This is just a suggestion based on decades of experience. If you are working with a design professional such as an interior designer, you will get far better results in the end if you let them come up with a design(s) and then input their design concepts into your own software to tweak and make it yours. If you go to a designer with your own designs, then you are mostly likely handcuffing the designer and losing a lot of the value of their hard-won experience and training. I have had clients come to me with the rabbit warren that they've designed, and it is very hard to talk them into something better at that point. After all, it's THEIR rabbit warren that they've been slaving over for many months, and they are totally emotionally invested, even if the design isn't very good. I respect the impulse to have control over the design of your own house, but you need to ask whether it's more important to have YOUR design, or a really GOOD (if not GREAT) design. That said, I think the Home Designer tools are great for facilitating communication between a design professional and a homeowner.