Home improvement and home design are big deals. They can cost as little as a few bucks and a few hours. Sometimes, they can cost upwards of thousands of dollars and take months to implement. Your smartphone can’t spend the money or do the work for you. However, smartphones can help you with some parts of the process. Here are the best home improvement apps and home design apps for Android!
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Build.com
Price: Free
Build.com is one of the newer home improvement apps. It's essentially like Amazon but for construction stuff. It has various tools, supplies, and other stuff for sale. The app is a fairly basic shopping app. You can track orders, buy stuff, create wishlists, and more. You can also consult project advisers on various things. There are tons of stores that sell this kind of stuff. This is the only one that is only online. The app is free. Obviously, the stuff on it costs money.
Home Design 3D
Price: Free / Up to $9.49
Home Design 3D is one of the more stable home design apps. You draw your room spaces in 2D or 3D. You then populate the space with furniture and other decor items. It has a database of over 1,000 items. You can also edit objects to change their shape. That helps you decide if that weird shaped couch actually fits. There is a bit of a learning curve. Otherwise, it works fairly well. It also works offline.
Homify
Price: Free
Homify is one of the newer home design apps. It is a source of ideas for home improvement projects. The app boasts a library of over 1.5 million photos of various interior and architectural designs. You can save your favorites, see the latest trends in home design, and more. The app can even recommend home decorators, interior designers, or other professionals to do the work for you. The app is completely free to download with no in-app purchases.
Houzz
Price: Free
Houzz is one of the most popular home design apps. It gained a decent following for its excellent design. Thankfully, it also works well. It boasts a collection of over 11 million photos. You can save your favorite ideas for future recall. The app also includes a sketch feature. It lets you draw and annotate photos with your own ideas. Some other features include five million products, product reviews, and more. Its View In My Room feature is pretty neat. The app works well, is free, and has no in-app purchases. It does have ads, though.
IKEA Store
Price: Free
Everybody knows IKEA. They have a bunch of basic stuff for not a lot of money. They have stores everywhere. Their app is kind of an extension of that. You can view their inventory, shop for stuff, keep a wishlist, and more. It can also store your loyalty card for quick access, find nearby stores, and find stuff faster in store. Unfortunately, their app experience isn't great. We might recommend that you use the mobile site or visit a location if you can. The app works for some, but it's still rather buggy.
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Pinterest
Price: Free
Pinterest is one of the wildcard home design apps and home improvement apps. The app essentially contains a ridiculous amount of ideas in a variety of topics. That includes DIY home improvements or home design ideas, architectural stuff, furniture ideas, and more. This is where most of those neat bookshelf photos you see on Facebook come from. It does stuff other than home improvement. However, it's not difficult to find just the home stuff. The app is completely free to use as well.
Planner 5D
Price: Free / Up to $54.99
Planner 5D is one of the more hardcore home improvement apps. It works a little bit like Home Design 3D. You can draw your rooms in 2D or 3D. You can then populate it with furniture, decorative items, and other stuff. It includes support for offline use, syncing between devices, a catalog of textures and items, and more. It can get rather expensive. However, you pretty much have to be a full-blown professional to need everything the app offers. It's a good place to start.
YouTube
Price: Free / $9.99 per month
YouTube is an excellent resource for DIY home designers and home improvement. You can find a wealth of information in the form of tutorials, how-tos, tips and tricks, and more. Some home improvement stores maintain basic tutorial channels. There are also some that go more in-depth. Simple searches can find videos on building things, repairing stuff, and more. There is even a tutorial on how to build an entire house from nothing. You can use YouTube for free. There's an optional subscription for $9.99 per month that removes advertising.
Local home improvement professionals
Price: Varies
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Some jobs are just too big for one person to do. Thankfully, hiring professionals is fairly easy. There are a bunch of apps that can handle the task. Google Maps is a good way to find stuff in your area. Angie's List, HomeAdvisor (linked), and many others find professionals that do various things. Most apps let you check out the people and the prices. These apps are excellent resources for those looking to do bigger home improvement projects.
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Your local hardware store
Price: Free apps
Many local hardware chains have their own apps now. Home Depot (linked) and Lowe's are some of the larger general purpose stores. Stores like Target, Walmart, and others sell things like home decor and basic furniture. Even apps like Sears can help with things like AC installations. Some furniture outlets like Wayfair have their own apps as well. You may need to search for some of these home improvement apps and home design apps. Virtually every person doing DIY will likely need at least one of these.
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