I doubt there are many things left that there isn’t an iphone application for nowadays, and interior design is no different as there are now hundreds of apps to download that can help you when you’re designing your room, re-decorating or just doing practical things in your home.

So if you’ve got an iphone or even an ipad, have a look at some of the latest apps that have become available that you might want to try.

Best for features

1. Home Interior Layout Designer- Mark On Call

A tool that allows you to create your room on your iphone. You can build a floor plan from scratch or use a picture you’ve taken of your own room and furnish it with the items on offer. Great to try out ideas or just to create your dream room for fun!

2. Home 3D

Allows you to build your own home completely. You can decide the layout, furnishings and take a virtual tour of the completed home.

3. Coolibah – Digital Scrapbooking

Create multiple scrapbooks with unlimited photos on your iphone. Best of all this app is free!

4. Ben Color Capture

A free colour match app. You can take a picture of any kind of object or scene of any colour and the app will find the closest paint colour matches.

Best for practical help

1. Painting Walls

You can paint walls in photos of your rooms on your iphone to see what your room will like with different colour painted walls.

2. Dimension Marker

You can mark the dimensions of spaces and objects directly on photos or sketches to annotate them with the information.

3. iHandy Carpenter

Five carpenter tools on your iphone- a plumb bob, surface level, bubble level bar, steel protractor, steel ruler and an inclinometre.

If you just want the surface level you can get the iHandy Level , which is free.

Best for ideas

1. Dream Home

Great for browsing a wide range of design ideas from professional interior designers you can use for inspiration or comparison.

2. Houzz

Has the largest database of interior design ideas on the web. You can browse the photos and save them to your virtual idea book. And it’s free!

3. Home Interior Ideas HD

A guide to extreme makeover with hundreds of different decorating ideas from top interior designers.

This is just a tiny selection of the appliations available. For more apps you may be interested in, have a look here-

http://iphoneapplicationlist.com/apps/

http://appshopper.com/

http://www.apple.com/iphone/apps-for-iphone/