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HGTV Home & Landscape Platinum Suite

HGTV Home & Landscape Platinum SuiteFrom: Nova Development US
Category: Software

List Price: $99.99
Buy New: $60.00
as of 11/7/2009 11:08 CST details
You Save: $39.99 (40%)



New (4) Used (2) from $60.00

Seller: perry4540
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars 25 reviews

Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Home
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.3 x 2.7

MPN: DKWT
Model: DKWT
UPC: 727298406719
EAN: 0727298406719

Release Date: December 1, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Features:
  • Build a Green Kitchen—HGTV will help you plan and visualize a new, updated kitchen, complete with new, more energy-efficient appliances
  • Wizard-driven interface makes any project easy, plus 30+ HGTV How-To Video Tips and a printed user guide to get you started
  • Photorealistic 3D Technology with virtual walkaround and thousands of 3D appliances, furniture, lighting and more
  • Easy room makeovers--start with your own digital picture; appropriate for all home styles, with thousands of sample home plans
  • Includes free technical support

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Want to see how existing furnishings and wall hangings will look in your new room? It's easy. HGTV Home & Landscape software lets you import any photograph into your design. And visualizing your new landscaping is going to be incredibly easy. Just import your digital photo. Then add plants, fences and accessories anywhere you like!

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Create Your Dream Home with Help from HGTV, the No. 1 home improvement television network. Take a fresh approach to the way you live, including building a green kitchen, with HGTV Home & Landscape Platinum Suite.

Create Your Dream Home with Help from HGTV.

Are you looking to update a living room, bedroom or other space but aren't really sure where to begin? HGTV Home & Landscape makes the process a cinch. Easily draw out your room. Then choose materials and furnishings just by dragging and dropping.

This new software is perfect for creating a new living space; adding a fireplace; making your home energy efficient with new appliances; replacing countertops, cabinetry and fixtures; enhancing any room in your house with a brand new look; and adding decks, fountains, patios and gardens. You can import digital photos of your home's exterior or interior and instantly change paint colors. You can even design your dream home from scratch.

Easily draw out your room. Then choose materials and furnishings just by dragging and dropping. Click to enlarge.

Design your dream home from scratch. Click to enlarge.

Import digital photos of your home's exterior or interior and instantly change paint colors. Click to enlarge.

Add value with a luxury bathroom. Click to enlarge.

HGTV Home & Landscape software makes it easy to design the kitchen of your dreams. Click to enlarge.

And it's easier than ever--no design experience necessary! Just point and click!

  • Room Makeovers
  • Interior Design and Remodels
  • HGTV How-To Video Library
  • Kitchens & Baths
  • Landscaping & Decks
  • Home Design
  • Cost Estimating
  • 7,500 Plant Encyclopedia

Easy Room Makeovers with multiple options--or you can start with your own digital pictures. Import digital photos of home furnishings--or family photos--into your one-of-a-kind design!

Hundreds of 3D Appliances, Furnishings, Lighting and More! Customize your space by selecting countertops, furniture and appliances in every style imaginable. Everything you need to plan, design, customize and create.

HGTV Home & Landscape software makes it easy to design the kitchen of your dreams. Easily refinish cabinets, replace countertops, update appliances, and more. Even add decorative hoods and backsplashes and more functional eating areas.

Plan Your HGTV Green Kitchen. Kitchens are the energy hog of the home. Between refrigerators and the ovens, cooktops and dishwashers, microwaves and small appliances, it's easy to see how a kitchen can cook up most of your energy bill. HGTV Home & Landscaping software will help you to plan and visualize a new, updated kitchen, complete with new, more energy-efficient appliances.

Wizard-Driven Interface makes any project fast and easy. There's even free tech support!

Photorealistic 3D Technology for unparalleled visualization capacity. 3D Real View makes it possible to conduct your own virtual walkaround.

Get Professional Tips from HGTV's Video Library and a printed user guide to get you started and keep your creativity flowing. A variety of important topics are included, all to ensure your home improvement project turns out just as you dreamt it! Subjects include É

  • Interior Paint Finishings
  • Improving Your Kitchen
  • Artistic Backsplashes
  • Framing Windows
  • Eco-Friendly Carpets
  • Mold Prevention Methods
  • And Much More

Landscaping & Deck Design
There's never been an easier way to plan and visualize beautiful, functional landscape than with HGTV Home & Landscape software. Includes fencing and gates; pathways and driveways; lighting and irrigation; gardens and gazebos; water features; barbeques and patio furniture.

