Life Styles Book: Free Design and Decorating Generators

1. ) Armstrong Design A Room

Armstrong makes it easy to pick flooring and paint for every room in your home. Be careful this decorating generator can keep you there for hours! To start choose the room you want to add flooring or color to, kitchen, bath, living room/family room, or bedroom. Then pick a style that closely matches your own, you have casual, contemporary, traditional, eclectic, or European country to choose from. Each room starts with basic colors, then you choose the color of walls that closely matches your own, or use to find a new color.

Select the color, type and style of flooring you would like to try to see which style would best suit your room. The options range from hardwood, laminate, tile, and vinyl. The kitchen rooms give you the option to change the cupboards to the color that is closest to your own or the color you would like to purchase. This takes the guess work out of decorating, renovating or building new.

Below in the first photo I have chosen a traditional kitchen in the basic template. In the second I've picked the color of walls, flooring and cabinets. You can sign up for a free account to save your designs or right click and save them into your photos.

To play and procrastinate on other things you need to do check out Armstrong Room Designer.

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2.) Design-A-Room Better Homes and Gardens

This generator allows you to pick the shape of your room and adjust it to the actual size of your own. You can then add furniture scaling it up or down to the size of your own, add windows, doors, and accessories. While this is a pretty basic program it is great to use if you like to change your rooms around a lot, like I do.

By being able to adjust it to the size of your own room and furnishing it gives you an idea of how your room will look in different set ups, taking into consideration where the windows and doors are situated. If you are a room-furniture changer arounder like me this tool will make sure that the idea you have will work before you actually start moving furniture around.

To use this the next time you want to change your rooms around or add new furniture check out the Arrange-a-Room generator at Better Homes and Gardens. You do need to sign up for a free account to access it.

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3.) mydeco.com is an amazing site that allows you to create any room or garden using over 120,000 real products. This site is amazing and is a great tool to play around with a new look you may be thinking of before making an investment. Choose colors, size of rooms, furniture, accessories, plants and more to create a unique living space or explore color possibilities in your home decor. It takes awhile to figure everything out and if you are wanting to try this I recommend watching the videos they have on the main page to get you started.

To explore this virtual 3D design world check out mydeco.com

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4.) olioboard.com is a site where you can design and decorate any room. All you need to do is choose the background and go from there. Very easy to use, with a wide selection of real products to choose from. The olioboard community allows people to design and decorate a room, and gives them the option of buying brand name products from Crate & Barrel, Wayfair and more. You can design and decorate a room without membership, but need one to download your creations and to participate in the community. Members post their creations on boards for others to see.

The interface is easy to use with just a little practice and is another decorating design site that you can lose a lot of time on. Below is a room decorated with products that can also be purchased.