About Kitchen Cabinet Design Tools
Remodeling your kitchen is an exciting, but also daunting, task. You need to figure out what type of cabinets that you want to use, and then you must lay out these cabinets to ensure that they fit properly in your space. Kitchen cabinet design software tools help you lay out your cabinets in a virtual environment and even help you create floor plans that you can use for yourself or give to your contractor or builder. Does this Spark an idea?
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Distinctions
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Distinctions is a free program from The Home Depot, and it provides you with a set of tools for laying out your kitchen and island, including designing the layout for your cabinets. You select the shape of your room and the wall where you need to hang your cabinets. Set the wall height and width, and then input the measurements of your doors and windows. You can also pick the appliances that you want to use and see how these work with your selected cabinets. You can then save your layout either as a template or just save the layout, and then you can print it.
SketchUp
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Google SketchUp is a free set of tools for designing any room, including adding cabinets to your kitchen. Make 3D models of your rooms, and then virtually walk through each room to see how it looks. SketchUp includes three major tools: LayOut, 3D Warehouse and Style Builder. With LayOut, you can create blueprints of your workspace and convert your drawings into 3D presentations. The 3D warehouse provides you with 3D models of different items that you can drop into your virtual design. The Style Builder tool converts your computer drawings into sketches, and you can even scan in a photograph of your kitchen, allowing you to work with your actual space.
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Merillat
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Merillat is a set of tools for laying out your kitchen and island, and you can create a floor plan of the placement of your cabinets and appliances. It also has a set of tools that provide you with information on how to add color and accents to your space and how to add your personality to your space. You also learn about good design elements. This is a free set of tools, but you must create an account to print or save your floor plan. It is also free to create an account.
KitchenDraw
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This software program helps you create 3D kitchen design plans and add accents and color to your kitchen appliances and cabinets. Create a floor plan with this software and add accents like cornices and islands to your kitchen design. Rearrange your rooms at any time, and make a catalog of selected cabinets. This program helps you make different types of drawings, and will even create cost estimates. You can use it for 30 hours for free, but the program costs about $5 per project in 2011 after that. This is an online program.
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