Design your Home

Design Your Home

     When you are looking to make exterior changes to your home you can  visualize the colors in many ways. There are programs and applications to help easily get to the home design you always wanted. Manufacturers in many of the exterior products on your home have software on their websites to help you visualize your home with the new products and colors.

     The systems that are the easiest to use will let you change colors and styles on multiple products in one program. You can change colors ant styles from the roof to the ground. My favorite is the Dream Designer on the Exterior Portfolio web site. Exterior portfolio is a subsidiary of Royal Building Product which is owned by Georgia Gulf. GGC.  Dream Designer allows you to select from 20 house styles that are already in the program. You can also upload your own home and make changes to it.

     Dream Designer is on the web site of Exterior Portfolio. They are a company that makes siding and siding accessories but this program allows you to change colors and styles of product that they do not offer. This extra easy function makes me recommend this system. It has the ability to change to change to 7 different roof styles and colors. Each area of the side walls have siding which appropriate for that area available. The siding areas have 8 different styles of siding and a 22 color selection. It was just a few years ago there were only 10 or 12 siding color available in 3 to 4 styles. They have 30 different colors for the trim areas.

     The Exterior Portfolio site also has a photo gallery which has over 60 homes pictured with different styles and colors of all the exterior design elements. There are many other items that you can add to your home when completely residing or just fixing up. Many of these items can be found at Great American Building Materials web site under the individual manufacturers links.

     Designing your home can be easy and fun if you have access to the well designed software that is available at no charge. Be sure to spend some time selection the beauty pieces for your home and get the stunning home of your dreams.