Designing with software

What I like about the idea of doing design work or planning the layout of a room or a house with software, is that it makes the process so much more efficient. You can basically create a mock up of the house or the room, taking note of the characteristics of the actual physical location, so that when you render it in the computer, the measurements are more or less close to the reality. That way, when you begin to add stuff like furniture, counters, lighting, all that, you're basically getting a pretty good approximation of what the final product will look like.

I say it's more efficient because all you have to deal with are the keyboard and mouse. Otherwise, you'd actually have to maybe move furniture out, or move it about, see if you like the outcome, and if you don't like how it looks, then you move stuff around again. That can just be terribly backbreaking, I think. Similar thing with wall covering. When you're using swatches and the like, you're basically still left having to imagine the entire space covered with that wallpaper or paint. With house design software however, the approximation is better. And you're not actually stuck just using software to imagine the interior of your house. For example, landscape design software is available for the outside of the house.