Remodelling your house, decorating a room or designing an entire structure gets a lot easier with a range of mobile apps that let you draw to scale, save measurements on top of photos, access thousands of inspirational images and more. These 12 handy tools will ensure that if you ever buy a piece of furniture that’s too big for your space, lose the ideas you scrawled on paper or stand around staring at bedding wondering whether it’ll clash with your drapes again.
1. Photo Measures
Save measurements right on your photos with the Photo Measures app (iOS, Android). Snap images of rooms or objects and immediately save their exact dimensions so you can be sure whether furniture will fit in a given space, or give contractors all the info they need for a renovation.
2. Phaidon Design Classics
You can buy the 10-inch-thick Phaidon Design Classics book for US$175, or just get the iPad app for US$19.99. Either option will give you access to 1,000 iconic design projects, but the app is definitely more portable.
It’s a handy reference for anyone trying to style an interior, providing visuals for everything from Eames chairs to antique glassware.
3. Remodelista
Sort through thousands of inspirational interior design images, save them to your own customized folders and share them with the Remodelista app for iPad, iPhone and Android. It puts the entire archive of Remodelista.com posts at your fingertips, along with a list of products featured in each post.
4. Penultimate
Want the ease and comfort of writing on paper, with the search functions and shareability of digital? The Penultimate app for iPad is a replacement for your physical notebook, allowing you to write and sketch with a stylus.
Even better, you’ll never lose another important note again - everything you create in the app is synched to your Evernote account automatically so you can view, search and share them across a range of devices.
5. PadCAD
Perfect for carpenters, contractors, architects and real estate agents, the PadCAD app (iOS, Android) is like a stripped-down version of professional CAD software that enables you to design small to medium-sized projects on your mobile device. Produce CAD drawings for built-ins, remodelling, additions and other building projects with finger-based drawing and editing controls.
6. Mark On Call
Create floor plans quickly and easily with the intuitive Mark on Call app, which allows you to customize floor plans for a house or a single room with furniture dimensions and even interior design notes like paint colours. That means you can instantly tell whether certain furniture items will fit through a doorway, or whether the throw pillows you're looking at will clash with the wallpaper, no matter where you are.
7. Concept Maker
Help your ideas come to fruition with Concept Maker (iOS), an app designed especially for creatives. Over 70 ‘starters’ will push you in the right direction, and you can also get inspiration from thousands of images or search for certain themes on websites like Flickr. Take photos, record your thoughts and write notes within the app, too.
8. Elle Decor Lookbook
The Elle Decor Lookbook is a go-to resource for designers looking for a little inspiration, and now you can browse it anywhere with thousands of images organized by room and style.
Create your own collections, take notes and share your ideas with clients, all with a few swipes of your fingers.
9. Sun Seeker
Wondering whether the house you’re thinking about buying gets any sun in the winter? Looking to determine solar angles throughout the year to design an optimal passive solar structure? Check out the Sun Seeker app.
It uses GPS and a magnetometer to find the solar position and path for your current location, with flat compass views, a 3D augmented reality camera overlay, map views and more. Also great for photographers!
10. Archisketch
Freehand sketch your ideas, refine them with accurate to-scale measurements and export them to CAD applications with the Archisketch app for iPad.
Duplicate shapes, zoom in and out without losing image quality, snap your creations to a grid, insert symbols and generate blueprints up to A3 size.
11. Pinterest
Pinterest is good for more than just kid-friendly craft ideas and casserole recipes. Create digital bulletin boards packed full of inspiration for any kind of project and take them with you wherever you go using the app.
12. AutoDesk Homestyler
See how furniture and home decor items will look in your home before you buy them with AutoDesk Homestyler (iOS, Android).
This app enables you to snap a photo of a room and then view it on your iPhone or iPad to try out wall colours and insert objects from a range of well-known brands with realistic renderings.
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