Online Home Remodeling Tools
Starting to plan your remodel project? Great! Our Savvi staff recommends lots of it! Better to measure twice and cut once, even if someone else is doing the work.
HomeSavvi has searched the Internet for the most useful online remodel planning tools to help you organize and streamline your remodeling project. When you use these tools, you'll leave the HomeSavvi website.
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Estimating Tools
Countertop Price Estimator by DuPont - A tool that gives you an estimate install price based on your countertop and edge treatment selections.
Interior Paint, Tile and Wallpaper Calculators by Home Depot - A tool that estimates the amount of materials needed for various home remodeling projects.
Tile Tabulator by American Olean - A tool that estimates the amount of tiles, thinset and grout based on your unique floor plan and tile pattern.
How Much is Your Home Worth? By Home Insight - A service that offers a report on the Market Value of your home in order to determine how much to invest in your remodel.
Practical Considerations
Energy Conservation Calculators by WarmAir - Calculators that help you find out how to improve your energy efficiency during your remodel.
Energy Savings Calculators by Consumers Energy - A very interactive and fun site that calculates light bulb energy use, compares heating costs and even has a kids' corner to learn about energy conservation.
ENERGY STAR Home Energy Yardstick - Compares your energy costs to others in your neighborhood and gives energy-saving home improvement recommendations.
Manage My Home by Sears - An online service that stores information about your house (including electronic appliance manuals), generates a customized home maintenance plan and sends out reminder emails according to your maintenance plan.
Visualization Tools
Kitchen Visualization Tool by Diamond Reflections - A tool that applies different colors and styles of countertops, flooring and appliances to three preloaded kitchen layouts.
Envision Your Room with tile by American Olean - A tool that applies different tile and grout choices on a preset room layout.
My Countertop Selector by DuPont - A short quiz about your style which generates countertop recommendations.
Countertop Visual Tool by LG HI-MAC - A tool that applies different HI-MAC countertops to one kitchen layout.
Paint Your Place by Behr - A fee-based service that allows you to upload photos of your own room to paint and save online.
Design My Room or Design a Room by Armstrong - A tool that allows you to apply different flooring, cabinetry, countertop and ceiling colors in preselected room layouts or, for a fee, in your own room.
Amazing Photo Gallery by Decorating Inspiration - A fee-based photo gallery with thousands of professionally designed rooms (over 1,700 pictures of kitchens alone!)
3D kitchen planner by Plan 3D - A fee-based 3D home remodeling software program that allows you to share your designs online.
Designing Online Interior Design Service - A fee-based professional design service that uploads your room dimensions into a Plan 3D format and also provides a professionally designed room for you to edit and share.
Finishing Touches
Moulding Room Designer by Lowe's - A great moulding design tool that also generates a shopping list.
Create and Share your floor plan with Floor Planner - A tool to help you create and share different room layouts.
Explore your digital home at Discovery Design Center - An interactive tool highlighting different ways to incorporate technology in your home.