Perfect with iPhone, Mac, and iPad, Board combines your ideal inspiration, decor or furniture library with powerful mood board and collage tools to design anywhere.

Featuring a tape measure, laser level, stud finer and measurement history, this handy app helps you measure anything with your phone!Ĭalled ‘addictive’ by ELLE DÉCOR magazine and awarded one of the best apps for interior design and architecture, this is a fabulous app to make your dream mood board come true. Tape Measure is an augmented reality tape measure and ruler that fits in your pocket. It also lets you admire objects from any angle, in any light, as well as save room configurations and try them out anywhere.

A great planning app, it allows you to feel exactly how big objects are and how they’ll fit in a room. Housecraft is a furniture arrangement app that uses your device’s camera and augmented reality technology to let you place fully rendered 3D models anywhere in a space. To top it off, you can also visualise and ‘visit’ your creation in real-time 3D using the app’s brand new photorealistic 3D rendering. You can also select furniture and décor items to really give you a sense of the final feel. Designing your home becomes quick and intuitive, with customised textures, 3D project modes and night/day function to show you exactly what side of the house the light will fall at different times each day. The free app gives a floorplan and room layout which you can draw in 2D, creating openings, adding walls, changing the shape and orientation – even the thickness of the walls can be drawn up. Home Design 3D allows you to build a 3D model of your home so you can test out ideas before lifting a hammer or fetching the toolbox. The built in zoom view gives you pixel level precision when picking colours making this a fabulous tool for creating schemes and making paint colour and textile selections. The app allows you to grab colours from your camera or saved photographs – it will match them and generate individual HEX and RGB values (colour codes) for each shade. Palette Cam is a great free tool for creating unique colour palettes and schemes using inspiration found in everyday life. To top it off, Houzz also gives you the opportunity to look up professionals in your area, like architects, builders and suppliers to help you complete your project.

The app is free, easy to use and beautifully designed to create different rooms and browse ideas. Houzz is your interior design app on the go and it’s filled with a large database of design ideas, creative concepts and product reviews. All great dreams start off with inspiration and so when you’re about to build, you can’t have enough of it.

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