Best Buy Ratings and Reviews

Best Buy Ratings and Reviews

Customer Reviews for Home & Landscape Design Studio - Mac

Home & Landscape Design Studio - Mac

Model: 8032569
SKU: 9178221
UPC: 664446228000
Bring your home design ideas to life in minutes with the powerful technology of Home & Landscape Design Studio. Whether you're looking to update your current home or design a new house from scratch, the fast and intelligent NexGen Technology makes it simple to plan your dream home, from floor plan to interior design to landscaping. Experiment with bold new looks or money-saving and environmentally friendly green design concepts. With Home & Landscape Design Studio, you can visualize the impact of your ideas before you implement them, ensuring you've made the best choices for your home before you begin to invest in building or remodeling. Home & Landscape Design Studio offers an array of options for customizing your home design, interior design and landscaping. The QuickStart function lets you design a basic floor plan, including the roof, in less than one minute, and the SmartRooms feature automatically updates dimensions as you draw or edit for easier flooring, painting and resizing. Add real-world objects to your available library using the PhotoView feature, and build a 3D model of your home using RealModel. Outfit the interior of your home with thousands of name-brand decorating materials, including paint, wood floors and blinds. Add customized cabinetry, sinks, appliances and more, and visualize the look of your home with the Precision Lighting Planner. Enhance the exterior of your home with an impressive deck or patio, then give your new or redesigned home a suitably stunning backdrop with a variety of landscaping tools, including the 4,000-plant Plant Finder tool and the automatic growth tool that lets you see what your landscaping will look like years down the road.
Average Customer Rating:
2 out of 5
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Customer Reviews for Home & Landscape Design Studio - Mac
Review 1 for Home & Landscape Design Studio - Mac

Not worth the money!!

Customer Rating
1.0 out of 5
1.0
Posted by: dkeller719
from Cascade, CO
on 08/03/2011
Value for Price
1.0 out of 5
1.0
Ease of Use
3.0 out of 5
3.0
Usefulness
1.0 out of 5
1.0
Ease of Installation
4.0 out of 5
4.0
What's great about it: Easy to use if you are designing a box
What's not so great: A lot of basic design tools missing. Hard to use if you want a fireplace or bi-fold doors.
Bought this program because it was highly rated on other sites. There is a lot it is missing. The user needs to manipulate and trick the software into doing something to look right. I tried to design double, bi-fold doors for my closets, and the doors can only open one direction. Can't make them mirrored and opening from the center. There is no easy way to design a bay window. You need to manipulate the walls and just makes everything frustrating. I would understand if I had some elaborate designs, but these are basic design options that it should recognize. I used it for 2 hours before I realized that I wanted my money back. Punch! says they have a 30 day money back guarantee but i've been requesting one for 3 days now and haven't had any reply. I would not recommend this product to anyone. For $149 I thought it would be much more intuitive and easy to use.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
+11points
11out of 11found this review helpful.
Review 2 for Home & Landscape Design Studio - Mac

average home and design

Customer Rating
3.0 out of 5
3.0
Posted by: LJTL
from minnesota
on 11/10/2009
Value for Price
2.0 out of 5
2.0
Ease of Use
1.0 out of 5
1.0
Usefulness
3.0 out of 5
3.0
Ease of Installation
3.0 out of 5
3.0
What's not so great: Unable to save quickstart plans.
quickstart is a good way to get started.
I would recommend this to a friend!
-38points
1out of 40found this review helpful.