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Safe and neutral Amish Linen or uplifting Tampa Bay? These are colours on the nifty Dulux Visualiser app, which takes the guesswork, stress and time out of paint colour selection. Take a photo of the room (furniture and all) and select a paint colour from its vast range, or get the app to match paint colours to a fabric or any object you already have.
Augmented reality allows you to see your room “painted” with the selected colour. A masking tape tool lets you block out walls you don’t want “painted”.
Forget scraps of paper and poorly drawn room plans with Photo Measures (the Lite version is free on Android and the App Store). This app allows you to take a photo of your space and mark the dimensions (as many as you want) on the photo so every measurement is at hand while you’re out shopping for materials or furniture.
DIY feng shui is within reach with apps such as Bagua Compass (free on iOS), which uses the nine-sector map as the foundation of black hat feng shui.
Once the renovation is done and you’re styling your home, spirit level apps will ensure those picture frames and shelves are hung right. There are many available: Bubble Level and Spirit Level Plus on Android; and Tiltmeter, and Multi Spirit Level on the App Store.