The home decor of a space is what gives it character and purpose. Creating an aesthetic picture for the same takes effort and time, although it becomes easy with the help of several applications that are experts in helping you put together spaces. You can take the help of references and choose from the wide range of options available in these apps to complete the picture. This lets you decide before the actual process, what your style looks like and how you want to present your home.
15 Apps to aid your Home Design and Decor Ideas
Let’s take a look at 15 such brilliant home design and decor applications of today, that help in the same.
01. Carpetright visualizer
Carpetright visualizer is one of the easiest ways you can customize your home. All you need to do is take good-quality pictures of your interiors and upload them onto the software. After that, you will be able to apply any material from its storage and plan. This will include features like wall paint, laminates, vinyl wood, laminate flooring, and much more.
02. Houzz
The popular Houzz website also has an app where you can get the best design ideas on interior design and exteriors from a 25 million high-resolution pictures collection. These range in variety and style giving you endless options on which to base your interior designs and exteriors. With the sheer amount of suggestions on the site, you might get confused. To lessen that effect the app also offers a place to organize and store inspiration you have collected.
These range in variety and style giving you endless options on which to base your interior designs and exteriors. If you plan to build, remodel or decorate your homes, it is a fantastic reference service because it offers inspirational concepts. The app is a mood board to examine and visualize the spaces of your home before the design is executed. In addition, it gives a chance for the professionals from your field, like architects, designers and contractors to see what you want in the project and to execute it.
According to the users’ reviews, they can easily share their design ideas with professionals. It saves a lot of time as you need not waste your time drawing your ideas. It is an excellent app for renovation and design ideas. This app has different functionalities as per the location of the country. In addition, it doesn’t work while you are offline.
03. HomeByMe
HomeByMe allows you to choose the layout of the room from the flooring to the finished furniture that will go onto the space. You wouldn’t have to take an effort in measuring the space. Instead, the app will scan and give space to ideate your designs. It might not be as advanced as some of the other apps. But when it comes to the simplicity of usage, this app takes the cake.
HomeByMe is an interior design solution that helps you find inspiration for your home’s furniture and decor. You can use it to imagine and visualize various decor and layout configurations for your home before you wish to rearrange your space. In addition, you can even operate the application if you are offline.
As per the users, the app is excellent, with versatile features, a massive selection of interior design options and endless customization options. Still, it stays under maintenance, due to which they end up losing their progress. It could be better if it were easier to navigate for user-friendliness.
04. Planner 5D
Known for its smooth functioning, Planner 5D allows you to visualize an interior space that is unique to you. Anyone would be able to navigate through the app and create interior options that would help them bring out their dream layout. It offers a range of difficulty levels in its usage thus; anyone can use it and create their heart’s desire. You can even share your creations on social media platforms.
You can edit and view your house design in 2D and 3D models. Additionally, you can easily do home remodelling and change the interior design of the house. This app also allows you to design a cafe, restaurant, cafe and gym besides home interiors.
As reported by the users, the application helps visualize ideas, but it’s a bit complicated to adjust in 3D mode. In addition to it, the paid version pop-ups are an issue. Few tools can’t be used in the free version.
05. Floor Planner
Home decor designing becomes, even more, easier with Floor planner as it doesn’t need a separate downloading. Providing you with both 2D and 3D options, a floor planner becomes a functional app where you can design your dream decor using a variety of features in the app. You can start, with a 2D floor plan and then switch to 3D to decorate each space. With time you would get used to the unique features in the app and be able to design any space.
According to the users’ reviews, this app only allows you to view your projects and not alter them on the mobile. It is more of a companion app for the laptop or desktop version. It is incredible if you want to show your floor plan built from the web app. The walkthrough feature is fantastic to navigate and look around.
06. Havenly
Havenly is an intuitive online interior design firm that pairs up its clients with the right interior designer according to their needs. They assess the clients to know more about their choice of style, budget, and many more factors. The designer capable of bringing that picture into reality pairs up with them to take forward the process.
The firm had recently come up with a website that makes this process easier. Here you’ll be able to chat with your interior designer to get notes and advice on your decor. You can even upload photos of the space you are decorating and get real-time feedback and suggestions on your ideas.
It is designed for iPad and iPhone users. As per the users, the interior design transforms your rooms very well. But go for something other than the execution part because it would be expensive. The app is slow and takes time to load everything.
07. Colour Capture
The variety of colors we can find on his planet is vast right cataloging each one of them is near impossible. But what if you could get closer to that reality as possible. Color capture is an app created to do this very thing. If you see a color that inspires you anywhere, use this app to capture and pinpoint that color. This app will show you the color and its name, which you can use to get paint options for your interior decor. You can also share your discoveries with your family and friends via email or social media.
