Many useful applications that the iPhone has to offer are in the home improvement category. While you have to pay for most of the good ones there are a handful of useful free apps.
Houzz
Houzz puts an enormous collection of interior design ideas at your finger tips. They have been dubbed the “Wikipedia of interior and exterior design” by CNN according to the download page.
Looking at their 5 star reviews with more than 3000 votes you’ll be inclined to believe them. Just wait until you install and open the application for the first time.
There are more pictures in here than you could possibly look at in a week to get design ideas from. Just use your pointer finger and keep scrolling or use the menu to filter by the 21 different categories of rooms.
You can filter by products too, such as window treatments and outdoor lighting ideas. There are 17 categories for you to choose from here.
There are too many ideas in here for me to possibly do this application justice in an on-line review.
Download, install, and get inspired.
iHandy Level
Gone are the days are leveling a picture, taking ten steps back, adjusting the picture, taking ten steps back, adjusting the picture, taking ten steps back…
I think you get the idea.
Don’t bother trying to locate your level in the basement. You probably haven’t seen it in months anyway and it could be anywhere. The iHandy level will get you out of a jam.
The iHandy level works just like a real level using a bubble and two lines. Get the bubble between the lines and you picture is perfectly plumb.
Benjamin Moore Color Capture
The Benjamin Moore Color Capture application will help you find some inspiration for your new paint colors.
It has multiple color cards that will help you quickly sift through a whole host of complimentary colors. It will show you the colors on the walls and help you pick a palette of paint colors for your new room.
It also has a color wheel. Scroll around the wheel to find colors that you like. Every color that is in Benjamin Moore’s library is represented with its name and color number.
This app is in no way a substitution for buying samples and putting small swatches on the wall to see what the colors look like in natural lighting. Color capture is only to help you get inspiration and to help you find some colors that may be promising. Thanks to VTS Homes who is a Huntsville home builder that provided feedback for the Color Capture app.
Lucas Jenkins of Affordable Home Remodeling Ideas helped with the contribution to this article. He’s got a passion for blogging and a mild addiction to Doritos. When his fingers aren’t covered in cheese he contributes articles such as radon mitigation and kitchen dishwashing machines to his home improvement blog.
i really like alot of these apps, i think it just goes to show that you can do damn near anything with a smartphone now-a-days. thanks
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