Home Designer

HOME DESIGNER hands you the keys to three empty houses and a wheel full of furniture.

THE DESIGN WHEEL

Nine pages on one circle menu: LIVING, DINING, BEDROOM, KITCHEN, BATHROOM, LIGHTS, DECOR, PAINT and FLOORS. Sofas, beds, bunks, dressers, dining sets, kitchen runs, baths, showers, bookshelves, plants, rugs and televisions.

IT KNOWS WHERE THINGS GO

Point at a wall and a sofa turns and sits flush against it, facing into the room. Point at the top of a sideboard with a lamp and it lands on it. Aim a kitchen unit at the side of another and they line up as one run. Mirrors and wall televisions hang at the height you point. Pendants and chandeliers drop from the ceiling. Nothing slides into a wall or blocks a doorway.

PAINT AND FLOORS

Pick a colour, point at any wall, pull the trigger and the whole room changes. Twelve wall colours and ten floors: oak, walnut, herringbone, pale plank, tile, marble, stone and carpet.

THREE HOMES

The Studio, a bright one-room flat with its own bathroom. The Family Home, seven rooms around a central hall. The Villa, ten rooms with a great room and a gallery. Each home keeps its own design. Press SHOW HOME and a designer’s layout moves in piece by piece, then change anything you like.

Every lamp you place really lights the room. Sunlight comes through every window onto a garden of trees and flowers. Everything auto-saves, and undo goes back forty steps. Standing or roomscale, with smooth walking and snap turning.