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Tools For Design : Visualize Your Home In Different Colors
In home design, the exterior is as important as the interior. The exterior are your home’s first impression while performing the double-duty of protecting living space from damage and Mother Nature.
And, occasionally, you may want to make upgrades.
For some people, visualizing changes to a home’s exterior is easy. For others, though, there’s the Better Homes and Gardens Color-a-Home tool.
Color-a-Home is a website via which homeowners can test different exterior home designs and color combinations. Using a series of drop-down menus and mix-and-match swatch colors, homeowners can build home exterior mock-ups featuring:
- New roofing
- New siding
- New windows
- New shutters and doors
Better than a mental picture of your home — get an actual picture.
The Better Homes and Gardens site requires basic site registration to use its Color This! product suite. Color This! is also available for home interiors and window treatments.
Geek Gifts : The 16-Piece iPhone Coaster Set
You could call it the Ultimate Geek Gift for an iPhone-toting friend — or even for yourself. It’s a set of 16 coasters made to look like iPhone application icons.
Made by Brazilian firm Meninos, the coasters are constructed from sturdy, medium-density fiber plywood and are coated in vinyl. They’re are roughly 3 1/2 inches square, washable, and feature non-skid, rubber bottoms.
Many of the most popular iPhone icons are included:
- Maps and Compass
- Camera and Photo Albums
- YouTube and iPod
The iPhone coasters sell for $59.99 plus shipping. Arrange them like your phone, or pin them on the wall. Either way, they’ll be a functional conversation piece for your home, or the home of a friend.
