5 Best Apple TV Apps to Help Design Your Home

Houzz Interior Design Ideas is a collection of millions of gorgeously designed homes. You can browse through them, go through great photo slideshows, and even get tips on where to find some of the top home decor items you fall in love with.

This app provides a wealth of ideas for home design and decor, and does so with high resolution photographs and slideshows that highlight the best each home has to offer. It’s especially nice being able to see the stores that carry some of the products, since that’s always my beef with most home design television shows — you just can’t find out what retailers to go to if you fall in love with that dining room set. Houzz makes it easy and fun to come up with great design ideas.

The free app is also available on the iPhone and iPad.

The Design Network allows you to see the biggest names in home design and shop their favorite products directly in the app. Watch entertaining programming for design inspiration, home improvement ideas, and expert advice from the pros. You can shop a curated selection of home furnishings using your Siri Remote, and view designer profiles to shop products they’ve endorsed. The Design Network helps you take your home from “blah” to “wow.”

This app has some of the best designers providing their inspiration and tips. It’s great to have a one-stop app for both getting ideas and shopping for products, and the programming itself is entertaining enough to watch for hours.

The free app is also available on the iPhone and iPad.

Roomstyler is an extension of the website, roomstyler.com, a site where people enter contests and vote on the best room designs. On your Apple TV, you can browse through some of the top rooms from the contests, which incorporate more than 120,000 items from your favorite brands.

This app is bred from competition, but it provides you with some amazing room designs that you can incorporate into your own renovation or build. The Roomstyler website runs themed contests regularly, and this app brings the top rooms from those competitions to your Apple TV so you can get inspired by them. Want to design a modern bedroom? Check out what others have come up with and been voted among the best designs for that theme.

The Roomstyler Web page is great for perusing the past contests, but sometimes you want to get inspired on your big screen. This app is great for that, letting you browse the winning designs with ease and see what others have come up with for the themes. Even better, the contests use items available from top brands, so you can find those gorgeous decorative items and furniture yourself for your own design.

You can download the app for free. It’s also available on the iPhone and iPad.

For those who want to decorate their homes with stylish hard-to-find furniture, take a look at Chest. 

Never mind the IKEA catalog. Find high-quality furniture while sitting on your couch with Chairish. With the app, modern and vintage choices are available with a click of the button.

Finding stuff to decorate your home with shouldn’t be a chore. And with Chairish, it sure isn’t. You can also access the free app on your iPhone and iPad.

HGTV has some of the top home design programming available, and this app provides it streaming or on-demand on your Apple TV. With your existing participating cable or satellite subscription, you can watch HGTV live or catch up on your favorite programs.

HGTV Watch provides access to all of the home design programming you could ask for. Find inspiration for your own home with live streaming of Fixer Upper, Property Brothers, Flip or Flop and more, or catch up with HGTV’s distinctive programming plus exclusive extras. If you already subscribe to a participating cable or satellite provider, you can get all of the content right on your Apple TV with HGTV Watch.

This app provides much easier access to HGTV’s programming than wading through the hundreds of channels on my cable TV box. It also makes it much easier to get on-demand programming to catch up on my favorite shows. The bonus content makes HGTV Watch even better, letting me catch outtakes and extras that I would miss out on otherwise.

The free app can also be accessed on the iPhone and all iPad models.