HGTV Home Design & Remodeling Suite

Roscoe Martin • 11 years ago

Want to see how existing furnishings and wall hangings will look in your new room? It’s easy. HGTV Home Design & Remodeling software lets you import any photograph into your design. Even add personal photographs to visualize your family or even pets in your new homeDesign Your Dream Home with Help from HGTV, the No. 1 home improvement television network. Take a fresh approach to the way you live, including building a green kitchen, with HGTV Home Design & Remodeling Suite.

Design Your Dream Home with Help from HGTV.

Easily draw out your room. Then choose materials and furnishings just by dragging and dropping. Click to enlarge.

Perfect for creating a new living space. Click to enlarge.

All the tools for creating winning kitchens & baths. Click to enlarge.

Are you looking to update a living room, bedroom or other space but aren’t really sure where to begin? HGTV Home Design & Remodeling Suite makes the process a cinch. Easily draw out your room. Then choose materials and furnishings just by dragging and dropping.

This new software is perfect for creating a new living space; adding a fireplace; making your home energy efficient with new appliances; replacing countertops, cabinetry and fixtures; and enhancing any room in your house with a brand new look. You can import digital photos of your home’s exterior or interior and instantly change paint colors. You can even design your dream home from scratch.

And it’s easier than ever–no design experience necessary! Just point and click!

Room Makeovers
Interior Design and Remodels
HGTV How-To Video Library
Kitchens & Baths
Landscaping & Tools
Home Design
Cost Estimating

Get Professional Tips from HGTV’s Video Library and a printed user guide to get you started and keep your creativity flowing. A variety of important topics are included, all to ensure your home improvement project turns out just as you dreamt it! Subjects include:

Interior Paint Finishings
Improving Your Kitchen
Artistic Backsplashes
Framing Windows
Carpets
Mold Prevention Methods
And Much More

Easy Room Makeovers with multiple options–or you can start with your own digital pictures. Import digital photos of home furnishings–or family photos–into your one-of-a-kind design!

Create virtual tours to visualize your finished living space before you ever start your project. Click to enlarge.

HGTV Home Design & Remodeling software makes it easy to design the kitchen of your dreams. Click to enlarge.

Hundreds of 3D Appliances, Furnishings, Lighting and More! Customize your space by selecting countertops, furniture and appliances in every style imaginable. Everything you need to plan, design, customize and create.

HGTV Home Design & Remodeling software makes it easy to design the kitchen of your dreams. Easily refinish cabinets, replace countertops, update appliances, and more. Even add decorative hoods and backsplashes and more functional eating areas.

Plan Your HGTV Green Kitchen. Kitchens are the energy hog of the home. Between refrigerators and the ovens, cooktops and dishwashers, microwaves and small appliances, it’s easy to see how a kitchen can cook up most of your energy bill. HGTV Home Design & Remodeling software will help you to plan and visualize a ne, updated kitchen, complete with new, more energy-efficient appliances.

Wizard-Driven Interface makes any project fast and easy. There’s even free tech support!

Photorealistic 3D Technology for unparalleled visualization capacity. 3D Real View makes it possible to conduct your own virtual walkaround.

Sample Home Plans for a fast start and virtually limitless creative options and innovations. Create your own floorplan in minutes or, create your own door and window styles, cabinets, lighting and window coverings. Build in everything from electrical outlets and switches to home networking and theatre systems. Plus: automatic roof placement, complete HVAC and plumbing, easy material selection–brick, stone, siding–and more.*

Landscaping Tools
Choose from hundreds of plants, fences, gates and more to plan beautiful, functional landscapes.

Plan and visualize a new, updated kitchen, complete with new, more energy-efficient appliances.

It’s easy to plan even the most challenging project. Click to enlarge.

The changes you make in 3D are simultaneously made to your 2D plan–automatically. Click to enlarge.

Hundreds of 3D models to choose from. Click to enlarge.

