- Home Design, Remodeling, Decks, Landscaping, Kitchens & Baths, Interior Design, Cost Estimating
- Automatic Building Tools–Roofs, Stairs, Doors, Windows, Framing, Foundations and more
- Design Planning Center
- Material Painter–point-and-click colors for walls, floors, countertops and more
- Create Your Custom Kitchen with 1,000’s of Cabinet Combinations
Product Description
Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Suite 8.0 is powerful software for any home design project. With over 5,000 integrated tools it is perfect for home design, remodeling, interior design, landscaping, decks, cost estimation, and site planning. Design in 2D and 3D simultaneously; even do a virtual walk-through. Choose from over 6,000 library items or download free bonus items. Create base, wall, full height, curved, corner cabinets and more for your new kitche… More >>
Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Suite 8.0
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I spent 2 or 3 nights on this product, and watched a few of the tutorial videos and will probably throw this away. I don’t have the attention span or the time to dive in and learn how to use it – and I’m a computer professional. They should have had a checklist – step 1, step 2, etc. but instead there are these videos to watch and programs in 2 different installs. I thought the “wizard” would be a good place to start (how about telling us where to start?) designing a basic floorplan but got stuck in that and didn’t ever figure out how to move on. Several of the options I tried (for instance, to convert my 2-d to a 3-d plan) did nothing so must have required something but didn’t give me a clue what it needed. If I kept playing with this product I might accidentally learn how to get something useful out of it but it is much more time than I care to spend.
Rating: 2 / 5
Love the program! Well worth the money and the time! Seller was fantastic! Item arrived in record time!
Rating: 5 / 5
I’m using verion 7.0, but there’s no upgrade to 8.0 for 7.0 users, so …
I’ve tried to model my own house half a dozen times with this thing, and it’s just beyond frustrating. All the defaults make no sense (why would I want to measure walls from the center of the wall, rather than the surface? Why would I care about measuring to roof lines??), it constantly moves walls as you add new ones, forcing me to re-measure and re-adjust where walls are supposed to be. And constant bugs, where it won’t let me do what I want, loses data (I saved a file I spent two hours on, and when I went back to it, it was blank), I had it suddently think all walls were only 20 inches high, and was NEVER able to fix it, no matter what settings I altered….
It’s an exercise in pure frustration. It’s horribly difficult to use for this purpose. I cannot recommend it for anyone, and wish to god I could get my money back. Do NOT buy this if you’re hoping to model your existing home in hopes of having it help you redecorate or remodel.
Rating: 1 / 5
Do not buy this product if you actually want to build what you design. This software is for playing, it’s for doing – “what if’s” when you are thinking about doing a project. It is not for actually doing a design and building it. It is very inflexible in entering the types of walls, it allows very little in changing the defaults of design items. If you do anything of any scale you always be off in your dimensions and you will not be able to correct the dimensions, when you start sliding walls to get thing right it will jump and you will be way off in the other direction. I found the program infuriating, I bought it to do real design and build from the design, it is not possible. If you are planning to do the work yourself not just make a pretty 3-D drawing that you give to a professional to do for you then this is not the right program for you.
Rating: 1 / 5
Great features once you learn how to use the program. Very helpful with the remodeling of my house and backyard.
Rating: 4 / 5