08. Photo Measures
If measurements are not your thing to remember then Photo Measures is the app for you. The app allows you to get and save a wide range of measurements on your phone. From cabinetry, and wall sizes to floor area and much more, it can segregate measurements and store them for future use. This information would come in handy when you need to get art pieces and statement pieces for your decor.
As reported by the users, it is a great app and very easy to use. It directly lays measurements on top of your existing photos. But remember that it does not measure the area for you. It instead lets you put measurements.
09. Redecor
This app becomes a fun game that anyone can play. Being fun, it allows you to explore different decor styles and express your creativity in the form of home decor. This can become the base for your interior design project. It offers a unique 3D design possibility with a selection of over a thousand high-quality options. This is also a way for you to familiarize yourself with the interior decor aspect of designing.
According to the users, the game is good when free, but when you start to level up, there are frequent pop-ups for the paid version, and you don’t even get better designs in the free version. It downgrades your levels when you fail to level up. The prices of the materials are way higher than the rewards you win.
10. Design Home
If you want to broaden the horizon of having fun while designing interiors and learning more about what to do, here is Design Home for you. The app lets you design interiors where you get to choose furniture from actual brands. These furniture choices let you estimate the space needed and it’s framing without having to visit a shop. You can rely on your designs in the app later on for when you’ll need to install an interior project of your own.
According to the users’ reviews, it is an addictive and fun game for non-designers to set a theme for their interiors. After levelling up, it demands to spend your money to buy varied decor items. Besides that, it is fun to style different rooms and be rewarded with pieces of furniture.
11. Deco
Climbing a little higher on the budget ladder, Deco brings to you a collection of luxurious and high-end furniture to design your interior space. Here you will be able to find top-notch furniture options which are from well-known brands. This helps in selecting the same in real life as well. With options ranging through different materials, colors, and textures you can search for the perfect option for your space.
12. Paper by Fifty Three
A canvas spread open for your creative hands to hit it, Paper by Fifty three is an app that lets you explore your creative bounds on digital paper. It is unlike any other sketching app, letting various tools help you construct your visions and imaginations into life. You can also bring in external images and art pieces to help you create. The app also provides information to help you use tools more. It’s a creative journey that you won’t regret starting.
13. Morpholio Board Pro
One of the very useful apps out there being of use while a project is going on is Morpholio Board pro. This app provides the users with the provision of merging mood boards with every aspect of an interior design they’d want to include.
They also provide a shopping list, cut sheets, and specs merging option as well making project management much easier. The app also provides the user to create the design using various options of furniture and decor available in the app. This makes for an all-around experience that is a must-try.
14. Rooomy
Visualizing the replacement of furniture in a space can be tricky. Making it simple and easy is the Roomy app where you get to place furniture from the wide range of collections they have in store. Here the app can convert 2D drawings to 3D thus making it easy for designers to further explore the space. It will help you to understand your space of what it would be like to decorate a room. This app is only for Apple users. The app also provides real-time links to vendors and retailers that sell the particular furniture you fixed on the interiors as well.
15. Housepad
Developed by Micheal Bruno, this app helps the user to store information such as instructions, dimensions, and materials throughout the process of construction of the interior space. They are then sharable to your loved ones through social media or the mail. The amount of variety in furnishings and other decors would help you further in creating a beautiful space.
Software and apps are the helping hands that make processes easier. By using these apps, you can not only save time and effort gone into designing but also draw up a perspective on how you would like to frame your interior decor. Decor. This helps you communicate with others as well as have the information on hand for any emergency. Omit they help in simplifying the long-making process both on-site and design.
FAQs
01. Which App is best for House Design?
This would depend on the level of skill you have to navigate each app. Whichever is manageable and comfortable in use will be the one you will rely on the most. With that said it should also meet your need for using it as well.
02. Are these Apps easy to Use?
Most of these apps are daily use, apps that are available in the google play store. This makes them easy to navigate and use for any skill level.
03. Which Device do I use to run these Apps?
Most of these apps run on android devices but some only run on IOS devices. It would be better to check the websites of the app you want to download for the correct info on the same and then proceed with downloading them on the available device.
04. Are these Apps free to Use or are there Payments for Subscriptions included?
You can use these apps for free to an extent after which in-app purchases and subscriptions can help you find more varieties to explore. The free version has limited availability of materials but you can still use them to create different designs.
05. Where do I take Inspiration from for Designing my Interior?
There are several well-known magazines that publish interior design you can take reference from. Apart from that, the internet is a free source where searching about the style you want can give you inspirations as well.
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Author Bio
Saili Sawantt – She is an Architect and Interior Designer by profession. Writing is what she treats as her passion. She has worked as an Architectural Writer, Editor, and Journalist for various design as well as digital portals, both national and international. Formerly she has also worked with Godrej Properties Limited (GPL) Design Studio, Mumbai, due to her keen interested in learning about Sustainability and Green buildings. Apart from this, she runs her blog ‘The Reader’s Express’ and is a practicing Architect & Interior Designer.