Using Your iPhone for DIY Projects

If you love home improvement projects and you feel you are handy enough to handle them yourself, your iPhone can turn into an excellent assistant, providing you with all the measurements and valuable information for a successful DIY project. In fact, the iPhone has changed the way you can deal with home improvement tasks by offering you a wide variety of relevant apps that not only help you save time, but also enjoy home improvement tasks.

Here are the 5 best iPhone apps for home improvement projects:

1) Home Improvement Glossary

Everything starts with the glossary. If you don't understand the terminology in the other apps you are using, you won't be able to complete your DIY project. Home Improvement Glossary is a great iPhone app that guides you through the jargon you are expected to understand while renovating your house or making general home improvements. Home Improvement Glossary features industry terminology, lingo, descriptions, and definitions in a very user-friendly way and allows you to search with the use of keywords or in alphabetical order. Moreover, the application is constantly updated with the customer feedback that is provided directly to the app.

Cost: $0.99

2) iHandy Carpenter

iHandy Carpenter is a great iPhone app that offers the lightest and handiest carpenter tool kit directly on your iPhone. The iHandy Carpenter features five tools: a plumb bob to help you authenticate the verticality of lines or walls; a surface level for leveling flat surfaces; a bubble level bar; a steel protractor that measures angles from 0 to 180 degrees; and a steel ruler that you can use to measure both inches and centimeters. Besides, if you calibrate the plumb bob, surface level and level bar you can also use them as inclinometers and clinometers by reading the angles on you iPhone screen.

Cost: $1.99

3) Drywall Calculator

Drywall Calculator is a great iPhone app that helps you save time when calculating drywall for a room with the classic method of using a paper and a pencil. By using your iPhone not only you save time because calculations are automatic, but you are also sure that you calculations are accurate and correct. Besides, the Drywall Calculator helps you with the calculations of square footages for any area including measuring ceilings and sloping walls. In that way, you always have an accurate idea of how many drywall sheets you need for your DIY project after adding 5%-10% that goes for scrap.

Cost: $0.99

4) Palettes

Palettes is an efficient tool for creating and maintaining color schemes. Running on Free, Basic and Pro level, Palettes allows you to create a color palette from a camera, picture, website, a standard colors list, a color scheme, a color blending, a marketing campaign, using 25 colors per palette; import and export palettes from Adobe Photoshop, Paintshop Pro, Illustrator and OS X Color Chooser among other photo editing software; back up, rename or delete your palettes; email your palettes.

Cost: Free

5) I.D. Wood

I.D. Wood offers valuable and detailed information about more than 160 types of woods around the world being in reality your wood pocket guide. Especially if you are an artist, designer, cabinet maker, architect or carpenter, I.D. Wood is a great iPhone app because without requiring Internet connection it offers you 160+ wood species names, origins, description, uses, durability, sustainability, wood glossary, perfect illustrations of lumber cutting techniques, lumber conversions, and many more. Moreover, the apps are regularly updated with new types of woods.

Cost: $4.99

Of course, the above list of iPhone apps is not comprehensive, but includes apps that are widely used for DIY projects and are mostly downloaded by iPhone users. Nevertheless, the iPhone has proved once again that it is much more than a telephone or a technological miracle. For many users, their iPhone is a true life partner.

Sources:

http://www.diylife.com/2010/04/01/8-great-diy-iphone-apps/

http://freshome.com/2010/11/18/20-best-iphone-home-improvement-apps-to-help-you-do-it-yourself/