Better Homes and Gardens Interior Designer

List Price: $59.99 Discount Price: $42.95

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

Accessories:

Micro-Gold Flower Fantasy Deluxe

Customer Reviews:

Very Frustrating [Posted on 2008-01-13]
I tried to use this product in order to create some visualizations for our kitchen redesign. After sepnding a lot of frustrating time learning the product and building up the room dimensions, doors, etc... I found that the library is EXTREMELY limited in terms of the types of sinks, ranges, etc... you can put in. The result it it is worthless for actually visualizing what appliances, cabinet colors, etc... would look like. The product may be fine for laying out rooms and the like but I would have expected a version called "interior designer" to have a *much* greater selection of objects to be even mildly useful. I'm returning it if I can.

Home Design Program [Posted on 2008-02-13]
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.

$50 well spent [Posted on 2008-02-25]
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.

Better Homes and Gardens Interior Designer [Posted on 2008-03-30]
Verry Good Product. Easy to use and a lot of fun! I would DEFINATLY recomend this.

Do not get this for Tile or Wood Floor Layout & Design [Posted on 2008-04-15]
I purchased this thinking that I could do a tile layout with wood floor mixed in one room. Wanted to plan using different size tiles to get the best layout. This is beyond the scope of this software. Flooring options seem quite limited for software bearing the title Interior Design.

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