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Suite 9.0 is the latest release from Chief Architect, leader in the Professional Home Design Software Industry, now with a new consumer focus just for you! With over 5,000 integrated tools it is perfect for home design, remodeling, interior design, landscaping, decks, cost estimation, and site planning. Design in 2D and 3D or both simultaneously! HOME DESIGN * Virtual Walk-Through: Draw your record line to automatically generate a virtual tour * Choose from over 6,000 library items or download free bonus items * Use Edit Area to select, move, edit, and copy entire regions of your design * Create Rendered Cross-Section Views with photo-realistic textures * Compatible with Chief Architect® (Version X2) REMODELING * Add lighting fixtures to create dramatic views * Choose from over 1,000 cabinets and customize using any style and color * Create accurately scaled floor plans * Change your colors, countertops, and flooring styles with the Material Painter * Ability to Add items to the Library Browser * Create base, wall, full height, curved, corner cabinets, partitions, shelves, and soffits for your kitchen or bath DECKS & LANDSCAPING * Auto-generate decks with the Deck Railing Tool * Choose from over 1,500 popular plants to place and arrange in your landscaping design * Get detailed information from the plant encyclopedia and learn which ones are best for you using the Hardiness Zone Maps * One-Click Hill and Valley tools for realistic landscape modeling * Design free-standing, post-and-beam, tiered, and multi-story decks INTERIOR DESIGN * Place name brand products in your design * Import your own custom colors or materials from a digital photo or website * Quickly visualize colors and textures for walls, floors, and countertops * Thousands of items in the built-in library: furniture, fixtures, lighting, doors, windows, and more * Ability to Export Custom Libraries - Share your libraries with other Home Designer Users

Home Designer 9.0 is the latest release from Chief Architect, leader in the Professional Home Design Software Industry, now with a new consumer focus just for you! Creating your dream home has never been so easy with Home Designer 9.0. Choose from one of over 500 sample plans to inspire your ideas or build your own. Quickly place and arrange walls, windows, doors, furniture, create decks and landscaping. Then visualize what your project will look like with 3D models and Virtual tours. When remodeling, you can move a wall, change a color, add a room, redesign a kitchen, and estimate the costs before you build. You can design in 2D or 3D and automatically calculate square footage. Customize windows and doors with lites, sashes, casings, and shutters, window treatments and more. Automatically generate roofs, framing, dimensioning, foundations, and stairs. Use Edit Area to select, move, edit, and copy entire regions of your design and Create Rendered Cross-Section Views with photo-realistic textures. In designing Kitchens & Baths, Design for your lifestyle and personality change colors, add windows, lighting, and choose furniture to accent and plan and decorate your rooms. Over 1,000 cabinets combinations to choose from; customize using unlimited styles and colors. Define doors, drawers, countertops, and more. Create base, wall, full height, corner cabinets, partitions, shelves, and soffits. Add cabinet details: hinges, handles, and pulls. Add appliances: ovens, ranges, refrigerators, hoods, and more. For landscaping, there are over 500 botanically accurate flowers, trees, and shrubs from tropical to desert. Create gardens, pathways, hills, valleys, pools, ponds, and more. Choose from landscaping style templates or create your own. Use the Pathway tool to design curb-appealing landscaping. Deck and patio tools allow you to design and visualize your new deck with 3D models and can help you estimate the costs.

Architectural Home Designer 9.0 is all-in-one Home Design software and includes: Home Design, Remodeling, Decks & Landscaping, Interior Design, Site Planning & Estimating. It leverages the same professional quality from Chief Architect making it the most powerful and easy to use home design software. Quickly place and arrange walls, windows, doors, and cabinets. Choose colors, place furniture, create decks and landscaping. Powerful building tools like standard CAD tools, automatic roof generation, dormers, stairs, framing, foundations, and Plan Check make it easy. Choose from a Library of more than 3,600 plants and 7,000 items including windows, doors, lighting, furniture, interior/exterior fixtures, cabinets, and more. HOME DESIGN Choose from thousands of styles, colors, wallpaper, flooring, and materials. Move a wall, change a color, add a room, redesign a kitchen, create your own cabinets, and estimate costs before you build. REMODELING Experiment and create models and virtual tours. Arrange walls, windows, doors, decks, and automatically generate 3D models to visualize at any angle. Powerful building and remodeling tools include automatic roof generation, foundations, stairs, and more. INTERIOR DESIGN Choose or import thousands of items to customize your design. Point-and-click to change wall colors, flooring styles, countertops, and more. Choose from name-brand colors and materials or create your own. DECKS & LANDSCAPING Over 1,500 botanically accurate flowers, trees, and shrubs. Create gardens, pathways, hills, valleys, ponds, and more for your outdoor living area. Powerful deck tools allow you to design, visualize, estimate, and build your outdoor living project. SITE PLANNING & ESTIMATING Design your lot and plans with easy terrain tools. Identify your costs and materials for your next project before you begin. Design in 2D or 3D. Add, resize, and automatically dimension your plans.

Punch! Home and Landscape Design with nexGen Technology takes home, landscape, and interior designing to a new level ¿ it¿s EASY!!  With our revolutionary nexGen Technology you can build a new house or replicate your own house in about a minute! NexGen Smart Room technology allows you to simply drag and drop rooms, move or resize at will. Also the new Building Green feature highlights areas that can be updated with energy efficient materials and objects-saving you money!  Web integration lets you shop for materials, find a contractor, or import from Google Sketch Up. With thousands of objects, planting materials, and interior options including decorator palettes and room templates your options are endless.

