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Chief Architect Home Designer Essentials 10
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Home Designer Essentials is an entry-level title to help you with your home design, remodel and landscaping projects. With over 4,000 library items you can create your perfect design. It's fun and easy--start your project today!

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Home Design

Creating your dream home has never been so easy. Visualize what your home design project will look before you build or remodel with 3D models and Virtual Tours.

Use House Wizard to choose your rooms and then drag them to your design layout configuration to generate a floor plan
Choose from over 500 sample floor plans to help generate ideas
Automatically generate a cost estimation and material list for your project
Design in 3D and 2D Plan View simultaneously and visualize your design ideas
Easy-to-use automated building tools for roofs, stairs, framing, cabinets, and more

Remodeling

Visualize your next remodeling project before you begin and save time and money. Move a wall, change a color, add a room, redesign a kitchen and estimate the costs--all before you remodel.

Create the Virtual Look and Feel Before beginning your next project
Insert doors, windows and skylights with One-Click tools
Use the Color Chooser to create the perfect color for your walls, floors, furniture and accessories
Assign costs for materials: descriptions, quantities, costs to estimate your project
Create a Virtual Tour--by recording your camera movements

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Interior Design

Experiment with your interior design ideas using 3D models, virtual tours and advanced design tools. It's easy to make your decorating ideas come to life.

Choose from thousands of colors and textures or create your own materials using a digital photograph
Drag and drop thousands of items from the Library Browser. Easily change the size, color or material.
Generate new floors automatically based on your current floor plan design
Advanced 3D camera tools: Glass House, Doll House and Final View for truly photo-realistic 3D images
Cabinet Designer Tools--choose from over 1,000 cabinets--customize using unlimited styles and colors

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Landscaping & Decks

It's easy to quickly design the virtual look and feel of your backyard, deck, patio, pool or any outdoor project. Create the Virtual Look and Feel Before You Build!

Create custom landscaping or site plans in 2D and 3D
Choose from over 500 realistic landscaping plants
Design single or multi-level decks including free-standing, tiered and post-and-beam
Create driveways, sidewalks and pathways
Define decking materials, place and arrange outdoor furniture to correctly size your deck or patio

Get Started Quickly!

The Quick Startup Options Guide will help you begin with "How-To" tutorials based on the type of your project. You can also choose from over 25 easy "step-by-step" tutorial training videos that will quickly get you started on your next home-design project. Live online training webinars are available on a weekly basis and you can access this training via the Internet. Home Talk is a User Forum you can ask question from the community of users. Finally we offer great technical support by qualified in-house professionals.