DIY and home design are all the rage nowadays and with the processing power of your Mac, you can re-design your home they way you want without laying a finger on a hammer or tin of paint.
Live interior 3D is an excellent interior and home design program for Macs. It makes the creating of a new interior or remodeling your existing home fun, and could save you valuable time and money before you get the builders in! Firstly, note that at 129MB, Live Interior 3D is not a small download so you'll need a good 5 minutes or so to download it. This also means that it's not the easiest application to get to grips with but it's not as complex as most design apps of this size.
When you open Live Interior 3D you're presented with the Main Window. From here, you can view and edit in either 2D or 3D, perform realistic virtual walkthroughs, make video recordings, take screenshots and generate panoramic views of your interiors and share them with others. Fortunately, help is at hand in the form of the Assistant which allows you to choose what type of project to open. You can use this in two modes - one to teach you how to use the program and one to help you develop your own project.
In learning Live Interior 3D, you can open and change different templates to see how the program works. If you choose to create a new projects. You can modify a pre-designed project to meet your needs, or create a custom template and then use it to make several variations of the furniture arrangement, decoration and so on. Like all the best design applications on the Mac such as iMovie and iDVD, the templates do a lot of the hard work for you so you can produce results that look so professional, you'll amaze even yourself and definitely want to try and build some of your creations. You can choose the type of home you want to redesign or create, how many bedrooms, the layout. Afterwards, it's up to you how you want to design your home including adding appliances, walls, fireplaces and more. It does take some getting used to since it's a big design application but if you're serious about home design, it's worth it.
Before you even start to redesign your home, take a look at what Live Interior 3D can do for you. Even if you don't build any of your creations, it's fun just fantasizing.
