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5 Steps with Home Designer

5 Simple Steps with Home Designer Program

1) Become use to Home Designer

Begin by opening up your program. Look for the "house wizard" located in the startup options panel. The picture on the right shows where this item is found. In other words this is what my program looks like. I hope that older and newer versions have somewhat the same feature.

But anyway, the house wizard is in the red outline. It will make using and designing with this program easier than drawing it all out on your own. You can select rooms and other ideas for your dollhouse in this stage.

2) Select all Current Ideas Now

Yes start and actually think in terms of what you would like to see in your dollhouse structure. Do not even consider readjusting the program to meet the measurements of your dollhouse at this point. Just get your ideas down in the program.

Go wild if you want and select rooms, hallways, the number of floors .. You can always delete or add to your structure at a later stage in the development of your plans.

Adjusting this program to incorporate the dollhouse measurements at any point, is a waste of your time. It is an exercise that will only end up frustrating you. Unless you are an expert, I advise you to keep all the workings of this program at normal full size lengths. After all, designing a dollhouse should be fun, not discouraging.

This is your ultimate beginning. You would not like to end like my younger sister. When she described her sewing experience to me I knew she was not meant to be a seamstress. Because her story ended with the article she was working on in a heap in the corner of the room. If that's your story with designing, stop now, do yourself a favor and buy a kit, lol.

3) Get Creative in Room Placement

After you have gone through the House Wizard selection process. It is now time to arrange your rooms. All of the items you selected are there. One thing to remember is that all of your selections can easily be shrunk or enlarged.

The picture to the right shows all the rooms I chose before arranging anything. Think of it as being a puzzle to fashion together as you please. The features do not drag and drop as usual. They go 2 ways only. Straight up and down, or straight across from left to right. Then when placing them in position they snap together somewhat like a puzzle piece. And they are just as easily relocated as well.

The center holds the key to relocating or positioning any piece. Look for the usual 4 pointed square to move any item. Simply click in the center and it will appear for you.

4) Near Completion with Doll House design Software

Okay so really it is far from done. But you can still see your own progress. Especially as it starts to take shape. You have your ideas in the program and are moving towards looking at it in its final design stage.

You may find doing what I did a huge help. I just thought about a house I like and began from there. I recalled the way rooms were located and then added or ad libbed other parts. The best thing about it as well. It is your own ideas. If you want a closet wherever. Put one there. No one will tell you, you can not.

5) View your Dollhouse Floor Plan

The great thing about doll house design software is that you can view your floor plan any time you want. Plus it adds doors and different elements to the plan. You can choose to keep them there or delete and make your own variations.

In this "Step 5" section you can see my structure in a floor plan view. It actually took me a bit of time to locate where the floor plan view feature was. It's located under Tools, then House Wizard and finally you click "Build House".

Who would have guessed that Floor Plan would be called "Build House". But anyway, once you find it you can see how things will look in your final layout. Not bad for a few small steps.

Get More Home Design Info with These Links

• Check out the YouTube connection online. Study all the supplied info.
  
  
• Get all the information about the Home Designer Style of software here.

Check out the Quick Start Seminar Here

Take a Look at Our Kitchen Design

Take a look at a design for a kitchen we created. We have to be honest with you ... It took a far amount of time ... But with practice the use of this program software is becoming easier and easier. We predict the same results for you.

In the past Home Designer had a number of different products. Today they seem to be headed in the direction of a program that will always be updating itself online. Hopefully this will be a great step forward in always having up-to-date software to work with. Time will be the decider for this however. There is no program like it for design today. 

Your Own Dollhouse Plans made Easy

With a bit of ingenuity and the proper know-how you can develop your own dollhouse plans. Combining the right desire, namely yours, and knowledgeable expertise can go a long way.

In the pursuit of doll house design software we have come across one (so far) that will help you in more ways than one to begin exploring your potential with developing great (not just good) dollhouse plans.

We happened to think so highly of what we found we gave it a permanent spotlight on our website.

Get more info about the Home Designer Suite of software.

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