Design Your Dream Home From Scratch
10,000+ Home Plans to get your started. Why not start with an example from our library of home plans. You set the number of floors, number of bedrooms and bathrooms, and home style.*

Create your own floorplan in minutes or, create your own door and window styles, cabinets, lighting and window coverings. Build in everything from electrical outlets and switches to home networking and theatre systems. Plus É automatic roof placement, complete HVAC and plumbing, easy material selection--brick, stone, siding--and more.

Plan and visualize a new, updated kitchen, complete with new, more energy-efficient appliances.

There's never been an easier way to plan and visualize beautiful, functional landscape. Click to enlarge.

Design landscapes in 2D or 3D with a bounty of helpful tools. Click to enlarge.

Summary of Features--Home Design and Remodeling

Flexible Interior Design Features

  • Replace Paint and Fabric:
    Take a digital picture of any room and visualize your new space.

  • Flooring Materials Library:
    Woods, tiles, carpets and more Countertops Library, including granites and marbles

  • Brand Name Content and Materials

  • Complete Furniture & Appliance Library:
    Hundreds of 3D models to choose from

Realistic Visualization Features

  • Design in Photorealistic 3D:
    The changes you make in 3D are simultaneously made to your 2D plan--automatically.

  • 3D Walkthrough:
    Create virtual tours to visualize your finished living space before you ever start your project.

  • Accurate Natural Lighting:
    Visualize your home's interior at different times of day.

  • Easy Zoom and Navigation

  • Add Digital Photos:
    Add photos of any home furnishing to your 3D home designs. Even add a photo of your family.

Powerful Home Design Features

  • Intelligent Walls:
    Easily draw interior and exterior walls that automatically connect and repair.

  • Doors:
    Use the Door Wizard to add simple doors, bi-fold doors, French doors, sliding doors, garage doors and more.

  • Windows:
    Just click along a wall to insert casement, hung, sliding, bay, vent, hopper or louvered windows, plus windows in virtually any shape.

  • Hundreds of lighting fixtures

Includes fencing and gates, pathways and driveways, and more. Click to enlarge.

Design Your Dream Home From Scratch! Click to enlarge.

Automatic roof placement, complete HVAC and plumbing, easy material selection and more. Click to enlarge.

Create your own floorplan in minutes. Click to enlarge.

Summary of Features--Landscaping and Decks

Powerful Drawing Features

  • Terrain Modeling Tools:
    Design your home anywhere, regardless of topography.asily draw interior and exterior walls that automatically connect and repair.

  • Collision Control:
    Prevents objects from being inserted where they do not belong.

  • Garden Beds, Ponds and Edging

  • 3D Real View:
    Exclusive technology assures photorealism.

Advanced Landscaping Features

  • Terrain Modeling:
    Easily specify hills and valleys

  • Complete Plant Encyclopedia:
    7,500+entries with lighting and watering requirements

  • Garden Visualizer:
    View plant growth and seasonal changes.

  • Plant Care Calendar:
    Identify the optimal times for planting, watering, pruning, fertilization and spraying.

Complete Hardscape Features

  • Fences and Gates in a large number of styles

  • Sidewalks, Pathways and Driveways

  • Lighting and Irrigation

  • Accessory Library:
    Includes fountains, waterfalls, barbecues and patio furniture.

Features for Outdoor Living

  • Deck Builder Wizard:
    Automatically build decks and patios in virtually any shape, size or material.

  • Gazebos and Sheds

  • Retaining Walls

  • Add New Landscape to Your Own Digital Photos

*Requires Internet connection




Customer Reviews:
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4 out of 5 stars Take the time to learn the program   November 2, 2009
M. Peterson (UT USA)
I can see how this program could be really valuable to someone who spends a lot of time in decorating or landscaping their or others homes. It is not a program you can start immediately and have all the designs ready in no time at all. It requires a lot of time learning it and in order to make it as useful as it can be you also need to spend a good deal of time measuring your home so your scales will be accurate.


