Home Design Software

Design Your Dream Home Today!

Design your dream home today using 3D house design software by professionals at Chief Architect. Visualize what your home, Remodeling, Interior Design, Kitchens & Baths, Decks & Landscaping, and Cost Estimation. Built-in templates and automated building tools make it easy for anyone. Save time and money and start designing or remodeling your dream today!

– Home Designer, It’s Fun & It’s Easy!

Design in 3D

With a variety of 3D camera tools, you can create realistic views of your design with materials, textures, light, shadows and more. Choose from Day or Night Views, Framing Views, Cross-Sections, Elevations, Glass House, Overhead Doll House Views, and others to see your design from every view point. Take a virtual tour and or use 3D models to know exactly what your project will look like before you build or start your next home project - save time and money with 3D home design software!

Visualize Your Ideas

Choose from thousands of the latest furnishings - flooring, tile, wall coverings, countertops, cabinets, tables, sofas, fabrics, and accessories. Visualize new colors, materials, textures on any items to visualize your home or room project. The Material Painter^® allows you to change the color and material of any element in your design. Import photos or name brand products to make your specific or unique. Give your home the exact look and feel you desire.

Have Fun & Raise the Roof

A 2D floor plan can only provide a simple view of your home. 3D views add life and a sense of realism for your home project so you can experience it before you build or remodel. There are several great tools in Home Designer to help with your house project like the Doll House camera - see your floor plan in 3D and look down into your design without the roof or ceiling - great for decorating or floor and space planning!

Cross-Sections & Elevation Views

Remove a 3D slice from your design and create a new detailed view using the 3D cross section elevation slider. From front to back, or side to side, this tool will let you look through your design from any point. This is a great tool to help you communicate the details of your design. In addition, you can also point-and-click to remove wall surfaces or use the elevation camera tools to produce architectural style views.

Over 5,000 Sample Plans

Choose from over 5,000 sample home plans to get your design ideas started. Or you can choose from 80 fully editable sample plans that you can customize to your specific needs. If you can’t find the sample to fit your needs use the House Wizard or create your own custom design.

Floor Plans

Quickly place and arrange walls, windows and doors to create accurately scaled floor plans. When you begin a new floor plan, select from the pre-designed Home Design and Landscaping Style Templates complete with colors, cabinets, decks and more. Templates include American Casual, Arts & Crafts, Colonial, Country Cottage, Mediterranean Influence, Today’s Traditional and Urban Chic/Contemporary.

Design any Style Roof or Ceiling

With Automatic Roof & Ceiling tools, you can create the style that's right for your home. Create trey, coffered or vaulted ceilings. Choose from a variety of styles using our Roof Designer tools - hip, gable, gullwing, salt box, and shed. For custom roofs, Home Designer Pro includes manual roof tools where you can create and shape each individual roof plane.

Dormer Options

Easily Place Dormers & Skylights

The Auto Dormer tools make it easy place dormers. Simply choose the location on your roof and click to place. The program will create all the structural elements for you so the framing and roof cutout will be accurate. It’s easy to change the roof and window styles for any dormer. Skylights work the same way – click to place and then size it the way you desire. Skylights show natural light into your model so you can easily see the effects they create.

Stair Options

Stair & Ramp Tools

Click-and-drag to place straight, split or curved stairs or ramps in your design. You can then customize the railings, stringers, treads, slope and more. There is an automatic stairwell tool to create the opening on the floor above the stairs. Additionally, you can use the One-Click Stair tool to automatically draw stairs and ramps from decks or landings.

Automatic Framing Tools

Use the framing tools to automatically create the structure for your design. Floor build automatically. For each room, define floor and ceiling heights and the platform dimensions - framing will automatically update. Visualize framing in 3D with the Framing camera. Every framing member, including decking, is automatically added to the materials list. Manual framing tools are in Home Designer Pro - great for custom framing.

House Design Wizard

Use the House Wizard to layout your designs quickly. Specify the number of floors, rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms and more. Then click and drag to arrange the room boxes to create your layout. Once you have the rooms arranged, you can easily convert the boxes into a floor plan.

Cost Estimating

What will my new home or remodeling project look like and how much will it cost? With Home Designer, you will know before you build. Don't be surprised by the cost of your project. Automatically generate a complete spreadsheet for your project costs, broken down by category - flooring, concrete, sheet rock, countertops. Calculate the amount of lumber for your deck or concrete required for that new patio - generate a cut or buy list to make easy. Save Time and Money Before You Remodel or Build.

Site Planning

Design your lot and landscaping with easy to use terrain tools. Identify costs and materials for your next project before you begin! Use Automatic Build Terrain and Terrain Perimeter tools to create flat, irregular shaped or sloped lots – use a GPS to import or enter elevation data.

Help Center – Get Started Quickly!

The Getting Started Guide will help you begin with "How-To" tutorials based on the type of your project. You can also choose from over 90 easy "step-by-step" tutorial training videos that will quickly get you started on your next home design project. Live online training is available on a weekly basis and you can access this training via the Internet. Home Talk is a User Forum where you can ask questions from a community of users. Finally we offer great technical support by qualified in-house professionals.