best apps for interior design inspiration

When it comes to finding interior design inspiration, it's easier than ever to download a wide range of mobile apps that offer everything from helpful design tips from DIYers and design professionals, to allowing you to quickly save your favorite 'future dream home' design ideas.

With just a few taps, these apps can help you with everything from selecting the perfect wall color to creating the best furniture arrangement for your home office or living room.

We've pulled together this handy guide with our recommendations for some of the most useful and effective apps for finding (and saving) interior design inspiration.

Just a tap away.

Whether you're decorating, renovating, repainting, or refurbishing your home, rest assured that there's an app for that.

Houzz Rules

One of the most popular apps for interior design is Houzz. Users take a 'novel' approach by creating Ideabooks, which is a place where you can store your favorite ideas and project inspiration. You can save just about everything you see on Houzz within your ideabooks, including your favorite home design photos, stories, profiles of home service professionals, products, discussions, notes and other details related to your home project.

Narrow things down further by searching your personal style preferences like "Modern Furniture" or "Farmhouse Kitchen," or create personal projects like "Office Redo" or "Dream Home Theater" to save additional project-specific details and products to.

By using these tools, you will have your own ultimate personal guide for achieving your desired look.

Pique your Pinterest

For those who like to mix and match, and take a more collage-style approach to interior design, Pinterest offers a vast variety of user and brand-generated content to choose from.

Pinterest is a great aspirational resource for interior design inspiration. Whether through the website or free mobile app, you can 'Pin' images you like to the Boards that you create. Boards allow people to organize all of their Pins (pictures) - from the web or other Boards - around different ideas and interests. You can even follow Boards created by other users for a more curated experience. While you're there, be sure to follow BDI on Pinterest.

Just search for what you're looking for, click "Save" on the images you like, and select the Board you want to save it to for future reference.

#Picture_Perfect

Instagram is a phenomenal place to seek out particular pieces or styles that match your design needs, from the best standing desk for your office space to the ideal entertainment center or media console that can accommodate all of your home theater needs.

By searching and following the appropriate hashtags, you can find everything from making the best use of a small space in a studio apartment to how-to-videos on safely mounting a TV to the wall. You can also follow other interior-focused user accounts to receive a daily feed of home decor ideas and motivation.

When you see a room, product or space that you like, simply hit the heart symbol to like it, or tap the bookmark icon to save it to your collections for future reference and enjoyment.

Be sure to follow BDI for some insta-inspiration.

Havenly features

If you prefer more professional "hands-on" attention, you may want to give Havenly a try.

This app and website is the Match. com of your interior design needs and finding the right designer for your project. Havenly lets you upload a pic of whatever room you want to remodel or decorate, and then matches you with a corresponding professional designer based on your style and preferred aesthetic. Then you and the designer can enter into a live chat about how to best go about realizing your dream look.

Chatting with a designer is free, but you also have the option to hire the designer if you want further professional assistance. But you are entirely free to carry out the design plan on your own after your free chat session. The Havenly app is currently only available on iOS.

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Room with a view.

There are also a couple of apps that allow you to build a room by taking advantage of augmented reality and other virtual design tools.

With design apps like these so readily (and literally) available at your fingertips through every step of the design process, there's no reason to not get started today on your dream room or home makeover.

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