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Real Estate Apps Make Re-Designing a Home Easy (VIDEO)

Ever wonder how you can reevaluate your home's details with the tip of your fingers? Try Zillow Digs' real estate website an App or UK's PaintMyHome.

From rustic to modern, with a touch on your tablet screen you can pick and choose your style for kitchen, living room or bathroom. On the new app, you can maneuver your way and figure out how much the cabinet, counters and backsplashes cost, how much it costs for installation and painting.

According to TechCrunch, Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff said the estimates tool works on an algorithm of accumulated housing data from local contractors; which lends itself to another break-to harness together real designers to share their work.

Zillow, a home and real estate site for homeowners, agents and designers, has been hosting the database of over 110 million U.S. homes.

Similarly, Houzz produces the same styles and photos of a range of rooms from designers, and users can remodel or redesign any way they like. While Houzz provides an ideabook that's meant to inspire future renovating projects, you're certainly able to upload your own photos and open it up for discussion.

The rooms or products you're thinking about installing even have comments-- crowdsourcing inspiration from all over the web. What's more interesting about Houzz is that it keeps followers that same way as Zillow and monitors the top commenter.

PaintMyHome is UK's only a family-operated national décor service. You enter their site with dimensions of your own home and get a fixed quote. Then, you select how many rooms you want to paint. They even specify the type of finish on your room. But the onerous is on you obviously to pick out the sketched room that resembles yours, which including locations for the staircase, windows and doors.

If you're not an interested buyer or into renovating at this time, you still have the option to post your favorite looks and dream homes on Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest.


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