Designing with Home Designer Pro

I've been thinking ...

What if I did a house design and documented the steps from concept to finished model?

OK. So, who cares?

I don't know, but this subject interests me. If you have an idea for a home, but aren't too sure where to start (and you don't have the cash to hire an architect, but are creative and individual enough to want to realize your own ideas), then this might be for you.

There are many, many tricks and techniques needed to "make the thing look like you want it to look," and I don't (yet) know all of them. But I do know my way around the tool pretty well, and I'm also pretty creative. I don't want to brag, though. I'd rather let my works speak for me.

So ... I'm going to fish around for a starting idea, and document the process here. That is, document my parenthetical comments and observations in this blog, and produce pages on my web site that detail both the process (the what) and the techniques (the how. This blog also allows others to horn in on the fun and comment/ask questions along the way.

All you need, then, is a copy of Home Designer, version 6.0. I'm using Home Designer Pro 6.0, but you can probably achieve similar results with the "lesser" Home Designer Suite 6.0 product.

Let's begin.