Houzz, an ideal application for interior design lovers

Interior design has millions of followers around the world, but it also attracts new more casual followers that arise from the need (or the whim) to reform a house or simply to decorate a room again. Be that as it may, in these cases there is always a common denominator that absolutely everyone is looking for: inspiration.

Photos everywhere

Houzz presents itself to us as a slightly intrusive social platform - in fact we can log in without Facebook to have more privacy - in which we can find more than 1.500.000 photographs of interiors. Said like this it may sound too vast, but that is precisely where it lies the power of this app, in being able to classify photos according to different rooms and styles, drastically reducing the number of photos to see and exponentially increasing the possibility of finding what we are looking for.

If we find a photo that we like and that goes with our style We only have to press the information button to obtain more information about it, being able to see the location, the comments and perhaps most important of all: the rest of the photographs that are related to the one we liked. That is, if we liked a certain room, it is very likely that those in the rest of the house are available.

More than photos

If the app were limited to photographs, it would be quite useful, but luckily there are more. We can navigate a extensive gallery of products perfectly classified according to their function (beds, taps, mirrors ...) to find directly what we are looking for, as well as visit complete idea books, open posts in a forum with questions for people to help us and even contact a list of professionals who are affiliated with the application and who will give us a hand in case of doubt, of course, paying their corresponding fees.

Regarding the application itself I have mixed feelings. Yes OK the design is not bad and it works fast, there are details that should be much more careful and that spoil a little the correct image that the application gives us in most of its use. A quick example: when we see a photo of a product, the previous photo button comes out fine, but the next photo button appears with the letters wrongly positioned and going out of the margin of the screen.

Despite some minor bug, the app is really useful and nice to use from time to time, especially if we need ideas about interior design. And don't forget to mention it: it's totally free.