photo: One Good Bumblebee
The Furnished Room Over Garage (FROG) continues to be one of the more popular home additions as well as the In-Law Suite. Here are some links that outline the remodeling plans motivations behind these types of additions.
Insulate Your FROG [Bobvila.com]
Your FROG is too hot! [Doityourself.com]
The In-Law Suite [Design Basics]
Plans for an In-Law Suite [CADSmith Studio]
In-Law Suites Grow With Changing Families [Zip Realty]
The increasingly popular Yahoo! Answers is a great reservoir of popular home and garden questions and answers. There are more specific categories that include DIY, Decorating & Remodeling, and Maintenance and Repairs.
Home design and decorating websites continue the race to build the ultimate virtual room designer. In choosing our top 10 we looked for ease of use, number of choices, and bottom line how well the finished result helped design or decorate our own room.
10. Virtual Room Planner - This virtual room planner gives our list a bit of international flair. Brought to you by the BBC this is the only room planner that comes with someone in it. We can't figure out of this is a celebrity or a helpful reference to compare what a person would look like in the room. You'll have to see for yourself.
9. This Old House Digital Designer - This tool used to be free and was one of the first virtual room designers that allowed you to upload your own photos. It's now available for $10.99 so considering the plethora of other free options you should probably look elsewhere.
8. Design a Room - This product from iVillage has some great options but the photos are very small and the interface looks a bit dated. There is a focus on flooring which can be explained by it's main sponsor Armstrong.
6. and 7. HGTV Kitchen Designer and Room Planner - HGTV shares the 7 and 8 places with the best Kitchen Designer online and a Room Planner that falls a bit short. The 2D aspect of the Kitchen Designer may turn off some but it's highly detailed and provides a look that is easy to read and compare to most designers plans.
September 27, 2007 | Comments (4)
