Architectural Home Designer

Create Your Dream Home...
Better Homes and Gardens Architectural Home Designer provides an advanced yet easy to use set of tools for Home Design, Remodeling, Interior Design, Kitchens, Baths, Decks, Landscaping, Site Planning and Cost Estimation.

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Exclusive All-in-One Home Design Solution

Exclusive All-in-One Home Design Solution

Get Started Quickly and Easily

Get Started Quickly and Easily

  • The Quick Startup Options Guide will help you begin with "How-To" tutorials based on the type of your project
  • Use the House Wizard™ for quick and easy layout of your rooms
  • Select from the pre-designed Home Design and Landscaping Style Templates complete with colors, cabinets, decks and more
  • Exclusive Design Planning Center for up-to-date How-To and Design Tips from the experts to help in your design process
  • Includes Step-by-Step Tutorial DVD Packed with over 40 easy "step-by-step" tutorial training videos that will quickly get you started on your next home design project
Kitchen and Bath Design

Kitchen and Bath Design

Interior Design

Interior Design

  • Use the Better Homes and Gardens Design Planning Center to help guide your designs with guidelines, tips and expert advice
  • Design Inspiration Gallery – Our gallery of photos will help you to jump start your design and decorating style ideas with inspirational photos by rooms
  • Material Painter® lets you apply colors and materials quickly and easily
  • Choose from thousands of colors and textures or create your own materials using a digital photograph
  • Design for your lifestyle and personality – change colors, add lighting and choose furniture to accent your new room
Decks and Landscaping

Decks and Landscaping

3D Models and Virtual Tours

3D Models and Virtual Tours

  • Design in 2D and 3D. 3D Views are automatic with a point-and-click of the camera tool.
  • Glass House™ View provides a full translucent view of your design
  • Doll House™ View, a 3D overview without the roof, is an effective tool for space planning of furniture placement and traffic flow
  • Create a Virtual Tour – draw your record line to Automatically Generate; or record your camera movements
  • Visualize your home with day and night views
  • Assemble a scale model of your design with Model Maker™
  • Generate shadows from the sun for realistic 3D views
  • Point-and-click to remove wall surfaces, or use 3D Cross-Section Elevation Slider™ to quickly create a 3D slice of your desired view
Site Planning & Estimating

Site Planning & Estimating

Includes Free How-To Tutorial DVD – with over 40 How-To Videos


Made and supported in the USA.
Minimum System Requirements:
Windows XP/Vista
1.2 GHz processor
2 GB of available disk space
512 MB of Memory on XP
1 GB of Memory on Vista
DVD drive
works with Windows Vista