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Highlights

• Get Started Quickly and Easily
  The Getting Started Tutorial will guide you through basic design projects. Watch more than 30 videos for step-by-step instructions.

• All-in-One Home Design Solution
  Create your dream home today with the look and feel before it is built with styles, colors, wallpaper, flooring, and materials.

• Create your Dream Home!
  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 – It’s easy, it’s fun!

• 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, dimensioning, realistic 3D models, and Plan Check™ makes it easy for anyone.

• Existing Floor Plans
  Select from over 1,500 sample home plans or use the House Wizard™ to design your house from scratch. Open sample plans and customize to your specific needs.

• Customize Designs from the Library
  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.

• Design Tools
  Inspire and 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™ - automatically validates the design against standard building principles.
  

• Interior Design Tools
  Create a virtual version of the rooms you will be decorating by first arranging walls, then placing doors, windows, stairways, and furniture. It's easy using automatic tools to create the right look and feel.

• Interior Designs and Decoration
  Create the look and feel before you build, remodel or decorate with actual colors, flooring, furniture, windows and more.

• Material Painter™
  Point and click to choose from thousands of colors and textures or import your own for walls, floors, countertops and more!

• Better Homes and Gardens Design Planning Center
  The Design Planning Center provides advice, decorating guidelines, tips, and techniques from the editors of the Better Homes and Gardens magazine. We've gathered the information you need to plan the most important areas of your home in the Design Planning Center.
  
• Kitchen Planning Center
  Practicality and style blend seamlessly in a great kitchen. We've gathered the information you need to plan a perfect workspace, plus plenty of examples of kitchens that put those principles to work beautifully.

• Bathroom Planning Center
  Bathrooms may be the smallest rooms in your home, but that doesn't mean you can make them an afterthought in the planning process. We'll show you how to make the most of a limited space and explain the features that will add the most to your comfort and convenience.

• Exterior Planning Center
  Your home's exterior is the face you display to the world. Discover the secrets that architects and designers use to create beautiful and easy-to-maintain exteriors.

• House Styles Planning Center
  Select a house style that fits your lifestyle and personality. You'll find six design styles for homes of today.

• Design Kitchens
  Design the Kitchen of your dreams – move walls, drop in cabinets, add fixtures – it’s easy to plan your perfect workspace.

• Master Bedrooms
  Designs for your lifestyle and personality - change colors, add lighting, and choose furniture to accent your next room.

• Create Designs with 3D Models
  Move a wall, change a color, add a room, redesign a kitchen, estimate the costs – all before you build. Home Designer makes it easy to visualize your design ideas with your next home or remodeling project. Quickly place and arrange walls, windows, doors, cabinets, furniture, and automatically generate a 3D model so you can visualize and edit your design – it’s easy and it’s fun.

• Realistic Models
  Create realistic 3D models in minutes for your next design project to visualize, plan and budget your next remodeling project. Powerful building tools like automatic roof generation, stairs, decks, framing, dimensioning and Plan Check™ makes it easy for anyone – No Experience Needed!

• Project Cost Estimating
  Want to estimate the cost of your remodeling project? Home Designer™ will automatically generate a materials list in a spreadsheet format that you can enter the cost of each item into – tile, cabinets, concrete, decking materials, and more

• Visualization Tools
  Create a virtual walk through of your design by selecting various camera views or create a virtual tour with an AVI movie.

• Custom Kitchen and Bath Design
  Produce realistic images of your design projects using the advanced camera tools to create images you can e-mail to family and friends.

• Create Lighting Effects
  Change from a day to a night view with a single click. Add lighting fixtures from the Library and create dramatic views, visualize in the day with realistic sun shadows.

•  Deck Design Tools
  From a simple single level to a multi-level, you can automatically create a deck with the Home Designer™ deck tools. Use a post and beam structure, design with or without a railing. Create the exterior shell of your house to visualize your deck design. Estimate the cost of your deck with an automatically generated materials list

•  Visualize your New Deck
  Design your new deck with Home Designer's powerful decking tools. Automatically produce realistic 3D models that you can plan and design details.

•  Outdoor Furniture
  The Library contains a wide variety of backdrops, objects, images, and textures that can be used in your designs. Select patio furniture to place on your newly created deck or by the swimming pool.

•  Multi-tier Decks
  Produce realistic images of your outdoor projects using a plan layout and the advanced camera tools to produce realistic images you can e-mail to family and friends.

•  Deck Design and Cost Estimating
  Home Designer will automatically calculate a detailed materials list so you can accurately estimate the cost of your new deck. Cost estimating is done within the program using a spreadsheet interface, or you can export the list to your favorite spreadsheet program. Get a complete list of materials include wood flooring, concrete, railings, and more.

•  Create Custom Landscaping
  Create Plot and Perimeter Plans on flat or hillside lots and automatically generate a 3D model of the actual terrain. Use the Terrain Feature tools to create fences, gardens, driveways, paths, and more. Build your landscaping plan by marking your property boundaries and selecting from the landscaping items in the Library. Design in Plan View or a 3D View to create the landscaping that’s right for you

•  Terrain Tools
  Home Designer™ has hill and valley tools to help you define your unique terrain features.

•  Outdoor Living Areas
  Outdoor living areas are among the most popular features in homes today. Create an elegant deck design that blends with a well planned landscaping design around pathways, gardens ponds, and terrain features.

•  Terrain Planning
  Create landscaping plans and design your layout in a plan view or 3D model. Use the terrain tools to create pathways, fences, ponds, gardens, and more.

•  Virtual Gardens
  Create beautiful landscaping with tree, shrubs, flowers, and more. Import your digital photos and add landscaping features.

• Fencing Tools
  Use the Fence Tools to choose from several different custom fence and gate styles.

•  Outdoor Furniture
  The Library contains a wide variety of backdrops, objects, images, and textures that can be used in your designs. Select patio furniture to place on your newly created deck or by the swimming pool.