Many of our customers are undertaking renovations of their homes. We love helping out with the electrical work during renovations around Canberra – it’s such an exciting time for people and it’s also something that we’re doing at home ourselves.
One of the hardest parts of renovating is finding inspiration. It’s easy to check out magazines and Pinterest pictures but many of them aren’t achievable. I use two apps in particular to help me with inspiration that is adaptable to real homes.
Houzz
I love Houzz! It has a great balance of pictures and articles on thousands of topics. It’s my go-to app in the middle of the night when I can’t sleep and am fixated on what light fittings to put in my newly renovated hallway – down lights, a chandelier...Houzz is great for inspiration and information.
Best feature: the ability to create your own ideabook.
Worst feature: you can’t export the pictures to save elsewhere if you keep your own folder of ideas.
Dedicated lighting section: yes, broken down into light types and then by style.
http://www.houzz.com/
SnapShop
Brilliant app. I can take a picture of my room, choose a piece of furniture from the extensive gallery and see what it would look like in various locations around my room. I was a bit apprehensive about this app, thinking it would be clunky like the old early-2000s computer programs that promised similar functionality, but this app impressed me. The picture can be saved and emailed.
Best feature: easy to use, fast results.
Worst feature: I can’t work out how to rescale furniture. This may be an available feature, but I haven’t worked it out.
Dedicated lighting section: yes, it’s easy to see what many different lighting products would look like in a room.
http://www.snapshopinc.com/
One of the hardest parts of renovating is finding inspiration. It’s easy to check out magazines and Pinterest pictures but many of them aren’t achievable. I use two apps in particular to help me with inspiration that is adaptable to real homes.
Houzz
I love Houzz! It has a great balance of pictures and articles on thousands of topics. It’s my go-to app in the middle of the night when I can’t sleep and am fixated on what light fittings to put in my newly renovated hallway – down lights, a chandelier...Houzz is great for inspiration and information.
Best feature: the ability to create your own ideabook.
Worst feature: you can’t export the pictures to save elsewhere if you keep your own folder of ideas.
Dedicated lighting section: yes, broken down into light types and then by style.
http://www.houzz.com/
SnapShop
Brilliant app. I can take a picture of my room, choose a piece of furniture from the extensive gallery and see what it would look like in various locations around my room. I was a bit apprehensive about this app, thinking it would be clunky like the old early-2000s computer programs that promised similar functionality, but this app impressed me. The picture can be saved and emailed.
Best feature: easy to use, fast results.
Worst feature: I can’t work out how to rescale furniture. This may be an available feature, but I haven’t worked it out.
Dedicated lighting section: yes, it’s easy to see what many different lighting products would look like in a room.
http://www.snapshopinc.com/
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