Houzz App Professional For Your

Available for iPad, iPhone and Android devices, this app provides the tools and information you need to complete your next home renovation or decorating project.

This app provides all the tools and information you need to complete your next home renovation or decorating project.

Find more home design ideas by reading stories, which cover everything from home renovation and decorating tips to house tours and DIY tutorials.

Houzz App Professional For Your

Read reviews and search through previous projects to find the right professional for your style and budget.

On the iPad, section headings are always displayed on the side (versus the iPhones drop-up icon at the bottom of the screen), and you can choose to filter through images while browsing, easily switching back-and-forth between various types of spaces.

While you can scroll through its hundreds of thousands of photos and products and add them to your own virtual lookbooks, otherwise known as Ideabooks, you can also peruse informational content, buy products, and find professional home-design services in your local area directly through the app.

The heart of Houzz is its Ideabooks, where you collect and organize images (pinboards, in Pinterest parlance).

When you spot something you likewhether photos from an article, an interior design project, or images from the Photos or Products sectionsyou can place it in your Ideabook, for which you have to be a registered user.

The process is simple: Just tap the item, then tap the Add to Ideabook icon.

Photos galore Houzz contains a robust database of home design images, all of which are attributed to specific companies and individuals.

The casual browser can scroll through the Photos section, narrowing down results by selecting one of 24 categoriesfrom bedrooms and kitchens to home gyms and wine cellarsfurther sorted by style and metropolitan area, if desired.

If you see a green tag hanging over any of the objects youre drooling over, click on it for more information, and to go directly to the vendor website.

While it might act as a shopaholic enabler, its a nice tool to have.

Green tag sale: Tap the tag icon at the bottom of the screen, and green tags will appear over identified products.

You can also go through the Products and Professionals sections this way.

Choose from 17 general product types (fabrics, hardware, outdoor, etc.) and from 32 home design professional types, including landscape contractors, lighting designers, and fireplace suppliers.

Looking for pros How does this help you Well, if youre on the hunt for a certain type of professional to assist with a new home design or remodeling project, you dont have to wade through the pretty, but sometimes overwhelming amount of visual inspiration offered in Houzz.

Simply search companies by type and metropolitan area through the Professionals sidebar.

Professionals are vetted by the Houzz community, ranked using an algorithm that incorporates reviews from clients, the quality and quantity of uploaded photos, and their responsiveness to questions asked by the community on Houzzs companion website.) Do the same for products: scroll through home decor, then filter by product type and style as needed.

Like something Contact the designer, buy the product, or add it to your Ideabook.

Ideabooks in action When looking at your entire Ideabook, each image is cropped into squares that appear in a uniform, iOS-style tiled display.

This happens automatically, and there are some annoying crops, but you can always tap an image to see it full-size.

Unlike Pinterest, you can rearrange images easilyjust tap the Reorder button and move the tiles around.

Picture book: Ideabooks feature a uniformed, tiled display, with three different sizing options.

Since Houzz depends on user-submitted content, the number of products identified in each photograph varies, as does the quality of the photographs.

You can only upload content to Photos if you have a professional profile, and Houzz reviews all photos before posting them on the app, so blatantly sloppy photographs are practically nonexistent.

While the occasional fuzzier image or obtrusive watermark is certainly jarring, if youre used to the photo standards of most content sharing sites, Houzzs overall image quality will likely surpass your expectations.

Shrunken down: The iPhone interface feels more cramped when browsing, but its still perfectly functional.

There are notable interface differences between the iPhone and iPad versions of this app, mainly a function of size constraints.

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