Home Designer Suite Review

What makes Home Designer Suite 2018 great software?

Home Designer Suite 2018 (HDS) is known for its extensive and powerful tools and features that help you create the design of your digital dream home smoothly. It not only assists you in customizing the interior of your house but you can also design your outdoor living space as per your choices.  This online house plan software enables you to opt between working with an inbuilt sample template and building a custom floor plan of your choice.

HDS offers multiple view options such as the aerial view, dollhouse view and glasshouse view so that you can view your home in various ways. The camera angle tools of this software helps you get different views of your 3D design model. You can also make a custom walkthrough video of your 3D home design by setting the camera angles and guiding the camera through your home. It also allows you to record your walkthrough and share the same with your family, friends and colleagues.

The materials paintbrush allows you to modify the color and texture of any and every item within your template. You can also reposition furniture pieces to areas as per your convenience. The designer suite also comes with a cost estimator tool to help you budget your design project. The cost estimator helps you plan your home renovations by generating a spreadsheet of each and every cost required for redesigning your home.

This Suite comes with amazing design and construction tools for beginners. The Home Builder Wizard helps you create your design on a blank 2D floor plan. Before generating a floor plan for you, the wizard asks you few simple questions related to the quantity of rooms, square footage of your house along with some other questions. The floor plan is generated on the basis of your answers. Thereafter, all you need to do is reposition the rooms as per your convenience.

The advanced tools of this home designer software helps you pick the type of fences, fireplaces, staircases and decks of your choice. If you are a novice user, these tools are perfect for you as they save your precious time. The Suite of 2018 also helps you insert plumbing and electrical plans to your layout and design. If you are planning to revamp your entire property, this software provides you with several terrain tools to assist you in landscaping around your house. It allows you to add gardens, hills, decks and much more. You can also utilize the extensive list of plants, trees and flowers to jazz up the landscape of your dream home. The program has a plant library that features over 1500 plant options.

The object library of the design suite comes with over 6000 objects. You can choose from a wide variety of beds, couches and other furniture pieces along with entertainment centers. Besides offering an extensive list of interior objects, the program also consists of an extensive list of objects meant for outdoor living space. There is a wide array of patio furniture as well as external light fixtures to render a cozy feeling to your property. Once you pick an object of your choice, you can customize your 3D home with your chosen items using the materials paintbrush.

Home Designer Suite 2018 is also popular for its efficient help and support services. Though this application is quite easy to use, it offers multiple support resources to solve your queries and problems. The manufacturer of this software offers more than 30 tutorial videos to guide you through the tools and features offered by this software. Besides this, there are several “how to” articles including a user forum on the manufacturer’s website to assist you with the various aspects of this software. You can also avail telephone and email support in case you want to talk to a customer support representative.

If you are a novice user or a DIY enthusiast looking for the best home design software, for remodeling your property, your search ends here; Home Designer Suite with its versatile feature can help you redesign your entire property flawlessly without much time and effort.

Why choose Home Designer Suite 2018 as your software?

• User-friendly and does an excellent job.
• Perfect for aspiring designers, professionals and homeowners.
• Useful video tutorials help you get started with the software easily.
• Generates impressive pictures of your design.
• Enables you to design and visualize your home with highly developed design tools that are quite easy to use.
• Inbuilt style templates and House Wizard enable you to design customized house plan.
• Allows you to design your plan in 2D and 3D simultaneously.
• Comes with robust building tools such as automatic roof generators, framing, stairs, dimensions, terrains, and more.
• Consists of a huge object library of more than 6,000 design items. You can also download free extra items for customizing your layout.
• Excellent help and support services that include free technical support, free training webinars and free online training videos.
• Deck and patio tools enable you to design stunning landscapes, decks and gardens.

Read below for the features, specifications and system requirements

Features

• Virtual tour feature helps you view your design in 2D and 3D simultaneously so that you can find out how your project will look like before you start building the same.
• Offers multiple viewing options, such as— Final View, Doll House view, Glass House, Night View and Elevations.
• Consists of inbuilt style templates.
• Object library consists of more than 6000 items.
• While Plant Chooser allows you to choose from over 1,500 plants, Grow Plants tool help you fine-tune the maturity of the plants so that you can visualize how the mature plants and trees will look after several years. Besides this, the plant encyclopaedia provides you with all necessary information about the plants chosen by you in your landscape design.
• Cost Estimating tool automatically generates a comprehensive spreadsheet of your project expenditure.
• Fencing tools helps you choose from wide variety of fencing styles, custom gates, driveways, curbing tools and more.
• Material Painter tool allows you to apply colours as well as materials quickly and easily.
• Drag and drop feature enable you to drag and drop from countless design objects included in the inbuilt object library.

Specifications

• Price: $99.99
• Operating System: Windows
• Package type: Retail

System Requirements

• Windows 8 / 7 / Vista / XP
• 2.4 GHz processor
• 2GB of Memory (32 bit OS)
• 4GB of Memory (64 bit OS)
• 256MB of dedicated video memory, supporting OpenGL 2.1 or higher
• High speed Internet for: registration, video access, content download
• 6GB of disk space