The Interior Living Room

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When designing your interior living room, kitchen, study, or even if you plan to turn your backyard into a beautiful Japanese Garden, it is always best to use every tool available before committing to the actual construction. Physical trial and error can lead to very expensive and time consuming melt downs. Any time we can make a design experiment without it involving a sledgehammer + a wall,  or perhaps our back muscles + a large-ish couch, well something like that is worth it to me. Pain free design is a good thing, in fact I try to make it a rule.

When I started designing, there was always that soft yearning for some magic, all-in-one home design software package that would let me manipulate all of the critical components of my home virtually, and non-destructively. Something that, when I moved a feature wall behind the fireplace forgetting that there IS no fireplace, it could be undone and corrected at the click of a mouse. Alas, we didn’t have that sort of thing back in the day. You see when I started designing a horse and buggy still brought me my coffee, and doctors still paid house calls. (no I’m not quite that old )

These days however, the software suite I find myself using over most others – for interiors – is a smashing program called “Punch! Interior Design Suite“. (Yep, that’s Punch! complete with the exclamation point) Their software produces stunning results and creates the perfect virtual home you can really enjoy and be excited about. If your a professional, the tools inside this design suite are exemplary and highly intuitive to the needs of your design demands.

Punch! takes the best of existing design software, adds powerful new technologies, and includes top home improvement manufacturer product libraries. Then it combines them all into one easy-to-use interface to make your life a whole bunch easier.

Here’s a few things you can do with Punch!:

• Design your own storage with the Cabinet Wizard
• Layout your rooms easily with the Room Wizard
• Make moldings and baseboards with the Trim Designer
• Frame your outdoor view with the Window Designer
• Build a hearth for your home with the Fireplace Wizard
• Try new treatments with Decorator Theme Palettes
• Get help when you need it with the Help Tutorials
• Take a view through your roof by designing skylights
• Make your furniture fit with object resizing

The Interior Living Room Blog highly recommends this software. Buy it from Amazon by clicking the link I provided above, or this link, alternately there’s a link up and to the right (click the fancy shmancy pic), and come back here to comment on your opinion of it. Otherwise, grab Punch! from your local shop whenever you may see it because if you are looking for a new or perhaps easy way to get inspired – hoping to redecorate without the backaches, than this software really does the trick. You’ll discover – as I did – how easy it is to get the inside edge on design and decorating ideas.

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