Sweet Home 3D 2.6

Do you need to rearrange the furniture in your room, or perhaps your entire house? If that is the case, you can go about things in one of two ways. You can for example try to visualize how the changes you plan to make will look like. Or you can take advantage of a free interior design application that gets rid of all the guesswork. You don’t have to mentally visualize how everything will look. The application shows you exactly how things will look like.

The free design application you can try is Sweet Home 3D. The application weighs in at about 30MB. The download should complete in a short while on a high-speed internet connection.

Once downloaded and installed, you can use Sweet Home 3D for as long as you like without having to pay a dime. This is because Sweet Home 3D is open source, released under the terms of the GNU Generic Public License.

To see how changes would look like you traditionally had to move all your stuff around, then see how it all looked. This involved a lot of heavy lifting, a lot of backbreaking work. Not to mention the fact that if you did not get it right the first time around, you had to move all your stuff all over again. Why go through all this when you have a free application like Sweet Home 3D at your disposal? It makes interior design effortless and best of all, fun. You can mix and match furniture any way you see fit, without having to lift a finger – your mouse clicking finger doesn’t count. Once done arranging furniture in Sweet Home 3D, you can take a virtual your of your creation and see how it looks.

Speaking of furniture, there are some 50 differnet pieces of furniture available in Sweet Home 3D – things like lamps, tables, beds, and so on. If that is not enough, the software developer offers even more furniture online (download it from the developer’s site).

Using Sweet Home 3D is a fairly simple process. If you find dragging and dropping elements into a grid view (they build up in 3d in the screen at the bottom) then taking a virtual tour of your layout difficult, then perhaps you should stick to manually moving furniture around.

Sweet Home 3D allows you to plan interior design changes and does this without asking for a dime in return.

Pros

• Free and easy to use
• Works with all versions of the Microsoft-developed Windows operating system
• Works with Apple’s Mac OS X as well
• Extensive language support: English, French, Portuguese, Italian, German, Spanish, Swedish, Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Greek, Bulgarian, Russian, Vietnamese, Chinese (Simplified), and Japanese.

Cons

• Some graphics aren’t that good looking
• The average user may not mind, but the interior design pro may not like the absence of more advanced features

Sweet Home 3D has been reviewed by George Norman on 24 Mar 2010. Based on the user interface, features and complexity, Findmysoft has rated Sweet Home 3D 4 out of 5 stars, naming it Excellent