7 Best Home Design Apps To Unleash Your Inner Interior Designer
PUBLISHED April 20th, 2021 06:00 am | UPDATED January 3rd, 2023 09:27 pm
Home designing can feel like heaven or hell, depending on the route you take. While we marvel at beautifully designed landmark buildings and luxurious homes, it can be a huge headache to produce your dream home. Whether you’re looking to get the know-how on building your very own architectural masterpiece, or just fancy yourself a person with a flair for home decorating, here are seven apps that bring out the best of your interior designing skills.
SketchUp
For real-world home planning and design, SketchUp is one of the best home design software for Mac. The app offers a 3D modelling software and Google Earth mapping to turn sketches into accurate architectural designs. From skyscrapers to suburban houses, SketchUp easily brings your designs to life. After you’re done designing the exterior, it’s also just as easy to plan out the interior of your dream home, complete with material options like glass, wooden floorboards and intricate wallpaper.
SketchUp is available for desktop and on the web. See website for more pricing info.
Planner 5D
Another all-encompassing home design app is Planner 5D. While not as accurate as SketchUp, Planner 5D does have similar features that lets you design your house from start to finish. Choose to design a basic floor plan in 2D or even take a picture of a real work-in-progress and turn it into a 3D model. The app is incredibly easy to use, with a multitude of design features, including a 150+ item catalogue to mix and match the best of your designs.
Planner 5D is available for a free trial on the App Store and Google Play. See website for pricing info.
Room Creator
Drafting up your dream rooms for your new place? Room Creator lets you design and decorate a room in under 10 minutes, as the app claims. Simply enter the room dimensions and it will create a blank canvas for you to experiment with flooring, furniture, light fixtures, and wall art. The designs themselves aren’t interior designing masterpieces, only equipped with simple design features and colour swatches. But it’s a useful tool for when you’re on-the-go and looking at furnishing options for your new home.
Room Creator is available for free on Google Play.
Design Home
Creating those Pinterest mood boards for all your aesthetic room design ideas won’t go to waste. Launched in 2016, the incredibly popular game Design Home, boasts sleek design challenges that lets you live your life as a top interior designer. Poseing weekly interior design challenges to their players, the settings range from home offices to penthouses, beautifully built to look like something out of Architectural Digest. All players have to do is furnish the room to the best of their abilities. Choose from an impressive catalogue of real-life home decor companies, such as West Elm and Kathy Kuo.
Design Home is available for free on the App Store and Google Play.
Houzz
Whether you’re redecorating or remodelling, Houzz is one of the most helpful apps for taking on your home design project. This app lets users try out different furnitures, appliances and wallpapers that would look good around your home. You even have the option to group by style, location, and room type. But the best feature of Houzz is its applicability to your real-life home designs. The app supplies you with the best local contractors and material recommendations that would best suit your home and taste.
Houzz is available for free on the App Store and Google Play.
Homify
Like Houzz, Homify offers users a way to connect with professional interior designers and architects to construct their dream home. From beginning to end, the app can ease the process of home designing by allowing you to group ideas, styles, and decor in “Ideabooks” on the app, that can later be viewed by professionals. If you just need some new inspiration to redocorate your room, the app’s featured Homify Magazine keeps you up-to-date with the latest architectural and interior design trends for the chicest home design ideas.
Homify is available on the App Store and Google Play.
Redecor The Game
While designing a real house might not be as easy, Redecor The Game is a fun and relaxing interior design game. With daily challenges each week, you can choose to design and decorate a pre-laid out room with a personal flair. Although the game requires players to purchase furniture and decor with your game money, the more points your designs score, the more rewards you receive. It’s all the fun of interior designing without having to fork out a large cost.
Redecor The Game is available for free on the App Store and Google Play.
