home design + construction + landscape design software?

[Michael ODonnell]

Yeah, to really be useful a program like the one you (many
of us!)  are looking for ends up being a serious CAD system
and, unsurprisingly, nobody's giving those away.

I've used that sweethome3d and it's nice for fooling around
with general layouts (even that took me a fair bit of noodling)
but back when I tried it (approx 2 yrs ago) I concluded it
was unsuitable for planning an actual remodelling project.

I still have some of the images I rendered:

  http://b0rken.com/20091214kitchen/