Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Suite 6.0 is software developed by Chief Architect for home enthusiast remodeling and home design projects. Combing the leading-edge home design software with the consumer home design editorial expertise of Better Homes and Gardens magazine editors, we have produced top-quality software for home and remodeling design.

With this software discover how to:

• 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
• 3D Models and Virtual Tours Provide Realistic Views
• Produce realistic images of your home designs and remodeling projects
• Glass House View provides a full translucent view of the interior and exterior, simultaneously
• 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

Design Tools

• Use the Design Planning Center to help guide your designs with decorating guidelines, tips, and advice on selecting materials
• Over 1,500 sample home plans to inspire your design
• Create a virtual look and feel of the design before it is built with actual colors, flooring, furniture, windows, and window treatments
• Material Painter allows you to apply materials to individual items. For example, spray the countertop with granite, change the cabinets to cherry wood, or paint the wall your favorite color.
• Define your own lighting and electrical plan

Building Tools

• Choose from six Home Design 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 4,300 items to create a 3D model in minutes
• Automatically generates a Materials List into a spreadsheet form for project cost estimating
• Complete automatic building tools for roof generation, framing, dimensioning, foundations, and electrical outlet placement
• Easily design kitchens with plans and 3D layouts
• Create customized cabinets with a simple drag-and-drop tool
• 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
• Complete set of CAD tools to detail designs
• Plan Check automatically compares the design against standard building principles

Landscaping and Deck Tools

• Landscape design tools to create hills and valleys from custom landscapes
• Fence, garden, driveway, path, and other terrain feature tools included
• Create plot and perimeter plans on flat or hillside lots: automatically generate a 3D model of the actual terrain
• Deck tools include post-and-beam foundation automatically generated to match your lot
• Select from over 1,000 plants, terrain, and outdoor items from a library for custom landscaping

System Requirements:

• Minimum PC Processor Supported Intel