Home! Sweet home! Professional Interior designers are working hard to make your house or flat not only stylish and newly furnished but also comfortable to live in! Whether you are a professional designer or not, this list of apps would help you to optimize the space in your home, choose the right color of wallpapers and furniture in this or that room, make necessary calculations and solve other problems you can face.
Apps 1 to 13 will help you make a 2D plans and 3D models of your space, provide you with pieces of advice from professional home interior designers and let you look how your house will look like with the help of the augmented reality technologies.
Apps 14 to 19 are useful practical tools that you may need while planning your home or office space.
Apps 20 to 25 are devoted to color and will help you to make the right choice of a shade and a paint you need. This list is what you need to make your home design outstanding.
Houzz
You can’t imagine how your ideal home should look like? Houzz is the app you need! It is a valuable source of interior and exterior design photos. You can choose from more than 16 million high-resolution images. Download this app and look for inspiration!
This app has been warmly welcomed on the international market. It was welcomed by a number respected editions such as the New York Times, the Washington Post and CNN.
With the help of Houzz you can create a unique home design either on your own or with the help of professionals. In any case, Houzz will assist you on all stages of your redecoration process.
The photos we mentioned above can be sorted out according to a style and a type of room. These photos are really “smart”. That is to say, you can find where to buy this or that furniture you see on a photo and its cost or you can ask how this or that technique used in a design on a photo you like is called. The Sketch feature available in this app lets you leave notes and comments on photos.
You can address professionals directly using Forum inserted in the Houzz app. More than 2.1 million specialists of all sorts can give you a piece of advice or even assist your home decoration process.
Such services as Houzz Newsletter and Houzz TV will provide you with updated information in the world of home design and give you more inspiration to change your home beyond recognition.
All in all, It’s not just an app for your smartphone, it’s your free helper and advisor that is available 24×7 and understands your preferences better than you do!
Homify – modify your home
Homify is an app that will assist you along the whole process of your home design decoration: from inspiration to action, from deigning and drafting to building the house of your dreams. It has been highly rated by such editions and Vogue and Cosmopolitan.
Homify serves as a link between clients and professionals in architecture and interior design. Over 1.5 million photos can help you get inspired. Choose the style and the type of room and sort ideas according to trendy ideas and all-time popular ones. Save them in your “Ideabook” and share with friends or professionals.
The Homify magazine will provide you with up-to-date information and news on such topics and new trends in architecture and design.
This app can help you find a professional designer that would help you put your ideas into practice. Architects and Interior designers from more than 30 countries are ready to serve your needs if you choose the Homify app.
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Smith: Home Remodel
Smith Home Remodel is a free app that will help you finally terminate and brush up on your designer projects.
Sometimes you face the situation when there are exquisite mood boards and flawless plans and models of the home of your dreams but you still need an aid from a professional to make it perfect.
With Smith Home Remodel you upload the main details of your project, send images and photos and within a day the app finds you up to 4 local contractors ready to fulfill your expectations and make your dreams come true!
Home Design 3D
Home Design 3D application helps you to design and redesign your house quickly and there are no special designer skills required.
With Home Design 3D professional home design is accessible to everyone.
Make a floor plan, fill your house with furniture (you can change of shape, size and color of furniture), visualize your home and correct imperfections — these are simple steps you need to take to design the home of your dreams.
You can also explore how your house would look like in the daytime and at night and share your work with your friends or other users. It’s worth mentioning that there are 35 million people around the world who use Home Design 3D.
Internet connection is not necessary while working on this application.
There are some other versions of this application, such as Home Design 3D: My Dream Home and Home Design 3D Outdoor-Garden. There is also an extended Home Design 3D GOLD PLUS version that offers more possibilities in your process of design elaboration.
Planner 5D
Planner 5D is an inalienable tool while designing the home of your dreams. 2D and 3D models of your home are easy to draft. Thanks to a user-friendly interface you don’t need any special skills to elaborate in details your house or flat.
Catalog inserted in Planner 5D lets you fill your model of a house with necessary furniture, domestic appliances, various household items. Not only interior but exterior design is available.
You can draft your realistic designs on your smartphone, iPad or Laptop, save it and share it with your friends or workers. The big advantages of this app is that you can work in an off-line mode.
Various modifications of this application let you concentrate on a particular room in your home. There exit separate apps on Kitchen Design, Children’s room Design, Bathroom Design, Bedroom Design and Office Design.
Free and Premium versions are available.
SketchUp Viewer
SketchUp Viewer provides you with a new insight in your work, it lets you experience your designs and feel the atmosphere thanks to the ability to bring 3D models in mixed reality.
SketchUp Warehouse gives you a possibility to explore over a million of completed models for free. You own models can be uploaded in the app from the Google Drive or another file storage application. Pan, orbit and zoom all the models on SketchUp Viewer.
Such functions as perspective and orthographic cameras modes, X-ray mode and the ability to control the visibility of different parts of a model makes this app a real SketchUp in your pocket. A new possibility available in the premium version of the SketchUp Viewer and it lets you merge your 3D models with the real space you dispose of.
All in all, SketchUp Viewer provides you with the possibility to live within your design before a construction is completed.
Roomle Viewer
You want to plan and furnish living or office space? With Rommle Viewer it has never been so simple. Over 1 million users share this point of view.
