If you’ve ever needed to capture a colour you love, desired immediate interior inspiration, or wanted to play around with your room layout, now you can. Because there’s an app for that. In fact, there’s an app for pretty much every interior decorating need. Here are a few of my favourites:
Houzz
An app of endless opportunities, there are millions (and I really do mean millions) of high quality images to provide you with interior – and exterior – inspiration. The images are all tagged according to style, room and location, so it’s easy to find something particular. You can save ideas to your own personal mood board and you can even annotate and sketch directly onto an image. And as if that wasn’t enough, you can read articles, discuss ideas with like-minded individuals, and even shop for products.
The Houzz app is free, and available for iOS and Android.
Color Capture
This is an incredible app from paint-makers Benjamin Moore. Take a picture of anything you love the colour of and the app will match it to one of Benjamin Moore’s 3,300 paint options. It’s a quick and easy way to find a wall colour you’ll love. In addition, you can share your choices via Facebook, Twitter or email for that all-important second opinion.
Free, and available on iOS and Android
MyPantone
Another colour focused app, this time from colour experts, Pantone. Featuring Pantone’s entire library of colours, the app allows you to build palettes and share your favourites with your interior designers. It also works in a similar way to Color Capture, generating colour palettes based on your photographs.
£4.99, Android only
Photo Measures
An app so genius in its simplicity, you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it. This app provides a safe place to store room measurements. Super simple, right? Why not just use a piece of paper? Because the measurements are written directly onto a photograph of the space! It’s fantastically useful when shopping for furniture or meeting potential contractors.
Room Layout Apps (in general)
Creating a detailed floor plan for your renovation project is generally a job best left to the professionals. But if you want to make simple room layouts so you can see how particular furniture, wall colours or flooring might look in your space, there are apps to help. Apartment Therapy has rounded up some of the highest rated so head over here for detailed analysis.
