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- Home design software for remodeling, interior design, kitchens and baths, decks and landscaping, and cost estimation
- Take a virtual tour and use 3D views to see what your project will look like before you build
- Design in 2D and 3D or both simultaneously; use built-in style templates; 60,000+ library items
- Intuitive design and smart building tools for your home projects; powerful deck and patio tools; Plant Chooser offers 3,600+ plant options
- Get started quickly with easy how-to videos that offer step-by-step instructions. Includes 1-year of free technical support
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- Product Dimensions : 5.25 x 0.1 x 5.25 inches; 0.71 ounces
- Our Recommended age : 5 - 20 years
- Manufacturer recommended age : 10 years and up
- Item model number : ST2020-18-USB
- Date First Available : November 7, 2018
- Manufacturer : Chief Architect
- ASIN : B07CDKT5GH
- Country of Origin : USA
- Best Sellers Rank: #502 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
- #29 in Home & Hobbies
- #203 in Mac Software
- Customer Reviews:
Product Description
Home Designer Suite is 3D 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 Suite offers intuitive design and automated building tools for your home projects, making designing and visualizing your ideas easy. The software includes default settings that follow standard building practices that simplifies the design process. Home Designer automatically creates a 3D model as you draw the walls. In 3D, you can continue design work – adding cabinets, placing furniture, painting walls, or just visualizing your project. An extensive 3D Library of over 60,000 architectural objects makes it easy to design your perfect space. Home Designer uses smart design objects like doors and windows to create various styles and sizes quickly. Create any cabinet style by choosing colors, countertops, door styles, backsplash, crown molding, and hardware. Home Designer includes automated tools to create site plans, landscaping, decks, and patios. There are over 3,600 plants with detailed information about each plant, including integrated hardiness zone maps. Decking tools include automatic deck framing and a materials list for estimating. Get started quickly with easy how-to videos, step-by-step instructions, and free 1-year technical support. All Home Designer products include a 2-week money-back guarantee.
Minimum System Requirements:
- Operating System: Windows 10 or newer / Mac Monterey or newer
- Processor: 64-bit
- Memory: 8 GB
- Storage: 5 GB available space
- Additional Requirements: PC Video Card: 1. Dedicated Graphics with 4 GB memory e.g., NVIDIA or 2. Integrated Graphics e.g., Intel integrated graphics on 6th generation or newer Intel processors (i3/i5/i7). Mac Video card: Apple M1 or newer OR Intel/AMD card: 4 GB of RAM with support for Metal GPUFamily macOS 2 or newer. Internet access required for installation, license authentication, deactivation and video & library catalog access. Internet access for license authentication is required once every 14 days
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Home Design
Home Designer Suite 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.
Choose from built-in home style templates, create your own custom home design.
Use the House Assistant to space plan your rooms and room layout.
Design in 2D and 3D or both simultaneously.
Choose from over 6,000 library items or download free bonus items to customize your design.
Use powerful building tools like automatic roof generation, dormers, stairs, framing, foundations, dimensions and terrain.
Choose from Final View, Glass House, Doll House, Night Views and Elevations to see your design from every point of view.
Export Renderings as 360 images and view with Virtual Reality - VR goggles.
Export your Home Designer model and view on phones, tablets or the web. 3D Viewer models are interactive virtual reality models.
Remodeling
Home Designer can help you plan, visualize, and estimate the costs before you begin your project. Create a new room or addition to your home, remodel your kitchen or bath, and visualize floor and space planning.
Move a wall, change a color, add a room, redesign a kitchen and estimate the costs – all before you remodel.
A built-in Materials List helps you calculate all of your costs.
Change your colors, countertops, finishes and flooring styles with Material Painter.
Move or resize walls by clicking on the wall and moving or entering a precise dimension.
Kitchens & Baths
Create thousands of cabinet combinations, change your countertop material, add appliances and fixtures, create custom colors and materials, and more!
Interior Design
Give your home the look and feel you want. Choose from thousands of styles, colors, flooring and materials. Design and decorate your living, dining, kitchen, kid’s rooms or master bedroom.
Place name brand products in your design including: Cultured Stone, Sherwin Williams, Benjamin Moore, Behr Paints, Jenn-Air Appliances, and more.
Drag-and-drop from thousands of design objects in the built-in Library organized by category.
Choose from a variety of interior items including chairs, tables, sofas, fabrics and accessories. Resize and change colors and materials.
Quickly place and arrange walls, windows, doors, cabinets, choose colors and accessories.
Turn lights off and on in your design with a single click Material Painter allows you to change the color and material of any object in your design including cabinets, countertops, walls and flooring.
