Home Designer Essentials 2015 [Download] by Chief Architect

Home Designer Essentials is fun & easy home design software for DIY home enthusiasts. Created by Chief Architect, so you can enjoy the same type of tools that the professionals use for home design, interior design, and outdoor living. Home Designer Essentials offers intuitive design and smart building tools for your home projects.

Home Design

Home Designer Essentials makes it easy to design and visualize your ideas with smart building and powerful design tools. The tools have commonly accepted defaults for most building practices to assist you in your home design projects.

• Floor and space planning – use to size and visualize rooms for remodeling or redecorating
• Quickly place and arrange walls, windows, doors, furniture, create decks and landscaping
• Automatically generate a cost estimation and materials list for your project
• Design in 3D and 2D Plan View simultaneously and visualize your design ideas
• Easy to use automated building tools for roofs, stairs, framing, cabinets and more
• Tools like automatic roof generation, dormers, stairs, framing, foundations, dimensions and terrain

Remodeling

Visualize your next remodeling project before you begin and save time and money. Move a wall, change a color, add a room, redesign a kitchen and estimate the costs – all before you remodel.

• Adjust room and wall sizes by clicking on the wall and moving or by entering a specific dimension
• Insert doors, windows and skylights with One-Click tools
• Use the Color Chooser to create the perfect color for your walls, floors, furniture and accessories
• Assign costs for materials with descriptions and quantities to estimate your project
• Create a Virtual Tour-by recording your camera movements
• Build Floors automatically with floor and ceiling structures
• Import plans from the free Chief Architect Room Planner mobile App

Interior Design

Home Designer automatically creates a 3D model as you draw the walls. And in 3D you can continue design work – adding cabinets, placing furniture, painting walls or just visualizing your project.

• Choose from thousands of colors, materials and textures to apply to your rooms
• Choose from a variety of the latest interior items—including cabinets, chairs, tables, sofas, fabrics, and accessories
• 3D camera tools: Glass House, Doll House and Final View for -realistic 3D images
• Cabinet Designer Tools – choose from over 1,000 cabinets and customize using a wide variety of styles and colors

Landscape & Deck

It’s easy to quickly design the virtual look and feel of your backyard, deck, patio, pool or any outdoor project. Create the virtual look and feel before you build.

• Create custom landscaping or site plans in 2D and 3D
• Choose from over 500 realistic landscaping plants
• Design single or multi-level decks including free-standing, tiered and post-and-beam
• Create driveways and sidewalks
• Define decking materials, place and arrange outdoor furniture to correctly size your deck or patio

User Resources

• Download Library Content from the 3D Library
• Online Training Videos & Training Webinars
• Technical Support

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PC System Requirements

• Windows 8 / 7 / Vista
• 2.4 GHz processor or multi-core processor
• 2 GB of memory (32 bit) or 4 GB of memory (64 bit)
• Video Card: 1. Dedicated Graphics with 512 MB memory e.g., NVIDIA or ATI – OR – 2. Integrated Graphics e.g., Intel HD Graphics (driver 2012 or newer)
• 5 GB of available hard disk space
• Internet access*

*Internet access required for installation, license authentication, deactivation, video and library catalog access. Internet access for license validation is required once every 30 days.

	Home Designer Interiors	Home Designer Essentials	Home Designer Suite	Home Designer Arhitectural	Home Designer Professional
Home Design	Good	Good	Better	Best	Best
Interior Design	Best	Good	Better	Best	Best
Remodeling	Better	Good	Better	Best	Best
Decks & Landscaping	–	Good	Better	Best	Best
Kitchens & Baths	Best	Good	Better	Best	Best
Professional Tools	–	–	–	–	Best

Platforms

Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8

Product Features

• DIY home software for designing, remodeling, interior designing and landscaping
• Visualize home-design projects with 3D models and virtual tours before getting started
• House Assistant and 500+ viewable sample plans; floor and space planning
• Choose from 500+ realistic landscaping plants; automatically generate a cost estimate
• Get started quickly with easy how-to videos that offer step by step instructions; includes free technical support

More Details
Publisher: Chief Architect	Category: Home & Garden Design	Binding: Software Download	Language: English

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