In today’s world where there is an app for everything, how can home décor be an exception? These days, we have access to a treasure of user-friendly apps that can be incredibly helpful when choosing the right tools, colour, furniture, and everything else to decorate our homes.
Whether you need a floor plan for your home or you are planning to purchase new furniture, you can whip out your smartphone and put an entire room together in virtual reality before starting the real work.
Read on to find the top five apps that can help you design your home:
Colour Capture
If you are planning to get your house painted, download this app right away on either your iOS or Android device! As the name suggests, this is a colour matching app that will allow you to take a picture of the area/room you want to get painted. The app’s technology suggests paint options to match with the picture out of its 3,500 paint options.
You might not want to go with all the suggested colours, but the app gives you a useful starting point. Colour Capture also comes with a grouped colour format that suggests the pairing of two different colours.
Magic Plan
Available for both Android and iOS, this is a floor planning app that helps you create floor plans based on the photos of your space. Magic Plan gives you a floor plan with accurate measurements without any need to measure or draw. That means anyone with minimum or no experience can create floor plans with the help of this app.
While this app is free to download, you will have to pay a small fee if you wish to export the floor plans in PDF, JPG or DXF format for sharing with contractors or designers.
Amikasa
This award-winning app has been garnering rave reviews for its almost mistake-proof assistance in room planning.
The app has an aesthetically pleasing interface that allows the user to create the layout for the chosen furniture or home décor from a real brand. If this is interesting, imagine how cool it will be to take a virtual tour of the newly furnished room to get a feel of its design and layout! You can also share the room layout through email or social media. Available for iOS.
Photo Measures
How many times have you bought a piece of furniture assuming it will look good in a particular room only to find that it is a misfit? Most of us take room measurements before shopping for furniture and try to visualise which furniture piece goes where.
Photo Measures takes all these hassles away and lets you draw all the dimension of floors and walls directly on the photo of a space.
So the next time you go shopping for furniture, no need to wonder if a piece will fit or not. Just pull out the smartphone for reference. Photo Measures is available for both Android and iOS.
Try On Wall
If you are planning to build a gallery wall and are uncertain about how those art pieces will look on the wall, Try On Wall is here for your rescue. Snap pictures of the proposed backdrop as well as the art pieces and then place the images of the art pieces on the wall virtually.
You can arrange and rearrange them until you get the final look you are satisfied with. This ensures that there is no room for mistakes.
You can even shop for art pieces within the app. At the time of writing, the app is available only for iOS devices.
Apart from these five apps, there are various other apps such as Chairish for shopping, Paper for sketching and rendering, iHandy Carpenter for carpenter tools, BrightNest for maintenance reminders and many others.
With so many amazing apps available free of cost, there is no reason to delay that long-awaited renovation.
Get to work today!
Thank you so much for sharing these resources. It’s the most accurate way of fleshing my ideas visually!