Pros / This home design software offers kitchen, bathroom and deck wizards to help novice designers with complex home design projects. Cons / The program only comes with nine sample floor plans. Verdict / HGTV's Ultimate Home Design offers many designer tools and help wizards so you can quickly and easily start designing your home's interior and exterior. We have tested 21 free and paid interior design software programs and this is what we had to say about them. In addition to allowing you to lay out your rooms in whatever way you see fit, this software also allows you to populate your rooms with real furniture that you can buy – if you so choose. HGTV Home & Landscape Platinum Suite 3.0.
From left: Amanda Connolly (BID ’00), Erin Napier (Home Town star), Blake Erskin, interior designers New Orleans-based interior designer Amanda Connolly (BID ’00) always enjoyed home design shows. So when she had the opportunity to work for Home & Garden Television (, she jumped at the chance to showcase her skills on television. Amanda is a design producer for the home renovation television program. More than 16 million viewers watched the first season of Home Town in 2017, reflecting the rising popularity of home design programming. The debut episode attracted 2.2 million viewers, the second-highest number in HGTV’s 23-year history. The show has been featured in Southern Living Magazine, Country Living, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and “The Today Show.” Season 2 premiered in January 2018.