The Cultivated Home

We love color!  Every tone and shade, from bright to neutrals—if Pantone has it, we get excited about it!  This is why we became overjoyed when we downloaded the newest Pantone App for iPhones and iPod Touches called MyPantone.  This great new app allows you to display over 5,000 shades, helping you choose the perfect color for everything from a wall color, to a couch fabric, and even the perfect shade of fabric to complete a window treatment.

Can’t find your shade or color palette but love what you see in a recent photo you took?  This great app also allows you to extract the color palette from the photo and selects the exact Pantone colors for you.  It’s priced a little higher then most of the apps at $9.99, but we think that the extra cost is totally worth the fun, entertainment, and usefulness this app brings to its users.  Download it today, and make over your space this weekend!

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!

We love when technology meets design, and this is one beautiful example.  Swede Shop is an iPhone application that makes those crazy shopping experiences in IKEA so much smoother.  This brilliant little app allows you to ditch those tiny little pencils that always get lost and make your writing finally readable.  Not only can you write the names, sku’s, and aisle numbers into your phone into an organized form, but you can also attach photos so that when you are running around the warehouse you can remember your priority pieces rather then just staring at those brown boxes.  And no more confusion in the warehouse – this app will help you organize your path and create an “aisle” map, so you don’t have to crisscross and backtrack through the enormous amount of space.  Keep it real with Swede Shop, available here for 99 cents.

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!