Take a fresh approach to the way you live with HGTV Home Design & Remodeling Suite, from the #1 home improvement television network. It's perfect for creating a new living space, adding a fireplace, making your home energy efficient with new appliances, replacing countertops, cabinetry and fixtures, enhancing any room to your house with a brand new look.

Punch! Home & Landscape Design Studio with NexGen Technology takes home, landscape, and interior designing to a new level--it's a new way to easier home design for the MAC! With our revolutionary NexGen Technology you can build a new house or replicate your own house in just minutes! New Intelligent Design feature, walls, paint, flooring, and more are moved, changed or updated with a click of the mouse. Building Green--click the feature, scroll over your design and the screen will highlight areas where you can apply environmentally friendly, energy or money saving tips and options. Web integration can add to the already thousands of objects provided in the program's custom library. With thousands of objects, planting materials, and interior options including decorator palettes and room templates your options are endless! Punch! Home & Landscape Design Studio with nexGen Technology, the shortest, most enjoyable learning curve you'll ever have.

Home Designer Pro 9.0 is the latest release from Chief Architect, the professional software design company and the software of choice by more builders, architects and designers. Home Designer Pro leverages the same professional quality from Chief Architect making it the most powerful and easy to use home design, remodeling and landscaping software. HOME DESIGN * Choose from over 5,000 sample plans * Powerful building tools like automatic roof generation, dormers, stairs, framing and foundations * Draw in 2D and 3D or both simultaneously * Record walk-throughs with the stylized views of Rendering Techniques AUTOMATED & MANUAL BUILDING TOOLS * Create any custom roof or ceiling plan with Roof Design tools * Manual framing tools for fully editable framing, including joists, rafters, trusses, beams, posts * Create custom ceilings of any slope and shape including vaulted and cathedral * Automatic Structural Dormers - builds dormers automatically with walls that reach the floor KITCHEN & BATH DESIGN * Create custom cabinets in minutes by choosing your own colors, countertops and door styles * Generate a custom editable countertop from cabinets that are in the plan * Choose from top name-brand appliances to add to your design * Cabinet Countertop layers allow separate control of countertop displays in 2D and 3D DECKS & LANDSCAPING * Design single or multi-level decks using automatic deck framing and an advanced deck framing option * Distribute objects in garden beds, populate your garden beds automatically * Choose from over 3,600 plants and see what your plants will look like in 0-20 years * Show plants with filled colors in your 2D landscape design SITE PLANNING & COST ESTIMATION * Automatic Cost Estimation and Materials list * Automatic Terrain tools create flat, irregular shaped, or sloped lots * Use a GPS to import terrain elevation data * Create rendered cross-section and elevation views with photo realistic textures

Live Interior 3D is a powerful yet very intuitive interior design application for Macintosh. The program has the ability to create multi-story designs and allows the user to make different interiors for every room in the house. The program comes with over 50 editable interiors and floor plans. Live Interior 3D provides users the ability to virtually walk through the created interior, which helps to "get the feel" of the room and realize what needs to be changed. Users also can shoot movies, make screenshots and generate panoramic views of their interiors in high resolution.

Home Designer Pro 9.0 is the latest release from Chief Architect, the professional software design company and the software of choice by more builders, architects and designers. Home Designer Pro leverages the same professional quality from Chief Architect making it the most powerful and easy to use home design, remodeling and landscaping software. HOME DESIGN * Choose from over 5,000 sample plans * Powerful building tools like automatic roof generation, dormers, stairs, framing and foundations * Draw in 2D and 3D or both simultaneously * Record walk-throughs with the stylized views of Rendering Techniques AUTOMATED & MANUAL BUILDING TOOLS * Create any custom roof or ceiling plan with Roof Design tools * Manual framing tools for fully editable framing, including joists, rafters, trusses, beams, posts * Create custom ceilings of any slope and shape including vaulted and cathedral * Automatic Structural Dormers - builds dormers automatically with walls that reach the floor KITCHEN & BATH DESIGN * Create custom cabinets in minutes by choosing your own colors, countertops and door styles * Generate a custom editable countertop from cabinets that are in the plan * Choose from top name-brand appliances to add to your design * Cabinet Countertop layers allow separate control of countertop displays in 2D and 3D DECKS & LANDSCAPING * Design single or multi-level decks using automatic deck framing and an advanced deck framing option * Distribute objects in garden beds, populate your garden beds automatically * Choose from over 3,600 plants and see what your plants will look like in 0-20 years * Show plants with filled colors in your 2D landscape design SITE PLANNING & COST ESTIMATION * Automatic Cost Estimation and Materials list * Automatic Terrain tools create flat, irregular shaped, or sloped lots * Use a GPS to import terrain elevation data * Create rendered cross-section and elevation views with photo realistic textures

Are you longing for a bigger, better, or brand-new home? Stop dreaming and start designing! Featuring professional grade drafting tools in an easy, intuitive interface, 3D Home Architect Home Designer 9 is the jump-start you've been looking for. Convenient wizards help you create basic plans fast, while 3D walk through tours guarantee a flawless finished project. It's easier to get started, easier to access and use your tools and easier than ever to design the home of your dreams -- down to the very last detail. This DVD based design solution is Powered by Punch! Software – the leader in high-end home design software. Home Designer v.9 is Windows/Mac compatible.