Landscape & Decks
Create beautiful landscapes, terrain features, gardens and decks for your perfect outdoor living spaces!
Powerful deck and patio tools allow you to design and visualize your new deck with 3D models and can help you estimate the costs.
Design straight, curved, single level or multi-level decks.
Use Automatic Build Terrain and Terrain Perimeter tools to create flat, irregular shaped or sloped lots.
Use a GPS to import elevation data.
Choose from over 3,600 plants with the Plant Chooser.
User Resources: Download Free and Paid Library Content from the 3D Library / Online Training Videos & Training Webinars. /
& Technical Support.
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Customers like the quality of the software. They say it's a fantastic program and worth the money. However, some customers have reported issues with usability, saying that the product is unusable and does not operate as a casual user. Opinions are mixed on ease of use.
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Customers are satisfied with the quality of the software. They mention that it's a fantastic program, great product, and worth the money. Some say that the software works fine with only minor glitches. Overall, most are happy with their purchase and recommend it to others.
"...Easy to use for on the spot designing, great features, and great value for the price...." Read more
"...Chief Architect on an older model Toshiba Laptop... The software worked fine with only minor glitches in learning curve..." Read more
"...shows the materials list, changes to design are easy, it is a fantastic program" Read more
"Designer Suite worked great for me! After watching the tutorial I was able to navigate my way through the suite creating a great virtual space!" Read more
Customers are mixed about the ease of use. Some mention it's a great design program for quick, easy layouts, and intuitive to use. They say the program offers many videos and step-by-step guides on how to use it. However, others say that it'd be difficult to learn, cumbersome, and too complicated.
"...Upgrades are available for this program as whole. Technical support is awesome!!! I had trouble with a bad USB, trying to install on new computer...." Read more
"...There are definitely some tricks to doing less simple things, but it seems like almost anything is possible if you are willing to put in the effort..." Read more
"...Very good for designing a basic box with some basic roof styles...." Read more
"...They do offer many videos and step by step guides on how to use and once you get started learning it, it starts to flow easier...." Read more
Customers find the usability of the physical software to be poor. They mention that it does not operate as a casual user, and is a complete waste of money.
"this product dos not operate as a casual user (or a person who has reviewed and developed many plans on paper) would expect, and learning tools are..." Read more
"...I can’t seem to make it do what I want, so for me it was a complete waste of money. Sorry for being negative!..." Read more
"Unusable..." Read more
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If you've had a punch pro program before, then you know the basics of this program, The rest just takes time to learn. Use the manuals, you will need them. There's sub categories after sub categories, furniture, cabinets, plants, walls, textiles, flooring, appliances, and all the colours to change everything. There are additional catalogs you can download from chief architect. Most are free. 3D views and walk through is also on the program. You will occasionally beat your head on your desk. I've had the program a year and am still learning. Upgrades are available for this program as whole. Technical support is awesome!!! I had trouble with a bad USB, trying to install on new computer. Called talked to 3 ppl. Email my receipt, had a new download available immediately, a new USB drive in the mail. ALL IN UNDER 10 MIMUTES of my time. They were great! I'm sure other technical problems could take longer, but I haven't had any.
Nice, efficient. Helpful and polite.
Keep in mind the company also released a 2022 version. So, for the last 2 years, what's being sold is the 2021 version, even though a newer version had already been released.
You can get a free update to the 2023 version. But, be prepared to jump through a few hoops -- and to give the company all your personal information (why do they need that??).
At this point, you have to assume the out-of-date 2021 version is being sold on purpose, with the hope that at least some buyers don't know, or don't bother, to get the free update to 2023 right after they make the purchase. That way, there's the likelihood that some of those users will then end up coming back to pay for an update sooner than they might otherwise have (i.e., you'll want an update sooner if you have the 2021 version versus having started with the 2023 version).
Seems pretty suss.
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Problem is many of the options are disabled unless you buy the Home Designer Pro version for an additional $ 400 to 500 US. That seems to be thier business model, They claim to offer free trials but when I downloaded on with would not run on a newer Microsoft Surface Pro Tablet Running Win10. They blamed my device yet I installedbthe bought copy on an older less powerful laptop. They dont seem to care about individual customer satisfaction, they're happy sell with an "in for a penny, in for a pound" model knowing you will need to upgrade. I would prefer to know that up front before spending the time required to learn hoe to use program. There are many tutorials that show great features, but it is not clear what your getting with this Home Designer Suite.
Thier website differentiates versions as Good Better Best but is challenging to see that you need Professional to do simple things like changing directions of Floor Joists or to create any Beams.
So realize this is a sampler and you will need to upgrade if you want to build anything.