The 8 Most Important Home Decorating Apps for iOS And Android You Must-Have
The 8 Most Important Home Decorating Apps for iOS And Android You Must-Have
MagicPlan
MagicPlan transforms the painstaking ordeal of taking measurements and drawing up floor plans into an effortless process. This interior design workhorse can compute distances within a space simply by analyzing a snapshot. Annotate photos of your space with the height of the ceiling or the width of the hallway, and never again get stuck outside with a piece of furniture that won’t fit through the front door.
Free for iOS and Android
Adobe Color Capture
Ever wish you could bottle the colors from an incredible photo or work of art and use them as a palette for a room? Thanks to the technology behind Adobe Color Capture, you can do just that. When you’re out and about and find inspiring color combinations, shapes or patterns, just open up the app and snap away. Before you know it, you’ll have a customizable color scheme, 3D patterns and vector graphics that are compatible with numerous design software programs to help you come up with your next great interior.
Free for iOS and Android
Housecraft
Augmented reality is totally changing the interior design world. No more do designers need to rely on back-of-the-envelope measurements or time-consuming computer renderings. With Housecraft, simply drop fully rendered furnishings into a space, scale and position them. What’s more, you can walk around them in 3D to see them from any angle. Save various potential layouts to compare and come up with the best solution for your space.
Free for iOS
The 8 Most Important Home Decorating Apps for iOS And Android You Must-Have
IHandy Level
The devil is very much in the details when it comes to great interior design. The alignment of objects is critical for blocking out spaces and creating the strong compositional lines that subtly underline aspects of an interior. To help with this endeavor is the sleekly-designed iHandy Level app, which feels luxurious even while you’re doing something as tedious as aligning a picture. Not only does it level, but it will help you with angle measurement, checking the verticality of a wall or aligning furniture.
Free for iOS
MyPantone
Unequivocally, Pantone is the ultimate color arbiter. When it comes to disputes on whether a shade is turquoise or teal, they have the final say. The historic company put its standardized library of colors into a convenient app that allows you to accurately communicate your color choices to decorating professionals, designers and manufacturers alike. It also identifies the colors in your photographs and expertly generates complementary palettes.
$7.99 for Android
Photo Measures
Ever buy that perfect piece of furniture only to realize it was too big for the space or couldn’t make it through your narrow stairwell? Never again with Photo Measures. Perfect for everyone from the homeowner looking to rearrange furniture to the professional interior designer or a contractor, this is the app for saving and sharing exact dimensions of objects and spaces. Simply snap a few photos and jot the dimensions down directly on them. Zoom in and out when you need more precision, add comments and export your dimensions by email or to your photo library.
$6.99 for iOS and 4.99 for Android
Vivid Paint Colors
Updating the wall color is one of the simplest design fixes for the do-it-yourselfer. However, choosing between Intense White by Benjamin Moore or Essential Gray by Sherwin Williams — or better yet, some of the more eclectic colors out there, like Death by Chocolate by C2 Paint or Elephant’s Breath by Farrow & Ball — isn’t so easy. Thanks to Vivid Paint colors, you no longer need to go to the hardware store and pick up bundles of paint swatches. Search by color or inspiration for paints by top brands like Benjamin Moore, Sherwin-Williams and Glidden, save colors you like for later viewing and in one click order the paint online.
Free for iOS and Android
Home Design 3D Gold
A new interior or exterior design plan can be easily to devised by dragging and dropping. This architectural app lets you import floor plans and change the space itself; visualize new openings, raise ceilings or take out entire walls; and then add in the furniture and other amenities of your choice. Work in either 2D or 3D, and share projects with collaborators who can make modifications with you in real time.$9.99 for iOS
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