The home-building process is stressful for everyone. From the price tag to the ever-expanding To-Do list, there is a lot to worry about when building a home. Thankfully, there’s an app for that! Several apps, in fact! Regardless of where you’re in the home-building process, these apps can help alleviate some stress.
6 of the Best Apps for Building a Home:
1. Houzz – If you haven’t heard about Houzz, download the app right now. An amazing home design site, Houzz offers expert advice, millions of design ideas, countless products for your home, and recommended local home professionals. The app and website allow you to save your ideas and inspirational projects so you can revisit and share these ideas with your family and your builder. There is also a sketch feature on the Houzz app that allows you to draw ideas and notes on photos for future reference! The best feature is the View In My Room option! This gives you the ability to place furniture on the floor plan using virtual reality to better view the layout of the room. You can test how well that specific chair will work in your living room before buying it! [Free] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/houzz/id399563465?mt=8
“Whether you’re building, remodeling, or decorating, Houzz has you covered.”
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2. Home Design 3D – Home Design 3D is an app that allows you to design your room spaces (floor plans) in 2D or 3D. Like the Houzz app’s View Your Room feature, Home Design 3D allows you to virtually place furniture and other home decor throughout the floor plan. To help determine the perfect layout for every room, Home Design 3D offers a database of over 1,000 pieces of furniture and home decor for you to arrange on your floor plan. You can also edit objects to change their shape to replicate your specific furniture. That helps you decide if that weirdly shaped couch actually fits. [Free] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/home-design-3d/id463768717?mt=8
“You can design your floorplan, furnish and decorate, visualize and visit your creation, import/export, and share.”
3. iHandy Carpenter – Imagine having an easy, handy carpenter tool right in your pocket! The iHandy Carpenter app includes 5 professional tools: a plumb bob, surface level, bubble level bar, steel protractor, and a steel ruler. Perfect for measuring verticle lines, leveling flat surfaces, and measuring angles and inches/centimeters, the iHandy Carpenter helps you measure just about anything! [$1.99] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ihandy-carpenter/id293621500?mt=8
“The lightest, prettiest, and most handy carpenter tool kit in the world, right on your iPhone!”
4. iScape Landscape Designs – iScape makes landscaping your new house plan easy and fun! Before you get your hands dirty, use this handy app to envision and plan your dream yard and share it with your spouse, friends, and even your landscaping crew. The best part of this app? You can buy all the products directly from the app and have them delivered to your door! [Free] >https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/iscape/id439688430?mt=8
“Whether you’re a do-it-yourself (DIY) Homeowner or an industry Pro, iScape has you covered.”
5. Home Depot – When building a home and designing the interior, you are inevitably going to venture to Home Depot … multiple times. Make this essential shopping easier and quicker by downloading the Home Depot app! You can search for products by directly speaking into the app, and even better if you have a product at home that you want to find on the app, just take a photo, and the app will find that exact product! [Free] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-home-depot/id342527639?mt=8
“More saving. More doing. On the go.”
6. Remodel AI – This app is for you if you love to visualize. During the house plan search, you can upload any image to this application and change the color, rearrange, and renovate to achieve your home visualization. This app allows you to transform the exterior color, landscape, flooring, walls, painting, etc. The process is easy; you simply take a picture of your space and tell the app what you’re looking for; it will give you an abundance of options and endless creativity to see the potential of our house plans. [Free] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/remodel-ai-home-renovation/id6446040791
“Your Home’s Bestfriend”
Use these 6 apps to make the home-building process easier and less stressful. Using these happy apps, you can plan, brainstorm, measure, test, shop, and make list after list.
Our "go to guy" and company expert, Brandon is the visionary and dreamer of all we do here at America's Best House Plans. He manages quality assurance, audits existing processes for maximum effectiveness, and develops strategies to increase productivity and efficiency. With over 15 years experience in the home design industry, Brandon has a hand in every aspect of the day-to-day operations of our company, in addition to ensuring an unparalleled level of service to our customers.
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