5 Outstanding Apps to Make Your Complex DIY Simple
Whether you are a wizard or novice when it comes to technology, you are likely using at least a few apps in your day-to-day life. If you’ve just purchased a home whose backyard needs some TLC or want to upgrade your backyard to get it ready for sale, there are some outstanding apps that can help make your complex DIY simple.
Here are five apps that we love, designed to inspire and support you in your efforts to reimagine your outdoor space:
1. DIY Garden Ideas
2. Colour Snap Studio: Sherwin Williams
3. Woodmaster
4. HandyMan Sidekick
5. Garden Buddy
1. DIY Garden Ideas
The app’s name says it all. If you are looking for great DIY ideas for your garden, this is a great place to start. This super user-friendly app has plenty of suggestions and provides step-by-step instructions on how to carry out the projects. Free for Android users.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.doknow.diy.garden.ideas
2. Colour Snap Studio: Sherwin Williams
Looking to repaint in your outdoor space? Wondering if the colour of an indoor wooden art object would look good as a deck colour? Take a picture of it, and this app will match the colour, and show you how it looks on your deck in day and night lighting. It will even suggest complimentary colours for trim and help you to calculate the amount of paint you will need to properly cover your space. Free for Android and iOS.
https://www.sherwin-williams.com/homeowners/color/try-on-colors/colorsnap-mobile
3. Woodmaster
Got a woodworking project in mind for your backyard? For just $7.99, this app is a must-have for both beginners and advanced woodworkers. This app has everything you could ever want if you’re building anything out of wood, including, but not limited to: board foot calculator, shelf calculator, decking calculator, fraction and fraction-to-decimal calculator (no need to add fractions in your head), length and proportion converter, screw, nail and joint size charts, and even a tool to help you enlarge or reduce the dimensions of a project proportionally.
4. HandyMan Sidekick
A great tool for DIY projects, just plug in your dimensions and this iOS app from Tech Tree Media will help you to calculate how much of any given material you will need for the project, whether you are working on your walls, floors or garden. It also doubles as a flashlight! $1.99 on iTunes.
http://download.cnet.com/HandyMan-Sidekick/3000-2094_4-75041565.html
5. Garden Buddy
No more scratching your head wondering how much mulch, topsoil and sod to use in your backyard gardening project, along with fertilizer recommendations and when to apply them. You may not know how many plants to plant for a specific area but Garden Buddy does. This app draws upon its database of 47 common vegetables suggest what and when to plant, how much to grow to feed your household, and when harvest time is. $1.29 on Android.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=development.blood.garden_buddy&hl=en
For more home app recommendations, check out our other blog on must-have home apps:
https://www.faristeam.ca/8-must-apps-homeowners/