6 useful apps for renovation, space planning and interior design

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

With the help of these applications, you can get acquainted with the mass of ready-made projects or independently start designing a new kitchen, apartment or even a country house.

1. Foreman Free

A useful application that will help with calculations during construction, decoration or renovation. Thanks to its convenient forms, it is possible to calculate the area of the room, the required amount of brick and its cost, the cost of drywall, the number of tiles and glue for it, the number of wallpaper rolls, the footage of the laminate.

Also, with its help, you can quickly draw up an estimate for finishing, including with interest. The full version of the application allows you to save all calculations as a file on a memory card or send it by mail.

2. Interior designer for IKEA

This application allows you to draw beautiful and neat layouts of apartments, schemes of houses on several floors and interiors of individual rooms. You can create all this in 2D orientation, and adjust parts in 3D. The 3D model can also be shown in VR mode through the Google Cardboard helmet.

Used furniture and interior items are taken from IKEA catalogs. Finished projects can be saved as an image, and in the full version of the application they can also be written to a separate file. The results of creativity can be easily sent to friends in any convenient way.

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3. Planner 5D

A better known analogue of the previous application with almost identical functionality. One of the differences is a number of demo projects that can be taken as a basis so as not to start from scratch. The same design options are available with a top view or 3D orientation. True, there are not many interior items and furniture in the free version of the program.

4. Kitchen constructor

An easier-to-use application for designing kitchen sets. In it, you can select the main modules for a corner or straight kitchen, adjust them in size and location, and also think over the placement of household appliances. In the settings, there are many options for facades, countertops, walls, aprons textures and other details.

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5. Roomle

This is a large catalog of furniture and home decor items, giving a realistic idea of how and what will fit into your interior. One click is enough to evaluate it "live". The augmented reality function is responsible for this possibility, which allows you to see the object you like through the lens of the smartphone camera.

The selected element can be rotated and moved around the room with gestures. This could be a chair, lamp, exercise machine, shelving unit, flower, or even a floor covering.

6. Houzz

This application provides access to a large collection of ready-made design projects with the ability to contact the author of each work. There is also an extensive catalog of furniture, decor items, home and garden products with current prices and links to sites for purchase.

On sketches using sketches, you can leave notes, outline interior details and send these edits using social networks, mail and instant messengers. So you can communicate with the designer remotely, discussing the details of the future project.