New apps cater for aspiring interior designers

Home Design 3D facilitates endless renovation projects Ever had the urge to rearrange your furniture or repaint your walls to suit your mood? Interior design apps now offer a hassle-free virtual alternative. Home Design 3D equips aspiring decorators to slake their every fancy on-screen. The iPad app converts two-dimensional floor plans into a three-dimensional graphics that can be viewed from every angle, allowing you to tour your dream home. The programme features ray-tracing image calculation technology, which renders effects of light and shade with striking realism.
Intuitive drawing-aid tools make it easy to sketch precise blueprints and obtain quotes. App users can add everything from fountains to beams and walls of varying depths, before selecting roofing, interior walls, windows and doors. A wide array of wallpapers, paints, tiles, carpets and parquet floorings supplies endless decorating inspiration, while a catalogue of over 50,000 three-dimensional fixtures, accessories and furniture items ranging from coffee tables to grand pianos caters to varied tastes.
Amateur landscape artists can experiment with outdoor design options, which facilitate building paths, gardens, terraces and swimming pools.
Build-App Pro is a similar programme for Android users.