The Cultivated Home

We all love finding a deal—whether it is at a retail store, a flea market, or a sample sale.  Scoring a great find can send a rush that we just can’t deny.  One of our favorite weekend activities is to find a deal or two at a local yard sale, but one of the hardest parts is actually finding the yard sale and even finding the right house!  Fortunately for us, the geniuses over at Apple have provided us with a solution by creating the “Yard Sale Mapper” application.  This app maps out listings of yard sales, garage sales, and tag sales from Craigslist.org and lets you search the map and explore and plan your treasure hunt.  The best part is this app is free, making the goods you find even sweeter!

Don’t have an iPhone?  Check out the site, YardSaleTreasureMap.com, print out your own paper directions and start hunting!

Do you ever wish you had a level to perfectly hang a picture or a ruler in your pocket to get the measurements for this great console your found at a flee market? Well our favorite company Apple has come to your rescue with their iHandy Carpenter Tool Kit app for your iPhone or iPod Touch.

This amazing app comes with 5 professional carpentry tools a ruler, protractor, bubble level bar, surface level, and plumb bob. It is easy to calibrate and only takes a swipe of the iPhone/iPod to get an accurate reading. Perfect designers on the go or just the handy and tech savvy men and woman we know. For only $1.99 this app is a must forever gadget lover we know!

Inspiration is everywhere; especially color inspirations. Have you ever seen a brilliantly colored flower or a dress in that perfect shade of blue you have wanted for your kitchen, but can never find the exact color at the paint store? Fret no long for our problem has been solved!

One of our favorite paint companies Benjamin Moore has teamed up with Apple to create fabulous app called ben Color Capture App for the iPhone or iPod Touch and we have nothing but amazing things to say about it. Just take a photo of your inspiration and the app pulls together the closest color in the Benjamin Moore line. Once you have found the right color just shake the phone/ipod and it will bring up coordinating colors as well. After you have chosen the perfect hue for your space the app will even pull together a list of the closest BM retailers. How ingenious is that?

Think it can’t get any better? This app is free! So hurry up and download ben Color Capture and start getting inspired.