Monday, July 28, 2008
Tools of the Trade: New York Interior Designers Use Punch! Software
CAD for the Home by Punch!What is Punch! Software? Very simply, its the top-selling software product for interior design, landscape architecture, cabinetry design and more. With Punch's programs like Home Design Platinum, Architectural Series 5000, and the Super Home Suite, professional designers can draft visual ideas and plans for almost every room in the house.
Punch! was founded in 1998 by a team of software executives who wanted to bring more realism and higher quality graphics to the interior design field in a software product for professionals.
Many professional designers in the New York area use Punch! for creating original designs that conform to the space available in a particular room and incorporate the materials they want to use to create the look they are aiming for.
Each program is different, but in some of the bundled packages, the user can do a "hollywood-style walk or fly-through" as well as design ceilings, try out trims and styles for mantels, see aerial and 3D views of each room, manipulate surface areas, add reflections to objects and floors to add realism, redraw on the fly, and much more.
The next time an interior designer or architect shows you a schematic or proposal for your home improvement project, don't be surprised if they've used Punch! to put it together.
To learn more about the software products and the company that makes 'em, Click Here!
Punch! was founded in 1998 by a team of software executives who wanted to bring more realism and higher quality graphics to the interior design field in a software product for professionals.
Many professional designers in the New York area use Punch! for creating original designs that conform to the space available in a particular room and incorporate the materials they want to use to create the look they are aiming for.
Each program is different, but in some of the bundled packages, the user can do a "hollywood-style walk or fly-through" as well as design ceilings, try out trims and styles for mantels, see aerial and 3D views of each room, manipulate surface areas, add reflections to objects and floors to add realism, redraw on the fly, and much more.
The next time an interior designer or architect shows you a schematic or proposal for your home improvement project, don't be surprised if they've used Punch! to put it together.
To learn more about the software products and the company that makes 'em, Click Here!
Labels: Interior Decor New York, Interior Design New York, Interior Designer NYC, Interior Designers in NYC, NY Architect
Monday, June 23, 2008
Calling All New York Home Stagers...
Does Your Block Look Like This?Home staging, or real estate staging is said to be more of an art than a science. That said, ever since its beginnings in the 1970's, the home staging profession has been steadily gaining a larger recognition among not only real estate industry pro's, but the general homeowner populace at large. In response to growing demand for staging help and services in our current "buyers' market" for real estate, cityhammer.com has just added a category for Real Estate Stagers in New York.
Are you a home stager serving the NY, NJ, or CT area? Post your profile on cityhammer.com, New York's #1 Remodeling Directory! CLICK HERE
There's a widely accepted maxim in residential real estate that a buyer decides whether or not they would buy a home within 8 to 10 seconds of walking in the door! If that is actually even close to being true, then home staging could make a huge difference in terms of getting you that great first impression.
Stagers will typically employ tactics as simple as depersonalizing a room (hiding family portraits and vacation souvenirs) to more advanced techniques involving lighting, more neutral paint colors and even renting furniture to fill out an empty room, thus "enlarging" it in the eyes of a prospective home buyer. If you live in a condo or co-op in Manhattan, hopefully you have a nice lobby to help with the concept of curb appeal. If you own a house on Long Island or in Westchester, a stager will help with the clutter in the front yard or tell you what kind of impression the house is making from the street.
What kind of companies will you find in the Real Estate Stagers section on cityhammer.com? You will see specialists like Savvy Staged Homes of Upstate New York, interior design firms like ReDesign Works of the Upper East Side of Manhattan, and even real estate brokers, who have gone the extra step and added a home staging education to their arsenal of services.
Whether you are selling a home or plan to in the near future, we recommend getting some estimates from home stagers, who can help you get closer to asking price and put your house in position to sell faster than other properties that haven't been optimized for a sale.
Labels: Curb Appeal, Interior Designer NYC, Long Island Home Staging, Real Estate Staging NY, Upper East Side, Westchester Home Stagers
