Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Suite 6.0 045-501L Full Download

Note: This is a digital download product only. A cable / DSL connection is strongly recommended for downloading the software as the download is approximately 600MB.  

Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Suite 6.0 is software developed by Chief Architect® for home enthusiast remodeling and home design projects.  Combining the leading-edge home design software from Chief Architect® with the consumer home design editorial expertise of Better Homes and Gardens® magazine editors, we have produced the highest quality software for home design, remodeling and landscaping.  Create realistic 3D Models in minutes for your next home design project.

With Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer you can add as much or as little detail to the design as you want.

Home Design Software Helps You Dream, Design, Plan

Home Design, Remodeling and Landscaping
Interior Design, including Kitchen and Baths
Inspire your designs with the Better Homes and Gardens Design Planning Center from Better Homes and Gardens® magazine editors
Design and visualize in 3D

Choose from a Library of more than 4,300 items for your designs
Generate an Automatic Material List for project cost estimating

3D Models and Virtual Tours

Produce realistic images of your designs and remodeling projects
The 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™
Generate shadows from the sun for realistic 3D views
Design Tools

Use the Exclusive Better Homes and Gardens Design Planning Center to help guide your designs with decorating guidelines, tips and advice
Over 1,500 sample plans to inspire your design

Create a virtual look and feel of the design before it is built with actual colors, wallpaper, flooring, furniture, windows and window treatments
Material Painter™ allows you to apply materials to individual items. For example, change the counter top to Granite, change the cabinets to Cherry Wood, or paint the walls with your favorite color
Define your own lighting and electrical plan
Landscaping and Deck Tools

Landscape design tools to create hills and valleys for custom landscapes
Fence, Garden, Driveway, Path, and other Terrain Feature tools
Create Plot and Perimeter Plans on flat or hillside lots, automatically generate a 3D model of the actual terrain

Deck tools including post-and-beam foundation automatically generated to match your lot

Select from over 1,000 plant, terrain and outdoor items from the Library for custom landscaping
Building Tools

Choose from 6 Better Homes and Gardens style templates
The 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 generate a Materials List into a spreadsheet for complete project estimating

Complete automatic building tools for roof generation, framing, dimensioning, foundations and electrical outlet placement
Easily design kitchens with plans and 3D layouts

Create complete customized cabinets with drag-and-drop
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

A complete set of CAD tools to detail designs
Plan Check™ - automatically validates the design against standard building principles

Minimum System Requirements:

Processor:
400 MHz
Operating System:
Windows® 98 SE, Me, NT, 2000, XP
Memory:
64 MB RAM
Hard Disk:
400 MB of available disk space
Drive:
CD-ROM

Available Options:

1 Year Download (+$9.99) 90 Day Download (+$4.99) Backup FlashDrive Shipped (+$9.99)