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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™ make 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.

Glass House
Use the Glass House™ View to provide a full translucent view of the interior and exterior simultaneously, so you can evaluate your design ideas.

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.

INTERIOR DESIGN

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. Begin with a pre-defined Better Homes and Gardens Home Style Template or choose from one of 1,500 sample plans to inspire your own custom design.

Material Painter™

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

Design Planning Center

The Better Homes and Gardens Design Planning Center provides expert 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.

Bath Designs

Plan the layout of your Bathroom with custom cabinets, sinks, showers, jetted tubs. It’s easy to visualize your ideas in 3D.

Master Bedrooms

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

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I've been tagged

Okay I've been tagged by Joni Cote de Texas , Laura Orange Beautiful and Susan The Kitchen Designer. That is three times now and I can see that there is no avoiding this any longer.......soooo the rules of the game are to divulge 7 facts/habits and bits of trivia about myself.....and try not to embarass myself in the process. Here goes:

1. My favourite color is yellow and always has been ever since I can remember, although I have never worn yellow or used it in my home but I did own a yellow car many years ago.

2. I love ironing. Yes as strange as it seems I find it relaxing and almost meditative. I was raised in a home where ironing was a fine art and I was taught how to properly iron everything from men's shirts to bedsheets and even underwear. To get a perfect ironing job, cotton & linen needs to be dampened and left to cure in the freezer. Then the iron has to be the perfect temperature. Voila perfect crisp ironing. Martha would be so proud of me.

3. I use ironed linen napkins and my silver cutlery at every meal.
4. I recently purchased a magnificent piece of oceanfront property. I fell in love with it on first sight. It is on an island that has no public boat transportation to it. You need to have your own boat to get to it and then you need to have a vehicle on the island to get to the property. The only way to get anything to the island is by barge. I have neither boat or vehicle. To further complicate matters there is no power or other amenities there and I am not exactly what you would call the outdoorsy type more like a girly girl type. But I am sure that I will be able to figure out all these minor details (ha) and one day build my dream home there. So this weekend will be the first time to my property since I purchased it 1 1/2 years ago. I have a friend who has a sail boat. And on Sunday we will set sail for my island property to spend the day. Here is a map of where my property is on Gambier Island.
5. I love dogs - all dogs and especially mine. She is a 4 1/2 pound (soaking wet) Yorkshire Terrier named Nicole. She has a collection of designer clothes and even a Balenciagia carrying bag. She goes to the office with me every day and has her own business card. Her job title is VP of Security. She guards the door against the postman and couriers and when they see her barking ferociously at them, they inevitably laugh .


7. I used to grow roses on my downtown roof top garden in pots and would enter my roses in competitions alongside others that had magnificent & stately acres of gardens. I was told that certain roses could not be grown in pots, especially the rose "Queen Elizabeth" which is of the Grandiflora variety and reaches heights of over 10 feet. I guess I like a challenge and won a blue ribbon for this rose.

7. I am the second person from Vancouver ever to be published in Architectural Digest magazine.There you are for what it's worth. Don't be afraid to leave a comment I won't tag you.