Summary of Features for Makeovers and Remodeling

Flexible Interior Design Features

Replace Paint and Fabric:
Take a digital picture of any room and visualize your new space.
Flooring Materials Library:
Woods, tiles, carpets and more
Countertops Library, including granites and marbles
Brand Name Content and Materials
Complete Furniture & Appliance Library:
Hundreds of 3D models to choose from

Realistic Visualization Features

Design in Photorealistic 3D:
The changes you make in 3D are simultaneously made to your 2D plan–automatically.
3D Walkthrough:
Create virtual tours to visualize your finished living space before you ever start your project.
Accurate Natural Lighting:
Visualize your home’s interior at different times of day.
Easy Zoom and Navigation
And Much More!

Powerful Home Design Features

Intelligent Walls:
Easily draw interior and exterior walls that automatically connect and repair.
Doors:
Use the Door Wizard to add simple doors, bi-fold doors, French doors, sliding doors, garage doors and more.
Windows:
Just click along a wall to insert casement, hung, sliding, bay, vent, hopper or louvered windows, plus windows in virtually any shape.
Hundreds of lighting fixtures

*Requires Internet connection

Product Features

Build a Green Kitchen—HGTV will help you plan and visualize a new, updated kitchen, complete with new, more energy-efficient appliances
Wizard-driven interface makes any project easy, plus HGTV How-To Video Tips and a printed user guide to get you started
Photorealistic 3D Technology with virtual walkaround and thousands of 3D appliances, furniture, lighting and more
Easy room makeovers–start with your own digital picture
Includes free technical support

R. Landers says:

August 21, 2013 at 4:57 am

Solid product, but only if you take the time to learn it The reviews for this HGTV home design software are quite mixed. But the consistent thing about them is that the people that don’t like the program never took the time to learn how to use it.Don’t fool yourself – this is a complex program. Despite all of the advertisements that it is “easy,” it is basically a dumbed-down CAD (computer-aided design) program. It is easier than using most architect-quality programs, but it is much harder than learning Word. This is not jump-in-and-design-a-house kind of program.If you have used CAD programs before, you will probably not have too much trouble adapting to this software. Some of the mappings are odd (it took me a while to find where to access positioned cameras, for example), but they’re there. If you haven’t used CAD programs before, I’d guess you will need at least 2 or 3 hours simply to learn how to navigate the program (and even have an idea as to what kinds of things you can do with it) before even trying to create your own house. If you don’t take the 2 or 3 hours to run through online tutorials and at least skim through the 698-page user manual, you will get lost, and you will be frustrated. You have been warned.So if all you are interested in is creating a basic nearly-to-scale representation of your home and see what different colors would look like on the wall, expect to put 5+ hours to get to that point. If you want it to be accurate down to the inch with picture-perfect furniture, it will take you much, much longer. As an example, I have used CAD programs before, so I jumped straight in, and it took me about 4 hours to put together the structure of the house alone (although wall placement is accurate to the inch). So that’s not including any floor coverings, walls, paint, appliances, cabinets, etc, which I imagine will take at least as long, if not more.Overall, it’s a fairly high quality product marketed to people accustomed to the ease of use of an iPod, and I think that’s its only real flaw. If you’re willing to put in the hours to learn the software, you can get exactly what you’re dreaming of: a working 3D virtual model of your home, from carpet to ceiling fans, that you can redecorate at will to see how that new arrangement of furniture in your bedroom will look without having to scuff the floors.

J. Bader says:

August 21, 2013 at 5:00 am

Disappointing Several years ago I bought another program to do simple floor plans and 3D visuals, so I was familiar with the basics. I agree that you need to read the book and put some time into studying this program, but it’s not that complicated. I was creating a floor plan within minutes. After I’d put in some interior walls, I tried to add windows to the outside of the house. The program refused to put the windows on exterior walls. It would let me add them between rooms, but not on the outside. I emailed Nova Development customer support with the question and waited two days for an response that did not answer the question, but said that the Home Design and Remodeling Suite is not for exterior design and I should upgrade to their more expensive program. I’ve experimented and found that I can add exterior windows, but I had to trash my previous work and start over.A gable roof is probably the most basic roof design and is shown on the outside of the product box. The program did not seem to offer a gable roof as an option. I called customer support and was able to get through to a representative in reasonable time. I asked him about the gable roof and he didn’t know. He put me on hold for a while and told me that no, gable roofs were not an option. This program is seriously limited.I’m now sketching my layouts on graph paper looking for a better design program.

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