Interior Decorating Apps

The following apps are full of small projects and major makeover ideas for your home.

iPhone

Elle Decor Magazine (pay per issue or subscribe annually) — This is the favorite interior design magazine of innovative decorators. Fall in love with each issue's casual and extravagant featured homes. (Score: 97/100)

Dream Home HD ($0.99) — You can explore countless options for your home, choosing by decorating style, room type or color palette. You also can view them offline. (Score: 92/100)

IKEA Catalog (Free)* — IKEA, the retailer for those who like modern, affordable and ready-to-go designs, shares its latest offerings in this app. (Score: 87/100)

HGTV to GO for iPhone or iPad (Free — Home and Garden Television gathers a vast array of design ideas and tips in this helpful app. (Score: 82/100)

Virtual Interior Design (Free) — This interactive app allows you to photograph the room you want to change and virtually decorate it in a variety of ways. (Score: 76/100)

Android

Master-Design Furnish (Free) — Draw your rooms and furnish them with 3,000 different items. This very flexible design app allows you to visualize all of your design plans. (Score: 86/100)

Interior Design Gallery (Free) — A large collection of interior design images for every room and style. (Score: 82/100)

Room Painting Ideas (Free) — This gallery of ideas for your home contains hundreds of room-painting concepts, from antique-paint effects to modern, bold colors. (Score: 82/100)

3D Interior Room Design ($4.79) — This app uses 3-D animated software to create realistic images of your rooms and decorate your virtual walls and floors with moldings, wall textures and textiles. (Score: 78/100)

Houzz Interior Design Ideas (Free)* — Houzz's app features 900,000 high-resolution images of home decor. There's an idea for any size or style of home or room. (Score: 69/100)

* Available on both platforms.

There Are Some New Apps For That!

Did you know there was a guide available which showcases the best property apps for the iPhone and iPad (many of which are design orientated):

From interior design ideas to fantastic DIY essentials, this hand-picked selection of apps will appeal to anyone with a flair for design and home improvement.

There's a Houzz app, an InteriorMag app, a Dream Home HD and many more either free or $.99. Have a look!

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10 iPhone Applications for Your Home Needs.

We will be buying an iPhone or Droid from Verizon this year or as soon as our bookkeeper gives us the go-ahead.  She thinks before yearend we may get a BOGO offer.  In the meantime we think this article from Change of Address.org will be of interest to you: Top 10 iPhone Applications for Your Home Needs.

1. Moving Van by Glimmer Design Limited allows you to easily keep track of the contents of every box right from the palm of your hand. 
2. Home Interior Layout Designer by M.O.C. Interior Designer, LLC is a really cool app that will help you as you struggle with redecorating your home. 
3. iHandy Carpenter by iHandySoft, Inc. is a great tool for amateur carpenter work and includes a great level which you can actually use for hanging pictures straight and other things.
4. HomeRoutines by Wunderbear is a to do utility for household chores.
5. paintingWalls by Enginy Studios is really a cool application where you take a picture of any room in your home and then you can use their custom painting tools to paint it any color you want and then swap colors until you find one that is perfect for that room. 
6. Home Remedies by Feather & Moor, Ltd. Is an application with over 100 home remedies.
7. Home Inventory by Gotta Have It! Software, Inc. is a great way to keep track of all of your belongings for insurance purposes and even warranty or other uses.
8. HomeMeter by osXwerk.de offers something unique in that it gives you a place to track your usage of natural gas, electricity, and other utilities by allowing you to easily keep track of your meters.
9. Mobiscope: Home Surveillance by SHAPE Services is a must have application for those that are concerned about the security of their home or job site.
10. X10 Commander by Melloware is an X10 Controller Client for the iPhone that will allow you to control all kinds of devices in your home from lights to your garage door.

While you are at Change of Address.org check out:

• Top 10 TV Shows About Cleaning and Organizing Your Home
• 10 Reasons People Can’t Remember Your Name 
  

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New iPhone Apps For Designers

IIDA HQ Blog by Carmen O'Donnell has information about 8 Apps for your iPhone that are geared for design professionals. They include Mark on Call which allows users to create & share detailed floor plans. Cost: $2.99; and Pantone Color Library which allows users easy access to the Pantone color libraries, serving as an on-the-go color reference guide. Cost: $9.99

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