. The frame rate was not so hot in 3D view mode either after filling it with furniture, windows, window treatments and everything. This makes it very difficult to have a smooth walk through of your virtual room. With frame hitching as you walk through the room, it is extremely distracting, and you cannot get a good feel for the space. I do not think it is my computer either. I do not have the most up to date computer, but I do have a Pentium 4 and a pretty good graphics card. They say this works with Windows 98. I'd like to see that actually happen. All in all though, I was able to get enough out of this program to have a good idea of what things will look like when I lay out my furniture in different arrangements, and it helped me figure out if I had enough space to place certain things. Mild thumbs up.
 Better Homes and Gardens Interior Designer March 30, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Verry Good Product. Easy to use and a lot of fun! I would DEFINATLY recomend this.
$50 well spent February 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm renovating a bathroom and decided to GC the project myself. This software allowed me to create an accurate drawing of the room (suitable to present to the municipal authorities for electrical and plumbing permits). In addition, it was a lot of fun to try out different interior design elements (pedastal sink vs vanity, etc.) to create the desired final look. The materials list generated by the program was also very helpful. FInally, it was easy to point and click through and I mastered it quickly. Given that the overall cost of this project is many 1000s of dollars, it was worth the extra $50 to do be able to do the design work myself.
Home Design Program February 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This program is fairly easy to use with a little trial and error. The renderings available as work is completed allow for relatively good representation of what you should see in real life Very useful for designing traffic flow patterns and placement of furniture prior actual placement. Allows for realistic room design. Image on image, a table on a rug or vase on a table for example, should be less convoluted and easier to accomplish as well as not having to connect all four walls to do flooring and several other things. Overall, I was mostly pleased with the program.
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