Changing Room Materials

QUESTION

I would like to change the floor, ceiling, and wall materials in a specific room. How is this accomplished?

ANSWER

While creating a plan using Home Designer, you may want to change what materials are applied to the floor, ceiling, and walls of a room. This article describes how to change the materials of a room using the Room Specification dialog.

To change the materials in a room

1. Using the Select Objects tool, click inside of a room to select it, then click on the Open Object edit button.
   
   
   Note: You can also change materials on a per-floor or per-room type basis by navigating to Edit> Default Settings> Floors and Rooms.
   
   
2. On the Materials panel, select a room component (e.g. Ceiling Finish, Floor Finish, Walls).
   
   
   
   
   
3. With the component selected, click the Select Material button.
   
   
   
4. In the Select Material dialog that opens, locate and select the desired material, then click OK.
   
   
   Note: If a plan has been started with a particular template, it may already have some of these objects pre-defined with certain materials. To have complete control over editing these options, start a plan using the Default Style template.
   
   
5. Repeat steps 2-4 for each additional room component.
   
   
   
6. Click OK to close the dialog and confirm the changes. The selected materials will now be visible in camera views going forward.