Multiple layouts for same channel content?

Hey, I was wondering if maybe someone had experience, or at least an answer, to something I was looking to do. Basically, I was looking to create multiple templates for content from the same channel. So for example in a news or blog channel that has regularly posted editorial entries a person can select from multiple layout options, ideally in such a way where fields are contextual to the layout selected. Then I assume on the front end templates you’d simply build out a logic statement to check the layout chosen and render the content as defined for that selection.

I saw an addon by Booyant / The Outfit called Better Pages (http://fromtheoutfit.com/better-pages) that seems to do this, but since I don’t have experience with either this or using the pages module, I wasn’t sure if I was misunderstanding.

Anyone ever do something like this before?

Thank you in advance for suggestions and help.