Program/Software/Tool for house and land planning?

Hello dear forum,

As the headline already suggests, I am looking for free or inexpensive software or an online program, etc., with which one can "experiment" a bit regarding the visual design of the house and/or garden or paving the terrace. For example, to see how the gray clinker with plaster soap in gray, red, white, or other colors could look. Simply to have a picture in mind among the many decisions without having to call the architect for every idea. The floor plan is basically finished; I am purely interested in the visual representation and making it somewhat more realistic. Our architect can only select "plaster" or "clinker" on the drawings, but not the color combinations. With some, I have seen pictures of house designs that looked like photos. I was impressed. Unfortunately, our architect doesn't have anything like that. I understand that I cannot exactly capture the clinker we will get, but maybe something more than just a black-and-white print. Kitchen studios also have such nice programs that allow you to very well imagine the result. As said, no professional software, but perhaps something more professional than SIMS or a ruler and colored pencils.

Best regards

Hi,

so far I have only been playing around with Sweet Home 3D, as it is free. Whether that meets your requirements, I cannot say yet, since I haven’t done much with it. Otherwise, I noticed the paid "Cadvilla". It looked quite promising, but I haven’t tested it myself yet.

Hello Grobmutant ;-D Thank you for your reply. I will try that out. Regards

google search for homebyme. I found it the best and it is a browser application

SketchUp would also be an option.

Home.by.me looks interesting. I will take a look at it. I already use SketchUp, for example, to simulate the shadow progression. That works pretty well with it. However, I don't find SketchUp very suitable for interior views and realistic exterior views, or I lack the knowledge for that.