With Roomle Viewer you will be able to observe your future living or office space design in 3D, 360 degree full screen on your smartphone. Virtual Reality will let you stay directly and feel a cozy atmosphere of a room.
This app disposes of a wide range of tools, for example, you can draw the layout, build walls, add furniture by using an on-line catalog! Shopping on-line directly from the catalog is also possible!
First, you can try to use demo version and no Roomle account is required. If you’re fully satisfied with the quality of the app you can use it further for free on-line or on your smartphone. Your Roomle account will let you access your drafts from any device.
Other apps from this series, such as Roomle 3D & AR room planner and Roomle 3D & AR Furniture catalog complement the workings of the main app,
Roomle Viewer is an application that will bring all your plans about living or office space design to life!
Homestyler Interior Design
Homestyler is an app for decoration your own space on a smartphone that totals over 100 thousand users.
Visualization of your interior design ideas is what Homestyle Interior Design can bring you! Take a photo of your space, clean it from objects and start conduction experiments! Change the color of your walls or the style of your lamp, add real designer furniture, works of art, paintings, other objects in order to check whether it would suit your space.
Homestyler is also a source of inspiration, valuable pieces of advice for you. Save and share your design projects with your friends on Facebook and get feedback.
Hutch
Hutch is described by its creators as a «virtual dressing room for your home». It is really so. This app gives you a possibility to see the room as if it has been decorated by a professional interior designer.
Take photos of your house, upload them and wait for a rendered version of your home place (without furniture and visual lapses). Then choose the style you would like to have this or that room in, add furniture that you need and assess the result. If you enjoy the outcome and would like to put your ideas into practice you can shop directly from the app!
It is by far the best way to evaluate your desires about interior home design and perform the design process flawlessly. Sometimes professional image scanning takes up to 24 hours but it is a price that you will never regret paying!
Neybers – Try Interior Design Anywhere
Neybers is an app that lets you conduct an experiment with your home interior design. Neybers Lite provides you with furniture from more than 300 designers and brands. Take a photo of your room and change the ceiling, windows or walls, add lighting effects and furniture items. Share your design interiors with friends on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter or via e-mail and give likes to the ones of your friends.
Whether you want to create the home of your dreams or just prepare a place for a foto session, Neybers will come in handy! You can subscribe to Neybers Plus to have access to more room-templates and furniture brands.
Design Home
Design Home is a game that can help you to relax and have fun but at the same time advance your designer skills and find inspiration for your own design projects.
In this app you play the role of an interior home designer. Design Home will show you various interior design styles from classics to modern. You also have an access to real furniture brands as IKEA and some other Scandinavian brands.
Home Design provides you with some practical functions. For example, you can take a photo of your own home space and conduct a designer experiment in your house or flat without any spendings. If you like an item of furniture, there is an option of shopping online directly from the app.
Download this app, try a profession of designer and share your projects with friends on Facebook!
Havenly: Interior Design Ideas
With Havenly you will receive a professional design advice on any question you wish.
Communicate one-on-one with a home interior designer, send him or her photos and plans of your space and share your ideas about its future appearance. Then get a feedback and put it into practice, make your ideal home a reality! Shop online to purchase design furniture from famous brands.
If you want an upgrade, there is a possibility to book a custom interior design.
Morpholio Board – Moodboard
Morpholio Board is an app design by a professional interior designer and aimed primarily at colleagues. At the same time, this app is rather simple in its use and can easily become part of your creative process even if you’re not a professional home interior designer.
With this app all your interior projects and designs can be finally brought to life. You can use different mood boards aligned with a gallery of trendy items and popular ideas where you can get your inspiration from.
Useful tools let you layout, draft and present your mood board or design with the help of photos, images, sketches and drafts taken from the gallery.
IPAD version of Morpholio Board is more functional and give you more possibilities to complete your design plan. Monthly and annual subscriptions are available.
iHandy Level
Do you need to put a painting on a wall? iHandy Level will definitely come in handy! It is a bubble level bar on your phone. It acts exactly the same as a real bubble level bar. This app offers you a possibility of calibration, which upgrades the accuracy of this tool.
iHandy Level is a free app. If you need more practical tools, try to download iHandy Carpenter. This version is not free but it also includes such apps as a plumb bob, a surface level, a steel protractor and a steel ruler.
Stanley Smart Connect
Stanley Smart Connect will economize your time and money and optimize your working process. You can create room plans and take measurements with your smartphone if Stanley Smart Connect app is installed!
Make instant measurements with Laser Distance Measurer, share your results in PDF format or as an image, save and store them on your device. Using this app can also work with photos: add measurements, take notes, save, store and share them with friends. Finally, it is possible to draft a room plan, make the necessary measurements and calculations, attach photos, save, store and share your room plans with friends.
Another app from the same designer — Stanley Measure — will make the plan of your room quickly. Just put your phone on a flat surface and fix the lines of the ceiling and the floor with the use of the camera, outline the corners of your room with a virtual grid. To complete your plan you need just add doors, windows and furnish it.
MagicPlan
Do you need a floorplan of your home? MagicРlan is an app that will do it for you! It totals more than 12 million users, was awarded such titles as “Best app of the year 2012”, “Best App of the week” in many countries.
With MagicPlan you can take pictures
