My Home / My Style magazine caters to DIY enthusiasts who are passionate about improving and enhancing their homes. My Home / My Style brings its readers ideas that are inspirational, affordable, practical, and, most of all, achievable. To do this, My Home / My Style educates its readers with articles that are filled with vivid photos, engaging copy, and clear illustrations. Whether My Home / My Style evaluates a new product or tool, demystifies a technique, or walks step-by-step through a project, it gives the detail, insight, and inspiration readers need to bring their home improvement dreams to life.

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Home Designer 9.0 is the latest release of Chief Architect, a leader in Professional Home Design software industry, now with a new consumer focus just for you! Creating your dream home has never been easier with Home Designer 9.0. Choose from one of the more than 500 sample plans to inspire your ideas or your own build. Quickly place and arrange walls, windows, doors, furniture, create decks and landscaping. Then visualize what your project will look like with 3D models and virtual tours. Once the renovation, you can move walls, change colors, add a room, redesign of the kitchen, and an estimate of the cost of your building. You can design in 2D or 3D and automatically calculate the square footage. Customize your windows and doors Lites, belt, housing, and shutters, window coverings and more.

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Automatically generates the roof, framing, dimensioning, foundations, and stairs. Use the Edit Room to select, move, edit, and copy the entire surface of your design and the definition of a cross-sectional view with photo-realistic textures. When designing the kitchen & bath, Design for your lifestyle and personality change colors, add windows, lighting, furniture and choose to emphasize and to plan and decorate your room. More than 1000 combinations of cabinets to choose from and adapting the style and colors are endless. Determine the doors, drawers, countertops and more. Create a base, walls, full height, corner cabinets, walls, shelves, and soffits. Add cabinet details: hinges, handles, and interesting. Add equipment: oven, hob, fridge, hood, and much more. For the landscaping, there are over 500 botanically accurate flowers, trees and shrubs from the tropics to the desert. Make parks, trails, hills, valleys, pools, ponds, and much more. Choose from landscaping style templates or create your own. Use the line tool to curb-appealing landscaping design. Deck and patio tools allow you to design a new deck with 3D models and visualization can help you estimate the cost.

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Picking a house design based on square meters or number of bedrooms might seem too simple, but it is an easy way to eliminate home plans that are too small or too large for your needs.

It’s time for you to get the house of your dreams. That big binder filled with magazine clippings – a collage of colors, textures and designs – can finally be put into a cohesive custom home design just for you.

For a project to this magnitude and import, hiring an architect to handle the design and to work with the contractor is a better move. Why? Here are a few things to look for and questions to ask when shopping for an architect to breathe life into your custom home design:
Architects must obtain a license to work in any state.
Any licensed architect will carry his own insurance, but you should see if it is enough to comfortably cover your custom home design. Insurance is another difference between architects and designers – the architect is required to carry it whereas the designer does not have any regulations regarding liability. Your architect can negotiate contracts, manage the construction site, come up with the budget, manage it and much more. If you’re comfortable with the architect, it will be easier to give him the freedom to manage the entire project. Hiring can architect to breathe life into your custom design home is a good idea.

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