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Better Homes and Gardens Interior Designer [OLD VERSION] | ![Better Homes and Gardens Interior Designer [OLD VERSION]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515R109C7EL._SL500_.jpg)
| From: Chief Architect
List Price: $59.99
Buy New: $34.99
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Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 1677
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows Nt, Windows 2000, Windows Xp, Windows Vista
Media: CD-ROM
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Windows NT
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 12 x 10.5 x 3
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
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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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.
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
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| Customer Reviews: Read 20 more reviews...
 Easy to use-But very limited July 26, 2006
Woodshop Man (MINNEAPOLIS, MN USA)
97 out of 101 found this review helpful
I bought this and the Punch interiors software. This software is easy to use compared to Punch, but I suspect thats partly because H&G is very limited in options. For instance in Punch you can design your doors exactly as they are. In H&G you choose a style and have a few options. Punch also has a large library of trees, shrubs and plants to use to landscape your design. H&G only has potted plants. With H&G there are few backgrounds to use, and most look like they were taken from the west coast; mountains, sand dunes and million dollar homes on the beach. Nothing for the average person living in a suburb. Punch allows you to import your own digital photos as background, or just use their sky background. Either works well. I imported several panoramic photos of my backyard and side, and you can then put them at any angle to completely surround your design. BUT, you better read the manual (342 pages), it's not an intuitve program, H&G is. With H&G you can basically start after just a little homework. H&G; easier to use with less options. Punch; harder to learn but more flexibility.
 Should be called CAD for Dummies.... November 22, 2005
B. Hartford (Massachusetts - United States)
92 out of 96 found this review helpful
I was a little skeptical about this program - until I tried it last evening for the first time. I am really impressed..... I did not even use the tutorial before I dove in and tried to play a bit. I created a single room in less than 3 minutes, using simple walls, doors, windows, and a fireplace. Adding flooring and coloured walls was so easy it was almost sinful! LOL
I am most anxious to do more with the program and learn about all its capabilities. Today I watched the tutorial and was really surprised at how much this program can do!
I was really happy and impressed with the simplicity of the Better Homes and Gardens version as the idea of CAD seemed intimidating. Not any more....
I whole-heartedly recommend this program to everyone who is considering designing their interiors or for students of interior design who have not yet attempted any CAD programs.
Limited April 22, 2006
R. Wismer (Jeffersonville, PA United States)
55 out of 58 found this review helpful
As another reviewer said, the furniture selections are very limited and fairly lame in appearance. That includes lamps, rugs, accessories etc, too. You will not be able to duplicate a space that you see in the design magazines, but you will be able to get a general idea of what your space will look like in terms of color combinations and furniture arrangement. The object selections are just not comprehensive enough. The software is fairly stable, but slow ( I am using a 1.7ghz computer with almost 1 gb of memory). The camera controls are awkward, but usable. For painting, there are many colors to choose from and its easy to show different combinations. Floor plan layout is good. I did not need to get precise, so I do not know how it would hold up in a more serious application.
This could be 5 star software if the object library was made more comprehensive and the camera controls were more user friendly.
Good, but Limited Furniture Library January 23, 2007
Patricia Morris Craze (Phoenix, AZ United States)
44 out of 44 found this review helpful
I'm an interior designer and have Interior Designer 7.0. It's easy to learn, but I already had used similar programs and I know CAD, but you don't need any cad experience to use this program. Materials render well, but the library of furniture and accessories is fairly limited. For example I was creating a game room for a client and only had one style of pool table to choose from and no accessory items such as pool sticks, balls or wall racks. I've figured out some workarounds such as using round millwork items and sinking them into the pool table to look like balls. Bed styles are also very limited. I've downloaded all their bonus furniture, but it's still lacking. The fabric options are also fairly limited, but be sure to scroll down past "fabric" to find the category "BH&G Fabric". For colors, scroll down past "colors" to Benjamin Moore or download the bonus Sherwin Williams colors. Also the best plants are in the "Xfrog" category. To save time set your render quality to low for fast renderings, then change it back to high to place your accessories. The program does a good job allowing you to import your own images and textures. To show an image on a TV screen, define it as a new texture in your custom library with width set to 0 (so it doesn't repeat the image). Overall I like the program I just need to figure out how to get more furniture and accessories.
Good software and fun, too March 24, 2006
bumsted (NE Indiana)
24 out of 29 found this review helpful
I have not spent tons of time working with the program yet, but have done enough to know that the learning curve is reasonable if you are somewhat publishing program literate. It has lots of potential for aiding in visualizing what your project will look like finished. If you are willing to invest some time to learn the program features, it performs as promised.
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