There's an App for That!

Painting and decorating aren't new, but there are new high-tech approaches:

• Dulux My Color app for your smart phone lets you take a picture and match the colours in your photo to Dulux paints. That gorgeous sunset, subtly shaded flower or fabulous dress can be the inspiration for your walls!
• Evernote, also for your smart phone, lets you collect and categorize snaps of your furniture, soft furnishings, wallpapers, and artwork. In the shop, you can look at all the influences on that room at once.  No more conversations like, "Do you think this is the same shade as the mats we bought?" "Erm, I think they were more blue than that..."
• Mark on Call is an app that lets you play around with your floor plan. Take pictures and place them on the floor plan for help visualising how your own things will work, or use the library of images in the app. Click on that link to watch a video demo.
• Do the same thing online with Arrange a Room, a fun tool that you can play with in the comfort of your home. You'll have to register to play with it, but it's free. 
• SeeMyDesign is a more complicated tool, with a little bit of a learning curve. Floorplanner is another through tool, with a clean, modern interface. 

It's a far cry from those file folders full of magazine pictures! When you're through dreaming and ready to make some changes, contact Courtney & Wise,  your Sydney painters and decorators.