Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Suite 6.0 | 
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| From: Chief Architect
Category: Software
List Price: $99.99
Buy New: $29.95
You Save: $70.04 (70%)
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Rating:  55 reviews
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Nt, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows NT
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 8 x 3.2
Model: 045-501-CAN
UPC: 750839011004
EAN: 0750839011004
Release Date: October 2, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: New, factory sealed in box, shipped with emailed confirmation
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| Features:
| • | Inspire your designs with the Design Planning Center | | • | Create a virtual walk-through of your house | | • | Design and visualize in 3D | | • | Choose from a library of more than 4,300 items for your designs | | • | Generate automatic material lists for project cost estimating |
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Amazon.com Product Description
No matter your level of design expertise, Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Suite 6.0 will get you moving toward a stunningly visulaized design of your dream home. 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 on CD, with a guide to getting started.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 50 more reviews...
Guess you have to be good at Architecture June 28, 2007
M. P.
I, for the most part, am not good in architecture. When I was in college, I majored in theatre and had to take some classes that involved technical stuff such as Stage Craft and Lighting. This was where I learned how to use tools and build scenery. It was so fantastic that I ended up working in the theater shop for two and a half years.
Even though I was use to building stage scenery, I thought I could use the skills I learned in theater with this program. I can't. I'm having so much difficulty with this program that I feel like uninstalling it.
It's not easy to use if you've never designed a home in your entire life.
For example, I want my kitchen to be somewhat hidden on the second floor. Although it gives you the option of designing a second floor, I found that adding railings and a staircase is extremely hard. When I got a general look at what I've designed, my kitchen was indeed on the second floor along with my railing, but the stairs was higher than everything else and I can't get it to match with the floor and railing. Also doing different colors on each wall is hard. It puts one color on every wall instead of a specific wall. Designing cabinets and putting color to them is difficult too.
I'm glad the tutorial is there. I don't have the booklet. If anybody buy this program from the store instead of borrowing it-like I did, I suggest you read the book and watch the tutorial. If not, you're going to be like me. Stuck!
 Nice software January 9, 2007
Steven L. Sauer
not for the professional but gets the job done for the most part.
Suits my needs, but not extraordinary August 31, 2006
Scott D. Donald (Haddonfield, NJ)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm an engineer and work with professional CAD software at work all the time. This is slightly easier to use in some regards (because it's made for users without experience), but also lacks some of the more useful features of my work CAD package. But I guess that is to be expected from a commercially available, $75 software, compared with a $2000 package with customizations and add-ins. Overall though, it suits my needs in planning for small projects.
 impossible to use! August 11, 2006
Lyn Smith (Newport Beach, CA)
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
I bought this product after reading the other on-line reviews saying how easy it was to use. I am someone who works with computers daily and this was anything but easy! It was hard to understand and getting someone from their help desk to assist was a joke! I wouldn't recommend this product to anyone unless you're a professional architect/ computer genius!
A good value for the average person August 2, 2006
R. Allison (Colorado USA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I feel Home Designer Suite 6 is a good value for the price. It obviously is not a full blown pro program, which I think many people expect, however it is a great tool for an ordinary person to do preliminary plans for new construction or remodeling. Those plans can then be provided to a architect or builder as a foundation for final planning. It is quite easy to learn the basics by merely following the tutorials in the manual, or on the provided CD.
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