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"Not Quick or Easy", Truly, this is not quick or easy, mainly frustrating. Unless you're doing a VERY basic square room, forget it. Agree with the reviewer who said that error messages are frequent and inexplicable, and that work can disappear at any time. I'll add to that list that the software also freezes frequently, so save often. I fiddled with it for 2 hours in attempts to lay out our finished basement, which is one large U-shaped room with a smaller laundry room and stairs in the middle. Software froze twice, lost my edits several times, measurements inexplicably disappeared, and I finally resorted to good ol' pen and paper. I think this is a case where if you want software to do what you need it to do, you have to spend the big(ger) bucks.

"Many faults, impossible unless simple", Will work for simple square designs. Fun to do until it matters. Work will disappear anytime. Moving or changing walls can be impossible. Error massages are frequent but useless and stop progress completely. Figuring out the problem can be impossible and the plan has to be abandoned. Makes you want to run to an architect. Maybe that's the real plan. I have designed homes before the good old-fashioned way.

"You get what you pay for", Not a great product in my opinion. I was able to create a basic design easily and quickly (and even add doors and windows), but then could not subsequently delete a wall I no longer wanted. Also, copy-n-paste was not an option where I needed it......making identical copies of certain rooms. I had to recreate each from scratch. Aligning items is a manual operation, although the snap-to-grid feature does at least make the task doable. Starting the program requires having the original CD in the CD drive.....a royal pain. The makers of this program seemed to have concentrated on things I consider fluff.....decorating your virtual home, and paid little attention to things I consider to be very important: allowing the user to create a good floor plan. My recommendation: buy something else.

"3D Home Architect", It looks like a great program . Lots of features, I think it is more for an architect or seasoned computer user. I am not that seasoned, and at an age that new things need to be more "old lady" friendly. I would like to have used this program, I spent 3hrs trying to set it up and just got lost in it multi-featured menu.

"It's Alright", This is a good product for someone who just wants to play around with the simple, basic idea of putting rooms together and looking at a house in 3D. Unfortunatly, the work area is small, while the menu on the right takes up almost half of the screen. You can resize the rooms, but that's it. And after awhile, the program itself becomes testy and crashes.

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"Not really quick or easy", Good things:
It is cheap. The 3D visuals are good (when they working). There are lot's of photos and samples.

Horrible things:
It crashes a lot. The furniture and cabinets floats even though it is suppose to be on the floor. Exterior options for the roofs are limited and difficult to control. Error messages poor.

My experience:
If I use this software for anything "tricky" it crashes. The manual dimension lines are working only in one direction and the auto dimensions are hard to ready and not include for interior rooms. Curves and angles are difficult to deal with. I need to save after every few changes and the auto backup is poor. I sometimes get a message the say "a wall is invalid" and figuring which one is usually a 20 minute or more task -- if you are lucky. Usually it is easier to start from a previous saved version. The
dimension sometimes change by a couple of inches when changing from the space plan to the floor plan. I tried doing a second and stairs once but I gave up since it cause a lot of trouble. Sometimes you want to move a wall a couple of inches but you can't do it due to unknown constraints. Getting a "scaled print out" is
impossible and controlling the "zoom" in a print out is also difficult. I wish it would calculate square footage of each floor and each room. If you are using this software (seriously) to assist in architecting a new build, I would try the more expensive 3D total home first (or other software). If you are just playing with ideas, this software is okay (and cheap).

"Inadequate for anything but the simplest design", I found this program inadequate for my needs. I could not figure out how to add a dormer to the house nor could I find any delivered plans that have a dormer. The search engine for the delivered plans is inadequate. It should allow you to specify number of bedrooms and bathrooms in your search criteria whereas it only allows you to specify 1 or 2 story.

"Not perfect software -- but pretty darn good!", Home Design Quick & Easy, Version 2.0, is not perfect software, but it's pretty darn good -- especially for the price!

OK, so it doesn't contain some of the bells and whistles that packages like Punch have. And to be honest, I would really love to be able to print out a ready-made kit for constructing my own model of a home. And it would be great to have sophisticated tallying of materials, and totalling of their costs, and be able to flesh out the framing of the house, heating, plumbing, etc.

But after reading disappointing reviews on the Punch! software (with many complaints along the lines of "This would be great software if it actually worked"), I'm glad for now at least that I went with this package instead. I'm not saying there aren't better packages out there, but at under $20, it fit my budget nicely. And if you've read enough reviews, you'll know that easy-to-use home design software that actually does what it's supposed to is nowhere near as common as one would hope.

HDQ&E actually IS both (relatively) quick and easy to use. In a matter of hours, I had converted a 2-story home plan I saw online into my own customized version. Start with the short tutorial but be aware that you can do a lot more with this program than that. Once you're done designing, you can decorate the home and fill it with furniture. Give it a brick face. Change wallpaper and carpet. Add a table and chairs. And anything you can see on the screen -- floor plans with dimensions, aerial views, walkthroughs, a view of your dining room filled with furniture -- ALL of these you can print.

It takes practice and thought to create odd shaped rooms with angles, but it CAN be done. Hint: Create a bigger room first, then overlay that with a small room on top. The program will automatically cut the angles out for you.

It's not bug free. Save your work, especially before doing anything particularly taxing (like rendering). Several times the whole program has just vanished from my computer (266 MHz Pentium running Windows 2000). Once the walls stuck up through the roof (fixed by a bit of tweaking the settings). The aerial view printed with a bit of the back of the house chopped off. And I've had trouble with the roof on a porch. However, all of these are (in my opinion) relatively minor (and mostly fixable or work-aroundable) problems. All in all, it's easy to use, does a decent job of producing what you want it to, and at under $20 (I found it for $18 including shipping from Gateway) the price is DEFINITELY right.

I give it 4 stars out of 5!

"Not very good", I did not find it very user friendly. It does not have much furniture choice that you can incorporate into your plan and if you design your house with the walls without using the sample rooms they have, it doesn't let you put furniture in your blue print. I asked a question of Tech support 7 days ago and am still waiting for an answer. (I don't believe tech support exists).

"easy for beginners, adaptable for pros", I have tried several home design programs over the last few years. This one was the easiest, provided the most, was the most adaptable, and was the cheapest! I couldn't believe it!
It is so easy to use, but offers many, many features. Lots of choices of furniture, windows, walls, colors; and most of them can be changed to your exact dimensions.
This program offers a 3-D walk-through, floor plans, and everything you need to design your own special house from scratch, or to decorate just one room.
The 3-D shows the room so well--it will save lots of furniture moving! You can see how things fit and look. And the custom colors on the walls and furniture are great! Really lets you see how the room will turn out.
The dimensions of the flat floor plans can be changed easily. There are sample home plans and room plans for folks with less creativity, or make a floor plan that matches your own home, or design your dream home. Almost everything works with point, click, and drag, or you can put in numerical dimensions and the program does it for you.
I am no artist, and have no CAD abilities, but I was able to do a layout of our whole house quickly and easily. Next I will do our dream home!
I can't say enough good things about this program. Wish I had found it before I wasted my money on the others.