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Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Deluxe

Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Deluxe is home design software developed by Chief Architect® that makes home design easy. The software is based on the top-rated Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer and provides even more tools for design projects including: Home Design, Remodeling, Interior Design, Decks, Landscaping, Site Planning and Cost Estimating. Quickly place and arrange walls, windows, doors, and cabinets, choose colors, place furniture, create decks and landscaping. Enjoy turning you Dream home into a reality.

Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Deluxe is the premium all-in-one Home Design software developed by Chief Architect. Based on the top-rated Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer, this software provides feature-rich tools for design projects that include remodeling,
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home design, interior design, decks, landscaping, site planning, cost estimating, and more. With it you can quickly place and arrange walls, windows, doors, and cabinets, choose colors, place furniture, create decks and landscaping in a matter of a few clicks.
Home Designer Deluxe gives you the option of choosing from built-in home style templates and over 1,500 sample plans, creating your own custom home design, or using the House Wizard to design your projects. Powerful building tools such as automatic roof generation, dormers, stairs, framing, foundations, and plan check make it easier than ever to design your own projects.
When you're ready to plan your bathroom or kitchen, you can customize your cabinets, sinks, cabinets, and fixtures. It's never been easier to design your dream kitchen; Designer Deluxe lets you move walls, place cabinets and add fixtures and appliances with a sweep of your mouse. You can also choose from a library of more than 7,000 items for your projects, including windows, doors, lighting, furniture, cabinets, and more. The software features Advanced 3D Models and Virtual Tours that give you a full view of your designs every step of the way.
When it's time to move outdoors, Design Deluxe includes a Deck Designer feature that lets you create single or multi-level decks, complete with automatic deck framing tools. If you're planning your garden features, you're in good hands. Landscape features include fence, garden, driveway, path and other terrain tools. And the Better Homes and Gardens Plant Encyclopedia is included with the software to help you pick out which plants will be ideal for your setting. The software's Plant Chooser feature offers over 1,200 plants to choose from. You'll also have Plant Hardiness Zone reference maps at your disposal, so you can choose the right plants for your climate, and special visualization features will let you see what your plants will look like over the next 20 years.
Of course, you'll need to keep your landscape watered. Sprinkler Designer will help you do just that, offering you the optimal plans for laying out your sprinkler system. You'll also have exclusive access to the Better Homes and Gardens Design Planning Center for expert design advice. And when your project is finally complete, Design Deluxe automatically generates a materials list that lets you easily estimate your costs.
Included with the software are Better Homes and Garden How-To Tutorial CDs that will guide you through the processes step by step. In short, with Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Deluxe, you will be able to design the home of your dreams yourself, without having to rely exclusively on expensive architects or designers.

I took off work for most of the Monday before Halloween. We used the time to round out our yard decorations, which grew leaps and bounds this year, and to carve pumpkins. We chose three pumpkins; one for each of us, and relative in size. We used a pattern making software to design their faces. They largely reflected our personalities as well. Paige's was silly, Dad's was serious/scary and Mom's was feminine.

Just like picking pumpkins from the patch, Paige didn't much care for cleaning and carving pumpkins. We tried to convince her to help, which she did a few times, but for the most part Marna did all the cleaning. I used some cool battery-powered tools to carve both mine and Paige's pumpkins. Marna, with the most intricate pattern, carved her own.

One of the new neighbors stopped by with a bag of candy for Paige, since they weren't going to be home for their first Halloween in their new home. Paige spent the rest of the pumpkin carving arranging and sorting her new treats.

While Paige has been shying away from getting pictures more and more of late, we did manage to convince her that princesses like to get their pictures taken. Instead of three or four decent pictures to choose from, I had twenty or thirty. We decided that Paige sharing her lollipop with the pumpkin more or less summed up the afternoon.

Halloween night, Paige went out with the next door neighbors to about a dozen houses (essentially around the block). Although she might have had a hard time understanding all the pumpkin activities up to that point, she definitely figured it out that night. Any house well lit and/or decorated with the orange gourds were immediate targets for Paige and her friends.

As for the Ariel costume? We couldn't convince her to get into it one more time, so Paige went as Cinderella, using a dress we bought for her earlier in the year at Disney World in Orlando. She did however wear the purple coat that Grandma Rodman made for her the same weekend she made the costume. I guess you win some, and you lose some. The important thing was that Paige was happy and warm, and had a great time trick-or-treating with her friends. Mission accomplished!

Nikon F4 with Konica Minolta Centuria 100 negative film. Scanned on my Konica Minolta Dimage Scan Dual IV scanner. This scanner has no ICE feature to remove the dust and scratches. After much toil and head-scratching I have decided to leave the defects in. It is too much work to deal with them manually and the software solutions for dust damage the image too much.

Incidentally, the spots here are water spots. I actually washed this film in warm water with a tiny amount of dishwashing soap. The problem is the drying. I didn't have anything like "Fotoflow" to break the water surface tension and prevent the beading of the water. I blew what I could off with a blower bulb but Doha is just SO dusty that I couldn't prevent some water spots. I now have a spray bottle of PEC solution so I don't have to wet (and try to dry) the film. Unfortunately, film comes back from any Doha lab with a haze of residue on it and scratched.

My wife made this amazing cake! Yes, the shoe box is a cake. However, the shoe is also made entirely of icing! Only the bows are made of ribbon.

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