Decorating Help, in Your Pocket

By PC MIke, NBC News

January 13, 2013 Updated Jan 11, 2013 at 8:28 PM PDT

It’s winter time and a time when many come down with cabin fever. To cure it, many take to redecorating their home or shopping for a new one. If that’s you, we have some apps that can do some pretty amazing things to help you in house plans.

Snapshop makes furniture shopping a breeze. Walk into your room, pick your favorite sofa or whatever from a list of images which then brings up your iPhone camera with an overlay of the sofa so you can point and see the sofa where you’d like it to go. You use your finger to position it. Now this only works with the iPhone and the various furniture stores and brands linked to the app but when done, you can print it out or email the image, seeing just what it will look like in your room.

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