Key Features

Complete Home Design Software from the Authority in Color and Design

Everyone has a beautiful house in them.  Discover yours with the amazing new House Beautiful™ Home Design Suite.  Integrated design tools allow you to master a wide variety of projects from interior design to complete home remodeling, all at the click of a mouse.  Envision your home in 3D with incredible tools like fly-throughs and doll house views. 

Want to remodel your kitchen or bath?

House Beautiful™ Home Design Suite makes it easy to transform your kitchen or bath into the room of your dreams.  The Cabinet Wizard™ allows you to create custom cabinetry to fit any space.  Drag-and-drop tools allow you to add appliances, flooring and countertops to envision your room's true potential.  Try wall paper or paint to find a style that is uniquely yours.

Looking to give your home a face lift?

One-click decorator palettes allow you to change or update the look and feel of a room at the click of a mouse.  Try new furniture, window treatments or lighting.  Add a skylight or bay window.  Envision your entryway with wood floors or marble tile.  The possibilities are endless.

Want to improve your curb appeal?

Curb appeal isn't just a buzz word; it's the key to improving your home's value!  House Beautiful™ Home Design Suite allows you to try new doors and windows, remodel your landscape and change the color of your home, all without opening a can of paint.  Add a new porch, patio or deck with the incredible Deck Wizard™.

Give your landscape the edge it needs by planting zone-friendly varietals.  PlantFinder™ will help to ensure your success by letting you select growing parameters, climate, water and soil conditions.  Get the right plant height and spacing for your home using the Automatic Growth Tool which  allows you to see how your landscape will look years from now.

Looking to do a larger home renovation project?

House Beautiful™ Home Design Suite has all the tools you need for room additions, roofing projects and complete home design from scratch.  Work with tools like:

• Room Wizard™
• Foundation Planner
• Electrical Planner
• Plumbing Planner
• Heating, Ventilation and Cooling Planner
• Roofing Wizard™
• Topo Designer™
•  Floorplan Trace™
• Autoframing™ with Framing Editor™

 

Ready to get started with your remodel?  House Beautiful™ Home Design Suite makes it easy to manage your remodeling projects.  Home Estimator™ allows you to easily calculate remodeling costs and materials needed.  Just enter material and labor costs for your local area and Home Estimator™ does the rest!

 

 

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System Requirements

Windows® 2000 SP4/XP (Home and Pro) SP2/Vista™¹
Pentium® IV 1.7 GHz processor or higher (Intel Pentium®, Celeron®, Xeon®, or Centrino™; or AMD® Athlon™, Duron™ or Opteron™ processors are supported)
64 MB RAM (512 MB RAM for Vista)
4.4 GB of free hard disk space
DVD-ROM drive
Video card with 32 MB of video RAM
Display resolution set at 1024 x 768 x 24-bit color (32-bit color recommended)
Internet access
Required to activate product²
Windows compatible mouse and keyboard.

¹Administrator privileges are required to properly install the program on Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista.
²User is responsible for internet service provider account, all internet access fees, and phone charges.

Internet access is required to activate the product and receive a registration number.