Home Design & Remodeling

Design Your Dream Home Today!

Create fun and easy designs for any house project. Build realistic 3D models for your home design or interior design using automated building tools. Visualize your new dream home today with Home Designer.

Modern craftsman with turret, flaired hip roof eaves, gable roof, stone accent walls and large windows video. Play

3D Home Design Tools

Create a 3D model that can help to visualize your home projects. Create realistic views with materials, textures and colors. Choose from Day or Night views, Framing, Doll House and Glass House views to see your design from every viewpoint.

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Floor Plan Design

Quickly place and arrange walls, windows and doors to create accurately scaled floor plans. For new plans, select pre–designed Home Design and Landscaping Style Templates or use the House Assistant to lay out your rooms. Download editable sample plans for design inspiration.

Exterior view of a white house with a gable roof. Play

Automated Home Building Tools

With Automated building tools, any time a wall is moved the roof, framing and foundation automatically update.

Open below staircase with curved starter tread and stained wood railing.

Stairs & Ramps

Home Designer's stair tool can create straight, curved, split stairs and ramps with defaults typically used in construction. Customize the number of stair sections, tread height and railing style. An automatic stairwell creates a stair opening between platforms.

Automatic custom roof styles for hip, gable, shed, offset gable, gambrel, gullwing, half-hip mansard and dormer roof. Play

Roof & Ceiling Tools

With Automatic Roof and Ceiling tools, you can create the style that's right for your home. The software automatically creates flat ceilings once the roof is generated and you can create a variety of styles including vault, tray and coffered. Home Designer includes manual roof and ceiling tools where you can create and edit individual roof and ceiling planes.

Visualize Your Project Before You Begin Remodeling

With Home Designer it is easy to lay out your floorplan, re-arrange walls, add a new room, update doors, windows and more. Customize your materials, fixtures, cabinets and appliances to suit your needs and see your designs come to life.

Contemporary modern home with flat roof, brick accents, translucent garage door in the evening real-time ray trace rendering.
Classic kitchen remodel with glass door cabinets, custom backsplash and large island with seating and a waterfall countertop. Play

Kitchen Remodeling

Design the Kitchen of Your Dreams! The secret to a great kitchen design is good planning and design. Create thousands of cabinet combinations with the Cabinet Designer tools. Change countertops, add a kitchen island, fixtures and appliances – it's easy to plan your perfect workspace.

Bath remodel with dual vessel sink vanities, barrier free shower, soaking tub and pebble stone inlay. Play

Bath Remodeling

Remodeling your Primary Bath? Use Home Designer to visualize before you begin your remodeling project. Experiment with cabinets, flooring and fixtures using a built-in architectural Library catalog. Visualize your new bath remodeling project today!

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Experiment & Plan Your Rooms

Create an addition to your home with powerful software building tools. Draw your walls and see the model in 3D. If you change the size of the room, you can immediately see the updated materials list to estimate your costs.

Cost estimating and materials list report and spreadsheet.

Cost Estimating & Materials Lists

What will my new home or remodeling project look like and how much will it cost? Home Designer knows! The program retains all the information on each element such as doors, windows, cabinets, framing, and concrete, and automatically adds it to the materials list in spreadsheet format – making it easy to estimate costs.

3D rendering of wall framing, floor framing and roof framing created automatically for a 2 story house with gable roof.

Automatic & Manual Framing Tools

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

Floor plan with automatic and manual dimensions

Dimensioning Tools

Create accurately scaled floor plans and elevations complete with dimensions. One–click automatic dimensions can create both interior and exterior dimensions – great for construction details.

Chief Architect 3D view app on a tablet.

3D Viewer Models

Export your Home Designer model and view on phones, tablets or the web. 3D Viewer models are interactive virtual reality models. For mobile, download the free Chief Architect 3D Viewer app — available for Apple or Android devices. 3D Viewer models can also be viewed from a web browser — Learn How.

360° Panoramas

Save 360° panoramic renderings of your home designs. View the samples below or load your own!

View your 360° rendering

Interior renderings of a modern kitchen and living room. An interior rendering of the Tucson kitchen. Interior renderings of a modern entry with stairs. Interior rendering of the Tucson living room.