I really liked the 2nd disc that came with the program because it gives you a lot of helpful tips from decorating to landscaping your yard and shows you how to do the different steps necessary. The program is worth it just for all the helpful videos on the 2nd disc.


I also appreciated the book of directions that came with it. It is much easier to learn the program with a book in hand than it is to try and find everything through a help menu. A lot of thought and planning has gone into this program.



*This review was posted by a member of the Nova Development User Community (NDUC). NDUC members are real people who use Nova Development products and share relevant feedback about the products they use in order to help other users. More information about NDUC, its programs and members is available on the Nova Development website.



4 out of 5 stars Worth the Learning Curve   October 28, 2009
iagree (Pennsylvania, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

As with the HGTV Home & Remodeling program, reviews of this product seem to be critical of the amount of time it takes to learn the program. However, in my opinion, for non-professionals it is worth the time invested to have a workable model of your home. Plus, there are so many features to continue exploring for years to come!!

It did take me several hours to figure the software out, but once I got a feel for the program, it was pretty simple and fun.

We are planning a large remodel to a portion of our home to accommodate an in law suite. This program allowed us to sketch up all the necessary details and see them for comparison, which has been invaluable. The landscape portions are even more exciting, as you can adjust for slope and placement. I can't wait to work on our patio and deck!

The help functions are very accessible and easy to use. With several hours of time logged, it started to become intuitive how to use the program, and that is without any previous CAD experience.

All in all, I would recommend this product if you are willing to put in the time to learn how to use it. It does take time, but it's worth the output for DIY home owners!



1 out of 5 stars Cannot download sample Plans; USELESS!   October 14, 2009
Kathleen N. Noble (Exeter NH USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

Despite advertising "10,000+ home plans to get you started," you can ONLY look at them--unless you want to spend $800 to buy the construction blueprints! And I defy ANYONE to try to re-create any but the most basic homes using this software. I have been using computers, both PC and Mac, since they were invented, and I gave up in disgust after trying to re-create my colonial so I could visualize landscaping and interior decoration. And did I mention the software didn't work AT ALL on my nearly new Toshiba satellite 64 bit using Windows Vista Premium? "Incompatibility problems," according to tech support. Don't waste your money.


1 out of 5 stars DO NOT BUY   October 13, 2009
R. Sims (Fort Worth, TX)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful

I purchased this product last March. There were some conflicting reviews, but I'm pretty computer savvy and have been using a coumputer since I was 5 (that's 27 years) and worked my way through college doing IT work. Thought I could figure it out. The software is gibberish. You may not need to know much about computers to use the design wizard, but you do need to know about technical details and construction terms. Despite trying to follow along with the manual I could never get it. It said it came with "thousands of sample home plans." It doesn't. You get 6. 6 Ugly ones. None of them are the pretty house on the cover which made me choose this software over the Better Homes version. You can go to the HGTV web site and VIEW thousands of plans but you can't download them into the program or at all. You can purchase hard copies of them for hundreds of dollars, but you didn't need to buy the software to do that.

Another reason I chose the HGTV version over BH&G is that it came with a 90 day money back promise. Before my 90 days was up I contacted the makers, NOVA Development to start the money back process. They emailed me back telling me to fill out a form, but didn't send it. I finally got the form and it was a destruction agreement. As per the directions I filled out the form, deleted the program, destroyed the CD's, signed that I destroyed everything, gave the box to my dog to play with and emailed the form back to them. A week later I get an email telling me i filled out the wrong form and they sent me a new one that said to return the CDs, packaging, and manual - "all incomplete returns will be destroyed and not processed" or something to that effect. My trash was empty. No more CD's. All I had left was the box which my dog wasn't so intrested in destroying, which I mailed to them with a letter explaining what had happened and copies of all the correspondence. It's now been over 4 months and I haven't seen my money back.



1 out of 5 stars The five-star reviews aren't legit   October 3, 2009
S. Brady
7 out of 8 found this review helpful

I think the five-star reviews are from people representing HGTV or NovaDevelopement. Just look at the "# of # people found the following review helpful" for each review.

I've used many consumer home design software products. I think HGTV is similar, but inferior to most. I find it harder to use and less powerful. For example, I couldn't draw diagonal lines, nor would they "snap" together. For consumer home design software, I think you'd be happier with Punch! Software, Better Homes and Gardens, or free web-based software at [...].


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