Home Designer Software

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Create Your Dream Home Today. It’s Fun, and It’s Easy!

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. Select from over 1,500 sample home plans or use the House Wizard™ to design your house.

All-in-One Home Design Solution

Create your dream home today with the look and feel you want then watch it come together with styles, colors, wallpaper, flooring and materials.

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 - 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 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.

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.

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Blissful Chairs

These watercolor renderings are done by Anne Harwell. She has a wonderful blog: Annchovie,
where she daily posts her paintings. Anne has a wonderful whimsical approach to capturing the essence of her subject matter. I love her technique and she also has a fetish for chairs as I do, so I feel we are kindred spirits. She takes commissions for paintings. I am commissioning her to do a painting of a home that I designed that was featured in Architectural Digest December 2006. Stay tuned I will post this painting of hers when it is completed. There is nothing like a hand painted and hand rendered piece of artwork. I think it is an art form that we need to support and encourage artists like Anne to continue. So please give her your support in whatever way you can. Art and artists are our life blood and they need to be supported and encouraged in their creativity.

Here are some of her whimsical painting of chairs.

"Artists help us to see and understand the world around us better." Patricia Gray

Summer Inspiration

Don't you love this photo. It reminds me of childhood summers, bu we didn't have cool furniture like this. These pieces are works of art and very whimsical. They are from Richard Schultz. On their web-site they have a video of the design behind the creation of this collection called "Topiary - A Garden of Luxuriant Creativity". They would also be great indoors. Maybe the love seat version in an Entry Foyer.

I want to have a stack of books on that table and sit and read for hours.... from Janus et Cie.
I would put these at the cottage.

Makes me want to be sipping a Peach Bellini. Also the perfect chair for cuddling up in.Dedon

Also from Dedon
I saw this "stack" recently at a trade show and was in awe of it. You know how ugly that patio furniture looks in the winter with all the vinyl covers. Well with this design in the winter you look out onto sculpture. Also if you have a small space they store compactly.

This chair is in the movie Oceans 13 in the lounge. I think it is clever use of the term Indoor/Outdoor furniture. Lulu Easy Armchair by Kenneth Cobonpue

Love the nautical feel of this chair compete with sun shade. Janus et Cie

This chair is remarkably cute....from
Anthropology

This chair is what I call CC (cheap & chic). They aren't recommend for outdoor use, but I would use them in a covered area. I used to have a set of these same chairs in tortoise finish in my office boardroom sitting on top of a Persian carpet, around a glass conference table, and they looked fantastic. Somewhere along the way a client had to have them and I didn't know where to get more of them until seeing them at Ballard Designs. But now I am liking the black. I think they would look great on a patio with white cushions, white umbrella and a Parisian style sidewalk table with a black wrought iron base and a carrara marble top.