Apps To Improve Your Home

Whether you’re improving your home through a few changes or you’re planning a major renovation project; creating the perfect home can be a difficult task. However, making the task easier is as simple as downloading a few applications. Although these applications cannot create your house for you they can aid in its creation and better than that they can also aid in its design. Here are a few examples of applications that are available for you to download and would make a significant difference to the design, adjustment and creation of your home.

Houzz Interior Design Ideas –

Available on iOS.

This is an amazing interior design application; the app allows you to browse through more than 200,000 photos in order to give you inspiration and help you to decide how you would like to decorate the interior of your home.

The application also helps you to find local contractors, labourers, architects, project managers, interior designers and many more. Although with so much choice it may be even more difficult for you to decide on a design for your home.

Inspiration –

Available on iOS & Android.

Used to find and create the perfect colour schemes – all you have to do is take a picture of the colour that you come across and the application will convert it into a custom made tint mix code for the paint brand that you choose.

This can help you put together the perfect colour schemes whilst you’re on the go – you can use the application whenever, wherever.

The Handyman Calculator –

Available on Android.

This application is particularly useful for those that prefer manual labour over mental labour; all you have to do is supply the correct measurements and the app will work out the quantities for you.

You can calculate a number of materials and measurements; includes square footage, volume of materials such as asphalt, unit conversion, and coverage using carpets, linoleum, tiles and paint as well as much more.

Family Handyman DIY Tip Genius –

Only available on iOS.

This app can be downloaded for free, but the premium version that includes more tips and ideas costs just $5. The app has a number of tips, tricks and ideas available to assist you with difficult projects and to prevent you from making common mistakes.

With this application you won’t need to google your issues as the solutions will already be present within your device, waiting to be used.

Mark On Call –

Only available on iOS.

Mark on Call  is an application that allows you to plan and design your home whilst focusing on how much space is available – this is an excellent application for those that prefer a minimal home with very little unnecessary furniture and an abundance of space.

Although the application goes beyond allowing you to plan the dimensions of each room in your house, it also gives you a taste of what your home would look like in a number of different colours with different types of flooring.

There are a multitude of other applications available for you to download but many of them do the same thing; it’s important you look for an application that’s easy to use, efficient and accurate. However, you can also find your favourite applications through trial and error if you’d prefer.

Guest article written by: Matt Cook is a keen painter and decorator; although Matt loves nothing more than to organise his home as well as his work at ABC Selfstore.