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Your comment about the master bedroom being 'down stairs and connects to the living room' is confusing. The rule of thumb (for today's design tastes) is: 1 type of flooring though a SINGLE level with the exceptions being 'kitchen and bath are allowed their own flooring choice'. This post was edited by Hoosierbred on Thu, Jan 10, 13 at 9:13 Thank goodness we have a great son-in-law who works with us all the time. Where we still use the software for our own use for the house planning, as hollysprings suggests, we ended up using a professional to get the ball rolling and from here on out. We do a lot of measuring and placement of objects (cabinets, furniture, etc.) in the software and then take 3D shots of the end result. Plus, my husband is building the cabinets for our new house that I designed in the software. I continue to use the software as it has given me the 3D visualization for the house that I need. I did find a way for him to export the Cad drawings and I could import them back into the Home Designer Pro, but I lost my walls. He and our daughter are engineers and they've designed both of the homes they have built. He drew all the elevations, roof plans, floor plans, etc. Long story short, our son-in-law re-drew the whole plan in AutoCad. Plus changing roof lines was a pain in the software. What it came down to was that even though I designed the house - how did we know if the house would be structurally sound. Hmmmm, when we purchased the software we felt we had everything we needed to print out what I designed. They offered that I could hire someone at Chief Architect to re-draw the plan in AutoCad for us. The drawings you create in the software are not sufficient as your blueprints to give to a builder or to send out to contractors if you are bidding the house out. Here's what I found out when I asked on the Home Designer Pro forums. I drew up a ton of house plans using the software before we found one that we settled on. I still feel like a novice using the software but I've learned a lot. It took me a while to learn the software. We purchased Home Designer Pro two years ago. Any help is greatly appreciated! BTW, we have our lot purchased already, so we already have some known factors in place. I'm happy to compensate someone to help me get this going. One of the draftsmen, I'm told, prefers his ideas to the homebuilder's, so I'm not thrilled about going that route. The one architect's office in the town we live in only works on commercial projects, so we are left with 2 choices for draftsmen and one lumber yard that will draw plans. What I'm looking for is someone to help me design this house so that I can still use the file to add the landscaping and lighting features of the software, which was expensive, so I don't want to throw in the towel completely. My DH liked only one of the plans that I found but we would still need modifications. I can draw the lines, add the doors and windows, etc., but I have a hard time visualizing the space without adding pieces of furniture, and I feel like I should know exactly what types of materials and framing, etc. I have a pretty good idea at this point of how I'd like to draw it out, but I struggle with the software. I read "Designing Your Perfect House" by Hirsh, and spent countless hours online trying to come up with what I want. Hello everyone! I purchased Chief Architect's Home Designer Pro 2012 last year, thinking that I would be able to learn the program and draw our our own plan after reading and studying and being addicted to house plans for years.
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